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Edward Snowden urges Hackers to unite against surveillance etc. (HopeX 2014)

For one of their panels, this year’s HopeX conference managed to connect Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg and invited the crowd to listen to an open conversation between the two, covering matters of surveillance, privacy, whistle-blowing and how to fix things that are broken. Particularly with regards to the last point, Edward Snowden repeated what […]

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Project: “Hack your brain” — the haptic compass belt.

By Wilhelm|Projects

This project is the outcome of me trying to replicate the results study run by some researchers at Osnabrück University and published in the Journal of Neural Engineering under the title “Beyond sensory substitution–learning the sixth sense” The abstract reads: Rapid advances in neuroscience have sparked numerous efforts to study the neural correlate of consciousness. […]

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Viewing posts from: July, 2014

Edward Snowden urges Hackers to unite against surveillance etc. (HopeX 2014)

Project: “Hack your brain” — the haptic compass belt.

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