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The Ministry of Defence is to de-classify submarine data in order to help shed light on climate change in the Arctic.

Kansas City Star
Tech giants agree to new privacy rules
The Guardian
Six of the world's top consumer technology companies – including Apple, Google and Microsoft – have agreed that apps will provide greater privacy disclosures before users download them so as to protect consumers' personal data, California's attorney ...
Calif. Pledges Better Mobile Privacy DisclosuresABC News
Obama Looks to Web Industry for Online Consumer Privacy StandardBusinessWeek
Voluntary guidelines for Web privacy backed by Obama administrationWashington Post
San Francisco Chronicle -Los Angeles Times -Forbes
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Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists did not break speed of light - it was a faulty wire
Telegraph.co.uk
Physicists who shocked the scientific world by claiming to have shown particles could move faster than the speed of light have admitted it was a mistake due to a faulty wire connection. It was Albert Einstein who proposed more than 100 years ago that ...
Was Einstein wrong - or was the cable loose?Reuters
Reuters Science News SummaryChicago Tribune
Not so fast: Loose wire led to stunning, faster-than-light particle findingFox News
Washington Post
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Brisbane Times
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space
Clarksville Online
Pasadena, CA – Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form in the cosmos.
Scientists get kick out of deep space 'buckyball' discoverymsnbc.com
Kennedy Space Center at 50: A spaceport in transitionWashington Post
Spitzer spots first solid buckyballs in stellar discRegister
San Francisco Chronicle -TG Daily -Space.com
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Sydney Morning Herald
Google's new goggles set to change our outlook
Montreal Gazette
It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel, but the New York Times is reporting that Google is developing a pair of electronic glasses that can stream information directly to the eyes of its user in real time, via a heads-up display.
7 Potential Problems With Google's GlassesInformationWeek
Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual RealityNew York Times
Report: Google Working on HUD Glasses for 2012 DebutPC Magazine
Washington Post -Los Angeles Times -Computerworld
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Telegraph.co.uk
Male chromosome is not doomed, say scientists
Telegraph.co.uk
Fears that the male Y chromosome could be wiped out within five million years have been undermined by new research showing the drop in genes has stabilised. By Donna Bowater A study of rhesus macaque monkeys found that while male DNA was lost at first, ...
Male Y chromosome extinction theory challengedBBC News
Genetic Maker of Men Is Diminished but Holding Its Ground, Researchers SayNew York Times
Men Aren't Going Extinct, Study of Shrinking Y Chromosome FindsBusinessWeek
The Guardian -Bloomberg -AFP
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Techlicious
More reasons to wait for 'Ivy Bridge' MacBook, Windows laptops
CNET
by Brooke Crothers February 22, 2012 10:35 PM PST Follow @mbrookec Decisions, decisions. Should I wait for that Ivy Bridge-based laptop? Yeah, if you want a faster system with better battery life. The upcoming Dell XPS 13 ultrabook will likely use Ivy ...
Dell Goes on Ultrabook Diet With Slimmed-Down LaptopWall Street Journal
Dell XPS 13 manuals leak, spill the Ultrabook's guts all over the internetEngadget
Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook ReviewAll Things Digital
IntoMobile -Chip Chick
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Wired News
Ex-Apple Man Streams Flash onto the iPad
Wired News
By Caleb Garling First, OnLive put Windows on the iPad. And now the free-thinking San Francisco startup has gone so far as to put Adobe Flash on Apple's holy tablet. On Wednesday, the company unveiled a new version of OnLive Desktop — an iPad ...
Windows on the iPad, and SpeedyNew York Times
OnLive offers service to speed up Web browsing on an iPadSan Jose Mercury News
OnLive Desktop Plus brings Adobe Flash and IE to iPad; $5 per monthZDNet (blog)
VentureBeat -Tech.pinions -TechCrunch
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SlashGear
NVIDIA Tegra 3 VSMP technology renamed 4-PLUS-1
SlashGear
Back when we were first learning about the amazing technology in the system-on-chip architecture of the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, the term “VSMP” was used to describe the “ninja core” it included. That extra core, the fifth core, ...
NVIDIA officially brands Tegra 3's five-core quad-core architecture as 4-PLUS-1Engadget
NVIDIA Demystifies Tegra 3's 'Ninja-Core' Architecture, Renames vSMP '4-PLUS-1'Android Police
NVIDIA's Tegra 3 fifth-core architecture will be known as 4-PLUS-1Android Community
AnandTech -androidandme.com -CNET (blog)
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msnbc.com
Black hole clocks fastest wind ever recorded by NASA
CNET
by Dara Kerr February 22, 2012 9:00 PM PST Follow @darakerr Born from the collapse of a massive star, a recently detected stellar-mass black hole is breaking high-speed records. This artist's impression shows a stellar-mass black hole, on the left, ...
Cosmic Hurricane: Black Hole Has 20 Million MPH WindsSpace.com
Black hole producing super winds, 20 million miles per hour windsCatholic Online
NASA sniffs little black hole's 20-million-MPH windRegister
Christian Science Monitor -Forbes
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KOMO News
Verizon in Spectrum Spat
Wall Street Journal
By ANTON TROIANOVSKI And GREG BENSINGER Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA—which just months ago pushed government authorities to approve a failed deal to sell itself to AT&T Inc.—is now asking regulators to block Verizon Wireless's plan to buy wireless ...
