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Climate researchers are producing some of the fastest growing datasets in science. Five years ago, the amount of information generated for the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report was 35 terabytes —- equivalent to the amount of text in 35 million books, occupying a bookshelf 248 miles (399 km) long. By 2014, when the next IPCC report is published, experts predict that 2 petabytes of data will have been generated for it—that's a 580 percent increase in data production. Because thousands of researchers around the world contribute to the generation and analysis of new data, a reliable, high-speed network is needed to transport the torrent of information. Fortunately, the Department of Energy's (DOE) ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) has laid the foundation for such a network -- not just for climate research, but for all data-intensive science.

Scientists have taken Alan Turing's work to its next logical step, translating her 1993 discovery into an adaptable computational system that learns and evolves way much more like our brains do.

Screenshot claims Reliance Communication's website filtering and blocking server has been hacked by Anonymous to block other websites.

Small investors snubbed the Facebook IPO. It's the 'smart money' that's crying.

A cybercrime mastermind who hijacked the PCs of more than 30 million people has been jailed for four years.

Scotland Yard has equipped its officers with mobile fingerprint scanners to identify suspects while on the streets.

Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases. - Norman Augustine

UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. - Dennis Ritchie