Incognito: More Than a Trenchcoat for the Web

I know, you don *not* use private browsing settings for surfing adult content. I'd never imply such a thing. Anyway, this feature, long part of Safari and recently added to Internet Explorer and Chrome beta, can do more than keep your family or flatmates from knowing that the...

Priest to hold nun beauty pageant

"An Italian priest says he is organising the world's first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour. Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September. "Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift...

Google: We Did Not Erase Maps of Georgia

Several reports coming out of Google have suggested that data from Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan has been taken off Google Maps. One story reported in the New York Times blog, said that the maps went blank as soon as the fighting started last week."Google says that’s not...

Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Win...

" AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...

5 Months Old And 18 Months Old Die In House Fire

"Lilieth Knight would love nothing more than to wave a magic wand and erase the tragic and traumatic events that befell her on Friday evening. But this morning, she still has no choice but to accept the fact that her two infant grandchildren were burned alive in her home at...

Google Search Becomes More Anonymous

"GOOGLE will begin routinely purging its data banks of information that identifies search engine users in order to better shield their anonymity, the company said overnight. Google will delete information from "cookies," bits of software put on computers to track website...

Token Booth Closings Start in April

The first nine of the 164 token booths scheduled for closing will be shut down in April. The Daily News says the first retired booths will include ones in Union Square and Penn Station, and then the remaining booths will close weekly until October. Then, 600 of the clerks...