…circa 2007. People also called numbers randomly in search of phone friends who might become romantically involved and eventually meet face to face. Persistent calls from unknown numbers became a…

Number of U.S. Presidents who were also painters: 4 Number of U.S. Presidential paintings released by hackers? 23 1 Number of U.S. Presidential nude self-portrait paintings released by hackers: 2…

…hackers, and private detectives, dumpster diving has proliferated for all types of reasons. We used to rely on the telephone book to share public information; today, things like phone numbers…

…the IKEA store. More attractively, the design arrives with a number of innovative little tricks, including a photovoltaic panel that provides sufficient electricity to power a small light and mobile…

…with a mobile phone and a bicycle to facilitate their movement within the village as they travel to the local primary health care center (PHC). The cell phone has prerecorded…

…said everything will be fine mum if you see this dont worry i love you 80s Digital Fantasy Phone. Illustration by Amisha Gadani. Plausible Deniability “We’re dead.” “Shut up Jose,…

…need for continually lower numbers means that these very numbers have become less meaty. On the one hand, not doing better than in the previous year means admitting failure. One…

…of technology that is paradigmatic for alternative and environmentalist movements of the late twentieth century. Members of the anti-nuclear movement and a number of associated critical intellectuals explicitly drew connections…

…9/11, an event that persuaded politicians that certain groups of citizens might be potential saboteurs. Gabriella Coleman (2014) shows that this continues to be a major concern in her book…

…culture, and physical environment, he never planned to produce an academic monograph. Instead, he envisioned a strange chimera of coffee-table book and scholarly tome. Not only would the book feature…

…In his 1978 book Culture and Practical Reason, Marshall Sahlins draws a provocative comparison between the work of marketers and the work of social scientists: he [the anthropologist] acts in…

…was placed delicately under an armpit. The nurse listened to a child’s breathing with a stethoscope. A clinic book, detailing a child’s previous visits to the clinic was cursorily examined….

Vast accumulations of data, documents, records, and samples saturate our world: bulk collection of phone calls by the NSA and GCHQ; Google, Amazon or Facebook’s ambitions to collect and store…

…center, nothing but pure chance? We shake our heads together in puzzlement. 20 July 1917, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, blindfolded, drew the first draft number in the lottery…

…into the next and never went to waste. The storage space was useful enough, but she hadn’t asked for the refrigerator. The number of grocery stores in Guatemala doubled in…

…A multiweek national bestseller, the book garnered Preston a reported $3 million advance for his next book, numerous awards, and a mention among the American Scientist’s list of “100 or…

…by a single equation: the reproductive ratio, or R0, which determines the average number of people a sick individual will infect. Spreading only through close physical contact with very sick…

…Along with colleagues, he developed a number of research projects focused on farmed wild birds: farm surveys to count the number of birds, investigations of how birds were marketed, and…

…277). This lack of preparedness was especially alarming, he argued, since the world could expect an increasing number of epidemic emergencies due to a number of factors: growth in human…

…the ever-increasing number of conditions that aid packages imposed on poor countries had no positive effect on compliance, and were significantly reducing borrower governments’ “ownership” of the reforms (Boughton 2003)….

…to reach the poor cheaply enough that revenue from interest could cover the costs. Grameen Bank did that by serving villagers at group meetings and having the villagers themselves play…

…They form community laboratories, but also work at home, or between university, corporate, and community laboratories. Frequent activities include the fabrication and selling of cheap and user-friendly laboratory instruments and…

…some local journalists and activists. From my perennial checklist of technological solutionism to preach everywhere I go, I suggested to one of these activists that he encrypt his phone. Later…

…cases have a number of points in common. They both involve the exfiltration of large email databases. These databases may contain records that fall under American and British Freedom of…

…for a number of articles in this issue. Leaving aside the question of whether these devices can, in fact, operate successfully without more traditional infrastructures somewhere in the background (the…

What is the distinction between sensors and sentinels? Both have the capacity to sense danger, but while the sensor translates potential threats into numbers, the sentinel sends out early warning…

…him right back: broadcasting Turner’s home phone number, previous places of residence, and criminal records. As the doxing feud escalated, online allegations swirled that Turner was an FBI mole, sleuthing…