Intellectual Dark Web, Automating Inequality & 3D Prints Steaks

Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web

It is a collection of iconoclastic thinkers, academic renegades and media personalities who are having a rolling conversation .

How Big Data Is ‘Automating Inequality’

For the poor, she argues, government data and its abuses have imposed a new regime of surveillance, profiling, punishment, containment and exclusion, which she evocatively calls the “digital poorhouse.”

Clean meat start-up 3D prints steak

Israeli food tech start-up Aleph Farms has developed a technology to 3D print clean meat that mimics the same structure and taste as traditional cuts of meat.

A Wayback Machine for Source Code

The “Software Heritage” project, a sort of Wayback Machine for software. The project plans to create an archive of computer code source files as they appear on the web — an undertaking that has implications not just for history, but for science and research, too.

Japan tapping gait recognition tech in criminal probes

Gait recognition technology, a method to identify people by characteristics shown unconsciously in the ways they walk, is being utilized in criminal investigations in Japan.