Having an extramarital affair in 2012 is not an easy task if you’re the chief of the world’s most renowned spy agency.Slate From ACM Opinion | November 16, 2012
Companies like Apple and Samsung are the public face of the smartphone and tablet boom, but they all rely on ARM, the British company that licenses the energy-efficient...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 9, 2012
Digital eye glasses like Google’s Project Glass, and my earlier Digital Eye Glass, will transform society because they introduce a two-sided surveillance and sousveillance...Time From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2012
When Barack Obama was sworn in four years ago for his first term, there was genuine optimism that he would make meaningful improvements to the security of the nation's...Threatpost From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2012
Not long after I began writing about cybersecurity, I became a paranoid caricature of my former self.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2012
In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who powered Barack Obama's campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West...Time From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2012
Congratulations, Barack Obama: You have prevailed in the nerdiest election in the history of the American Republic.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2012
Salman Khan, the amateur teacher who rocketed to fame on the Internet, tells how he'll take his free video tutorials to the next level.MIT Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2012
For decades scientists have backed the idea of sending robots to collect Martian rocks and return them to Earth, a project that should be possible well before humans...NBC News From ACM Opinion | November 5, 2012
There's a joke running around about social media: Facebook is how you want people to see you, Twitter is how you see yourself; Tumblr is—"Hey look! Funny cat picture...BBC News From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2012
If you were asked to name the most important innovation in transportation over the last 200 years, you might say the combustion engine, air travel, Henry Ford’s...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 3, 2012
This week, Apple fired Scott Forstall, its longtime chief of mobile software. In the wake of the shake-up—which reportedly had to do with Forstall's refusal to for...Slate From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2012
"It’s really a little computer." You remember the first time you said it, a few years ago, when you grasped just how much a smartphone can do.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2012
Many people cite Albert Einstein's aphorism "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." Only a handful, however, have had the opportunity...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 1, 2012
If there was any doubt left that Tumblr is trying to become more of a mainstream media entity, albeit with its own odd twist, it was removed recently when the service...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2012
We've been looking at how technology has totally changed what it means to watch television or a movie. One of the biggest changes has been in demand—people want...NPR From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2012
It wasn't very easy to get my hands on a Zune. After Microsoft's long-pitied music player wonSlate's Reader Takeover poll—in which I'd promised to reassess an overlooked...Slate From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2012
The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2012