It eliminates the main drawback of conventional email: not knowing whether a message has been received and read, or is buried somewhere in an overflowing mailbox.

ECONOMIST: Word of mouse

Amelio treats the story, for the most part, as a conventional docudrama with an anti-capital-punishment message.

NEWYORKER: Open Doors

It joins other account-recovery features such as the ubiquitous "forgot my password" and security questions, as well as less conventional methods, like identifying friends' faces in pictures or recovering passwords via text message.

CNN: Mark Milian,