Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Cohen covers the global legal industry and business reinvention. The legal industry is becoming digitized. What does that ...

The human brain is a beast of a computer, but before we can emulate that we’ll need to start with something simpler. C. elegans is a worm whose basic brain of only 302 neurons has been digitized. Now ...

Staff photos / Ed Runyan Noralynn Palermo, Mahoning County recorder, stands next to deed books from 1980 to 1985 that will be scanned using American Rescue Plan funds the county commissioners have ...

In March 2021, U.S. retail sales surged 9.8%, thanks to a third stimulus check and the gradual relaunch of in-store shopping. As more and more people get vaccinated, they will return to ...

Buried in the archives of America's public and academic libraries are historical treasures — old papers, photos and records — that flesh out a detailed picture of our past. Many libraries are trying ...

For years, business IT has been viewed as a way to gain efficiency and immediacy, and to scale up if so desired. Those advantages still pertain but are more like a baseline entry ticket. The real ...

Natural history museums around the world have been growing beyond display cases and dioramas for years, and many are digitizing their vast collections. These efforts create lasting records of the ...

Researchers teasing out genetic codes from plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of all sorts have deposited quadrillions of digital nucleotide sequences in open access databases. Scientists sorting ...

The voices of a wide variety of Delawareans from the late 1960s and 1970s are now available online to researchers around the world, the University of Delaware Library has announced. The newly ...