Science
Southern Courier - For the sixth year in a row the City of Sydney is supporting WWF's Earth Hour. The City will lead by example and turn-off non-essential lights in all council properties for one hour from 8.30 pm on Saturday March 31. |
Sydney Morning Herald - An Angry Birds game out today is set to rocket the mobile game powerhouse into the stratosphere. Angry Birds Space launches concurrently on Apple iOS and Android devices, as well as PCs and Macintosh computers. |
Siliconrepublic.com - Scientists at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) have released a new study that has placed the effects of climate change on the world's ocean ecosystems under the spotlight. |
The Age - The reasons behind the demise of the giant animals that once roamed the continent - such as rhinoceros-sized diprotodons, towering kangaroos, marsupial lions and birds twice the size of emus - have long been hotly debated, with hunting, the human use... |
Macleans.ca - by Kate Lunau on Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:53am - 0 Comments To the tight-knit community of deepwater explorers, the deepest point in the world's oceans is referred to as “Ocean Everest. |
Knovel - Researchers are learning new information about Mercury thanks to the success of a NASA spacecraft. NASA's Messenger has been orbiting Mercury for more than a year, as the science agency works to unlock clues about the Solar System that the planet could ... |
Written by  PC Magazine - By Damon Poeter Researchers in the US have developed an aquatic, hydrogen-powered robot that mimics the simple and efficient swimming motions of a jellyfish. |
Written by PC Magazine - By Damon Poeter How would you like a camera that can take pictures around corners? You may not have long to wait—researchers have devised a way to photographically capture the rough shape of objects out of a camera's line-of-sight by "untangling" ... |
The Economist - MADAGASCAR is renowned for its unusual animals, particularly its lemurs, a group of primates extinct elsewhere on the planet. Its human population, though, is equally unusual. |
The Independent - A two-month expedition to the bottom of the ocean has produced some of the most detailed images of the wreck of the Titanic ever seen. |
Malaya - Protected areas cover nearly 13 percent of the world's land surface and only half of these important areas are currently protected, according to a new study led by BirdLife International, with contributions from International Union for Conservation of ... |
Technology
Written by  in 28,827 Google+ circles TIME - By Harry McCracken | @harrymccracken | March 22, 2012 | + In 2010 Apple released its first iPad. It was far from the industry's first tablet computer, but it was the one that defined the category. |
Redmond Developer News - By Gladys Rama Raghu Ramakrishnan has left Yahoo!, where he served as the chief scientist on several key technologies, to take the role of technical fellow within Microsoft's Server and Tools Business (STB). |
Daily Aztec - By Jordan Pollock, Taking place in an alternate reality where members of the Street Fighter and Tekken universes collide, the game combines the highly strategic fighting the Street Fighter series is known for, with the insane juggles and combos of the ... |
ExtremeTech - By Joel Hruska on March 22, 2012 at 12:35 pm World of Warcraft, Blizzard's smash hit, golden goose, and the acknowledged most popular MMO on Earth (as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records) is past its prime. |
The Economist - Computer passwords need to be memorable and secure. Most people's are the first but not the second. Researchers are trying to make it easier for them to be both PASSWORDS are ubiquitous in computer security. |
Written by  Gizmodo - Ben Heck makes it easier to traverse those long airport corridors with this autonomous luggage that follows behind you like a small toddler. |
Sydney Morning Herald - Mobile phone maker Nokia is seeking a US patent for tattoos that vibrate to let people know when they have calls on their mobile phones. |
TechWeekEurope UK - The real-time collaboration tool, designed to merge email, wikis and other forms of communication into a single “wave,” never enjoyed the consumer traction of other Google products such as Gmail. |
Written by  ZDNet (blog) - By Dancho Danchev | March 21, 2012, 8:08am PDT Summary: Security researchers from Sophos, have intercepted a currently circulating Mac OS X malware variant of the OSX/Imuler trojan horse. |
Hindustan Times - Birds of Steel is that rarity of console games, a historical flight sim, and for those with an interest in the genre it looks very appealing indeed. |
The Australian - FANS of "Mass Effect 3" had reason to rejoice after the top-selling video game's makers agreed to rewrite its ending -- which has been raising the ire of players worldwide. |
Hindustan Times - Television shows are streamed onto the internet and mobile devices, and soon the internet will be connected to television sets, enhancing the viewing experience, according to a new report by NPD In-Stat which has analyzed developments in digital ... |
GMA News - Tablets and smartphones may be gaining in popularity but they may also be a growing pain in the neck literally, a United Kingdom-based shoulder doctor said. |
Naharnet - by Naharnet Newsdesk 22 March 2012, 09:20 Identifying lines on a color-coded metro map is tricky for those who can't see some colors. |
IBTimes.co.uk - By David Gilbert: Subscribe to David's RSS feed Google's Android eco-system is a bit like a patchwork quilt. There are numerous flavours or versions of the operating system available on a multitude of smartphones and tablets from a huge amount of ... |
GCN.com - By Paul McCloskey Microsoft said it is joining the battle against child pornography by donating to law enforcement agencies advanced image-matching technology that helps track child pornography online and locate its traffickers. |
DriveArabia.com News & Views - by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury It isn't often that we get to fly to other countries to test-drive a car. So it was doubly interesting that our only fully-sponsored foreign trip of the year involves the 2012 Isuzu D-Max pickup truck. |
TheWeek.com.om - Last week, Muscat got a glimpse of two of the newest offerings from MINI's ever growing stable. Customers will now have the opportunity to consider the MINI Coupe and the MINI Roadster, along with the four other MINI models already available, ... |
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