Atari Files for Bankruptcy
Expects to sell off assets
Science & Technology
Technological Advances May Spell End to Many College Campuses
Who needs residential facilities and physical classrooms?
Synthetic Drug Ban Prompts Underground Dealers To Create New Concoctions
You can't ban chemistry
Apartment Complex Wants Dog DNA To Identify Non-Pooper-Scoopers
Apparently, there's a growing trade in identifying dog crap
Asteroid-Mining Company Plans First Prospecting Spacecraft for 2015
Ultimate goal is to enable space colonization
French Government Wants to Tax Internet Data Collection
Report argues that data is the "raw material" of the digital economy
Megaupload Founder Launches New File-Sharing Company One Year After Raid on Old Company
Consider it a raised middle finger to the U.S. government
Nassim Taleb Talks Antifragile, Libertarianism, and Capitalism's Genius for Failure
The best-selling author of The Black Swan talks about his new book and why most public intellectuals aren't worth a damn.
Radio Station Adopts Crowd-Sourced Format
No more DJs; listeners pick songs via Website or app
The FDA's Pathetic Food Safety Proposal
Federal regulators want to impose costly new rules that won't make our food any safer.
Obama Didn't Go After Video Game Industry Because He Can't
Recent Supreme Court decisions have recognized First Amendment protections that block authoritarian politicians
EU May Force Companies To Disclose Security Breaches to Governments
And to whom will governments reveal their screw-ups?
Sen. Cornyn Sends Critical Letter to Holder About Swartz Case
Not happy about zealous prosecution
Warmer Weather Brings Earlier Springs
Many plants flowering earlier than they did in the 19th century
Can Money Buy Happiness After All?
New research suggests an old paradox might not be true.
Latest Video Game Violence Overreach: Rules that Have Already Been Struck Down
Congressman wants to regulate video games like porn with about as much likelihood of success
Curiosity Rover's Tracks on Mars Seen from Space
Mars Recon Observer NASA's eye in the sky
Leahy Slams War on Pot, Promises Forensics and Sentencing Reform in Georgetown Speech
"We have spent...hundreds of billions of dollars on this so called 'war on drugs.' Well, we've lost."
Slate Writer Matt Yglesias Suggests Obama Kids More Important Than Other People's
The cult of the presidency lives
