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In his new book 'The Players Ball,' David Kushner details how Gary Kremen planted a flag for the disenfranchised during the Wild West days of the digital age
How a down-on-his-luck headbanger fabricated a persona, faked a tour, and promoted himself as a hard-rock savior
When a programmer shut down a hospital website to defend a sick girl, he raised a crucial question: What are the bounds of protest in the digital age?
Joe Passalaqua claims "103 kills," but one judge described his elaborate tales as little more than "criminal fantasy"
How a teenager created Oculus Rift in his parents' SoCal garage, sold it for $2 billion and may have launched a digital revolution
In his new book, Rolling Stone contributor David Kushner investigates his brother's tragic murder
Sexy, single and artificially-intelligent — fake profiles are wooing lonely hearts on sites far beyond Ashley Madison
An exclusive account of how Aziah "Zola" Wells' road trip to Florida with an exotic dancer, a boyfriend and a pimp went south
Inside the Web's secret space for drug dealers, arms traffickers, hackers and political dissidents
How a bullied geek forged an empire out of digital currency, and became a suspect in a half-billion-dollar heist
