Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die

Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google
BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com

Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once you pass away.

After you die, the…

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How you get hacked at Starbucks

How You Get Hacked at Starbucks
Samantha Murphy, mashable.com

For those who frequently use the free public Wi-Fi in coffee shops such as Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, you’re likely already aware of how easy it is for hackers to steal your personal and financial information over the shared networkBut what you…

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American replaces outdated flight bags with iPads

Step inside the modern iPad-enhanced cockpit of American Airlines
Élyse Betters, 9to5mac.com

Gadling, an AOL-owned trav­el blog, went aboard an Amer­i­can Air­line recent­ly to get a sneak peek at the iPad Elec­tron­ic Flight Bag that the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion orig­i­nal­ly approved in 2011.

The iPad flight bag…

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Samsung’s WiFi Home Security SmartCam — Easy Setup, Works Great | GeekDad | Wired.com

On sale a BJ’s

Samsung’s WiFi Home Security SmartCam — Easy Setup, Works Great | GeekDad | Wired.com

Docracy: sequencing the genome of legal documents

Sequencing The Genome Of Legal Documents To Make Them Readable
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

Unless you’re a lawyer, you probably don’t understand a lot of the agreements and contracts you sign. But Docracy hopes to even the playing field by letting you easily see which parts of a document are standard and where you might be getting…

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What to do if you are hacked

What to Do After You’ve Been Hacked
Mat Honan, wired.com

Whether you were hacked, phished, had malware installed or just don’t know what the heck happened but there’s somebody all up in your e-mail, here are a few good first steps to take following an incident. This is by no …

Mat Honan

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Cultural causes of school shootings

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The No-Hire Emails That That Incriminate

The No-Hire Emails That That Incriminate Apple, Google, Adobe and More
Jamie Condliffe, gizmodo.com

A court filing has just been made public which sheds light on the “no-hire” gentleman’s agreements that have pervaded the tech industry—and reveals how Steve Jobs threatened litigation to prevent companies from stealing his staff.Notably, former P…

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Safe Shepherd Protects Your Social Networks

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English: This image is an example of a blocking cluster in a social network. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Safe Shepherd Protects Your Social Networks, Keeps Your Data Off of Creepy People Search Engines
Alan Henry, lifehacker.com

Safe Shepherd is a privacy protection service that already scrubs your personal data from creepy people search engines, but the service also now keeps tabs on your social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram to make sure you’re…

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Technology Ranks World’s Most-Trusted Industry

Technology Ranks World’s Most-Trusted Industry in 2013
Zoe Fox, mashable.com

The technology industry has been ranked most-trusted for the second consecutive year, ahead of the automotive, and food and beverage industries, according to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer.”As an industry, I think tech companies pre-anticipate a…

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The world has ended, or just about

The world has ended, or just about. Now, what wine do you drink with broiled rats and steamed slug?
By Sarah Miller, grist.org

Final­ly, some­one has writ­ten an impor­tant arti­cle about some­thing that actu­al­ly means some­thing to me: what kind of wine we are going to drink with the dis­gust­ing ver­min we have to eat when the world ends or is on its way toward end­in…

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Swann Platinum-HD security system packs four 1080p cameras

Swann Platinum-HD security system packs four 1080p cameras, 2TB DVR for $1,600
Zach Honig, engadget.com

We don’t fol­low the sur­veil­lance space as close­ly as we do, say, smart­phones or tablets, but this four-camera HD sys­tem from Swann Secu­ri­ty does in fact seem to be the first 1080p-capa­ble con­sumer prod­uct of its kind, so we’re here to…

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