I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2014
Every year, just before South by Southwest Interactive starts, the froth starts churning. Everybody begins wondering what this year’s breakout hit app will be.Wired From ACM Opinion | March 11, 2014
For more than a year now, tens of millions of Americans have found time each day to devote themselves to an essential task: swiping at their phones and tablets...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | March 10, 2014
In the last decade, movies and television have sprouted a new plot weakness: if tension hinged in any way on a situation that could have been solved by a simple...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | February 27, 2014
So for the past 18 months, there has been a horrific security hole in many of Apple's products that has allowed "man in the middle" attacks on supposedly secure...Slate From ACM Opinion | February 26, 2014
For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated, competitive free market.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2014
Last September, the Times reported that Voyager 1, the hardy spacecraft launched in 1977, had exited the solar system and entered the interstellar void.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2014
It seems as if every week there's a news story about someone committing a crime and confessing to it on Facebook, bragging about it on Twitter or sharing photos...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2014
In February 2013, Lindsey Vonn—perhaps the most accomplished female skier in American history—tore her anterior cruciate ligament in a crash in the mountains of...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2014
U.S. cybersecurity officials have been much more skeptical about international cooperation than their Cold War counterparts were.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2014
The scale and grandeur of the Winter Olympics in Sochi is estimated to have cost Russia an astronomical $46 billion.ArsTechnica From ACM Opinion | February 20, 2014