…the introduction of frozen concentrated orange juice heralds an era of expanding interest in the trade of food commodities in an increasingly international market. 1941: Physiologist Ancel Keys is tasked…

…interference, spam, porn, terrorist intervention, etc.). Rather, its effect was more general in that it caused the Internet, as a collection of interconnected computers, to do something it was not…

In winter of 2014, an inquiry from a journalist landed in my email inbox. His message opened innocently: “how can I can safely and effectively get plugged into the hacker…

…International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)2, a new organization dedicated solely to establishing a certification in information security. Over the next several years, (ISC)2 developed the Certified Information…

…that a technological intervention is also a political one is inscribed as a double meaning in his post’s title: “The Internet Enables Incubator Progress.” However, as in the previous example,…

In a lab in Oakland a group of elite, yet heterodox engineers are trying to re-imagine what computers can and should ‘do.’ It is here, in this lab in Silicon…

…organizations that interact intensely and largely exclusively start to converge in structure and processes so that their interactions can themselves become efficient. In other words, the larger and more intimately…

…information,” and the ways in which this aura cuts against norms of analysis, investigation, and interpretation, norms which professionalized journalists had until recently been in a powerful position to defend…

…usage of it. Obviously, the CIA has been involved in influencing elections for a long time, and other intelligence agencies have as well. But it’s new to do it in…

…side-eyed my watch again, but I’d forgotten where the minute-hand had been when I started, because I’m not the coolest cucumber in the crisper. My pulse thudded in my throat….

…research community regard this as an infringement of ethical standards included in the IEEE Code of Ethics that prohibits “injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious…

…In April 2011, Elif and Salim, both graduate students at Masdar Institute—a research institute that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology established inside Masdar City—gave me a guided tour of the…

…retailer or distributor, intentionally tampers with a consumer product that is sold in interstate or foreign commerce by knowingly placing or inserting any writing in the consumer product, or in…

…measuring devices. An explanation is provided about inulin as well, a sugar replacer with health benefits for your intestinal flora, developed by a spin-off of the sugar refinery in the…

…into the electricity industry is the first tangible change that occurred in the twenty-first century in the United States. To be exchangeable, electricity must be standardized not only in terms…

…investigated the area are entirely unreliable but…this situation appears to call for a more careful investigation to determine the incidence of infection and the area of country involved.” Responding to…

…to its time and status information. This string is then signed with NIST’s private key, a cryptographic tool for proving that NIST in fact sent it; that collection of data…

…Theillaumas visited the United States to obtain a victimology diploma at Washington University in 1990. In 1996, when she was back in France, a series of suicides among the police…

…that those contractors operate and invest in independent businesses that provide them with opportunities for profit, judgment, foresight, and risk taking. Employers in the US, however, have long attempted with…

…no going back. In the pages that follow, he chronicles the transformation of his everyday work life as it moves from the small intimate spaces of intense human interaction at…

…across an industry. In practice, though, the increase in quantity by orders of magnitude—combined with immediate and widespread distribution—has not made for bigger truths. Instead, it has enabled more truths…or…

…antiglobalist, environmental, or social justice movements. They are generally presented in opposition to industrial food systems. But I would argue that the industrial and alternative systems in fact support each…

…incentive to invest money in making sure their systems are vulnerability-free, because security isn’t a key value proposition in their business model, it’s merely an overhead cost to be minimized….

…the Internet becomes the latest in a long series of tools that clandestine information networks use to build alternative publics through the illegal sharing of outlawed texts. In that sense,…

…and sometimes it’s years later. At that point it’s not even that newsy. But in this case, it all unfolded in real time, which was very interesting. The big question…

…significant excerpts from the raw data, it would include coding instructions and blank versions of the coding sheets: an invitation to a DIY education in movement observation. In addition, Lomax…

…it insufficient in one country made it extravagant in another. So although the Better Shelter tries to be better everywhere, it can never hope to adapt to the infinite complexity…

…for electoral purposes. The main appeal of this medium, according to Internet-campaigning pioneer Joe Trippi (2008), is the interactive interplay between message producers and receivers. The interplay establishes intimate connections…