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Canadian Feds Are Investigating If Ashley Madison Protected Users Enough
Things are getting serious for Avid Life Media in the North.
Behind New York's Library Network
A look at how the library infrastructures of New York City work, and the “middleware” that holds them together.
The Quest to Build Australia’s First Indigenous Language Wikipedia
The academics behind "Nyungarpedia" are not only trying to build a new wiki, they're trying to create a database of knowledge that relies on oral tradition rather than Western-style sourcing.
New Research Shows Schizophrenia Is a Disorder of Information Ruled by Genes
The biology behind schizophrenia has been an enduring and frustrating mystery of neuroscience.
Should Artists Be Able to Sell Their Facebook Passwords on eBay?
eBay may have taken down the auction for his Facebook password, but Nick Hugh Schmidt is keeping his dream alive.
Calculating the Speed Limit of Quantum Information
NIST scientists offer some disappointing results about quantum computing.
Quantum Information Takes the Connectedness Out of Search
No longer do networks have to be searched node by node.
Satellites Will Beam One-Way Internet to the Earth's Most Remote Areas
A grant from the UK Space Agency will enable the Outernet project to launch a constellation of 24 satellites by the end of next year.
It's Still Way Too Easy for Government Employees to Hide Official Conversations
Requests for government records have long been foiled by the use of BlackBerries and instant messaging apps, and personal email accounts.
Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles
Paolo Cirio hacked into the Wall Street Journal, FT, and the Economist, and has published every paywalled story they ran in 2014. And he will pay you to read them.
How Information Theory Unifies Quantum Mechanics
A new framework ties together wave-particle duality and quantum uncertainty with bits.