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Aaron Swartz's family is accusing the U.S. attorney and MIT of driving him to suicide for allegedly hacking JSTOR.

Aaron H. Swartz, an activist, computer programmer, and early architect of the popular website Reddit, committed suicide Friday in New York. Swartz was 26.

Aaron Swartz was only 26 years old when he died, but he had already made a legacy for himself by co-owning the social news site Reddit.

Nate Silver, who accurately predicted the 2012 presidential election results, hosted a Reddit AMA on Tuesday afternoon.

While magazines and newspapers may be closing their doors, there is still more to journalism than link-bait headlines.

Just hours into the new year, a young woman was killed after an early morning midtown train ran her over.

The Cheezburger Network has launched a new API to make it easier for web developers to share their own content through the Cheezburger network.

Muslim student's letter to Santa goes viral, but some question why the fourth grader was forced to write a religious note in the first place.

The defeated presidential candidate was spotted by Reddit and Twitter users recently in California. No longer protected by the Secret Service, he was alone -- and a little disheveled.

Super PAC, YOLO, Superstorm and other new terms provided heated competition, but GIF was named the 2012 word of the year.

One Reddit user posted a comic last week about his friend's experience taking a pregnancy test, which led to an unexpected -- and lifesaving -- result.

Reddit broke the Guinness World Record for Largest Game of Secret Santa last year. The site may surpass its own mark -- 30,250 participants in 115 countries -- in less than 24 hours.

Months after a server was fired for tweeting a picture of a receipt from NFL quarterback Peyton Manning with a generous tip, the latest viral sensation stems from a customer who did the opposite. The receipt, which is for a bill of $138.55, is marked with a note supposedly from a single mom who left no tip.

Reddit and a slew of other social services are down due to an issue with Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute Network in North Virginia.

Over the past year, the social media site Reddit has taken on an increasingly important role in the political sphere.

After 4chan and Reddit teamed up to send the reviled rapper Pitbull to the frozen wastelands of Kodiak, Alaska, the two groups of internet trolls are at it again, this time attempting to send Taylor Swift to perform an exclusive concert at a school for the deaf. Yes, for the deaf.

A new report released by the business consulting giant McKinsey Global Institute, showed that social-media tools stand to add $900 billion to $1.3 trillion to the economy, largely through increased productivity among skilled workers.

On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama did something that helped him reach and communicate with millions of people directly. The President spent around half-an-hour on the popular link-sharing website Reddit, answering questions from the general public and became the first ever sitting president to participate in a forum, commonly referred to as an AMA or "ask me anything."

President Barack Obama took part in a Reddit AMA on Wednesday, which answered users' questions and caused a server error.

John Wayne Gacy, Jr., who was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering at least 33 young men and teenage boys in the 1970s, had apparently tried to get his case seen by a new lawyer that might help him find justice. On Wednesday, Reddit user "Shipyaad" submitted a photo of an aged, worn-down letter, allegedly written from Gacy to Mr. Luis Kutner, the famous lawyer and activist from Chicago who co-founded Amnesty International.

Online forum Reddit is home to all kind of users, and all of those users are seeking to find another new home on Reddit Island. The community based around the front page of the internet plans to make an island home for themselves, but the Reddit community might not make the best society.