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By Neil Gershenfeld A new digital revolution is coming, this time in fabrication. It draws on the same insights that led to the earlier digitizations

By Chris Calabrese On Monday an extraordinary letter went out from a who’s who of major corporations claiming a mandate to track all of us

By Jonathon Weisman Senate leaders are closing in on a path for dealing with the “fiscal cliff” facing the country in January, opting to try

By Richard Rubin U.S. households are facing an average tax increase of $3,446 in 2013 if Congress doesn’t avert the so- called fiscal cliff, the

[click on the image for a larger version] The United States fiscal cliff refers to a large predicted reduction in the budget deficit and a

By John Naughton Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last week. Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a

By Dr. Joseph Farrell The latest brain child to cross the desks of the Victor Frankensteins running the world’s science laboratories is this little story

A Special Thanks to Simon Black for this find. Social unrest may reflect a variety of factors such as poverty, unemployment, and social injustice. Despite