Amazon.com may have been down in North America for as long as 45 minutes this week. 

Your greatest danger is that you’re going to be replaceable by the time you’re in your late 30s. 

      We hear the admonishments all the time; smoking ­­­___ cigarettes a day will take ­­­­­          ___ years off your life, drinking ___ glasses of alcohol a day will take […]

A new song captures the feelings of the anti-surveillance movement.

Even snobs and technophobes should accept the hashtag.

A new agreement targeting Dutch content publishers involves linking an e-book's digital watermark to the purchaser's account. That way, if a copy of the e-book ends up on a pirating site, the publishers will know who to come after.

The country became the first in the world to officially recognize the use of the virtual currency for legal and tax purposes. 

Meet e-David (Drawing Apparatus for Vivid Image Display), a robot who is programmed to copy works of art.

41 images were stitched together to create this sped-up movie that shows Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons, passing Deimos, the smaller one. 

This is to counterpose the picture which is developed in physics from Galileo and Newton and Descartes down to the present quantum cosmologists. 

Thinking that leadership as binary is a very big mistake.  

Let's suppose you are running the perfect state, the perfect government.  You would want to go on a little world tour before you got down to business to see the […]

With the world economy fighting its way off the ropes, is China capable of supporting global commerce by developing an economic juggernaut like Apple or Ikea?

On Tuesday evening, the television news network Al Jazeera America will enter the homes of nearly half of this country's 100 million cable subscribers.

Doomsday predictions about a world with too many mouths to feed, once predicted to reach 11 billion by 2050, are being drastically reevaluated. 

The Finnish system spends about one-quarter less money per pupil than the American system, yet student achievement remains high.

While this summer has yielded mostly positive economic news, the engines of recovery in Europe, Japan, and China, may inevitably lose steam.

Twenty years ago, I predicted that when the exponential and predictable progress of processing power, storage, and bandwidth—what I called the three digital accelerators—reached the levels we would have by […]

On June 19, the world's first automatic magazine newsstand reached the Swedish consumers. Meganews Magazines is up and running in Stockholm, hoping to change the modern media landscape. The newsstand kiosk […]

Earlier this month, Lu Ann Ballew, a judge in Tennessee, decided that seven-month-old Messiah Deshawn Martin must lose his first name. Her reasoning is inspiring condemnation from across the religious […]