The 'faceless organization that knows everything about you'

U.S. OPINION Acxiom Corp: The 'faceless organization that knows everything about you' An Arkansas company you've probably never heard of knows more about you than some of your friends, Google, and even the FBI — and it's selling your data MICROSOFT Does Microsoft Surface make the Macbook Air obsolete? A clever detachable keyboard transforms the new Windows 8 tablet into a portable workstation that could relegate ultrabooks to the history books, says Gizmodo THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN 6 signs Obama's immigration shift is already paying off President Obama probably hopes easing up on deporting young immigrants will help him in November. He may not even have to wait that long WIKILEAKS Should Ecuador give Julian Assange political asylum? The leftist South American government may grant asylum to the WikiLeaks founder — despite the fact that he's accused of sexual, not political, crimes HEALTH Can an artificial pancreas defeat diabetes? Type 1 diabetics lead complicated lives in which a miscalculated dose of insulin — or one missed altogether — could spell death. Help is on the way THE APPLE UNIVERSE The rise of the teenage app-developer For the first time ever, Apple opened the doors of its Worldwide Developer Conference to programmers as young as 13 PUZZLES+QUIZZES Weird news photo quiz Intrusive monkeys. Duct-taped faces. For each of these five curious images, see if you can choose the answer that correctly completes the photo caption SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE Will Facebook soon be able to pick your face out of a crowd? BUZZFEED 10 photos from Obama's first trip to Africa NEWSER Heat's on: 36% of penguin colony decimated mental_floss Why do people feel phantom cell phone vibrations? TECCA Ebooks outsell hardcovers for the first time ever         Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | privacy policy  Copyright © 2012 The Week, All rights reserved.