…here, no way to test for these diseases, and very sick patients were referred to the general hospital in the coastal capital, several hours walk and a long bus journey…

…The test would use regular photo paper prepared in a certain way, allowing it to be exposed to the air. Over the next few months, we made the test strips…

…have themselves been developed in the “wiki-way”—through online discussion and consensus building—and aim to balance various criteria, including the public interest, privacy, and freedom of speech. Compare the requirements of…

…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…

…like this: There were two major competing companies shaping design when the first glucometer machines came out, one in England and another in Germany. A top employee of the British…

…close to their chest and say “We like this, here’s some money. PH: They definitely say what they’re interested in. I think they want to do face recognition and verification…

…help, which tore the group open via competing sociopolitical forces: the State, Empire, and the Multitude. It was the Weberian, hierarchical, bureaucratic apparatus versus “the decentered and deterritorializing apparatus of…

…attention to existing inequalities and can thereby exacerbate them, academics and practitioners are increasingly using the term “inclusive innovation” to describe innovation practices that explicitly aim to improve the lives…

…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…

…conditions is difficult. These dreams of total access to all genomic information inspire and create visions of new routes to universal knowledge and democracy. Yet these commitments to the open…

…stripped away, a more mundane explanation for all the sanctimony emerges: the “victim’s” information security sucked. They routinely failed to deactivate passwords and system access for ex-employees. After the hack,…

…search the data began to launch. These were front ends for the leak, comparable in outline with the landmark Diary Dig project for searching the leaked data in the Iraq…

…channels that only the intelligence world has access to. And all of a sudden here’s this moment where they decide to move everything from the back stage to the front…

…sift through them to figure out the significance of them. And then you have the model, like the Snowden leak, where they were given in bulk to journalists, and then…

…regularly vandalized, is enormous; and the ability of consumers to use the network in the face of limited financial means and increasing demand for smartphones and data is always under…

…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…

…to log into a site from password-guessing algorithms trying to break in; CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. CAPTCHAs succeed at blocking…

…plastic, and they have the feeling and texture of swimming floats. They have been attached to the frame with hand-tightened bolts and brackets, and the shelter has four small ‘window’…

…2004). It served to draw attention to the vulnerability of aging American electrical infrastructure and the relative complacency of power companies and governments in the face of multiple risks. The…

…the heightened demand for more public and community toilets, and the increasing interest in enterprise-led approaches to tackling challenges of urban poverty. Although the individuals present at the meeting came…

…part because the cage, the water bottle, the culture medium, the food, were the background to the organismal biology in the foreground and had no presence as “the environment”—until these…

…the higher the anonymity level for users who are connected to the p2p network; volunteers around the world provide servers and enable the Tor traffic to flow. There is also…

…burning a curious hand and to reduce heat loss to the surroundings, it is built to accommodate common cooking surfaces (tavas and pots) and meals perfectly, and it doesn’t require…

…of stories as it does to their readers. There are a number of objections to make to these lines of argument. First and foremost, pizza-themed conspiracy theories were clearly neither…

…and especially of Free and Open Source software in the 1980s, that dominance has begun to wane—today there are collectives of amateur engineers growing everywhere, and not beholden to the…

…documents was timed for maximum impact. Although the former sought to influence then-current events, the full impact of the disclosures is oriented towards the longue durée and the extensive digital…