T-Mobile Urges US to Block Verizon's Spectrum PurchasePittsburgh Post Gazette
T-Mobile, public interest groups ask FCC to stop Verizon's deal with cable firmsWashington Post
Rivals blast Verizon's bid for cable airwavesReuters
BusinessWeek -eWeek
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Bloomberg
Bank of China Revealed as Opponent of Apple
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Apple's IPad Trademark Battle Apple's IPad Trademark Battle Kevin Lee/Bloomberg Losing its Feb. 29 appeal would open Apple to lawsuits seeking damages and enable a nationwide ban on iPad sales in the Cupertino, California-based company's ...
iPad trademark dispute shows troubles of doing business in ChinaWashington Post
Chinese firm seeks halt of iPad sales in ShanghaiReuters
Lower Chinese court rules shops should pull iPadsThe Associated Press
USA TODAY -PCWorld -New York Times
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Globe and Mail
Microsoft Slams Google on Patents
Wall Street Journal
By SHIRA OVIDE And IAN SHERR Microsoft Corp. is complaining to European regulators that Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and its soon-to-be-owner Google Inc. are misusing patents to gain an upper hand in the mobile-device market.
Microsoft Files Complaint Against Motorola in EuropeNew York Times
The Patent War to End All Patent WarsPC Magazine
Microsoft files EU complaint over Google, MotorolaReuters
eWeek -The Mac Observer -BusinessWeek
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ZDNet
The Pokemon Company issues statement on fake App Store game
SlashGear
In a world where Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonists struggle getting their own content approved as an iPhone app, somehow a lone developer managed to submit a game that was a blatant ripoff and trademark infringement of one of the most ...
Fake Pokemon Yellow rises to No. 3 position on iTunes app chartsArs Technica
Apple vs. Facebook: Why users are the losersCNET
Apple Removes Fake Pokemon App From App StorePC Magazine
DVICE -DailyTech -Macgasm
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CBC.ca
AAA: $5-a-gallon gas likely in urban areas
Kingsport Times News
By Kevin Castle AAA East Tennessee says $5-a-gallon gasoline is a possibility in more populated urban areas, but motorists in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia could see a little less pain at the pump. On a day when crude oil was trading at $106 ...
AAA: Mid-Atlantic will be nation's gas price hot spotWGMD Radio
As gas prices soar, Californians test life above the $4-a-gallon markChristian Science Monitor
Gas Prices Hit $3.54KLFY
Reuters -My Fox 8 -WIBW
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MyFox Houston
Google Aims to Offer Kansas City TV
Wall Street Journal
By AMIR EFRATI And SAM SCHECHNER Google Inc. applied last week to provide video service to residents of Kansas City, Mo., according to state records, setting the stage for the Web giant to offer a cable-TV-like package in addition to the high-speed ...
Google Seeks To Plant Antenna Farm in IowaData Center Knowledge
Google Files Application to Operate TV ServiceTom's Guide
Google hints at TV service for ultra-fast broadband testKansas City Star
Mashable -CNET -VentureBeat
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An international research cruise off Japan detects radioactivity in sampled seawater and marine organisms, but well within safe levels.

Bloomberg
HP Profit Falls 44% as Revenue Slips
Wall Street Journal
By NATHALIE TADENA Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal first-quarter earnings fell 44% as sales in the company's personal computers business continued to fall. Shares slid 2.1% to $28.34 in recent after-hours trading as HP's revenue missed analyst ...
HP's Hardware Businesses Bomb as Profits, Revenue FallPC Magazine
HP Profit Falls 44 Percent Amid Weak PC SalesPCWorld
Hewlett-Packard Forecast Misses Estimates Amid Consumer SlumpBusinessWeek
New York Times -msnbc.com
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CBC.ca
Sony Goes Hardcore With New PlayStation Vita: Rich Jaroslovsky
BusinessWeek
By Rich Jaroslovsky Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The first clue that Sony's new PlayStation Vita is something more than kid stuff is the quick- start guide. It's more than two feet long, with detailed instructions printed on both sides.
Sony's Vita arrives just as market may be fadingReuters
Q&A: Sony's Game Design Chief Talks PlayStation VitaWired News
Sony Vita handheld needs more speedSan Francisco Chronicle
Washington Post -CNET -PCWorld
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BBC News
Former factory workers add pleas to sign Apple labor petition
CNET
by Josh Lowensohn February 22, 2012 1:03 PM PST Follow @Josh Two former factory workers in China who suffered health problems as part of a 2009 incident are urging the public to sign an Internet petition being delivered to Apple tomorrow.
A Trip to The iFactory: 'Nightline' Gets an Unprecedented Glimpse Inside ...ABC News
Pressure, Chinese and Foreign, Drives Changes at FoxconnNew York Times
Nightline Apple Special Highlights Spotless Foxconn Factories, Low WagesPC Magazine
USA TODAY -PCWorld -Forbes
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