Human attention isn't stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that...The Atlantic From ACM News | February 9, 2015
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a...The Atlantic From ACM News | December 17, 2014
In a retired shore station for transpacific communications cables on the western coast of Vancouver Island sits a military computer in a padlocked cage.The Atlantic From ACM News | August 21, 2014
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | June 4, 2014
Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 29, 2014
The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car.The Atlantic From ACM News | April 28, 2014
Last Thursday, the underground classroom at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York was filled to capacity for a college professor's PowerPoint-aided lecture...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 21, 2014
Beijing's surveillance network, one of the most extensive and invasive in the world, has been compromised by an unexpected foe: smog.The Atlantic From ACM News | November 6, 2013
Say you're at a gas station. Say you're buying some supplies—bottled water, coffee, maybe some M&Ms—before you head back to your car.The Atlantic From ACM News | November 4, 2013
In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was "liked" over 4 million times.The Atlantic From ACM News | September 25, 2013
Stealing 10 million dollars a few hundred dollars at a time used to be too labor-intensive to be a great business.The Atlantic From ACM News | August 26, 2013