…process, we chose to use a detergent that did not use this dye. This is how the home-made spectrometer was useful for us, and I look forward to more ways…

…to household consumer, it becomes less clear that the use of locally available biofuel is a big problem. Rather than shifting to fossil fuel energy, it may be better, some…

…hole-and-cap design to the sanitary (open-top) model—so-called because the solder is confined to the outside of the container. 1867: J.B. Sutherland’s patent for the refrigerated railroad car (demonstrated as early…

…1957-1973 (Phd, Princeton, 2005). Wisnioski describes how through the1960s an intellectual firestorm raged over how to think about technology. One faction argued that technology was a semiautonomous agent, able to…

…morning she will top up her phone for 5 kina (US$1.66). This top-up gives her 100 free promotional minutes for use between 11pm that night and 7am the following morning….

…it is quite common to read in tech magazines such as Make that curtain rings used to hang bananas are a “banana hook hack” (Torrone 2006), that taking macro pictures…

…playfulness. Whereas hackers break or build as a means to get to a specific ends (we “break” something to get into “somewhere”), software developers claim that they create just to…

…how social media are an open platform that enables different political models to become tangible forms of political practice. Santos’ use of social media was highly managed and pyramidal. Mockus,…

…genome data (Love and Hubbard 2005). Such an agreement would have provided a formal legal meaning to the HGP’s principle of open access, specifying that all were free to use…

…rates by which we manage aquifers, about how one aquifer bleeds into another, and about the legal instruments (e.g., water use permits) that we use to try to distribute water…

…for a prospective user to use the Tor network they must disclose information, including their IP addresses, to unknown individuals running Tor nodes, so that their communications can be directed…

…and policy responses to drought did not emphasize reducing its use. Conceptualized as an infrastructural event, the drought draws our attention to how Panamanian rainfall, rivers, institutions, and cities are…

…just large enough for a single use; in addition to wasting material and adding to expense, a too-large container might invite reuse, which would counteract its hygienic ambitions. Scale is…

…of how to weigh the protection of the delta’s fish against the demands of farms and cities to the south, the debate points to a more general question about the…

…temperatures, or left people trying to recode their machine’s time stamp, which might allow recently expired strips to come back into circulation. Many said a jar that expired a day…

…lives, the video zooms out to show each as a brightly colored line, connecting Plumrose’s Michigan headquarters to suppliers around the globe. These lines then morph into a bar graph…

…radical engineering: once in use, prototypes tend to break; thus, a toolset of prototypes would not be a very useful toolset for developing further prototypes. Bootstrapping as a process can…

…hackers and security researchers to use high profile breaches to urge corporate executives or government officials to invest more resources into digital fortifications. Other hacktivist techniques, like website defacements, distributed…

…overrides analytical distinctions between “privacy” and “secrecy.” It creates feedback loops because any actions taken by individuals caught up in these data dumps to maintain their privacy are likely to…

…wants to be free, man), automating repetitive tasks and making use of tools like Tor and Bitcoin. “Evil” isn’t really the right word for Avid Life Media, though: their online…

…embrace more visual language by posting photos and short videos. All shortlisted participants have to provide a user-experience map to chart how potential users of their idea would participate in…

…is critical to understanding how electricity flows are organized to generate new understandings of expertise and publics. It may help us not only to attend to the making of neoliberalism…

…who has tried to log into a website only to be challenged with a distorted image of text. Website developers use those images, called CAPTCHAs, to discriminate real people trying…

…social networking. Instead of the typical one-to-many relationship between employer and employees, crowd work platforms tend to encourage many-to-many relationships, each lasting only a short time. I went about making…

…have its own website, the first to use email to communicate with the public. But though the White House didn’t start using the internet in earnest until 1992, White House…

…standardized and hardened into a semi-universal state. But the tools are not automatic; a toolkit implies the existence of a skilled tool user as well. A toolkit sits somewhere between…

…to behave that way. If he failed to help them get their code into Huawei’s fleet, he’d have to answer to governments around the world. If they failed to help…