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The Beatles take on the roles of the “rude mechanicals,” performing the Pyramus and Thisbee scene from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1964.
Though terms of a "road map" to peace in Libya are unclear, the African Union says Gaddafi has accepted conditions for a ceasefire between Libyan rebels and government troops.
On average, a brain's short term memory can only hold between five and seven pieces of information at a time. Can steps be taken to expand the capacity of our memory—and our brains generally?
When asked to observe a man making mundane decision in his apartment, a sample of people placed greater emphasis on the importance of individual decision making in life.
Stanford University’s Susan McConnell explains brain development like “a play that follows a script, that is written down by the genetic code, performed by actors who “have never spoken their […]
Henry V is perhaps the most famous (and complicated) leader in Shakespeare. Here, he is portrayed by Sir Laurence Olivier in his famously propagandistic 1944 film, meant to rally the […]
Computer storage and software are already migrating to the cloud, and soon processing power will go virtual as well, making our mobile devices as powerful as supercomputers.
Powerful yet tiny particles known as nanostructures will support new antibiotics that act like magnets to destroy bacteria and disease and potentially cancer, according to a new study.
While natural disasters such as floods and tornadoes have captured our attention this summer, the scale of destruction is very slight compared to the worst man-made disasters.
Lebanon, a country plagued by slow Internet, was a popular choice for an International Emmy for "Digital Program: Fiction" at Cannes for its drama series Shankaboot.
Nicole Ferraro says Facebook is somewhat upfront about how many people actually use its site but Twitter claims it has 175 million registered users yet fails to say how many are active.
A Swiss court says Google must guarantee all faces and license plates photographed as part of its Street View maps are unrecognizable, even though Google says it'll cost too much.
Moore's Law explains why the price of everything electronic keeps going down. Richard Bennett explains some exceptions. Don't expect bandwith prices to halve every 18 months.
A new case study from Harvard Business School looks at how National Geographic dealt with the many challenges of changing its business model from paper to digital.
Consumer-oriented cloud applications make it really easy for employees to share sensitive corporate documents, maybe too easy, warns Maria Korolov.
Digital technologies and the Internet are affecting every aspect of film production, distribution, marketing, and consumption and have spawned the online film festival.