Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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An Updated Software Almanac
Research into what makes software projects succeed.
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What Is the Big Secret Surrounding Stingray Surveillance?
Given the amount of mobile phone traffic that cell phone towers transmit, it is no wonder law enforcement agencies target these devices as a rich source of data...
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Humans Are Tech's Next Big Thing—and That Could Be Risky
Internet companies make billions of dollars by capturing one of the world's most precious commodities: your attention.
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Will Millimeter Waves Maximize 5g Wireless?
Every decade or so since the first cellular networks appeared the companies that make mobile devices and the networks linking them have worked out new requirements...
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A Social Network For Talkers
No group needs social network software more than the elderly.
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Is Facial Recognition Tech Really a Threat to Privacy?
Facebook has decided not to offer its photo-sharing app Moments in Europe because of regulator concerns over its facial recognition technology.
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The Moment I Decided Robots Were As Interesting As Humans
When I was little, I was enamored with the idea of being a pioneer; I was drawn to the thought that I could be the first to do something—be a trailblazer, the forerunner...
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Intelligent Life in the niverse? Phone Home, Dammit!
We've been conditioned by television and movies to accept the likelihood of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
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Beware the Listening Machines
One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about.
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The Latest Oculus Headset Made Me Want to Throw p. In a Good Way.
Virtual reality and its viability as a consumer technology is a huge theme at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, a Los Angeles convention for the video...
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How the Astros Baseball Hack Explains Chinese Cyberespionage
Two major cybersecurity scandals are currently making headlines: One is the hack of an internal network belonging to a Major League Baseball team, allegedly bya...
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Who Will Own the Robots?
The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: "We are interested in robots that create and are creative."
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No One Questions Google's Ability to Innovate, So Why Do Its Moonshots Look Like Money Pits?
Consider a question that we have been puzzling over at the World Economic Forum.
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Facial Recognition Technology Is Everywhere. It May Not Be Legal.
Being anonymous in public might be a thing of the past.
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Stop Laughing at Those Clumsy Humanoid Robots
The humanoid robot, built like a linebacker with an oversized head, tiptoes on two feet through the dirt.
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Will We Ever… Speak Faster Than Light Speed?
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...
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The Pluto Punch-Through
On July 14, 2015 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto. But the encounter is brief.
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Why Robots and Humans Struggled with Darpa's Challenge
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...
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The Myth of a Borderless Internet
Almost a decade ago now, McDonald's made a seemingly innocuous decision.
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