Terry Brooks, Genesis of Shannara Series

The popularity of Google Chrome’s incognito feature that stops the cache and browsing history from recording anything at all has other browsers sitting up straight.

Firefox, includes a privacy feature through the Stealther plug-in, which basically copies all the features of Internet Explorer 8’s InPrivate feature, except that you don’t have to open a new browsing window. Now, Mozilla has announced through the Firefox 3.1 status tracker that a privacy toggle will be a baked-in feature.

Many users and even more videos were removed from Youtube after it received DMCA takedown notices; however, the notices were submitted by entities without any claim to copyright. The videos and user accounts have now been reinstated.

Microsoft is hiring 155 Windows experts to staff Best Buy and Circuit City stores in select cities across the US, to run damage control against Vista bad public reputation and help sell Vista to the skeptics.

Customer service indeed. Do you feel serviced?

Each time you push the Home button on your new iPhone (and your iTouch too), that slick screen animation requires that the iPhone (and iTouch too) take a screenshot of the application you were last running. This is a potential goldmine for forensic experts and a bit of privacy concern for the rest of us. The operating system deletes the screenshot right away, but this data is typically still retrievable.

Visual long-term memory may be much better than previously thought. Demonstrations of memory failures have convinced many scientists that human memory does not store the details of our experiences. However, a new study from MIT cognitive neuroscientists may overturn this widespread belief – They have shown that given the right setting, the human brain can record an amazing amount of information.