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Is the government prepared for internet clogging during the swine flu pandemic?

An internet romance that ended in the disappearance of a woman has left police with a homicide investigation but no evidence and no body.

If character is the thing you have when you lose everything else, then the people of Haiti must be full to bursting with it. The photos and video of the […]

Other authors fret about the impact of the Web, but Augusten Burroughs “would not want to even be alive” without it.

Last weekend, a group calling itself the All-American Basketball Alliance announced plans to form a professional whites-only basketball league. According to a statement—released for some reason just before Martin Luther […]

Google’s scheme to dominate the world of digital book vending was dealt a legal blow yesterday by a French court who ruled that copyrights of French authors are violated each […]

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying blow up Northwest Flight 253 to Detroit, is in many ways the very model of a modern terrorist. Like many al-Qaeda […]

Internet viruses are known for being pretty sinister – but what if they could make you an unsuspecting collector of kiddie porn?

Royal Caribbean International is continuing to dock its luxury cruise ships on the beaches near Labadee in Haiti, near the epicenter of the earthquake. Some passengers are queasy about this. […]

“We as a nation are television watchers. Not only do we learn about politics by watching television, but we are television watchers; who we are as humans is in part […]

A British student who pleaded guilty to outraging public decency has been spared jail by a court after he was arrested for urinating on a war memorial.

The Chinese version of popular internet-based game World of Warcraft has been ordered to shut down by a government agency.

When I was a kid, I was an avid reader of just about anything between two covers, but I had a special place in my heart for encyclopedias. Back in […]

Privacy concerns have been raised after a leading genetics company pioneering personal DNA testing went bankrupt yesterday.

“You Better Not Cry” author Augusten Burroughs treats fans to a second Big Think interview this week, just in time for the holiday season. Famous since his 2001 bestseller “Running […]

There’s always a lot of chaos and confusion surrounding a physical assault made on a political figure, but yesterday’s attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has the potential to […]

As I wrote yesterday, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch has a radical idea for how to make money off of news content online: he wants to charge for it. In […]

A gifted student who publicly confronted Iran’s Supreme Leader has reportedly gone missing and an internet campaign has been launched to publicise his disappearance.

People see what their tools let them see. Case in point: How different the world looks when it’s mapped according to unfamiliar principles. Even more striking than a reverse-pole map […]

Editor of the Irish Times, Geraldine Kennedy, thinks the Internet poses an existential threat to the freedom of the press because it jeopardizes newspapers’ solvency. Kennedy’s remark comes at a […]

I wanted to start the year off on a positive note, but a spin around the blogosphere today has already got my blood pressure up. In particular, I am extremely […]

The race to archive GeoCities pages began after the free website company’s imminent demise was announced.

Author Janet Malcom’s book discusses the “morally indefensible” career of journalism in an industry which turns guttings into a spectator sport.

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A nasty virus has been hitching a lift on Facebook’s password reset confirmation email, posing a risk for users.

Calvin Trillin fondly remembers how print journalism overcame its last big opponent, television, and wonders if it will be able to deal with the Internet in the same way.

The promise of broadband Internet in Africa just took an ugly publicity hit—from a pigeon. The BBC reports that a carrier pigeon was able to deliver four gigabytes of data […]

This is a very cold-hearted digital world that doesn’t seem to care much for music.

The Facebook game FarmVille is making agriculture sexy again. But are online farms warping our view of how food is made?