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By analyzing 600,000 tweets sent on the night US Special Forces captured Osama bin Laden, researchers studied how Twitter broke the story and spread the news. Their data also shows that the Twitterverse was overwhelmingly convinced the news of bin Laden's death was true, even before it was confirmed on television.

Powerful supercomputers have shed light on the behavior of key sub-atomic particles, in a development that could help explain why there is almost no anti-matter in our universe. Physicists have reported a landmark calculation of the decay of an elementary particle called a kaon, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomputers. This revealed the first experimental evidence of a phenomenon known as charge-parity (CP) violation - a lack of symmetry between particles and their corresponding antiparticles that may explain why the Universe is made of matter, and not antimatter.

Oracle has released a cache of HP documents first seen during litigation, which shows just how much HP wanted to keep the ailing Itanium chip going.

Hosted Virtual Desktops are a bit like driving in the snow. Every link in the chain between the data on a hard drive in the datacenter and the pixels on the user's screen introduces a delay that...

A report commissioned by the NSPCC suggests that children are coming under pressure from friends to post explicit pictures

Flipboard, the popular social news magazine, starts integrating audio into its app for Apple's hand-held devices.

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete. - Terry Baker

The best way to predict the future is to implement it. - David Heinemeier Hansson