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My Darkest Time

In this long-short personal story of having overcome a big challenge, Gaurav Jain says, “When you break your leg, you kn...

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Who decides?

Newcomers we were to this survival game, to this locale, to this one-room setting, to this downslide, to this helplessness. We were new at sawi...

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Thought Factory

The Perils of the Use and Abuse of Social Media

Humans, by nature, have loved to communicate and share stories and views since the beginning of time. Who would...

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Kaleidoscope

A Heroine For Our Times

The Girl With The DragonTattoo was a huge success story in publishing, that needs more stars like Lisbeth Salander. Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson created a her...

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Sustainable Development

Matt Mitchell Is Arming Underserved Communities With Anti-Surveillance Tools

Matthew Mitchell had one of his first encounters with surveillance in the 1990s. At General Electric, his work usually involved repairing computers. But after a sexual hara...

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Sustainable Development

The Looming Disaster Of The Internet Of (Hackable) Things

The Looming Disaster of the Internet of (Hackable) Things Last January, walking through the seemingly endless showroom at the gadget bonanza known as the Consumer Elec...

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Sustainable Development

Facebook Hack Shows It’s Time To Upgrade Our Method Of Verifying Identity

On Monday, a Facebook user lost control of his personal account, as well as several business pages, for almost a full day, after a hacker was able to convince Facebook to c...

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Sustainable Development

This Diabetes Activist Hacked Her Medical Device And Made An Artificial Pancreas

Algorithms are boring until your life depends on them. People with Type 1 diabetes use algorithms all day long. They perform mental calculations to manage their blood-sugar...

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Sustainable Development

It's Nearly 2016. Why Aren't Banking Apps More Secure?

In 2013, a security researcher studied 40 banking apps for iOS from some of the world’s biggest banks and found that the majority leaked a lot of personal d...

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Sustainable Development

What Happens If Someone Uses This DIY Gene Hacking Kit To Make Mutant Bacteria?

The campaign, called "DIY CRISPR Kits, Learn Modern Science By Doing" was started by Josiah Zayner, a synthetic biologist and research fellow at NASA Ames Research Center. ...

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