Before the tragedy seen all around the world, flames leaping from the top of Notre-Dame Cathedral, there was a smaller one, thousands of miles away in upstate New...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 16, 2019
In a video, a rodent reaches out and grabs a morsel of food, while small, colored dots highlight the positions of its knuckles.
The Atlantic From ACM News | July 6, 2018
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...The Atlantic From ACM News | November 8, 2017
There were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service.
The Atlantic From ACM News | September 26, 2017
In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
The Atlantic From ACM Careers | August 24, 2017
The former head of DARPA, Arati Prabhakar, has a dream. It's a civilian utopian neuroscience dream that's kind of the inverse of the scenarios that the far-out...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 5, 2017
The world we experience is not the real world. It's a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world...The Atlantic From ACM News | June 21, 2017
A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots' conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language.
The Atlantic From ACM News | June 15, 2017
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | May 23, 2017
The tendency for people to be repelled by increasingly humanoid and human-like robots may extend to chatbots and digital assistants as well.
The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2017
Remember when Luke's running the trench in the Death Star, and he's about to fire his fateful shot, and at the last minute he decides to turn off the targeting...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 13, 2017
Thomas Jefferson is known for a lot of things—writing the Declaration of Independence, founding the University of Virginia, owning hundreds of slaves despite believing...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 3, 2017
The telescope offers one of the most seductive suggestions a technological object can carry: the idea that humans might pick up a thing, peer into it, and finally...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 2, 2017
When mark zuckerberg posted a picture of himself on Facebook in June, a sharp-eyed observer spotted a piece of tape covering his laptop’s camera.The Atlantic From ACM News | October 11, 2016