"I Am Your Doppelgänger"
1. A new project about a new form of citizenship.
"Algorithmic Citizenship is a form of citizenship which is not assigned at birth, or through complex legal documents, but through data. Like other computerised processes, it can happen at the speed of light, and it can happen over and over again, constantly revising and recalculating. It can split a single citizenship into an infinite number of sub-citizenships, and count and weight them over time to produce combinations of affiliations to different states."
2. You can take planethood away from Pluto, but you can't take its moons.
"The Pluto system consists of four tiny satellites — Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx — orbiting a "binary planet" comprised of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, which, at 750 miles (1,207 kilometers) in diameter, is nearly half as wide as the dwarf planet itself. This binary setup has profoundly influenced the orbits of the four small moons, injecting chaos into their movements."
3. It's always the HR computers.
"China-based hackers are suspected once again of breaking into U.S. government computer networks, and the entire federal workforce could be at risk this time. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that data from the Office of Personnel Management - the human resources department for the federal government - and the Interior Department had been compromised."
4. Scientists took a rat leg, stripped it of living cells, then rebuilt it.
"Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully created the world’s first living semi-functioning bioartificial limb—a major step forward in regenerative medicine and artificial-limb development. The researchers created the limb by first stripping the living cells off limbs from dead donor rats. The parts left behind served as a nonliving 'scaffold,' which preserved limb architecture. The scaffold was then repopulated with cells that make up muscle and blood vessel tissues, and the composite structure was placed in a bioreactor to encourage the cells to grow."
5. This surveillance camera is powered by wi-fi alone.
"'The battery-free camera can operate up to [about five meters] from the router, with an image capture every 35 minutes,' say Talla and co. By adding a rechargeable battery they increased that to seven meters. The router could even power the camera through a brick wall, demonstrating that it would be possible to attach the device outside while keeping the power supply inside. That’s something that would be hugely useful for surveillance, perhaps connected to a movement sensor to trigger the camera when something moves in its field of view."
1. citizen-ex.com 2. space.com | @bruces 3. ap.org 4. britannica.com 5. technologyreview.com
"I Am Your Doppelgänger"