Last month, Shelby Bonnie's iPad vanished from his carry-on bag somewhere at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after a red-eye flight from San Francisco...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 3, 2016
In America, surveillance has always played an outsized role in the relationship between creditors and debtors.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 3, 2016
As big data transforms industries ranging from retailing to health care, it’s also becoming a more important tool for police departments, which are turning to data...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | May 2, 2016
In increasing numbers, researchers around the world are turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest pirate website for scholarly literature, to access research papers...Science From ACM Opinion | April 29, 2016
The Pacific Northwest tree octopus existed years before Wikipedia was founded. I’m using "existed" loosely here, of course, because there's no such thing as a Pacific...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | April 27, 2016
How the future of general-purpose programming tools could include blocks-based structured editing, and how we should study students transitioning to text-based...R. Benjamin Shapiro, Matthew Ahrens From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2016
Pentagon officials have publicly said, in recent weeks, that they're hitting ISIS not only with bullets and bombs but also with cyberoffensive operations.Slate From ACM Opinion | April 25, 2016
Valentine's Day was a bummer in Mountain View, Calif. For the first time, one of Google's self-driving cars, a modified Lexus SUV, caused a crash.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | April 22, 2016
Last month, WhatsApp, the hugely popular messaging service that Facebook owns, made end-to-end encryption the default for its 1 billion users. On Tuesday, Viber...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 21, 2016
In 2011, developer and researcher Alexandra Elbakyan launched Sci-Hub, an online archive that shares research articles freely and openly without paywalls or restrictions...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 18, 2016
Many newspapers and online media companies have begun disabling comment sections because of widespread abuse and obscenity.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 18, 2016
If you thought the battle over net neutrality ended when the Federal Communications Commission slapped a series of unprecedented rules on Internet providers last...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | April 15, 2016
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Vice Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today released the Compliance with Court Orders...Senator Dianne Feinstein From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2016
I'm the first quadriplegic person in the world to use my own thoughts to control my own arm. It's a pretty neat experience.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2016