China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.Technology Review From ACM News | December 8, 2015
Researchers say Uber and Lyft's automated management systems establish new dynamics between workers and their bosses that should garner regulatory attention.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 4, 2015
The fact that automated cars can never be perfectly safe raises ethical issues, such as how they should be programmed to act in the event of an unavoidable collision...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2015
Enthusiastic Tesla owners cheered last Wednesday when the company enabled the use of an automated driving system, called Autopilot, in its Model S all-electric...Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2015
I woke up on Saturday to a heartbreaking front-page article in the New York Times about a terminally ill young woman who chooses to freeze her brain.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 16, 2015
The ultimate nightmare for critics of the Iran nuclear deal being debated in Congress is that somehow, despite the agreement and all its built-in safeguards, Iran...Technology Review From ACM News | September 11, 2015
Programs that can confirm data and hold or use funds could help enable an insidious dimension of cryptocurrency's criminalization, according to newly released research...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2015
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists...Technology Review From ACM News | August 4, 2015
Imagine you slack off at work and read up online about the latest Gibson 1959 Les Paul electric guitar replica.Technology Review From ACM News | July 2, 2015
The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: "We are interested in robots that create and are creative." Technology Review From ACM News | June 17, 2015
Before you read this story, try to answer the following question: Who was the first person to text you today?Technology Review From ACM News | April 29, 2015
The White House and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials support arguments by the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence leaders that encryption technology...Technology Review From ACM News | April 23, 2015
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015