…common topic of public conversation and a compelling justification for legislating mandatory registration of subscriber identity modules (SIM cards), which finally happened in 2016. Mobile phones entrained new possibilities not…

…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…

…is thrown away, it is considered abandoned to the public domain. There is one catch, though; if a trash receptacle is on private property, the dumpster diver is trespassing. This…

…It is, indeed, visually uninspiring, but this is because it is meant to be basic. Like much of IKEA’s product line, it is mass-produced, economical modernism. It is meant to…

…of operational research (or operations research) in global health, projects were expected to generate evidence for decision making by studying the process of implementation itself rather than focusing only on…

…special cases. Samuel figured this out by accident, his third day at his desk, running sim after sim on Huawei’s high-confidentiality cloud, which was protocol, even though it was the…

…(in preparing for the campaign, Giuliani ordered studies on the reasons behind this sort of migration, both inside and outside New York, that showed just this). More implicitly, this promise…

…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…

…of settlement and the production of new money constant.) This is, therefore, an “append-only public ledger.” It is a record of events—transactions between addresses—that everyone maintains (public) and to which…

…number upon which the speaker’s technique is based, is a multiplier of a property. It is this practice of multiplication that allows the speaker to “translate from the individual survey…

…distinction become the object of practice. The goal is not domestication, per se, but rather the manipulation of the distinction of wild and domestic to produce new matters, new meanings,…

…outbreaks. Our discussion of the super-Ebola scenario above points to one such ecological relation: that between the pathogen and the apparatus of global health security. From this perspective, the surprising…

…to a new ontology of the object of development. One area in which we can clearly see this combination of macro-ambitions and micro-techniques is in efforts to reduce poverty. Part…

…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…

…“fun” or “to be creative” is often invisible, for his eyes only: “Creating an app at home during my free time is as political as silently protesting on a Sunday…

…issue with the contention that [these shareholder meetings] “are not social events.” This view is snobbish; what’s wrong with mixing business with interaction? Don’t managers routinely meet at leisure spots…

…introduction of competition. When one follows this kind of expertise, the history of deregulation only begins where critics like Harvey (2005) claim that it ends. The influx of information workers…

…lasagna: the public question and the personal answer. On one side, a dish of appetizing lasagna is marked with a worrying question mark. On the other side, “the answer” is…

…implementation is also minimally disruptive to current cooking practices. Unlike the Bush Pump, this insert requires very little training and its adoption is at the level of household rather than…

…is a powerful and, at times, the only available and meaningful tactic. This wasn’t always the case. In activist movements, the shift of tactics is generally observed in reaction to…

…the control over access and interpretation, pirates’ power is rooted in the opposite: in their ability to make ownership irrelevant, access universal, and interpretation democratic. This is the paradox of…

…(Pollan 2009:27). Pollan is not alone in this critique, but there is another critical voice focused on the center store: the industry itself. From the industry’s perspective, something is not…

…demanded more precision than is found in breathless mainstream media accounts of big data: Is a database an archive? When is an index a database? How is a collection of…

…information,” and the ways in which this aura cuts against norms of analysis, investigation, and interpretation, norms which professionalized journalists had until recently been in a powerful position to defend…

…of government, business, education and religion, and its celebration of tools that would enable the “individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and…

…to ignore actual crime when possible. This is why management puts pressure on them. The last tool that it designed to this end employs statistics itself, and this new system…

…ensured that under his tutelage Anonymous would continue to prowl servers for the acquisition of incriminating evidence destined for wider distribution. After a string of hacks, one audacious exfiltration finally…

…smelt were close to extinction. Only seven had been found in the year’s Fall Midwater Trawl, by far the lowest number ever recorded. For this reason, Fish and Wildlife Service…