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Neil deGrasse Tyson: science funding can “guarantee your economic future”

America's Astronomer-in-Chief drives his point home by showing magazine covers with NASA's iconic Earthrise photo. Rob Pegoraro Neil deGrasse Tyson came to Washington on Wednesday to deliver the science-specific version of President Barack...

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Friday, January 25th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth

Brewster Kahle meets with Web Archive Director Kris Carpenter in his office in San Francisco. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Here’s the problem with libraries. They catch on fire  really easily . As such, they...

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Monday, August 20th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Some Cheap Russian Music Sites Have Pirate Suppliers

Although they’ve been around for a decade or more, Russian music download sites still come as a surprise to those encountering them for the first time. Apart from having some of the most...

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Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

File-Sharing Is Linked to Depression, Researchers Find

Nearly every day we write about negative associations towards file-sharing, and today is no different. A new academic paper now reveals how file-sharing is linked to depressive symptoms. The paper carries the self-explanatory...

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Thursday, May 17th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Fight for your right to party rip DVDs legally

Since the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998, the Copyright Office has held several triennial proceedings on bypassing digital locks. Gradually, the Office has loosened up; the last time...

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Thursday, December 1st, 2011 Net News No Comments