BBC | Engineers from the firm said the first computers running the system would be available before the end of 2010.

Yahoo Tech | California agreed to enact strict regulations on the amount of power televisions can consume, effectively outlawing most large plasma TVs as of January 1, 2011.

NPR | The confirmation of the NSA’s role, which began during the development of the software, is a sign of the agency’s deepening involvement with the private sector when it comes to building defenses against cyberattacks.

Cryptogon | The technology can freeze the device until the user clicks a button or answers a test question to demonstrate that he or she has dutifully noticed the commercial message.

Lewis Page | A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or “unknown unknowns” — for instance “an extra dimension”.

PhysicsWorld | The American Physical Society has “overwhelmingly rejected” a proposal from a group of 160 physicists to alter its official position on climate change.

Prevent Disease | According to a recent study, as many as 77 percent of all Americans may be deficient in the vitamin essential for bone health and which may prevent H1N1.

BBC | Chemicals in plastics alter the brains of baby boys, making them “more feminine”, say US researchers.

Mail Online | 51% agree it is a serious concern but remain unconvinced of the role humans play.

Richard Gale and Gary Null, Ph.D | “I have no doubt whatever that vaccination is an unscientific abomination and should be made a criminal practice.”

Cory Doctorow | The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town’s municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie.

Daily Paul | Mentions an implanted RFID microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn’t, allowed medical care in their country.

BBC | Needless use of anti-psychotic drugs is widespread in dementia care and contributes to the death of many patients.

AFP | The Beijing Weather Modification Office had artificially induced both storms by seeding clouds with chemicals.

BBC | The data will be stored on a global database that will be available to scientists around the world.

AFP | Google said it was up to individual news organizations to decide whether they wanted their stories listed on Google News.

Sky News Online | Rupert Murdoch claims that readers who randomly reach a page via an internet search hold little value to advertisers.

Reuters | Ida was expected to hit somewhere between Louisiana and Florida.

Mail Online | Michael Jackson appeared to understand that reality and internalize the prejudice.

Dr. Mercola | Researchers say their obesity vaccine could be ready for market in five years.

Daniel Tencer | File-sharers could be jailed under proposed ACTA provisions.

Cory Doctorow | The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked.

Strategy & Tactics | Bringing back the BBS is something some of us in the patriot movement should be working on as a back up system for disseminating information and providing support in the cause of liberty.

Dr. Mercola | Senate bill 773 (The Cybersecurity Act of 2009) is causing a flurry of opposition from groups like Campaign for Liberty.

Mail Online | Eating junk food can make you depressed, doctors have warned.

Mail Online | The technology relies on recognising a pheromone — or scent signal — produced in sweat when a person is scared.

Prevent Disease | Increasing evidence links radio frequencies to miscarriage, brain cancer, and electomagnetic hypersensitivity.

Medscape Today | Investigators are reporting a case of motor neuron disease after immunization with the quadrivalent vaccine Gardasil.

Technology Review | THz waves unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.

StorefrontBacktalk | A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is predicting that the flu could cause major slowdowns and possibly outages

The Daily Galaxy | The Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Observatory images may support the idea that Jupiter is in the midst of violent global climate change.

Marc Morano | We should fear a deep temperature drop — not catastrophic global warming.

Mail Online | Eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in a breakthrough process that could change the face of parenthood.

The Heritage Foundation | Welcome to “responsibility and leadership in the 21st century” under the Obama Administration.

The Bulletin | Gardasil and Cervarix will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15.

Daily Express | The report has reportedly found that heavy mobile use is linked to brain tumors.

Reuters | With the threat of of a court fight looming, Democrats in Congress are mulling legislative options to promote net neutrality.

Brand Republic | The CIA, has formed a “strategic partnership and technology development agreement” with Visible Technologies.

Technology Review | The data will be compared against electronic health records and patients’ personal information.

Zachary T Baker | Just move on to the next person who hopefully hasn’t succumb to the infamous Orwellian state of mind known as doublethink.

Fox News | Adults with little Internet experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week online, a new study finds.

Sunday Times | The collider may be sabotaging itself from the future — twisting time to generate a series of scientific setbacks that will prevent the machine fulfilling its destiny.

Mail Online | The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has spent years developing a whole host of cyborg critters.

AFP | A new field of medical research is looking at the emergence of modern epidemics like asthma and obesity through the prism of Charles Darwin’s 150-year-old theory of evolution.

Time Magazine | For just a few million dollars, the mayor’s office will hire the Russian Air Force to spray a fine chemical mist over the clouds before they reach the capital, forcing them to dump their snow outside the city.

New York Times | Obama has urged Americans to help guard against cyberattacks in a first-of-its-kind video published on the White House Web site.

Bloomberg | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the vaccine for use in males ages 9 to 26, Merck said today in a statement.

AFP | French health watchdogs, in a precautionary move, recommended on Thursday reducing exposure to mobile phones and other portable wireless devices.

Dr. Mercola | A series of studies suggests that people who got a seasonal flu shot last year are about twice as likely to catch swine flu as people who didn’t.

NewScientist | “Is this a photo of your office?” another asks (the answer is yes). “And did you enjoy your pizza on Monday night? And why did you divert from your normal route to work to visit this address in Camberwell, London, on Saturday?”