Virtual reality is much more than a gaming technology. In fact, VR has the makings of a pedagogical silver bullet.
Wired From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2019
It takes a lot of effort, research, and efficiency to manipulate people online and influence their behavior in the real world. Silicon Valley has it down to a science...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2019
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 8, 2019
You may have heard that China has cornered much of the world's supply of strategic metals and minerals crucial for new technology, including lithium, rare earths...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2019
The US leads the world in artificial intelligence technology. Decades of federal research funding, industrial and academic research, and streams of foreign talent...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 12, 2019
In his 2008 white paper that first proposed bitcoin, the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto concluded with: "We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 7, 2019
You probably know about the digital anonymity service Tor, but for whatever reason you may not actually use it.
Wired From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2019
In a chilly warehouse just outside of Boston, the brute toils away. It's 600 pounds of orange and black metal and whirring motors, a massive robotic arm that picks...Wired From ACM Opinion | December 27, 2018
As you travel this holiday season, bouncing from airport to airplane to hotel, you'll likely find yourself facing a familiar quandary: Do I really trust this ...Wired From ACM Opinion | November 19, 2018
In my book Data and Goliath, I write about the value of privacy. I talk about how it is essential for political liberty and justice, and for commercial fairness...Wired From ACM Opinion | November 16, 2018
In September 2017, barely two months before Virginians went to the polls to pick a new governor, the state's board of elections convened an emergency session. The...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2018
At the WIRED25 festival in San Francisco Sunday evening, Boston Dynamics' SpotMini robot got onstage and did what no other quadruped robot has done before: It danced...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2018
I recently came across two tweets—or rather, thousands of tweets sharing the same two ideas over and over again.
Wired From ACM Opinion | September 18, 2018
If, like most people, you thought Google stopped tracking your location once you turned off Location History in your account settings, you were wrong.
Wired From ACM Opinion | August 14, 2018
As a Japanese, I grew up watching anime like "Neon Genesis Evangelion," which depicts a future in which machines and humans merge into cyborg ecstasy.
Wired From ACM Opinion | July 31, 2018
It's been 22 years since Tom Cruise infiltrated a CIA vault suspended from a wire in the first Mission: Impossible flick.
Wired From ACM Opinion | July 26, 2018
Five years ago, 25-year-old radical libertarian Cody Wilson stood on a remote central Texas gun range and pulled the trigger on the world's first fully 3-D-printed...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 11, 2018
Sixty-two years ago this summer, Dartmouth professor John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence. Joi Ito, director of MIT's Media Lab, has come to think...Wired From ACM Opinion | June 22, 2018
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, last week, 125 mostly white, mostly male, business-card-bearing attendees crowded into a brightly lit ballroom to consider "mobility."
Wired From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2018