…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…

…very small proportion of the full Snowden trove. The archive that Snowden shared with news outlets contained about 50,000 documents, of which approximately 7,300 have been released since 2013. Further,…

…in the region. While the City of Knowledge has yet to appear, by the end of 2015, 80% of Mexico’s installed wind power capacity, 2,300 megawatts, was located in the…

…and of … communities and citizens” (link). Resilience is also prominently mentioned in recent Homeland Security policy documents, including the 2010 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, which lists “Ensuring Resilience to…

…by the so-called “Mirai” malware, which looked for IoT devices still using insecure factory defaults (Krebs 2016b). In 2017, a similar hack took place that mobilized 150,000 printers, this time…

Panier du 20 mai 2011, http://amapetang.blogspot.com/ Like every Thursday afternoon, Celine’s two kids are exited, because Thursday is the jour du Panier (“basket day”). At 6 p.m., Celine and her…

…on the Greek islands to shelter newly arrived refugees in 2015, and it came with the backing of the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency, who purchased 15,000 units for distribution…

…surgeon, a Russian cultural minister, the Walt Disney Company, and the U.S. military. Ultimately, the Choreometrics team gathered more than 250,000 feet of raw footage, representing 2,000 different communities. Each…

…Is Stuxnet [2010] a case of such a threshold, or the DNC [Democratic National Committee] hack? Since you’ve been doing this for a long time, maybe you have a particular…

…a real world that’s been utterly transformed while you were blissfully unaware. But you do get better at recognizing it. When the final bell rang 3,000 students (me included) poured…

…“all the markings of state-sponsored attack.” The breach had resulted, USIS said, in the disclosure of about 25,000 federal employees’ records. One can only imagine the difficult conversations that must…

…a mesh of proxy servers where the data is bounced through relays, or nodes. As of this writing, more than 7,000 relays enable the transferral of data, applying “onion routing”…

…as they were carrying whole blood to a waiting U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The blood was being sent to Liberia…

…million yet with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants (see Shepard 2015). Kangbashi district, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. Photo: Wikimedia These cases show how infrastructure in China shapes the praxis of urban…

…of psou, today there are 60 psychologists working under her. The number of requests for help has risen dramatically. The unit proposes different kinds of action, which, according to madame…

…The Sanger Center bought 30 of the new ABI capillary sequencing machines at $300,000 apiece; Eric Lander at the Broad Institute bought 125. In 1999, the year after Venter launched…

…large numbers For a small start up, managing a workforce of 60,000 people may seem an insurmountable challenge. Yet this is the challenge faced by large-scale requesters. Requesters building on…

…mayor noted that, by his office’s calculus, 600,000 city residents were unqualified for jobs in the twenty-first century information and innovation-focused economy (Nutter 2012a, 2012b). As a result, residents first…

…birds (auspices), played a significant role in legends of foundation, and was re-enacted for important political decisions—no important decision was taken without consulting the auguri. Today, the founding of a…

…(ESB Rangoon nd:10–11). The Pyidawtha Plan resonated widely in the 1950s, even if the plan itself—a sprawling and highly technical document exceeding 800 pages, written in English and printed in…

…online; he reportedly received 17,000 emails, 10,000 texts, hundreds of voicemails, and lots of unwanted mail.[12] UC Davis paid $1 million to victims of Pike’s assault. More curious though, Pike’s…

…78,000 target listings (Clinard 1959:89). Meanwhile, increasingly sophisticated technologies for data handling were developed: magnetic tapes replaced punch cards; digital computers replaced tabulators. Although the name changed (today it is…

…state institution has operated the canal since 2000. Since then, the ACP, like its U.S. predecessor, has been responsible for the administration, maintenance, and use of regional water resources. Today,…

…the 1990s, also transforming in character. Whereas Guatemalan supermarkets once provided high-end luxury goods, they now focus on mass-produced, processed foods. A massive store, today owned by Walmart, was a…