1. ‘Avatar’ Bolsters News Corp.’s Earnings 48 minutes ago permalink

TIM ARANGO / NYT

Buoyed by “Avatar,” the highest-grossing movie to date, News Corporation’s adjusted second-quarter earnings were 25 cents a share, a nickel above the average expectations of analysts.

2. Some News Outlets Ready to Try Charging Online Readers 50 minutes ago permalink

RICHARD / NYT

A new Steven Brill endeavor enables news outlets to charge their online readers. The tattered news industry may be ready to give it a whirl.

3. Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go 1 hour ago permalink

Www.mobilecrunch.com

As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...

4. Meryl Dorey looking for an injection of funds 2 hours ago permalink

Www.youngausskeptics.com

After almost 17 years of running the AVN, it is my bittersweet duty to inform you that within the next 3 – 4 weeks I will tendering my resignation as President of this great organisation and moving on to the next stage of my own personal development as mother, wife, activist and researcher.

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Phil Plait / Bad Astronomy : AVN may be closing doors; Meryl Dorey stepping down

5. Senators Warned of Terrorist Attack on U.S. by July 2 hours ago permalink

MARK MAZZETTI / NYT

America’s top intelligence official said he was “highly certain” that Al Qaeda or one of its affiliates would attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months.

6. New Software Update for Nexus One phones 10 hours ago permalink

Googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com

Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch : Did Google Just Multi-Punch Apple In The Face?

NICK BILTON / NYT : Google Adds Multi-Touch Features to Nexus One Phone

7. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market 3 hours ago permalink

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...

8. Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action 8 hours ago permalink

MG Siegler / TechCrunch

As we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We've just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ...

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Google Focused Research Awards — On Tuesday February 2nd, we announced the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards. These awards are for research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community.

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Announcing Google's Focused Research Awards — (Cross-posted with the Google Research Blog ) It is said that Google is like a university — and not just because everyone eats their lunch off trays in the cafeteria. Like a university, we devote significant energy to research across a wide array of subjects — from semantics to help improve search, to ways we can improve the efficiency of ...

9. Dear media: Hello. It’s me, Science. 8 hours ago permalink

Blogs.discovermagazine.com

Dear Media, Dear Homeopathy, and Dear Astrology are three polite letters written by, um, Science. Well, really, "the personification of the abstract concept of Science, just to clarify," as he says in his own letters.

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"Dear Media, from Science" — Hello. It's me, Science. Hope you're well. You seem a bit angry of late, snapping at people for no real reason. I've heard we all get a bit more right wing as we get older, but seriously, calm down. Try some meditation or yoga or Chamomile tea. And this is me (the personification of the abstract concept of Science, just to clarify) saying that, ...

Phil Plait / Bad Astronomy : Dear media: Hello. It’s me, Science.

10. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack 7 hours ago permalink

MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...

11. Dot-Com Crash Catches Up With Venture Capitalists 9 hours ago permalink

CLAIRE CAIN MILLER / NYT

Ten-year venture capital returns are deteriorating, yet venture capital still outperformed the public markets.

12. A recent improvement for Arabic searches 11 hours ago permalink

A Googler / The Official Google Blog

This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed. We've learned that when performing a search on Google, people sometimes forget to separate words with spaces. Moreover, people often mistakenly repeat a letter within a single word. For instance, when ...

13. Extra Money for Science in Obama’s Budget 12 hours ago permalink

DONALD / NYT

The president’s proposed spending plan would increase money for the Health and Human Services Department and the National Institutes of Health.

14. Come to a space conference in Boulder! 13 hours ago permalink

Blogs.discovermagazine.com

On February 18 – 20, in my home town of Boulder, Colorado, the Lunar and Planetary Institute is holding a very interesting conference called The Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference 2010 (NSRC2010). It’s to promote the awareness of the coming revolution in access to space provided by private companies.

15. Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer 13 hours ago permalink

Www.mobilecrunch.com

I begged and pleaded with Greg, editor of MobileCrunch, not to make me write this, but it looks like I’m stuck introducing myself to you all. So in my best Troy McClure voice let me say: Hi, my name is Marc Flores. You might remember me from such popular sites as Boy Genius Report or True/Slant.

16. In Europe, Challenges for Google 14 hours ago permalink

ERIC PFANNER / NYT

On issues like privacy, copyright protection and the dominance of its search engine, Google is increasingly clashing with lawmakers and regulators.

17. W3C SVG Working Group Update for January 2010 1 day ago permalink

Ieblog / IEBlog

In this post, I want to share some examples of the progress going on in the SVG Working Group. Microsoft recently joined the SVG Working Group , and other members ( Mozilla, Apple and Opera among others ) welcomed us warmly. I'm hopeful about the ways that SVG (both its current direction and future potential) could make the web better . We want ...

18. Albert Einstein 1 day ago permalink

Rss / Quotes of the Day

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

19. E. Joseph Cossman 1 day ago permalink