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• Daredevil preps to skydive from edge of space
  
  

  The sky is not the limit for daredevil Felix Baumgartner, who is training to skydive from the stratosphere this summer. He also thinks he has the makings of a new extreme sport. Would you ever 'space' dive?

  
  
  
• Online dating may encourage 'shopping' for mate
  
  

  Online dating has become the second most common way for couples to meet, but it may encourage a "shopping" mentality in which people become judgmental and picky, focusing exclusively on a narrow set of criteria like attractiveness or interests, says a new study.

  
  
  
• Google India removes 'offensive' web pages
  
  

  Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest democracy, media reported Monday.

  
  
  
• Mapping the arctic
  
  

  The Soviet Navy was just as familiar with the Canadian North as our own sailors during the Cold War. These maps show just how much they knew about strategic northern waters - probably, say experts, because of secret submarine mapping.

  
  
  
• Rogers promises to end internet throttling
  
  

  Rogers has promised to stop "throttling" internet traffic on its network by the end of this year, in response to an investigation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

  
  
  
• Anonymous hacks police websites worldwide
  
  

  Hackers have taken over the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective called Anonymous, including in Boston and in Salt Lake City, where police say personal information of confidential informants and tipsters was accessed.

  
  
  
• Hubble images reveal galaxy similar to Milky Way
  
  

  The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a barred spiral galaxy — a galaxy similar to our own and expected to give astronomers a better insight into the Milky Way.

  
  
  
• Life on Mars unlikely on dry surface
  
  

  Mars has been arid for more than 600 million years, making the planet's surface too dry and hostile to support any life, according to new research based on soil analysis.

  
  
  
• Social media users post ads for profit
  
  

  PowerVoice, a peer-to-peer marketing platform, has been gaining popularity since its launch in December. The site allows social media users to get paid for recommending brands and products. What do you make of this concept?

  
  
  
• Ottawa Human Library
  
  

  Human Library took place Jan. 28 at five different branches of the Ottawa Public Library and at the Canadian War Museum.

  
  
  
• 2 new Kepler planets with double suns discovered
  
  

  A team of NASA scientists has discovered two new planets, each of which revolves around its own double suns.

  
  
  
• Butterflies inspire bug-size flying robots
  
  

  Engineers at Johns Hopkins University are studying how butterflies flutter to help design bug-size airborne robots that can mimic these manoeuvres to carry out reconnaissance, search-and-rescue and environmental monitoring missions without risking human lives.

  
  
  
• Telesat to spend $40 million to expand broadband in Arctic
  
  

  Satellite services company Telesat says it plans to spend $40 million to expand and modernize the broadband equipment and infrastructure serving Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon.

  
  
  
• 'Angelic' Steve Jobs impersonator promotes Android tablet
  
  

  A Taiwanese tech company is being criticized for an advertisement featuring an actor dressed as an 'angelic' Steve Jobs.

  
  
  
• NASA orbiter views far side of the moon
  
  

  A camera aboard a NASA lunar spacecraft has beamed back its first images of the far side of the moon.