They won't be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes?
By analyzing tens of millions of news stories, a supercomputer in Tennessee may be able to predict future human events.
OPINION: Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed 'culturomics' is not the same as being an historian.
A cool new project dubbed Skolr promises to spread the latest science farther and faster by bringing science's ubiquitous poster sessions online.
Keeping individual health information private is good thing, but so is aggregating that data to improve care in general. Can those competing good ideas find a happy medium?
The U.S. Library of Congress is blazing a trail in determining how to store an ever-expanding trove of information that never had physical form.
Never has the world historical and cultural record been more accessible — or more fragile.