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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.

The computer industry is nearing a crisis: microchips  get smaller and faster but they struggle to transfer data at sufficient speeds.  Electrons flowing through standard chip connections are just too slow. Now researchers have shown how chips with built-in lasers which use multiple wavelengths of light could in the future transmit data at terabit speeds.

More from the front lines of United Airlines' merger with Continental.

Here are four reasons why the adaptive-framework-is-dead argument doesn't add up. Engineers like adaptive frameworks and your CFO will too.

Internet giant Google did not infringe patents belonging to software developer Oracle, a court in California has ruled.

A 6,200 tonne building is being moved 60 metres to make way for the expansion of a railway in Zurich.

Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren’t doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they’re sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. - Charles M. Strauss

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trivial details of a program — such as where its bugs are. - David Keppel