Light travels so fast it can make the transatlantic journey between London and New York more than 50 times each second. With speed like that, you might wonder why...BBC News From ACM Opinion | June 10, 2015
When some of the world's most advanced rescue robots are foiled by nothing more complex than a doorknob, you get a good sense of the challenge of making our homes...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2015
Now that Congress has passed, and President Obama has signed, the U.S.A. Freedom Act, which places some limits on the domestic-surveillance powers of the National...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 4, 2015
After the Senate passed legislation aimed at reforming a program that collected data about the phone calls of millions of Americans, Senate Majority Leader Mitch...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | June 4, 2015
Harald Geisler wants to make you as brilliant as Albert Einstein. Or at least let you write like him. Or at least write in his handwriting.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 3, 2015
On July 9, 1916, The New York Times puzzled over a fashion trend: Europeans were starting to wear bracelets with clocks on them.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 2, 2015
By and large, we watch movies to be entertained, not to be provoked into deep thought. Occasionally, a film does both.Nature From ACM Opinion | June 1, 2015
About a decade and a half ago, the neuroscience world got super-stoked about a sexy new way to look at living brains: functional magnetic resonance imaging.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2015
In 2005, Google bought a tiny mobile software company named Android, and almost nobody in the technology industry saw its potential—not even Eric Schmidt, Google's...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 27, 2015
On March 27th, an American astronaut named Scott Kelly blasted off from Earth and, six hours later, clambered onto the International Space Station.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | May 27, 2015
Even the most creative jobs have parts that are pretty routine—tasks that, at least in theory, can be done by a machine. Take, for example, being a reporter.NPR From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2015
"Human beings are ashamed to have been born instead of made," wrote the philosopher Günther Anders in 1956. Our shame has only deepened as our machines have grown...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2015
Technology has knocked the bottom rung out of the employment ladder, which has sent youth unemployment around the globe skyrocketing and presented us with a serious...Politico From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2015