Seems like everything gets hacked these days. Baby monitors. White House employees' personal email. Toilets.The Atlantic From ACM News | August 19, 2013
A Northeastern University professor has created a global, navigable map of geo-tagged Twitter data. The Atlantic Cities From ACM TechNews | August 6, 2013
Researchers recently released a study on whether a community's sense of happiness could be determined from communications on Twitter. The study demonstrates that...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | July 26, 2013
Scientists are beginning to study how memes are created, which ones fail, and how certain memes go viral. The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2013
Our stuff often says a lot about us, whether we own a hybrid car or a station wagon, a MacBook Pro or an ancient desktop.The Atlantic From ACM News | June 20, 2013
For all the talk of artificial intelligence and all the games of SimCity that have been played, no one in the world can actually simulate living things. Biology...The Atlantic From ACM News | May 22, 2013
Forty-five years after Intel was founded by Silicon Valley legends Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce, it is the world's leading semiconductor company.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
As investigators try to figure out what happened during the bombings at the Boston Marathon, they'll turn to video taken at the scene of the explosions.The Atlantic From ACM News | April 17, 2013
The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2012
Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view.The Atlantic From ACM News | September 12, 2012
For a center of cutting-edge scientific research, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab seems to be a pretty wacky place. Luke Johnson, a graphic designer at the lab, set...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2012
Making a vast, open, distributed network of books, records, and images available to anyone with an Internet link is the goal of the Digital Public Library of America...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | August 1, 2012
I want to tell you about a special place on the surface of Mars. Back in the solar system's early days, a large object slammed into the red planet, leaving behind...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 10, 2012
Last week, in the corners of the Internet devoted to outer space, things started to get a little, well, hot. Voyager 1, the man-made object farthest away from Earth...The Atlantic From ACM News | June 14, 2012
In the last week or so, cyberwarfare has made front-page news: the United States may have been behind the Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran; Iran may have suffered another...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 6, 2012
People who are older than 75 have seen the world do some crazy things. They were born during or before Hitler's rise to power, lived through the deprivation and...The Atlantic From ACM News | May 18, 2012
More than 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic, but more than 700 survived. Those who did owed their escape to the newest communications technology of...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 16, 2012
Information technology is changing the way nations wage war, with philosophical and ethical perspectives struggling to keep pace with those changes. The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2012
The first thing I noticed when I stepped into Recellular's Ann Arbor warehouse was the flags. From the rafters, the flags of the world oversee the processing of...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 9, 2012