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An innovative system being tested across Kenya allows people to access drinking water at the touch of a button.

In October 2012, less than a year before the Snowden revelations, a small sculpture arrived at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. It was a surveillance camera—a replica of the cameras that Chinese officials had stationed around the home of Ai Weiwei, the artist. He carved it in marble. Dull...

In the fall of 1769, Thomas Jefferson lost a slave. His name was Sandy, and he was a runaway. Sandy was “about 35 years of age.” He worked as a shoemaker. Jefferson described him as “artful and knavish.” He was also “something of a horse jockey.” Jefferson criticized slavery. Yet...

A recent demonstration in Madrid was a symbolic jab at the Spanish government and the world’s first political protest by hologram.

Correction appended, Aug. 13 A man accused of killing a fellow student in Florida was linked by authorities Tuesday to an image purportedly of an…