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In America, a large part of funding for regenerative medicine comes from the Department of Defense, whose goal is to repair soldiers who come home wounded. That is an effort everyone recognizes as important. Yet, when it comes to repairing

Kids need to be clear that logging on to services like Facebook is like walking into a public place — you can find people you know, you can see others you don’t know, and there are many whom you do

Like all online sites, Facebook is not perfect — and it has lost serious face after its attempt to smear Google — but it won’t be better after state bureaucrats get their hands on it. And once they do, they

Reader’s Digest and Time magazine started out as content aggregators rewriting articles from other publications. Back then, “there was not a lot of brooding about other people’s intellectual property rights,” notes author Steven Rosenbaum. So, what has changed between then

America holds some distinct advantages over many developing countries, since it is a stable place where it is relatively easy to start a business and, despite flaws, its immigration policy still welcomes risk-tolerant entrepreneurs. Indeed, immigrants are responsible for starting

It is difficult enough to get a business running and profitable. Forcing businesses to do the government’s job is a huge additional burden that could break some companies. And of course, every time this issue comes up, it serves to

Creepy as they might seem, the government’s latest intrusive moves should not be surprising. One of the roles of government is to maintain law, and those tasked with that goal will naturally use all the tools at their disposal. Yet

By all accounts, cloud computing is the future. The market will grow at five times the rate of traditional IT products, IDC has predicted, estimating it will be worth US$55.5 billion by 2014. While the future should be rosy, some policy

so-called Facebook “privacy breach” article, it’s subsequent and curiously-timed MySpace followup, and also the New York Times’ take on the ability of Facebook advertisers to target ads for nursing schools to gay men is unwittingly creating cover for a social networking

Cloud computing, technology delivered over the Internet, has become a hot area in the last few years. The technology marketplace moves at breakneck speeds, but it is still shocking when innovation almost completely wipes out squabbles like those over open source (OS)