Science
msnbc.com (blog) - Jupiter, the moon and Venus take starring roles in a sunset sky extravaganza, as captured by photographer Jeff Berkes in Pennsylvania's Chester County. |
UPI.com - HOUSTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Space junk around the Earth could be managed by removing a few large pieces every year from the debris cloud surrounding the planet, US experts say. |
Nature.com (blog) - It is the job of a federal bureaucrat to put a good face on bad budget news, and on Monday, NASA science chief John Grunsfeld, just two months into his job, did his best to buck up a reeling Mars community. |
Register - By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author Georgia Tech has lobbed a small grenade of paradox into the climate change debate, with a study suggesting a correlation between melting Arctic pack ice and snowy winters in the Northern Hemisphere. |
TVNZ - Two Kairuku penguins come ashore, passing a stranded Waipatia dolphin. - Source: Artwork by Chris Gaskin, Geology Museum, University of Otago. |
Digitaltrends.com - Living and working in a zero-g environment is challenging enough, without having to endure drinking everything through a straw. But with this "zero-G cup," it appears even astronauts can now enjoy a true cup of tea. |
EE Times India - For the first time, IBM scientists have been successful in measuring how charge is distributed within a single molecule. "This achievement will enable fundamental scientific insights into single-molecule switching and bond formation between atoms and ... |
The Plank on TNR.com (blog) - High oil prices have given Republicans the opportunity to do some Obama-bashing on energy. Newt Gingrich is unequivocal in assigning blame: Earlier this month he wrote that “the fact that Americans must cope with ballooning gas prices and energy ... |
International Business Times - Space travel in the future may soon be as simple as pressing a button, is it a rocket, space ship? No, it's an elevator... imagined by Japanese construction company Obayashi Corporation. |
Technology
Dateline News - The Philippines marked a historic moment in public transportation on Monday, Feb. 27, when the first commercial e-jeepney franchise in the country was formally launched in Makati City. |
TVNZ - The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than 5 million emails from a US-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. |
CNET - The first Very Important Laptop of 2012 has arrived, in the form of the new Dell XPS 13. This is Dell's first ultrabook (an Intel designation for laptops with certain specs--essentially a Windows MacBook Air), and even though the company is a little ... |
Ninemsn - Asian telecommunications giants have fired the latest salvo in the battle for the smartphone market. As the Mobile World Congress gets set to open in Barcelona, China's Huawei, South Korea's LG and Taiwan's HTC have rolled out the world's first quad ... |
Ninemsn - Women are more likely than men to delete friends from their online social networks and tend to choose more restrictive privacy settings, according to a new study. |
Daily Mail - By Laura Cox Rumour has it that Facebook is planning to roll out a new advertising scheme that will help it to generate money from its mobile aps. |
CNN - By Dylan Reynolds and Barry Neild, CNN Barcelona, Spain (CNN) -- Not content with revolutionizing smart phones, mobile apps now appear to be in the driving seat of the auto industry as manufacturers increasingly surrender control of their vehicles to ... |
Game Rant - Sony has revealed the list of nominees for this year's PSN Gamers' Choice Awards, and the winners will be discounted up to 50%. |
IGN - by Justin Davis Is The Simpsons: Tapped Out on iPad simply Cityville with a Simpsons skin, or has EA managed to actually break new ground in the casual social game genre? |
Herald Sun - THE announcement of Australia's first 4G tablet was probably influenced by rumours of a looming iPad 3 announcement from Apple, according to analysts. |
BusinessWeek - By David Fickling Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Telstra Corp, Australia's biggest phone company, gained antitrust approval to split from its fixed-line assets, clearing the way for an A$11 billion ($12 billion) compensation package from the government. |
PCWorld (blog) - By Ginny Mies, PCWorld Feb 27, 2012 4:48 PM ZTE was heavy on the Android-related announcements today, but the handset and tablet manufacturer also announced a Windows Phone as well. |
Yahoo!7 News - WARSAW (AFP) - Poles have turned to cyberspace to circumvent a new animal rights law in Poland forbidding the sale of dogs and cats without a breeding licence, which had been intended to stamp out cruelty to animals. |
Written by  CNET - by Lynn La February 27, 2012 4:50 PM PST Follow @lynnlaaa It's day two of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain and the phones just keep on coming. |
GMA News - Four months after it started, Facebook's mobile platform has attracted at least 425 million users, the social networking giant claimed Tuesday (Manila time). |
Forbes - One of the big jaw-droppers at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the new 41-megapixel camera-phone from Nokia: the 808 PureView. |
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