From ZDNet, inter alia:

No matter what you do to protect yourself; passwords, encryption, biometrics, firewall, and an anti-virus - you still have one major worry, and that’s theft. The one thing worse than that, is mistakenly losing it, because that makes it your fault, and that’s naturally worse than anything else.

Once you’d lost or had your laptop stolen, you relied entirely on the good faith of humanity or at the very least, a police force, to recover your device. Researchers at the Washington University and California University have joined up to create Adeona, named after the Roman goddess which guides children back to their parents.

I wonder where this claim actually comes from (it is all over the web); Adeona is mentioned in the big list of obscure divinities mentioned by Varro that Augustine rails against in CD 7.3 :

Iuno selecta et regina Iouisque et soror et coniunx; haec tamen Iterduca est pueris et opus facit cum deabus ignobilissimis Abeona et Adeona. ibi posuerunt et Mentem deam, quae faciat pueris bonam mentem,

Tertullian also mentions the pair in a fragmentary section from ad Nationes 2.11:

Ab adeundo Adeona, abeundo Abeona est. Domiducam et habent et deam < . . . . . . .>

Cyril Bailey mentions the pair in passing in the section on the religion of Numa:

These spirits are, as we have seen, indwellers in the objects of nature
and controllers of the phenomena of nature: but to the Roman they were
more. Not merely did they inhabit places and things, but they presided
over each phase of natural development, each state or action in the
life of man. Varro, for instance, gives us a list of the deities
concerned in the early life of the child, which, though it bears the
marks of priestly elaboration, may yet be taken as typical of the
feeling of the normal Roman family. There is Vaticanus, who opens the
child's mouth to cry, Cunina, who guards his cradle, Edulia and Potina,
who teach him to eat and drink, Statilinus, who helps him to stand up,
Adeona and Abeona, who watch over his first footstep, and many others
each with his special province of protection or assistance.

I'm sure the role of Adeona has been inferred from the above bits; I'm still debating whether Abeona would have been more appropriate ...