It wasn’t just cost and Moore’s law. The graphical user interface—now known as the GUI ("gooey")—is what really made computing widespread, personal and ubiquitous...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 21, 2013
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.Wired From ACM Careers | March 18, 2013
Evernote became the latest member of the "we’ve been hacked" club. And the thing is, what was once a pretty exclusive club now lets just about everyone in these...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2013
I was shaking as I shouldered the rifle and peered through the scope at the small steel target 100 yards downrange.Wired From ACM Opinion | February 25, 2013
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2013
Facebook recently ran an experiment. Inside a test lab, somewhere behind the scenes at the world's most popular network, engineers sidled up to a computer server...Wired From ACM News | January 29, 2013
Just imagine if all the applications and services you saw or heard about at CES earlier this month had to be designed to be "wiretap ready" before they could be...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2013
Click-click-click: This is what you hear when having a conversation with Stephen Hawking. No voice, no other sounds, no facial expressions.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 11, 2013
Competition in automotive technology has long been about who's got the most horsepower, the best towing capacity or the fastest acceleration. These days, though...Wired From ACM Opinion | December 6, 2012
James Dyson leaps out of his chair like a restless child and picks up a big yellow-and-gray vacuum—one of several Dyson contraptions congregated around the podium...Wired From ACM Opinion | November 19, 2012
The FBI recently put out a mobile malware alert, providing us with a sobering reminder of this "evil software" for phones and tablets.Wired From ACM Opinion | October 25, 2012
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted.Wired From ACM Opinion | October 17, 2012
Hugo Campos has a cardiac defibrillator implanted in his body. It sends data about his heart to his doctors and back to the manufacturer, but it takes days to get...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 27, 2012
We already know that design matters. Product design. Industrial design. Experience design. Supply chain design. Witness the renewed fervor for the iPhone 5 today...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 24, 2012