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Rapid increases in chip speed and power have fueled innovation in many industries, but the future trajectory of that progress…
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Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division, abruptly left the company on November 12, shortly after introducing the latest version of the company's...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 26, 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
Last week Apple fired Scott Forstall, the architect of its iOS platform, and handed his duties over to the company's chief industrial designer, Jonathan Ive. Ive...Technology Review 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
Christopher Soghoian sniffs out security holes and privacy shortcomings on the Web. Then he urges companies that are responsible—Google, AT&T, and Dropbox have...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 23, 2012
In August 2006, less than two years after its launch, the social content aggregation site Digg was an Internet darling. That month, founder Kevin Rose grinned from...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2012
In Automate This, a book due out next month, author and entrepreneur Christopher Steiner tells the story of stockbroker Thomas Peterffy, the creator of the first...Technology Review From ACM Careers | July 9, 2012
At first glance, Thad Starner does not look out of place at Google. A pioneering researcher in the field of wearable computing, Starner is a big, charming man with...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2012
If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world...Technology Review From ACM News | June 14, 2012
Until recently, the idea of holding a conversation with a computer seemed pure science fiction. If you asked a computer to "open the pod bay doors"—well, that was...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2012
To justify its sky-high valuation, Facebook will have to increase its profit per user at rates that seem unlikely, even by the most generous predictions.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 4, 2012
Speaking before a packed lecture theater at MIT earlier this week, Neal Stephenson worried that the gloomy outlook prevalent in modern science fiction may be undermining...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 19, 2012
When the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under 2 spend exactly zero time in front of screens, what its members are concerned about is substitution—all...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 29, 2012
2011 saw the personal computer continue to be marginalized. Although PCs are still the workhorse computing device in homes and offices, the most exciting innovations...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 29, 2011
We've been living in the age of social media for a long time, but 2011 was the year that all the information we share online began to accrete into something greater...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 28, 2011
A little more than a year ago, Microsoft veteran Stephen Elop agreed to become CEO of Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile handsets. Elop's job at the Finnish...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 19, 2011
Amid widespread concern over an obscure piece of smart-phone diagnostic software that some experts say could be used to collect and transmit sensitive information...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2011