Bitcoin ≠ blockchain. Blockchain ≠ bitcoin. This message bears repeating: You can be pro-blockchain and anti-bitcoin.
Bloomberg Gadfly From ACM Opinion | November 10, 2017
In May 2016, a Facebook page called Heart of Texas urged its nearly 254,000 followers to rise up against what it considered to be an urgent cultural menace.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 9, 2017
The outcome of the 2016 presidential election is history. But allegations of voter fraud, election interference by foreign governments, and intrusions into state...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2017
When i brought the robot home from the Apple Store, I knew I was inviting a new kind of strangeness into our lives.
The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2017
Kai-Fu Lee, one of China's best-known technologists and investors, thinks artificial intelligence is about to supplant many millions of the country's office workers...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 6, 2017
Pundits have been fretting a lot lately about robots leaving humans behind, taking our jobs and possibly a lot more, as in The Matrix and Terminator films.
Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 6, 2017
"We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code." So declared MIT professor David D. Clark in 1992.
Wired From ACM Opinion | November 6, 2017
Martin Newell was worried about his Ph.D. research as he sat down to tea with his wife one day in 1974.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2017
I have now been writing about science for nearly a dozen years, which means my career more or less overlaps with that of the Cassini probe.
Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2017
Any day now, Google is expected to achieve quantum supremacy—the use of a quantum computer to solve a problem that even the most advanced supercomputer can't unravel...Bloomberg From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2017
Even the most futuristic applications of AI, from robotic servants to instant health scans, somehow already seem familiar because they have been endless fodder...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2017
In 2013, United States agents served a warrant on Microsoft seeking the emails of a suspect in a drug case.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 25, 2017
On my fourth day in a semi-driverless car, I finally felt comfortable enough to let it stop itself.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 24, 2017
Anders Sandberg and Stuart Armstrong of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, working with Milan Ćirković of the University of Novi Sad in Serbia...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2017
The Supreme Court does not compute. Or at least some of its members would rather not. The justices, the most powerful jurists in the land, seem to have a reluctance—even...FiveThirtyEight From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2017
This week saw another major achievement by Google's Deep Mind, when it showed that a neural network could learn to play Go in just three days, without even looking...BBC News From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2017