Aaron Swartz faced an imminent trial for having downloaded some four million articles from a not-for-profit scholarly archive, and a possible penalty of 35 years in prison and a $1-million fine, which some call disproportionate to his actions...
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Scientific American’s trip to this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show turned up some oddities
Scientific American’s trip to this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show turned up some oddities
Preliminary data suggest that all those tweets, status updates and other digital distractions may actually stave off cognitive decline
Energy, free speech and health care lead the list of urgent policy decisions for the next four years
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This week key players from government, business and academia meet at Penn State to discuss new technologies and techniques they hope will lead to a resurgence in U.S. manufacturing
Microsoft's new operating system comes in three versions and runs two different kinds of programs. Here's our guide to keeping it straight
Why personal computers still need the keyboard and mouse, despite Microsoft's best efforts to kill them off
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Some obvious changes seem to be in store for the iPad Mini in 2013. But it won't be a no-brainer for Apple to crank out the next-gen Mini in short order
A mathematical technique called “differential privacy” gives researchers access to vast repositories of personal data while meeting a high standard for privacy protection
"Thinking quantumly" can lead to new insights into long-standing problems in classical computer science, mathematics and cryptography, regardless of whether quantum computers ever materialize...
So-called boson-sampling computers could serve as a stopgap until the development of more capable quantum computers
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An algorithm can evaluate tweets within the overall Twitter flow to assess their veracity. Larry Greenemeier reports
Citizen scientists can learn more about their genetic makeup and history, helping National Geographic researchers in the process
