Tech Talk News: Reddit Co-Found, Aaron Swartz, Commits Suicide To Avoid Charges

Just weeks before he was supposed to stand trial for stealling millions of journal articles from an electronic archive to try to make them freely available, 26-year-old and co-founder of Reddit.com Aaron Swartz, was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment. Swartz hung himself to avoid facing years behind bars and a crazy amount of fines. Swartz was arrested in 2010 for stealing journals from the archive at MIT. Sadly, he was one of the strong activist fighting for free online content. Read more below. Julie A. x TatWza


Sports: President Obama Participates In ‘Ask Me Anything’ & Names His Favorite Basketball Player

President Obama surprised just about everyone today when he announced via his official Twitter that he would be participating in an AMA (ask me anything) for the website reddit. AMA is basically a live chat where anyone can submit a question and then other users vote your post up or down and then the participant answers the questions from the top vote-getters.  Check out some of the questions he answered including one about his favorite basketball. Sabrina B.


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