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In yet another piece of news set to clarify the fact that the record industry still has its head lodged firmly up its own ass, a federal jury on has ordered a Boston University grad student to pay $675,000 to four record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music online. Even more absurd is the number of songs he "stole": 30. The student, Joel Tenenbaum, is being asked to effectively ...

If researchers at Boston University's College of Engineering have their way, light bulbs of the future may be the highway your data gets carried along. A team at the school is working on low-power LEDs which could utilize an optical communication system to carry data wirelessly. Using a technique which rapidly switches the LEDs on and off data transmissions could be made via imperceptible -- yet ...