…scratch (or “flex”) cards that people buy to top up their mobile phone airtime balances (Fig. 6). Matthew was one of the first to teach himself how to repair phones;…

…information designer: 1 6 Number of FBI moles urging LulzSec to hack the Icelandic parliament to provide the FBI with the perfect excuse to visit Iceland so that they could…

…they debated how they’d hide the threads and files for those programs, how they’d tweak the car’s boot-cycle to detect tampering and alert the authorities, how the diagnostic tools provided…

…matter of knowing where to look for information, where to publish it, and ultimately how to use new and old media to unlock its potential. Poking around at the fetid…

…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…

…the disease and returned to Fort Bragg. Two of these soldiers then died of liver failure. An army colonel classified the situation as a “global epidemiological emergency”. The State Department…

…what the police have to show: that small-time crime exists, that they actively fight it, and that in stemming its tide they also help to reduce violent crime. The collective…

…had the capacity at that time to coordinate a broader response, or at the very least to galvanize international attention.[10] As significant as the number of emergencies WHO was faced…

…Many of these are ransomware attacks, in which relatively easy ways into systems are used to lock their legitimate users out of them. The users are then asked to pay…

…generate random numbers. The resulting 512-bit number is an excellent source of randomness, which is then combined with all the data pertinent to that particular value: the version number, the…

…confirmed, every 10 minutes. Settlement means that everyone running the Bitcoin protocol software—all the peers on the peer-to-peer network—takes the latest transactions on the system and races to solve a…

…that correlates, according to both the United Nations and doctors in the region, to their health. The scales seem to be failing: most obviously, many are broken or difficult to…

…forced to play the game of measurable results, they have begun to design their policies so that they are as easy to measure as possible, distorting development objectives to make…

…himself that he was looking at “what could be the link between wild and domestic birds.” “They are the perfect intermediary. Because they look identical to their conspecifics, when they…

…instance, how acceleration will affect the quality of the data required for licensure; the position of the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) on the evaluation of these “fast-track” trials is…

…our daily lives, to talk to them and see what exactly they looked like, what food they ate for lunch, where they were born, and what music they listened to…

…good case to question the notion of the politics of reusable pasts and how their politics retrofit the understanding of the present for the individuals who use them. From the…

…the United States joined the First World War. At the close of the conflict, the company stood poised for new things, and the migration of bandages from battlefield to kitchen…

…of recipes developed for the Battle Creek Sanitarium, forming the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906 as the forerunner to the modern Kellogg Company. 1900s: The necessity of…

…to share cat pictures, memes, porn, music, and news as well as an unprecedented platform for intellectual liberation, organization, and mobilization. Pretty great, right? However, to quote Kevin Kelly: There…

…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…

…later claimed that he was there to “self-investigate” the #Pizzagate theory and the claims that the restaurant was a front for child sex trafficking. #Pizzagate sprang from a close reading…