When Universities Sell Patents to Trolls, Publicly Funded Research Is Compromised There’s been a lot of talk lately about the state of publicly funded research. Many, including EFF, have lon... Read more
How fast is online learning evolving? Are wind turbines a promising investment? And how long before a cheap hoverboard makes it to market? Attempting to answer such questions requires knowin... Read more
A new study by KU Leuven–iMinds researchers has uncovered that 145 of the Internet’s 10,000 top websites track users without their knowledge or consent. The websites use hidden... Read more
A long-running philosophical debate is being rehashed in the world of business, and big money is at stake, says Stephen Ornes AT SOME point in their career every mathematician comes up again... Read more
Many innovators don’t want to patent their creations It might be a heretical idea for readers of this magazine, but law professor Jason Schultz says that many innovators don’t wa... Read more
“The Guardian’s Open 20: fighters for internet freedom” Rickard Falkvinge – Founder, the Pirate party Falkvinge founded the Swedish Pirate party in 2006 to focus on reforming copyrigh... Read more
You may think the only people capable of snooping on your Internet activity are government intelligence agents or possibly a talented teenage hacker holed up in his parents’ basement. But so... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Computer security researchers are raising alarms about vulnerabilities in some of the Web’s most secure corners: the banking, e-commerce and other sites that use encrypti... Read more