Communications of the ACM
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Sorry, It's Not 1984
After leaker Edward Snowden revealed the existence of massive domestic-surveillance programs operated by the NSA, the airwaves were clotted with pundits and politicians...
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Who Needs Humans?
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.
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Don't Track Me, Bro
Here is how Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, describes the current state of affairs on the Internet: "Say I’m walking through a mall...
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Google's Marissa Mayer
Who says you have to be a guy to be a geek? This Google senior executive is teaching a new generation that femininity and technology are a winning formula.
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The Man Behind Tumblr
The head of the microblogging site talks about the future of social networking and whether being a 24-year-old CEO makes it harder to command respect.
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The Man Behind Tumblr
The head of the microblogging site talks about the future of social networking and whether being a 24-year-old CEO makes it harder to command respect.
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Friends Without Benefits
The Valley used to be a place run by scientists and engineers, people like Robert Noyce, the Ph.D. physicist who helped invent the integrated circuit and cofounded...
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Is Wikileaks Too Full of Itself?
Have the activists behind WikiLeaks—and in particular the Web site's founder, Julian Assange—become intoxicated by their own myth? Two recent events involving...
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Cyberwar Is Hell
While we obsessed over Russian spies, top diplomats were working to stop a greater espionage problem: the threat of cyberwarfare.
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Glob-Ish
Powered by the Internet and the global media, English has evolved into the world’s language.
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Immigration and Ids: A Modest Proposal
All Americans--whether brown, white, or black--should be required to carry a passport showing they are red, white, and blue.
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Toyota
Whenever an airplane crashes, investigators focus on the black-box data, which may explain why the plane went down. Though most drivers don't realize it, two-thirds...
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A Conversation With Google
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has long defended his company's decision to do business in China despite the restrictions that Beijing imposes on Internet freedom. Nevertheless...
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Apple
Everybody's talking about the new tablet computer Apple is expected to unveil this month. Some say it will save newspapers by giving them a new platform where they...12