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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.

We have all heard of the smartphone and any day now, most of us will have one. Not far behind: The smart home. Scientists say it won't be long before our homes act as "intelligent agents" that use sensors and software to anticipate our needs and tend to tasks that improve our health, energy efficiency, even social media.

Kevin and I talk a lot about our personal choices and in this week's show you will hear about a few moves I made in regards to my smartphones and many other mobile musings.

The lack of women in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math will continue to plague our country until all students, regardless of sex, have adequate opportunities to explore math and science.

Pakistan's government has imposed a countrywide ban on the social media website Twitter.

HMRC is targetting people who use sites such as eBay and Amazon to sell items online at a profit.

I’m not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn’t need an interpreter. - Nicholas Petreley

Being able to break security doesn’t make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. - Eric Raymond