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Call for More Video Cameras Spotlights Debate on Use

Video cameras played a critical role in helping authorities track suspects in this week’s Boston bombings.

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You Won’t Believe How Adorable This Kitty Is! Click for More!

Companies are using various ploys to dupe employees into committing unsafe computing as a way to train them not to be so easily fooled.

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What RSA Learned From Its Security Breach

There’s a lot of hyperbole in the war against hackers. Art Coviello, the 59-year-old executive chairman of EMC Corp.’s RSA security division, is in a position to size up the real threat.

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Life and Death Online: Who Controls a Digital Legacy?

Alison Atkins’ family wanted access to her digital remains.

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Tor: An Anonymous, and Controversial, Way to Web-Surf

For more than four years, William Weber has helped run a free service called Tor that makes Web surfing anonymous for anyone.

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When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook

Even sophisticated users of social-networking sites like Facebook who take pains to protect the most private details of their lives are finding that a daunting task in an era when “public” has become the default.

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Let’s Go to the Videotape: Nonprofit Offers News Clips

For those who envy Jon Stewart’s ability to have TV news clips at his fingertips, a new Internet library service may be just the thing.

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An E-Reader Revolution for Africa?

It is time for a vocabulary lesson in Bernard Opio’s sixth-form class at the Humble Primary School in Mukono, Uganda. One new word the students have already learned this year is “Kindle.”

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Web Sites Use DNA to Create Family Trees

Who’s your daddy? Now a Web site may know for sure.

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Billionaire Families Join Pledge on Giving

The billionaire founders of PayPal and Broadcom Corp. are among a dozen wealthy families that have agreed to give the majority of their wealth to charity, following in the footsteps of technology entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.