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Connected, yet Isolated
Nano No-No?
I like it when ya call me "Big Da-ta"
Mr. Roboto
The Doctor is Out
100
This app allows Facebook to access your microphone and other personal information on your cellphone.
What is the Facebook Messenger App?
100
Greek for "dwarf."
What is nano?
100
Based on their purchases, this store could predict which shoppers were pregnant and when their due date likely was.
What is Target?
100
Wired Magazine named him one of the most dangerous people of all time.
Who is Cody Wilson?
100
This bacteria is resistant against several antibiotics.
What is a superbug?
200
Facebook's predecessor.
What is Facemash?
200
Stain-repellent clothes, self-heating roads, and self-cleaning cars.
What are functions of nanotechnology?
200
This computer analyst leaked classified information to the press about mass-surveillance programs undertaken by the NSA.
Who is Edward Snowden?
200
The blueprints of this 3D gun were downloaded 100,000 times in two days.
What is The Liberator?
200
This Cognitive Enhancer is prescribed for people who have narcolepsy.
What is Modafinil?
300
This couple with the same name met on Facebook and got married.
Who are Kelly Hildebrandt and Kelly Hildebrandt?
300
The process of making products with every atom precisely placed.
What is Molecular Manufacturing?
300
In April 2014, this online bug jeopardized everyone’s private online information.
What is Heartbleed?
300
This exoskeleton was created by Berkley Bionics and designed for soldiers.
What is HULC?
300
You can receive an AMR or superbug these two ways.
What is misusing antibiotics and eating chicken with an AMR or superbug?
400
These are visual diaries we regularly exchange with people that mark our short existence on this planet.
What are selfies?
400
Killing bacteria and cancer inside our bodies.
What are functions of nanobots?
400
After Euclid Analytics finds a shopper's MAC address from their cell phone, they claim to do this - scrambling the original address.
What is hashing?
400
This drone is currently being used by the military for surveillance purposes.
What is the Raven Drone?
400
This infectious disease specialist from McMaster almost died from a superbug he ingested.
Who is Jerry Wright?
500
This type of awareness is created by regularly receiving small pieces of information about people through social media.
What is Ambient Awareness?
500
This could lead us one step closer to the Coming Singularity.
What is Grey Goo?
500
In 2012, Google was fined $22.5 million for doing this.
What is bypassing cookie settings on the Safari browser?
500
Predator Drones use this technique to ensure all "targets" have been eliminated.
What is the double-tap technique?
500
Cognitive Enhancers increase the release of this chemical in the human brain.
What is dopamine or norepinephrine?