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Grid computing, long used by physicists and astronomers to crunch masses of data quickly and efficiently, is making the leap into the world of biomedicine. Researchers have networked hundreds of computers to help find treatments for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's. They are calling their system the 'Google for brain imaging.'

Researchers have developed a computer program that has tracked the manner in which different forms of dementia spread within a human brain. They say their mathematical model can be used to predict where and approximately when an individual patient's brain will suffer from the spread, neuron to neuron, of "prion-like" toxic proteins -- a process they say underlies all forms of dementia.

Facebook's IPO filing with the SEC warns potential investors of the chance that the value of their investment may go down as well as up. This post looks at growth and why you might think twice...

Facebook wants to gain control of facebook.info. As such, the social networking giant has filed an official complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). What took so long?

Google revamps its search engine in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions with a new function, the Knowledge Graph.

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

Perl: The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. - Keith Bostic

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. - Jeff Pesis