Last Thursday, John Legere, the C.E.O. of T-Mobile, joined the ranks of the dozens of chief executives who, in the past few years, have had to inform their customers...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 9, 2015
In the recent surge of electronic building toys, my early favorite was LittleBits. The individual pieces each have a specific job, and they magnetically interlock...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | October 9, 2015
Landing in U.S. theaters last week, Ridley Scott's The Martian is being acclaimed as one of the most realistic portrayals of human space exploration ever filmed...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | October 8, 2015
A ruling the Europe Union’s highest court yesterday may create enormous headaches for US tech companies like Google and Facebook.Wired From ACM Opinion | October 7, 2015
The next time you're thinking of throwing away a used boarding pass with a barcode on it, consider tossing the boarding pass into a document shredder instead.Krebs on Security From ACM Opinion | October 7, 2015
It was a bit of a surprise when the Rosetta probe, after a decade of travel around the Sun, approached the comet and sent the first decently resolved pictures of...Slate From ACM Opinion | October 6, 2015
If you want to understand the potential of 3D Touch, the new of method of tapping and pressing on the screens of the latest iPhones, forget about the marketing...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 5, 2015
In 1970, Life magazine published an article about a Stanford University research project that had resulted in the construction of what it called the first-ever...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 2, 2015
I've been excited about the Array of Things—a network of beautifully designed sensors poised to capture and make public real-time, non-personal data about the livability...Medium Backchannel From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2015
There's something about the Red Planet—so close yet so far, inhospitable yet perhaps not totally uninhabitable—that keeps us dreaming about getting there one day...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2015
Today's supercomputers lack the power to model accurately many aspects of the real world, from the impact of cloud systems on Earth's climate to the processing...Nature From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2015
NASA scientists announced today the best evidence yet that Mars, once thought dry, sterile and dead, may yet have life in it: Liquid water still flows on at least...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | September 29, 2015
Le's be clear: This is a parlor trick, not neuroscience. Nonetheless, with the help of some friends, I was able to make a toy shark fly through the air using brain...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | September 29, 2015
College students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | September 29, 2015