Last November, the Museum of Modern Art said that it had acquired 14 videogames, adding working copies and the source code of games like Tetris and The Sims to...Wired From ACM Opinion | May 30, 2013
It's been a year since the first reports of the Flame malware surfaced, and looking back at the 12 months since then, it seems more and more each day that the discovery...Threatpost From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2013
Recently, the FBI has been attacking the "going dark" problem—that is, its inability to read all electronic communications—from both legal and technological angles...Slate From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2013
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even...HPC Wire From ACM News | May 24, 2013
With the grand unveiling of Apple’s next operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch approaching, sources have provided detailed descriptions of what...9to5Mac From ACM Opinion | May 24, 2013
Pew Internet and American Life Project (in collaboration with Berkman) unveiled a brilliant report about "Teens, Social Media, and Privacy." As a researcher who's...Danah Boyd | Apophenia From ACM Opinion | May 24, 2013
Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television.Slate From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2013
"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost," wrote Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of his day, "not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2013
I join a group of twenty computer scientists in issuing a report criticizing an FBI plan to require makers of secure communication tools to redesign their systems...Freedom To Tinker From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
The goal of the U.S. patent system is clear: to provide individuals or companies with an incentive to innovate by offering them 20 years of exclusive rights to...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous in-box.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and...The New Yorker From ACM News | May 16, 2013
When the Russian asteroid became a fireball in the air over Chelyabinsk, destroying buildings and injuring hundreds, we were lucky it wasn’t worse.Slate From ACM Opinion | May 16, 2013