Ever since virtual worlds and online games emerged in the mainstream consciousness around 2005, the media has insisted on framing them as escapist fantasies.Slate From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2014
Privacy concerns have been ignited by "NameTag," a facial-recognition app designed to reveal personal information after analyzing photos taken on mobile devices...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | January 27, 2014
In the movie Her, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture this year, a middle-aged writer named Theodore Twombly installs and rapidly falls in love with...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | January 24, 2014
The world's most famous former intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, is scheduled to answer questions posted on Twitter in an hour-long Webcast on Thursday.CNET From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2014
On a future road trip, your robot car decides to take a new route, driving you past a Krispy Kreme Doughnut shop.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2014
Few critics of the NSA will find much satisfaction in President Obama's speech this morning or in the set of reforms that he announced.Slate From ACM Opinion | January 21, 2014
Those of us who came of age in the Internet era may not know that they owe their ability to go online to a court decision 30 years ago today about a mechanically...Slate From ACM Opinion | January 17, 2014
Google rocked the smart home market Monday with its intention to purchase connected home thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, which will force a much-needed...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | January 17, 2014
In 1964, legendary writer of science fiction and science fact Isaac Asimov visited the World's Fair, where a General Electric pavilion chronicling advances in electric...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 16, 2014
An "Open Internet" became endangered this week at a time when the U.S. increasingly relies on Internet services to deliver everything from education to entertainment...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2014
A federal appeals court in Washington slapped the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday for overstepping its legal authority by trying to regulate Internet...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2014
My expectations were low when I asked the National Security Agency to cooperate with my story on the impact of Edward Snowden’s leaks on the tech industry.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2014
Last October, T-Mobile made an astonishing announcement: from now on, when you travel internationally with a T-Mobile phone, you get free unlimited text messages...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 9, 2014
At the beginning of each year, it's possible to make predictions about the future of the tech sector simply by extrapolating from data in the latest Mary Meeker...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 8, 2014
We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself—as with the Internet of Things...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 7, 2014
In January of 1903, the small Boston magazine Handicraft ran an essay by the Harvard professor Denman W. Ross, who argued that the American Arts and Crafts movement...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | January 7, 2014