…only for sustaining long-distance kin relations but also for experimenting with self-development. The capacity to engage in novel forms of intimacy with strangers and in private forms of communications with…

…2 Number of times Sony was pwned in 2011: 21 3 Cost to Sony of 2011 PlayStation Hack: $171M 4 Number of people arrested for the 2011 Playstation hack: Number…

…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…

…phone charger. It seems like a heartwarming example of philanthro-capitalism, good design, and humanitarian innovation (Scott-Smith 2016). What’s not to like? The IKEA refugee shelter. Photo: Mark E. Breeze For…

…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…

…face immediate 2-week suspensions for a first offense, and expulsion for a second offense. These are in addition to any charges that the police choose to lay. Parents, this is…

…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…

…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…

…The question of air gapping should tell us something else: that the simplest form of security for infrastructure systems is disconnection. This is an important point to bear in mind…

…design problems for poor patients are identified, what happens next? As Alice Street discusses in this issue, point-of-care diagnostics have become a frontier of innovation for various global health projects….

…also be unique: if there is a single other bill exactly like it, one of them is a counterfeit. The bill must be very easy and cheap for the Mint…

…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…

…as sentinels for human flu pandemics. Their research transposed the temporal progression of pandemic emergence onto the categorical distinctions between species of living beings, the “frontiers of the living” (Keck…

…field made an urgent request for a portable biocontainment laboratory, but only one was available and it was needed in the US. The State Department searched for pre-packaged field hospitals…

…grounds for their authority, reconceiving the object of development—poverty—by forging new metrics of aid success, by developing new techniques for its measurement, and by adopting new devices amenable to this…

…project site prevented them from doing so again. They had to formulate a new energy strategy. For more than two years, the Langtangpa relied on solar units for electricity (mostly…

…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…

…frontiers has been a dramatic factor in the Ebola outbreak. Frontiers, though largely irrelevant to kinship and social networks, stimulated the opportunistic movement of people (for trade or protection, for…

…can make those changes in society that are very much needed, not for fame and fortune this time, but for that “greater good” that we all, deep down, aspire to….

…or navigate between them. Where then, does the desire for totality come from? What forms of government, and what kinds of collectives demand totality—even if a Phyrric form—and what kinds…

…emails were in essence many events chained together, each event a chance for journalists to lose interpretive authority. This multiple-event release model created more opportunities for conspiratorial interpretations to be…

…Designs for things like solar lanterns or nutritionally fortified foods, for example, seek to generate economic value for a diverse array of investors, via sales to institutional consumers like humanitarian…

…suing the NYPD for intimidation. Schoolcraft’s claims were bolstered by further research, when Eterno and Silverman (2010), a former cop and a sociologist, designed a survey in which retired officers…

…infiltrated systems for all sorts of reasons—for fun, learning, and showmanship—and in the process swiped data and documents but never released them. For decades, hackers have also acquired and published…

…combined with other data points, it gave some clues about what the aquifer we were studying could do for the town of Sardinal and for the new tourism developments investors…

…sophisticated intellectual tools were not yet available for measuring the condition of the environment and for projecting the damage to this condition that might be inflicted by such projects. Figure…

…which contained a series of numeric fields. The machine then tabulated the totals for each of the selected numeric fields. The Bombing Encyclopedia was a remarkable effort to organize a…

…NSA and its partner agencies regularly make similar arguments: anyone unwilling to accept the necessity of government hacking for the purposes of foreign intelligence is seen as having a dangerous…