It is now 30 years since I launched the campaign for freedom in computing, that is, for software to be free or "libre" (we use that word to emphasize that we're...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 1, 2013
Far from being the measure of disgrace it once was, failure now seems to be a sort of badge of honor. Somewhere along the way, it got to be uncool to reduce one's...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 11, 2013
When Apple bought AuthenTec for its biometrics technology—reported as one of its most expensive purchases—there was a lot of speculation about how the company would...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 9, 2013
The technological values promoted by Apple are part of the Faustian bargain of technology, which both giveth and taketh away.Wired From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2013
NASA's Space Apps Challenge recently became the world's largest open hackathon, with over 8,000 participants spanning 44 countries.Wired From ACM Opinion | July 23, 2013
We now know that every day, U.S. phone companies quietly send the government a list of who called whom and when—"telephony metadata"—for every call made on their...Wired From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2013
Physically, the NSA has always been well protected by miles of high fences and electrified wire, thousands of cameras, and gun-toting guards.Wired From ACM Opinion | June 14, 2013
Rand Paul is having some problems with the jerks back at the office. So today he's bypassing them on a road trip through Silicon Valley.Wired From ACM Opinion | June 4, 2013
When we talk about design nowadays, the focus has been on the lures (or dangers) of flat design and skeumorphism; whether there should be (or really are any) ...Wired From ACM Opinion | June 3, 2013
Last November, the Museum of Modern Art said that it had acquired 14 videogames, adding working copies and the source code of games like Tetris and The Sims to...Wired From ACM Opinion | May 30, 2013
When Mailbox sold itself to Dropbox for a reported $100 million or so this March, the month-old iPhone app wasn’t even available to the public.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 24, 2013
We now live in a world where public servants informing the public about government behavior or wrongdoing must practice the tradecraft of drug dealers and spies...Wired From ACM Opinion | May 15, 2013
For the past few years, Sundar Pichai has been part of a tag-team routine staged at Google's annual I/O developer conference.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 14, 2013