…called International Aid Services (IAS) acquired the Peepoople brand, vowing to keep the dream alive. At the time the user base consisted of some 20,000 people living in the Kibera…

…famous for having produced such a demo. After a prolific career at the Psychology Institute in Berlin, he fled Germany in 1933 and, towards the end of the decade, settled…

…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…

…serves the poor in Bangladesh (Grameen Bank, the 2006 Nobel co-winner), he also crafted a global vision for funding entrepreneurs and tirelessly promoted it for three decades. Muhammad Yunus at…

…bootcamp, usually held in Nairobi or Kampala, and receive upwards of £100,000 in DFID funding and IDEO design support to implement their ideas. To date, seven challenges have been completed,…

The Participatory Development Toolkit is a “small briefcase (26 x 33 x 10 cm) containing 221 activity cards, 65 pictures, 11 charts, 1 guidebook”; it is “covered in brown pattered…

…pays the government £50 for each student who sits a particular exam, and £100 for each one who passes it. This kind of fixation on measurable results creates a proliferation…

In the last 20 years, global health experts have recognized the importance and encouraged the adoption of sin taxes in the fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Global South….

…play of scales and silence allow objects to articulate a behavioral code that connects knowledge and social order. By contrast, in the second room, all sorts of opinions abound. Statements…

…the words “Warning May Contain GMOs,” and a QR code or URL directing the consumer to websites with additional information about genetically modified foods. Figure 2. Early LIY label template….

…ISOs have grown to swallow those states that have not; they now cover all or parts of nearly 40 states. (There is no requirement for companies to unbundle to join…

…500 cases, all of them potentially fatal, had been discovered during an extensive survey of only 9,500 persons.[2] There were the usual journalists’ approximations about African geography: it was written…

…5, 2013, a bit before noon, they also began producing standard random objects at a rate of one per minute: strings of 512 bits of entropy, broadcast every 60 seconds….

…(Theillaumas, interview 07/20/2011) Since traumatic events are rare, the psou also organizes simple “conversations”, which are scheduled after a phone call from a person who wants to talk about other…

…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…

…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…

…total informational transparency: “Therefore none shall henceforth gain illicit advantage by reason of the fact that we together know more than one of us can know.” (Brunner 1995:280) Of course…

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…

…kind of vulnerabilities that we [LulzSec] were exploiting at Fortune 500 companies, I don’t think that there is a lack of technology or knowledge in place to stop vulnerabilities from…

…Museum as soon as they emerge alive on the British side of the Eurotunnel. But it is more likely that Western heritage institutions, if not playing Indiana Jones in North…

…and we get overwhelmed. And everyone gets—readers get overwhelmed too. And if you dump 3,000 emails, you’re just going to get a certain level of attention. If you do it…

…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…