When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls.
The New York Times From ACM News | August 28, 2017
Law enforcement officials, technology companies and lawmakers have long tried to limit what they call the "radicalization" of young people over the internet.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 23, 2017
In the early spring of 1977, Larry Zottarelli, a 40-year-old computer engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set out for Cape Canaveral, Fla....The New York Times Magazine From ACM Careers | August 21, 2017
At OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab founded by Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, machines are teaching themselves to behave like humans. But sometimes,...The New York Times From ACM News | August 15, 2017
In the mid-1990s, Douglas Eck worked as a database programmer in Albuquerque while moonlighting as a musician.
The New York Times From ACM News | August 14, 2017
Now that science is a big step closer to being able to fiddle with the genes of a human embryo, is it time to panic?
The New York Times From ACM News | August 7, 2017
Cars have become rolling listening posts. They can track phone calls and texts, log queries to websites, record what radio stations you listen to—even tell you...The New York Times From ACM News | July 31, 2017
In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here...The New York Times From ACM Careers | July 24, 2017
The computers in modern data centers—the engine rooms of the digital economy—are powered mainly by Intel chips.
The New York Times From ACM Careers | July 14, 2017
A video clip of a galloping horse, one of the first motion pictures ever made, is now also the first movie ever to be encoded in the DNA of a living cell, where...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | July 14, 2017
The attack had the hallmarks of something researchers had dreaded for years: malicious software using artificial intelligence that could lead to a new digital arms...The New York Times From ACM News | July 11, 2017
In a bygone analog era, lawmakers and corporate chiefs traveled great distances to swap secrets, to the smoke-filled back rooms of the World Economic Forum in Davos...The New York Times From ACM News | July 7, 2017
The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of this week, a threat officially taken seriously by central bankers.
The New York Times From ACM News | July 6, 2017
Spoiler alert: If you wish to continue enjoying gargantuan home runs in the future with unspoiled pleasure, free of all polynomial equations, read no further. If...The New York Times From ACM News | June 29, 2017
At a White House gathering of tech titans last week, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, delivered a blunt message to President Trump on how public schools...The New York Times From ACM Careers | June 27, 2017
America's fast-growing ranks of secret cyberwarriors have in recent years blown up nuclear centrifuges in Iran and turned to computer code and electronic warfare ...The New York Times From ACM News | June 13, 2017
In April, a photograph of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong'o taken at a Miu Miu fashion show three years ago began recirculating online.
The New York Times Magazine From ACM News | June 6, 2017
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...The New York Times From ACM News | June 5, 2017