The old trope about pornography is that you’ll know it when you see it. Facebook is betting that not only will it know it, but that the social network will be able...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | July 1, 2013
A very large Internet company once had the noble impulse to share some of its data with the research community.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | June 13, 2013
On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 9, 2013
The first official announcement that law enforcement agencies had concluded their manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn't come at a...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | April 29, 2013
Before the Internet, there was the ARPANet, a closed computer network that pretty much shut down on weekends and over holidays.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | April 5, 2013
When John Morrell left his post at Yale University last year and decamped to Apple, some members of the robotics community were perplexed.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2013
One of the oddest bits of news to emerge from the economic collapse of Cyprus is a corresponding rise in the value of Bitcoin, the Internet’s favorite, media-friendly...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 29, 2013
My hometown, Mountain View, Calif., has become the unofficial capital of the robotic car revolution.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2013
These days the future of journalism may look cloudy. But one thing about the future of the business is clear, according to ABC News. It will be full of drones.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 25, 2013
When I worked at a startup, we jokingly referred to our "HR department"—a cardboard box that held resumes, NDAs, tax forms, whatever.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 22, 2013
The budget cuts that took effect last week could wipe out as much as $54 billion in federal funding of science, research, and innovation over the next five years...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2013
Consider the tongue. It's sensitive yet muscular, packed with taste buds and nerves, and without its acrobatic ability humans wouldn’t be able to eat or talk. It's...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2013
Before Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg became the faces of female leadership in Silicon Valley, there was Carly Fiorina.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 1, 2013
Gadget fans walked away this week from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the annual geek fest for connected devices, grumbling about a glaring lack of breakthrough...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | February 27, 2013
When Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer does his bounding these days, it's often in front of an 82-inch interactive display mounted on the wall of...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | January 30, 2013
Reading the news that Atari’s U.S. subsidiary is filing for bankruptcy was a little like hearing that Bob Hope died—in that you were surprised to discover he had...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 22, 2013
There are plenty of Meg Whitman doubters out there. Some say the former EBay chief executive officer doesn't have the requisite big company experience to run a...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2013
The Internet is not so old. Its graybeards live still. Vint Cerf, author of the Internet Protocol, has been installed as Google's "chief Internet evangelist," a...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | January 14, 2013