Science
AFP - MARSEILLE, France - A hundred and thirty countries on Tuesday urged the upcoming Rio Summit to speed action on providing the poor with access to clean water and sanitation and fix worsening problems of water scarcity and pollution. |
Mother Jones - The Pacific island nation of Kiribati (say: Kirr-y-bus) is comprised of 32 coral atolls and 1 raised coral island spread across 1.3 million square miles (3.5 million square kilometers) of ocean. |
AFP - PARIS - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called on Tuesday for the creation of an international court to try environmental crimes, in an interview published in French daily Le Monde. |
Calgary Herald - SEOUL -- Russian and South Korean scientists signed a deal Tuesday on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10000 years ago. |
National Geographic - This Thursday evening, look to the western skies as Jupiter and Venus—the two brightest planets to the unaided eye—stage a close encounter over the Northern Hemisphere. |
NEWS.com.au - BRAIN scans of NASA astronauts who were in space for more than a month revealed potentially serious abnormalities that could set back plans for longer deep space missions, according to a US study. |
msnbc.com - You might say this car is small and fast. The same words would apply to the machine that manufactured it - a 3D printer, developed at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, that can print nanometer-scale objects at record speed for the ... |
National Geographic - Two tiny new horned dinosaur species have been identified from museum specimens unearthed years ago in Alberta, Canada, a new study says. |
ICIS (subscription) - Carbon stored in forests and farm land will be included in the EU's greenhouse gas reduction targets, if a draft law by the European Commission is adopted by member states and the European Parliament. |
BBC News - The rock weighed about the same as two cans of fizzy drink, and probably came from a meteorite seen over Norway on 1 March. It was identified as a 'breccia' which is a rock made of broken fragments of minerals and they are rarely found. |
NASASpaceflight.com - China appears to be on the brink of selecting female taikonaut for the up-coming Shenzhou 9 mission, likely to launch in early June. |
Technology
Economic Times - SAN FRANCISCO: Survey results released on Tuesday showed that growing numbers of businesses plan to buy iPads as tablet computers make their way from personal lives into work places. |
Written by  in 540,725 Google+ circles Huffington Post - Anyone who reads my blog knows how much I hate patent laws. I think 99 percent of the time they are anti-competitive, corruptive, impede creativity and innovation and can kill small businesses. |
Huffington Post (blog) - For me the Kony 2012 video and the issues it has raised is one big déjà vu and here's why: From 2005-2008 I spent almost all my time agonizing over and trying to explain to people the complexities of the situation in northern Uganda while at the same ... |
NokNok.tv - By Stephen Ebert on March 13, Having got our hands on a sparking new Nokia Asha 201, we've been keen to see how it stacks up against other similar handsets. |
Australian Macworld - Popular mobile photo-sharing app Instagram announced it now has more than 27 million users on iOS and is hinting the company plans to release an Android app soon. |
NASDAQ - (RTTNews.com) - Twitter bought out micro-blogging service, Posterous, a site which allows users to post brief blogs along with photos or videos. |
Wall Street Journal (blog) - By Frances Robinson A global network of neatly-ordered, carefully-interlinked facts available upon a simple request. Sound familiar? |
ChannelNews - By Oonagh Reidy | Tuesday | 13/03/2012 Porn site is the latest hacking victim, which has seen more than 70000 subscriber names nicked. |
The Moscow Times - AP DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Tajikistan's state electricity company said Tuesday that household tariffs will rise one-fifth in a move that opposition politicians say will foment discontent. |
GTspirit - This is the official Ferrari F12 Berlinetta video showing the making of with the protagonists, the crew and naturally the new 12-cylinder from Maranello. |
Times LIVE - One of the most intruiging aspects of Dragon's Dogma is not that it's a sort of Monster Hunter with greater reliance on Greek mythology, but that it displays an unconventional approach to multiplayer. |
Fox Business - NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless is aiming to entice more subscribers to its fourth-generation mobile broadband network by including 10 million more Americans than previously expected by year's end and only introducing smartphones that are able to tap the ... |
Yahoo! Eurosport UK - Nissan will power a revolutionary DeltaWing car that will enter this year's Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race, the Japanese manufacturer said on Tuesday. |
San Jose Mercury News - By Steve Johnson Continuing its expansion beyond personal-computers, Texas-based Dell said Tuesday it is buying San Jose security products maker SonicWall for what was widely estimated to be slightly more than $1 billion. |
New Zealand Herald - Apple has been accused of misleading customers about the effectiveness of its digital assistant Siri. Photo / Supplied An iPhone 4S buyer has sued Apple for promising more than it delivered with automated "Siri" voice-activated assistant software built ... |
Barron's (blog) - By Tiernan Ray Bernstein Research's Craig Moffett, who follows cable and telcos, today dumps cold water on the report last night by The Wall Street Journal's Sam Schechner and Don Clark that Intel (INTC) has been talking with networks about bringing ... |
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