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Why do MIT graduates start so many companies? Maybe it has to do with the Institute’s culture of hacking. “For many people outside MIT, the notion of hacking is a bad thing,” says Professor Fiona Murray.
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Hackers are big news! On October 2, a New York Times headline trumpeted: "JP Morgan Chase Hacking Affects 76 Million Households." Recently retailers like Home Depot and Target were hit as well -- data banks reportedly hacked, personal information potentially compromised. And who can forget Julian Assange and the infamous WikiLeaks? On a more personal level, how many of us have had our e-mails or Facebook accounts hacked? But are hackers always the bad guys?
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For the past six years, Gabriella Coleman has been hanging out in the IRC chat rooms used by Anonymous -- but she's no hacker.
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SAN FRANCISCO: Hackers are shaking off their reputations as nerdy, loner basement dwellers and rebranding themselves on the world stage as members of Internet age tribes with offbeat codes of conduct and capricious goals.
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Walter Isaacson's "The Innovators" describes how hackers, geniuses and geeks launched the digital revolution.
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The electricity goes off, and darkness fills the old building. Tarek grabs a bottle of water, peels off the cover and puts it over a small lamp in cardboard box, instantly creating an emergency light.
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Contents 1 Hackers Tribes (Saving the World) 1.1 Why are hackers like tribes? 1.2 About hackers 1.3 About hackerspaces 1.4 Why are hackerspaces like tribes? 1.4.1 On Ethics 1.4.2 Teaching Hackers...
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What has the Maker Movement got to do with public health? Quite a lot as it turns out, as I explore in the latest Risk Bites video. This in turn was inspired by being invited to talk at the inaugural We Make Health Fest in Ann Arbor (August 16 – please join us if you can!).
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NEW YORK — Babak Javadi is discussing his obsession with lock picking — how successfully pressing each pin into place and feeling the lock cylinder release is “so pleasant,” how quickly he fell in love with this hobby — when one of his buddies walks up and interrupts.
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These books are crucial background to the debate over Edward Snowden.
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2600 provides a forum for hackers to discuss pressing issues from surveillance and Internet freedom to the security of the nation’s nuclear weapons.
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Developed by an international group of graduate students at the Strategic Design + Management program at Parsons the New School for Design NYC, New York and guided by facilitator Cecilia Tham, the Hackable Cities Toolkit is the result of extensive research and fieldwork intended to address the lack of identity in a neighborhood.
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Hackers are shaking off their reputations as nerdy, loner basement dwellers and rebranding themselves on the world stage.
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We are artists, activists and entrepreneurs facing, like you, common global problems, from mass consumption and digital overload, to inequality amidst rapid urbanisation. Here, we slow down and reflect on the ancient wisdom traditions - those of the shamans, monks, and long-forgotten mystics - and apply them to modern times.
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Creating software has become a flexible, collaborative, and adaptable process: projects develop as code is openly shared, reviewed, adapted, and distributed. Simultaneously, home appliances are increasingly dependent on inflexible standards of production leading to a lack of reparability, less adaptability, and more waste. With affordable technologies of digital manufacturing and electronic platforms, translating code into matter is becoming possible for everyone. Programming object thus seek to bring open source software practices into the world of (open hardware)appliances. Moving away from a top-down approach from corporation to consumer, to one where objects are designed, developed, and produced democratically within open communities.
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Video with Mike Rother, author of Toyota Kata and co-author of Learning to See, at Lean Summit 2012.
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We went along to the Festival of Stuff hosted by UCL’s Institute of Making – eager to meet Mark Miodownik and the ‘community workshop‘ crew. We launched our first Project Report and talked to William Sieghart about the scope for closer working between libraries and hackers / makers to contribute to the independent report he’s been tasked with preparing for DCMS and DCLG about the Public Library service in England.
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Ruben Santamarta sauntered into our Las Vegas hotel suite looking more like a sleep-deprived 32-year-old than a highly-regarded international security researcher.
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Members of the activist collective known as Anonymous falsely named the police officer who shot an unarmed 18-year-old black man on Saturday. The botched identification triggered rancor in the network.
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The whole do-it-yourself (DIY), open source maker electronics scene that’s really gained in popularity over the past few years has led to a lot of really interesting devices and kits appearing on the market.
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