Communications

A unique camera “signature” to identify online criminals

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Tech Talker: Quick and Dirty Tips to Navigate the Digital World

As hundreds of “altcoin” knockoffs are minted online, bitcoins no longer dominate as the principal form of digital currency

The growing popularity of online dating The dating scene has been changing over the last decade. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, approximately 6% of Internet users who are in a marriage or other committed relationship met online, compared to 3% who reported this in 2005.

Spammers have broken into AOL's mail server to hijack accounts' address books and send tons of spam to those contacts

The performance of cochlear implants has been improved with the use of gene therapy, suggesting a new avenue for developing better hearing aids

What are the likely manufacturing costs for sofosbuvir (Brand name: Sovaldi), the newly approved miracle drug that cures hepatitis C at a cost of $84,000 for the full 12-week course of treatment?

Buried in the supplementary information of a new research paper is a recipe for producing large quantities of clean flakes of the world’s thinnest, strongest material

William Shakespeare may well have been more aware of his era’s science—including the Copernican view that the planets revolve around the sun—than has generally been thought

Tweets from citizens on the front lines of the country’s conflicts with drug cartels indicate desensitization to the growing violence

Genetic experts are eyeing computer Webcams and videoconferencing to assess patients in Alaska and other remote places