Projects tagged
Science & Technology
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Covert Gay Representation in Video Games
Read more: Covert Gay Representation in Video GamesUpon the release of the 1996 Maxis Inc. computer game SimCopter, the company discovered programmer Jacques Servin had secretly added scantily clad male CPUs to appear in the game and make out with the player character. The company fired him…
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‘They Lied to us’: Mom says police deceived her to get her DNA and charge her son with murder
Read more: ‘They Lied to us’: Mom says police deceived her to get her DNA and charge her son with murderVALDOSTA, Ga. — On an October morning in 2018, Eleanor Holmes and her husband left home to run an errand and found two men inside their front gate. They introduced themselves as detectives from Orlando, Florida, and said they needed…
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Fake Drone Crash on UCSD Campus
Read more: Fake Drone Crash on UCSD CampusStudents at the University of California-San Diego were surprised when an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, commonly referred to as a drone, crashed in the middle of campus — or at least they thought that’s what happened. A photo of a drone…
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Phone Story
Read more: Phone StoryPhone Story is an educational game about the hidden social costs of smartphone manufacturing. Follow your phone’s journey from the Coltan mines of the Congo to the electronic waste dumps in Pakistan through four colorful mini-games. Compete with market forces…
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Public Dissentiment
Read more: Public DissentimentThe project consists of an online tool that helps protestors negatively impact the price of a publicly traded stock by using the same sentiment analysis tools used by many stock trading algorithms. In the contemporary stock markets, high-frequency trading bots…
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Shmoogle
Read more: ShmoogleShmoogle is a Google randomiser. When you type your query into Shmoogle, you get Google’s results but in random order. In one click Shmoogle instantly neutralizes the PageRank hierarchy and the whole SEO industry induced by it. Missdata, questions the…
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Autonomy Cube
Read more: Autonomy CubePursuing the possibility of emancipatory use of technology, Paglen, together with Jacob Appelbaum, developed Autonomy Cube (2014). Autonomy Cube is a sculpture and internet router designed to be housed in civic spaces. The sculpture is meant to be both “seen”…
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Prescription Blizzard
Read more: Prescription BlizzardThe scraps of paper swirled through the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday night like confetti, thrown from an upper walkway into the central rotunda before floating to the ground. Designed to look like prescription slips for OxyContin, the…
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Comic: Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.
Read more: Comic: Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.“Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.” is a short web comic by Maki Naro explaining “The risks, the misinformation, and the science behind history’s greatest life saver.” Fighting disinformation about vaccines is difficult. Hundreds of sites with bogus information have…
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Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic iceberg
Read more: Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic icebergThe stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting. A climate change group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President Donald Trump’s face into an arctic iceberg. The…