…case Winnie needs to make a quick phone call during the day (100 toea = 1 kina). (On-net calls from one Digicel phone to another are billed at 79 toea…

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…

…too little. They are vulnerable to the charge of being too limited as well as the charge of being too expansive. They fail to tackle fundamental global injustices, but they…

…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…

…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…

…has happened, but to bring together different and unique characteristics that will lead to identifying a single individual. Data mining does not count lists of identical modalities, but rather looks…

…be if a determined effort was made to deliberately disrupt electrical grids by internal or external adversaries? The pressure was therefore increased to develop “self-healing grids” (Amin 2004) based on…

…archival property of the ledger—complete with timestamps and planet-scale redundancy—also made it ideal for the sorts of activities previously relegated to notaries, such as witnessing contracts. More than ideal, in…

…several months of ethnographic fieldwork studying obesity at the regional public hospital, I first make my way to the housing development where a few families have begun to live. I…

…from the usual years to months, preparations have begun for large-scale studies in Ebola-affected countries to begin in January 2015. While logistical questions remain—ranging from the number of doses needed…

…monitored the structural conditions that produce highly pathogenic forms of the virus, a turn of attention from viral phylogeny to disease ecology. This monitoring of the ecological conditions of diseases…

…set up; tools and capacities for the laboratory identification of emerging diseases were built in a number of regional centers; incentives to address the lack of biomedical counter-measures to manage…

…they believed needed to be pursued, seeking to encourage domestic engagement by various stakeholders. Their goal was to build political support for ambitious, longer-term institutional reforms, whether through (at least…

…of…maintaining and improving the common technology, open to all, usable by all, modifiable by all’’ (Carlson and Brent 2000:1). As Endy moved to MIT and started to work with Tom…

…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…

…all data or know every preference of every individual; India’s monumental efforts to give everyone a number, and maybe an iris scan; hundreds of thousands of whole genome sequences; seed…

…desirable virtue instead of a barrier to understanding. As collections of personal correspondence, in-group language abounds in these databases, along with imprecise, casual references, professional jargon and elisions, in-jokes, and…

…moral energy, as well as the financial and organizational resources, being devoted to inventing and disseminating such micro-endeavors today. It asks: What does the proliferation of such small devices tell…

…psychologists, but instead to be alert to when there may be a change in behavior of a colleague after a serious personal or professional event. There are also verbally expressed…

…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…

…which refusing to fiddle with a meter would have meant no way to test at all. Glucose meters were not designed to enter humanitarian aid economies. After all, diabetes had…

…(Reisner 1986). According to this model, technocratic planning was oriented to the instrumental use of “natural resources” for social and economic purposes such as increased energy generation and agricultural productivity….

…actual or potential effects of in utero DES exposure has grown steadily to include infertility, high prematurity, urogenital malformations, cancers, psychiatric disorders, eating disorders, congenital oesophagial stenosis, and other conditions….

…scalability, then, is not only technical but also rhetorical. Scalability also derives from the legal architecture within which the AMT technology is embedded. Amazon’s terms of service are designed to…

…indecision, and internecine battles that testify to the uncertainty within the military and intelligence communities about the legal, ethical, and doctrinal use of these tools. More “kinetic” elements of the…

…connected. All of them had different legal and material avenues to break their connection to each other—police intervention, final permitting, or infrastructural disruption. And yet, that did not happen. All…

…inventory of elements at risk, interdependency analysis to determine vulnerability, and computer-based simulations—were applied to a range of other kinds of potential catastrophes, from natural disasters, to pandemic outbreaks, to…