Science
ABC Online - The Asian Development Bank report says the Asia-Pacific region is the area most prone to natural disasters in terms of number of incidents, and populations affected. |
Salt Lake Tribune - By SETH BORENSTEIN | AP WASHINGTON • Earth's lost frontier is about to be explored firsthand after more than half a century. |
Globe and Mail - “Mysterious fossils of what may be a previously unknown type of human have been uncovered in caves in China, [fossils] that possess a highly unusual mix of bygone and modern human features, scientists reveal,” reports LiveScience. |
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - When you look at the moon and see craters and dark patches, you might not give much thought to how they got there. This video from NASA shows the moon's hot, violent history, including massive magma flows and collisions with asteroids. |
NPR - by Nell Greenfieldboyce Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 pm ET This giant squid was caught about 10 miles offshore from Oahu, Hawaii in 1981. |
Daily Mail - By Mail Today Bureau and Mail Today Reporter Scientists in Kashmir have cloned the first Pashmina goat using advanced reproductive techniques, officials at the Shere- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology (SKUAST) said on Thursday. |
Christian Science Monitor - Scientists have used neutrinos to send a message. This may be the first step toward a new form of communication. By Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience / March 15, 2012 Scientists stand with the Minerva neutrino detector, located 330 feet underground at Fermi ... |
RedOrbit - New research suggests that some mammals flourished during the last 20 million years of the dinosaurs' reign. University of Washington paleontologist Gregory P. Wilson suggests the multituberculates, a rodent-like creature, did so well during this time ... |
Patch.com - By Jaimie Cura The planetary conjunction of Jupiter and Venus will peak tonight -- Thursday, March 15. Steve A Hill A planetary conjunction between Jupiter and Venus will peak tonight -- Thursday, March 15 -- when the two brightest planets in the sky ... |
Macleans.ca - by Kate Lunau on Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:17pm - 0 Comments For the past two decades, Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael E. Mann has been front-and-centre in the climate change debate—and has faced vicious attacks because of it. |
The Australian - THE latest Climate Commission report ("Record La Nina linked to climate change", 15/3) states "Climate change cannot be ruled out as a factor in recent heavy rainfall effects". |
Technology
The Associated Press - NEW YORK (AP) - Let the wild rumpus start. The customary storefront crowds are expected to gather as Apple's latest iPad goes on sale Friday. |
Malaya - PHILIPPINE Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) has upgraded its broadband services offerings for small and medium enterprises (SME) to further boost its market share. |
SC Magazine - The race appears to be on to develop a working exploit for a serious Windows vulnerability patched earlier this week by Microsoft. |
DM News - Yahoo is suing Facebook for allegedly infringing on 10 patents, according to a complaint filed on Mar. 12 with the US District Court in San Jose, California. |
Hindustan Times - The marionette-based shooting shenanigans of The Gunstringer are coming back courtesy of a downloadable mission pack staring El Diablo, the red-faced lord of the underworld. |
EventHubs.com - The third episode of Maximilian's The Online Warrior series focusing on Street Fighter X Tekken is up on YouTube. Max explores the DLC subject for the game, which has issued a lot of responses from the community, while also delving into the tier list... |
Yahoo! Philippines News - It's relatively easy to detect ocular torticollis, and it could become a lot cheaper too, as South Korean researchers find a way for cost-effective game controllers to do it. |
Technology Spectator - If your movement has no defined leadership, no structure, no way for people to officially become members, and tries to make a positive about the fact that anyone can claim to be a part of it.. then it's very hard to define what's done in the name of ... |
Reuters Blogs (blog) - By Poornima Gupta Many tablet fans - both of Amazon and Apple - use their tablets essentially as an e-reader. Some use the iBooks app while many others read on iPad's Kindle app. |
Chicago Tribune - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple's new iPad uses chips made by Qualcomm, Broadcom, Samsung Electronics and other semiconductor makers, according to repair firm iFixit, which cracked open one of the devices. |
NewsFactor Network - By Edward C. Baig The new Timeline interface for Facebook has spawned nearly 3000 apps already, and a new crop is being launched at SXSW. |
Written by  Computerworld - By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Google is planning major changes to its search engine that will make it easier and faster for users to get the information they need. |
CNET (blog) - The wait for Diablo III is nearly over. Blizzard Entertainment today attached a May 15 release date to the long-awaited action role-playing game. |
Yahoo!7 News - AMSTERDAM (AFP) - A broken-down vacuum cleaner, an old bicycle, a torn shirt ... almost nothing is impossible to fix for a group of crafty Dutch volunteers dedicated to giving potential trash a second lease of life. |
Belfast Telegraph - Apple fans have spent days sleeping on the street waiting for the third iPad which goes on sale at 8am on Friday. A queue has already formed outside the flagship Apple store on London's Regent Street as people wait to snap up the gadget when it goes on ... |
Written by  in 7,529 Google+ circles CNET (blog) - Wal-Mart is getting a jump on Apple's retail store sales of the third-generation iPad by almost eight hours. by Jessica Dolcourt March 15, 2012 1:12 PM PDT Follow @jdolcourt Apple's retail stores are ushering in iPad shoppers at 8 am tomorrow in your ... |
Stuff.co.nz - Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari is spending a third of his time on creating a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers, he said in an interview with Finnish magazine Kauppalehti Optio. |
Written by  in 10,837 Google+ circles Mashable - The first wave of reviews of the new iPad are in, and they've discovered something borderline scandalous. It's impossible to perform a FaceTime video call over the iPad's 4G LTE connection, The Verge reports. |
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