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Rapid increases in chip speed and power have fueled innovation in many industries, but the future trajectory of that progress…
MIT News| June 29, 2022
The average person would have to spend 76 working days reading all of the digital privacy policies they agree to in the span of a year. Reading Amazon's terms and...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 7, 2019
Personal technology was so awful this year that nobody would think you were paranoid if you dug a hole and buried your computer, phone and smart speaker under six...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2018
In the fall of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson's administration announced a plan to consolidate hundreds of federal databases into one centralized National Data...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 5, 2018
Social media has played a key role in the recent rise of violent right-wing extremism in the United States, including three recent incidents—one in which a man...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 26, 2018
During the summer before the 2016 presidential election, John Seymour and Philip Tully, two researchers with ZeroFOX, a security company in Baltimore, unveiled...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 20, 2018
In his testimony before Congress this year, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, addressed concerns about the strategically disseminated misinformation...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 22, 2018
More than 40 years ago, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft with a vision for putting a personal computer on every desk.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 11, 2018
Smartphones were once the best thing to happen to the tech industry—and for a while, it seemed, to all of us, too.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 12, 2018
You have probably noticed a flood of emails and alerts from companies in the past few weeks informing you about changes to their privacy policies.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 23, 2018
"We have a responsibility to protect your information," Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, declared recently in a full-page newspaper advertisement...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2018
The spread of misinformation on social media is an alarming phenomenon that scientists have yet to fully understand.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 9, 2018
Something strange, scary and sublime is happening to cameras, and it's going to complicate everything you knew about pictures. Cameras are getting brains.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 7, 2018
The indictment of 13 Russians filed on Friday by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election,...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2018
I'll make this short: The thing you're doing now, reading prose on a screen, is going out of fashion.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 9, 2018
Imagine it is the spring of 2019. A bottom-feeding website, perhaps tied to Russia, "surfaces" video of a sex scene starring an 18-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand.
...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2018
Apple is selling out. It's not about the latest version of the iPhone, but the huge cache of personal data that will be going directly to the largest, and one of...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 24, 2018
Imagine this: When you leave the house, your air conditioner and lights turn off automatically. Then when a motion sensor detects a person in the house, like your...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 5, 2018