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Five ways to protect yourself from government surveillance
Last week, press leaks revealed that the National Security Administration has been gathering and storing metadata from Verizon and nine Internet communication companies: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. Regardless of how you feel about the government collecting data on its citizens, take a few minutes to click through and consider these five tips for protecting yourself from government surveillance.
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The top 11 promposals in 2013
It's prom season. What's your prom proposal/promposal going to be?What? Wait wait wait, hold on. You're telling me you didn't write an original song, choreograph a routine for it, and present it flash mob-style to your dream high school prom date? Well, listen up rookie, you've got a lot to learn. Promposals these days are elaborately produced mating rituals — think of Planet Earth's Birds of Paradise and mash it up with your favorite episode of Glee. Then upload it to YouTube because this isn't about your exuberant manifestation of true love, it's about that special someone. Don't they deserve Internet fame? Sometimes done well enough to gain national attention – I'm looking at you Kate Upton fan – sometimes too cringeworthy to view, here are 11 promposals you need to consider before planning your own.
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Briefing Chechnya: How a remote Russian republic became linked with terrorism
The main suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing are two brothers from Chechnya, a Russian republic that has been the scene of cyclical revolts and brutal crackdowns for the past 200 years.
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Top 10 secret menu fast foods
Ten of the strangest, most innovative entrees you won't see on fast food menus – but can get anyway, if you ask.
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Will you remember me?: The greatest one-hit wonders of the 2000s
Check out our picks for the best songs from the 2000s whose artists made the charts with these hits, but never released another successful song.
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Auteur? Shop your movie to the ‘soc-net’ set
Indie filmmakers plug into Web’s social networking sites to find finance, distribution, and feedback.
07/31/2008 01:00 am -
Cuba's youth: restless but not often political
They just want the freedom to travel and access to the tech touchstones of their generation: iPods, Facebook, and text messages.
07/26/2008 01:00 am -
Horizons Horizon highlights – July 25 weekend
07/25/2008 01:00 am -
Bright Green Electric automaker, batterymaker score Google funding
Google's philanthropy arm, Google.org, announced that it is investing $2.75 million in electric vehiclemaker Aptera and batterymaker ActaCell.
07/24/2008 01:00 am -
Efforts to rein in online fight videos
Pressure builds on social-networking websites to do more to block such content. Legislation is afoot, too.
07/22/2008 01:00 am -
Opinion What kind of leader would McCain or Obama be?
A media-based 'job interview' is key to finding out.
07/17/2008 01:00 am -
Could an Obama win hurt Chávez?
Without Bush to rail against, Chávez will be left without a foil, say analysts.
07/16/2008 01:00 am -
When the war comes back home
When veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan bring their troubles home, police and judges often are the first to deal with them.
07/12/2008 01:00 am -
Horizons TV networks vs. social networks
07/07/2008 01:00 am -
Horizons Horizon highlights – July 4 weekend
07/03/2008 01:00 am -
If the first lady is a pop star, French media melt like Boursin
A new CD from Carla Bruni may produce another boost for Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency. Meanwhile, the French media struggle with objectivity.
07/02/2008 01:00 am -
Study abroad through Second Life
Virtual college campuses host international student exchanges.
07/02/2008 01:00 am -
Chapter & Verse A virtual date with David Sedaris
06/24/2008 01:00 am -
The Monitor's View Obama as a grass-roots president?
It's far from clear that he could run the country the way he's running his campaign.
06/23/2008 01:00 am -
MIT team plays with fire to create cheap energy
New solar dish harnesses power from heat – at a size and cost that make soaking up the sun even more attractive.
06/18/2008 01:00 am -
Bridging the African digital divide - with a ‘toaster’
Lines form at open-source software vending-machines.
06/17/2008 01:00 am -
The Monitor's View Clinton's legacy for women
What if she had run a more feminine campaign, more along the lines of Barack Obama's?
06/10/2008 01:00 am -
Horizons YouTube-era crime and punishment
06/10/2008 01:00 am -
YouTube offspring create niche sites
New user-driven video sites add sophistication as they target select audiences.
06/04/2008 01:00 am -
Jazz prodigy Esperanza Spalding, still eager to teach – and learn
Bassist Esperanza Spalding takes her Latin fusion mainstream.
05/30/2008 01:00 am -
Cricket's new wicket: American high schools
The first league, which has its championships next week, is fully subscribed by teens from the far reaches of the former British Empire.
05/23/2008 01:00 am -
Singing their way to stardom
Auditions (and just goofing around) on MySpace and YouTube vault amateur rockers into gigs with storied bands.
05/23/2008 01:00 am -
African park bridges the ‘Last Mile’ of digital divide
Low-energy Web centers and classes on using computers open up better jobs for locals.
05/22/2008 01:00 am -
Bright Green Is Bush interfering with EPA decisions?
05/21/2008 01:00 am -
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