Open Source Body: Small data, self-research, open humans
While big data grabs headlines, individual citizen scientists are quietly using wearable technologies to track their own symptoms, monitor their health and gain insight into themselves.
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Chinese police are already wearing the surveillance glasses of the future
The massive migration to celebrate the New Year of the Dog will be subject to piercing surveillance by Chinese police wearing AR glasses equipped with facial recognition software.
Smart Cities Asia: Will tomorrow’s smart city be a sustainable one?
Should the smart city be the sandbox of the Internet of Things? The Smart Cities Asia conference, held in Kuala Lumpur on October 2-3, explored various manifestations of high-tech urbanism.
Cracked Labs highlights data capitalism
Cracked Labs, an independent Austrian institute, published a vast enquiry on digital data trading. An enlightening picture.
Epidemium opens up cancer’s big data
The Epidemium challenge, an open science initiative launched by La Paillasse biohacklab and Roche laboratories, awarded the top projects analyzing big data on cancer.
Roger Malina: “We are still in the stone age of data visualization”
Makery visited Roger Malina, director of ArtSciLab, the art and science laboratory of the University of Texas in Dallas.
Destroy it Yourself: explode your passport’s RFID chip
After a German man exploded the RFID chip of his ID card in the microwave oven, Makery researched the the most efficient techniques. At your own risk and peril
Hacking hard in Strasbourg to take health care into our own hands
From March 19-22, 600 hackers, startuppers and health professionals participated in Europe's greatest gathering in its sector, the Hacking Health Camp in Strasbourg.