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
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.Technology Review From ACM News | March 6, 2015
Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior, such as automatic braking or steering to avoid an...Technology Review From ACM News | January 8, 2015
Last month in Silicon Valley, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed up in black gowns to receive the $3 million Breakthrough Prize, a glitzy...Technology Review From ACM News | December 8, 2014
A new encrypted search system could enable law enforcement officials to collect data more openly without compromising investigations.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2014