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For thousands of years human beings have struggled to cope with tragedy and loss. Departed friends and relatives have been honored and remembered in countless different ways from graves and shrines to poetry and legends. Keepsakes have been handed down for generations, artifacts of ancestors long-gone. Yet for the first time in history human beings who have passed now often leave behind a much more immediate and potentially eternal form of remembrance: their social media accounts. From facebook to twitter, instagram and tumblr there are dozens of ways we connect in the digital sphere and our profiles and the data these services build on us does not just disappear when we pass away. It often falls to friends and spouses, parents or children to take over a departed person's social media accounts and decide what to do with them. Some are deleted, some are preserved as an archive of a person's life. If preserved there is really no way to tell how long a dead person'...

For a considerable eight years since it's launch in early 2010 the serially under-rated massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Trek Online has been plugging along. From a shaky beginning STO has slowly grown into something rather remarkable, showing more staying power in a relatively crowded market of free-to-play MMO RPGs. Steady patches and fixes combined with regular and completely free expansions and content drops has kept STO steadily growing for the last eight years. When the game launched players were limited to exclusively playing as Federation captains, a small roster of ships and not much in the way of endgame content. Now new players can choose Federation, Klingon, Romulan and now Dominion factions, play as dozens of species or make their own and have a roster of ships numbering in the scores. Endgame content includes numerous public events, five-player pve missions, a dozen reputation systems with unique abilities and gear rewards, battlezones, social...