The U.S. government has long complained about Chinese hacking and cyberattacks, but new documents show that the National Security Agency managed to penetrate the...NPR From ACM Opinion | April 3, 2014
The Constitution gives Congress the power to grant inventors a temporary monopoly over their creations to "promote the progress of science and useful arts."The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2014
For the past few weeks the world's attention has been focussed on the lost Malaysia Airlines plane and its 239 passengers and crew that has apparently crashed in...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2014
Tuesday's announcement that Facebook is buying the virtual-reality start-up Oculus for $2 billion no doubt left many people scratching their heads.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | March 26, 2014
Caltech Professor of Physics Jamie Bock and his collaborators announced on March 17, 2014 that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the...Caltech News From ACM Opinion | March 20, 2014
This year's winner of the Turing Award—often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing—was announced yesterday as Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist whose research...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 19, 2014
When Jeremy Drake was beginning his career in the late 1980s, the question of whether or not we are alone in the universe still seemed beyond the realm of scienc...Smithsonian magazine From ACM Opinion | March 17, 2014
Big data has evolved a lot of the past few years; from a happy buzzword to a hated buzzword, and from a focus on volume to a focus on variety and velocity.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2014
Let's start with one thing you hear over and over again when interviewing people about privacy: "I've got nothing to hide."Popular Mechanics From ACM Opinion | March 10, 2014
Back when we first started getting reports of the Chinese breaking into U.S. computer networks for espionage purposes, we described it in some very strong language...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 7, 2014
On Friday, what had been the world's leading Bitcoin exchange declared bankrutpcy, claiming that hackers had exploited a technical issue called "transaction malleability...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | March 3, 2014
For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated, competitive free market.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2014
U.S. cybersecurity officials have been much more skeptical about international cooperation than their Cold War counterparts were.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2014
The scale and grandeur of the Winter Olympics in Sochi is estimated to have cost Russia an astronomical $46 billion.ArsTechnica From ACM Opinion | February 20, 2014