Smartphone apps track users even when shut down

MIT researchers have discovered that certain apps continually collect and transmit sensitive information, including location, contacts, and browsing histories.

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Cell phone security

Globe reporter Hiawatha Bray talks about ways to secure your cell phone.

For years Shoshana Blumenfeld avoided eating carrots, peaches, and anything with nuts. A new test has revealed that she was misdiagnosed and that she actually is only allergic to birch pollen. Now she can eat almost anything she wants.

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Fighting food allergies

Better tests and new treatments could turn the tide on rising food allergies in children.

The owners are no longer trying to shut up an emboldened media, members of which are stumbling over each other to write the next “Valentine Must Go” column.

On Baseball

Bobby Valentine’s status with Red Sox a big question

There’s a wide range of opinion from people in the organization when asked if the Red Sox manager will be back for another season.

Dr. Edmund B. ‘Ned’ Cabot, a retired surgeon and scion of a Boston Brahmin family, who drowned Saturday off the coast of Newfoundland when a rogue wave swept him from his yacht.

‘Ned’ Cabot, lifelong sailor, drowns

Dr. Edmund B. “Ned” Cabot, 69, a retired surgeon and scion of a Boston Brahmin family, drowned Saturday off the coast of Newfoundland when a rogue wave swept him from his yacht.

Mitt Romney held a o.7 percent lead over President Obama in an average of recent North Carolina polls, according to RealClearPolitics.

Charlotte offers promise, pitfalls for Democrats

The Democratic Convention will be held in North Carolina’s largest city this week, but the state will pose a challenge for President Obama in his reelection race.

Republicans emphasize ‘better off’ question

Mitt Romney’s campaign sought to capitalize on the admission by an Obama surrogate that Americans are not better off than they were four years ago.

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Traffic leaving Cape, Maine builds

As travelers return from a long holiday weeked, traffic had backed up at the Sagamore Bridge and slowed on Interstate 95 from Maine.

Deutsche Bank Championship

Oosthuizen looks to finish strong at Deutsche Bank

Louis Oosthuizen is looking to build off his three-shot lead over Rory McIlroy in today’s competition at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass.

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The mad theater of campaigns, protests, rallies, and conventions that is our modern political process is not a recent phenomenon.

Globe exclusives

Unions’ political donations falling as their power fades
Jonathan Raphael and James Whong worked with a robot that is a test bed for the massive, six-legged robot named Stompy.

Six-legged robot project takes shape in Somerville

Governor’s Council still in eye of storm
Kids headed to the pool at Camp Aranu’tiq in Connecticut.

Camp unites transgender kids on outskirts
Intelligence analyst Timothy Fitzgerald monitored video cameras around the city.

Boston uses two high-tech tools to combat crime

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Fall TV Preview
A fishmonger at the Rialto Market in Venice knew some great out-of-the-way restaurants.

Travel | In the know

How to find a great meal anywhere in the world
Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo and family members of Lou Montgomery watched as they unveiled his retired jersey in the corner of the stadium during halftime.

BC’s first black football player honored
Magic Johnson, an NBA analyst for ESPN, keeps close tabs on the league and was thrilled that his former club acquired Dwight Howard.

Sunday Basketball Notes

New Dodgers owner Magic Johnson still happy to talk Bird
Cory Schneider, who signed a threeyear, $12 million extension July 1, has seemingly replaced Roberto Luongo as Vancouver’s starting goalie.

Sunday Hockey Notes

Canucks’ Cory Schneider hopes for labor settlement
EVERY NATION A CASTLE: A fence marking the Turkey-Iran border.

The Internationalist

A world of messy borders? Get used to it
William H. Chafe notes that the Clintons’s marriage blends the personal and the political.

Book review

‘Bill and Hillary’ by William H. Chafe

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You know how many “big” free agents are going to start on the Patriots this season? Two: Brandon Lloyd (above) and safety Steve Gregory.

Bill Belichick goes young with Patriots roster

New England has the youngest opening-day roster, and the youngest defense, of head coach Belichick’s time with the Patriots.

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Superintendent Carol Johnson rode along as school bus routes were tested in Dorchester last week.

Boston schools pushing to keep buses on time

Much is riding on the School Department’s ability to have things running smoothly well before month’s end.

Columnists

A case containing the remains of Pfc. Shane W. Cantu, of Corunna, Mich., sits on a loader during prayer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Thursday.

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Afghan war still rages, yet soldiers get no play in Tampa
Neil Armstrong on the moon

James Carroll

After Armstrong’s small step forward, two steps back for America?

Dan Shaughnessy

Despite lack of big names, Deutsche Bank still interesting

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Honor American Dream-builders today — with healthcare, hours

Yvonne Abraham

What Elizabeth Warren is missing
Jim Rooney, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority stood atop the roof of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Lawrence Harmon

Convention center needs a boost of solar power
Balloons swirl in the air following Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech in Tampa Friday.

Jeff Jacoby

Time to shelve the political conventions
GrabCAD, where Roger Maranan, Grant Thomas-Lepore, and Gabe Blanchet work, picked Cambridge over California.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

7 factors that attract entrepreneurs to Boston

Renée Loth

The value of public-sector jobs

Tiger Woods’s first-round 64 included six consecutive birdies.

Christopher L. Gasper

Is Tiger Woods back?
Bobby Valentine and the Red Sox were swept by the Angels in Anaheim this week.

Dan Shaughnessy

For Red Sox, a year of living dreadfully

Boston Capital

Steward finds road to R.I. is rocky

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Will Cady of Source Audio demonstrated the Hot Hand device while playing the bass guitar at the company’s office in Woburn.

Video goes viral, and an obscure Woburn tech company has a hit

Source Audio had been struggling to attract customers, until a tweet by Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee put them in the spotlight.

Politics

Political Notebook

A sand sculpture created in the likeness of President Obama was on display on Sunday in downtown Charlotte, N.C.

Obama backers address past four years

Prominent surrogates for the president responded to whether Americans are better off today than they were four years ago.

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Isaac flooding

Days after Isaac, thousands still in the dark

Tens of thousands of customers remained in the dark Monday in Louisiana and Mississippi, days after Isaac hit the Gulf Coast.

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Book Review

David Foster Wallace (pictured at a Manhattan bookstore in 2006, two years before his death) is the subject of D.T. Max’s book.

‘Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story’ by D.T. Max

Documenting the life of a writer as revered and tormented as David Foster Wallace is a fraught task at best, but Max has done an admirable job.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

School safety concerns for parents to consider

Scary headlines about a rise in whooping cough and toxic chemicals in school supplies may have parents concerned about school health hazards.

Magazine

The cover for the August 26 2012 issue

Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?
The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

The man who nourished Boston’s literary scene
The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?

Opinion

“Forty-three years after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, it seems apparent that, instead of opening the way to a realm of limitless possibility, the event marked the start of a harsh reckoning with human limits.”

James Carroll 

Ideas

“In order to be a good friend, even a very young child must be not only fun to spend time with, but capable of being emotionally mature in ways that can be difficult even for grown-ups.”

—Leon Neyfakh on childhood friendship