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For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault -- both during an earthquake and at times of "rest" -- in order to know more about how a particular region may behave in the future. Now, researchers have developed the first computer model of an earthquake-producing fault segment that reproduces the available observations of both the fault's seismic and aseismic behavior.

A small minority of today’s university students don’t use email and others are confused by the array of technologies available at universities. Yet many students couldn’t bear to be without their mobile phones and find themselves distracted by social networking sites during study. 

The hacktivist group Anonymous has denied allegations that it is behind the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against The Pirate Bay. Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay remains down and out.

There are still people, like me, that have unlimited data on Verizon, but we now hear that this service will be killed off to transition people to a shared data plan sometime this year.

Passengers flying Virgin Atlantic from London to New York will soon be able to make in-flight phone calls using personal devices.

Sina Corp, China's largest internet portal and media website, posts a loss in the first three months of the year.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord. - Author Unknown

Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key. - Author Unknown