Sometime before dawn on March 29th, not too many hours after Congress approved legislation that allows Internet-service providers to sell your browsing historyInternet...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 5, 2017
Last month, Mark Clattenburg, who is generally regarded as one of the finest referees in professional soccer, left England's Premier League for a better-paying...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2017
In 1942, not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the poet Archibald MacLeish wrote an essay called "The Image of Victory," in which he asked what winning the...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | December 27, 2016
Earlier this month, on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver skewered media companies' desperate search for clicks.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | August 26, 2016
In June of 1975, the Office of the White House Press Secretary announced President Gerald R. Ford’s picks for the National Medal of Science. One went to the Austrian...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2016
Last week, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and other cutting-edge companies, took a surprising question at the Code Conference, a technology...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 13, 2016
The radio signal that is the lifeblood of the Global Positioning System originates from a constellation of twenty-four satellites, orbiting more than twelve thousand...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | May 9, 2016
It's welcome news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has dropped its legal effort to force Apple to help it create a method of accessing data on a lockedSan...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 6, 2016
"I'm a skeptic of 3-D, but when I saw the paintings I knew I had to use it," Werner Herzog told Judith Thurman in 2010, after the New York première of his documentary...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2016
This summer, American Psychologist, the official journal of the American Psychological Association, released a special issue on the topic of bullying and victimization...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2015
Last Thursday, John Legere, the C.E.O. of T-Mobile, joined the ranks of the dozens of chief executives who, in the past few years, have had to inform their customers...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 9, 2015
In 1970, Life magazine published an article about a Stanford University research project that had resulted in the construction of what it called the first-ever...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 2, 2015
In 1957, a few years after Francis Crick co-discovered the DNA double helix and a few years before he co-won a Nobel Prize for doing so, he published a paper on...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | August 25, 2015
Soon after the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto, at 7:49 A.M. on Tuesday—seventy-two seconds ahead of schedule, after a nine-and-a-half...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | July 15, 2015
Now that Congress has passed, and President Obama has signed, the U.S.A. Freedom Act, which places some limits on the domestic-surveillance powers of the National...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 4, 2015
Five years ago, on the afternoon of May 6, 2010, the Dow and the S. & P. fell more than six per cent in a matter of minutes, losing a trillion dollars in value.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | May 14, 2015