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Common Crawl: going after Google on a non-profit budget

By Russell Brandom on March 1, 2013 11:11 am + 22 comments

Google Search is still one of the most powerful, reliable products on the web, thanks to a smart Continue reading…
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System restore: how archivists salvaged 1,500 volumes of digital art from Sandy's floodwaters

By Joshua Kopstein on January 15, 2013 03:00 pm + 19 comments

Hard drive crashes and corrupted files repeatedly instruct us on the importance of keeping media Continue reading…
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BitTorrent releases Surf, an in-browser torrent client for Chrome

By Ben Kersey on January 11, 2013 10:17 am + 67 comments

BitTorrent Inc is still determined to bring its file sharing protocol to the masses for legitimate Continue reading…
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Listen to the BBC's radio version of Asimov's 'Foundation' trilogy online

By Adi Robertson on December 7, 2012 10:49 am + 11 comments

Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are a cornerstone of science fiction, but getting into a vast Continue reading…
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Read the full run of 'Omni' magazine at the Internet Archive

By Adi Robertson on November 2, 2012 03:03 pm + 18 comments

From the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, Omni published dispatches from the world of science and some Continue reading…
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The Internet Archive is now home to 10 petabytes of data

By Aaron Souppouris on October 27, 2012 07:14 pm + 37 comments

The Internet Archive is now storing 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of "cultural material." That Continue reading…
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Internet Archive now lets you search and jump to any line in 350,000 news broadcasts

By Ben Kersey on September 18, 2012 07:32 am + 4 comments

The Internet Archive, home to the Wayback Machine, will today begin offering a TV news search Continue reading…
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Internet Archive hopes to make a million files download faster with BitTorrent links

By Adi Robertson on August 7, 2012 09:53 pm + 15 comments

The Internet Archive, a vast repository of free public domain movies, books, music, and more, is Continue reading…
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Canada slowly abandoning efforts to digitally archive its national history

By Joshua Kopstein on May 30, 2012 01:28 pm + 31 comments

The fight to maintain a centralized, comprehensive, and publicly accessible national archive is Continue reading…
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Preserving physical books in a digital age

By Sam Byford on March 5, 2012 02:09 am + 34 comments

As readers of a technology-focused website, you're probably more likely than most to be cheerleading Continue reading…