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In a new study analyzing Internet usage among college students, researchers have found that students who show signs of depression tend to use the Internet differently than those who show no symptoms of depression.

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.

Google opposes UK porn filters, a fake porn profile nets felony charges, Faceporn trumps Facebook and iPads are for porn.

Microsoft has come a long way in its acceptance of open source. And its motto doesn't seem to be (this time) to embrace and extinguish.

Satellite broadcaster clashes with US TV networks over a set-top box that strips ads out of recorded programmes

Researchers from MIT have developed a special coating that will help get that last drop of ketchup out of the bottle - and other technology news stories.

If you don’t handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system. - Anders Hejlsberg

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect. - Linus Torvalds