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The Australian Centre for the Moving Image has promoted Seb Chan to the role of director and CEO.

The Boston bombings back in April caused a flood of information and chatter on social media, but only 20% of tweets proved accurate according to new research.

We most often hear about how many music tracks have been downloaded from the iTunes Store, but Apple has reached a milestone of a different kind: one billion pieces of educational content have been downloaded from iTunes U.

In April this year Ray Tomlinson was named one of the inaugural 'Pioneer' members of the Internet Society's new 'Hall of Fame' for "developing Arpanet's first application for network email," but credit for inventing email, in 1978 is being claimed by VA Shiva Ayyadurai who was just 14 at the time. And he is being backed up by no lesser luminary than renowned academic Noam Chomsky.

A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine asked Americans what will happen to the United States over the next forty years. The answers may surprise you, or maybe they won't!