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Mobile phones call out for fresh water

An innovative system being tested across Kenya allows people to access drinking water at the touch of a button.

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We need a lot of debate on what a smart house is good for, but I’m thinking an awareness of the needs of innocence would help this debate quite a lot.

Casa Jasmina: The RAM House at Atelier Clerici |

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The U.S. Government Is Addicted to Secrets

In October 2012, less than a year before the Snowden revelations, a small sculpture arrived at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. It was a surveillance camera—a replica of the cameras that Chinese officials had stationed around the home of Ai Weiwei, the artist. He carved it in marble. Dull...

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What Happens When We Let Industry and Government Collect All the Data They Want

In the fall of 1769, Thomas Jefferson lost a slave. His name was Sandy, and he was a runaway. Sandy was “about 35 years of age.” He worked as a shoemaker. Jefferson described him as “artful and knavish.” He was also “something of a horse jockey.” Jefferson criticized slavery. Yet...

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demonstration at convincing scale," which is to say that you can’t just show it in a lab, you have to prove that it can be a viable business.

The renegade future of Google's ATAP lab | Sundar’s Google: an exclusive look at the future of Google’s most important products

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Protest by Hologram - The New Yorker

A recent demonstration in Madrid was a symbolic jab at the Spanish government and the world’s first political protest by hologram.

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Cardboard Design Lab, a collaboration from Google and ustwo, visually immerses designers into the very principles they'll be crafting VR experiences around.

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(via Donna Haraway, "Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: Staying with the Trouble", 5/9/14 on Vimeo)

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Murder Suspect Is Linked to Screenshot of 'Siri' Search for Where to Hide a Body

Correction appended, Aug. 13 A man accused of killing a fellow student in Florida was linked by authorities Tuesday to an image purportedly of an…

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the surveillance state enforcing surveillance as the normative form of care. The state cannot teach its citizens, because it has no idea what to teach; it can only place them under observation. Perfect observation — panopticism — then becomes its telos, which is justifies and universalizes by imposing a responsibility to surveil on the very citizens already being surveilled. The state’s commandment to parents: Do as I do.

Surveillance and Care | Snakes and Ladders

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The Star Trek computer, at least in the 1960s, was not ahead of its time, but *of* its time. It lacked the vision to see even five years into the future.

People Have the Star Trek Computer Backwards | Hapgood

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Drone Geography: Mapping a System of Intelligence | Center for the Study of the Drone

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geographical imaginations | war, space and security

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THE INFORMATICS OF DOMINATION / Donna Haraway

Donna Haraway - A Cyborg Manifesto

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In Japan, Dog Owners Feel Abandoned as Sony Stops Supporting ‘Aibo’ - WSJ

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Research Blog: A picture is worth a thousand (coherent) words: building a natural description of images