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Our Data, Ourselves

My first feature for Discover magazine is now online! In “Our Data, Ourselves,” I write about a Google engineer’s project to turn mobile phones phones into the ultimate data-collection devices. The idea is that when a person tracks her behaviors … Continue reading

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Programming the Tubes

Computers and smart phones can be improved with software updates and new apps. Not so for networks. The way servers, found in company IT rooms and massive data centers, communicate with each other is essentially static, with instructions for traffic … Continue reading

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