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IP addresses may help identify the source of anonymous and malicious e-mails, but they can only tell authorities where the message originated, without providing many details on the individual who authored them. Using some pretty innovative analytics, researchers at Concordia University have just come up with a new technique that could help investigators determine the precise identity of these ...

Author Salman Rushdie has accumulated an impressive array of awards during his illustrious career, but the writer is likely most well known for his novel 'The Satanic Verses,' due to the fiery response it provoked. After the book prompted Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwah, or death decree, against the author, Rushdie lived under police protection for a decade. Rushdie's ...

Share Once, there were ink-stained Moleskins and typewriter ribbons unfurled, but today's authors and documentarians, even at their most technophobic, keep discs or drives filled with their electronic scribblings. That's even the case for Salman Rushdie, an ingenious author whose work spans nearly four decades, one religious death threat, and several hemispheres. At Emory University's recent ...

There's nothing quite like using Twitter to rally your supporters in a time of crisis -- just ask the Mythbusters -- but author Alice Hoffman seems to have gone a bit too far. The writer took her grievances to Twitter after Boston Globe reviewer Roberta Silman issued a mildly negative review of her new book 'The Story Sisters.' According to Popwatch.EW.com, the aggrieved writer tweeted, "Now any ...

Michael Crichton, the best-selling author of such Sci-Fi-tinged, screen-adapted novels as 'Jurassic Park,' 'Congo' and 'The Andromeda Strain,' passed away Tuesday, ending a quietly fought battle with cancer. Having earned his M.D. from Harvard University's Medical School, Crichton came to writing with a firm foundation (and fascination) with biotechnology. With his novels -- and their screen ...