Every year, just before South by Southwest Interactive starts, the froth starts churning. Everybody begins wondering what this year’s breakout hit app will be.Wired From ACM Opinion | March 11, 2014
Twenty-five years on from the web's inception, its creator has urged the public to re-engage with its original design: a decentralised internet that at its very...Wired.co.uk From ACM Opinion | February 7, 2014
Every day, millions of singles crawl dating sites and apps, flipping through photos and profiles of potential matches.Wired From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2014
How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites?Wired From ACM Opinion | February 3, 2014
We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself—as with the Internet of Things...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 7, 2014
Whenever an app, a website, or a physical product like a gaming console is exported, it ships with a side of cultural influence.Wired From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2013
At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington's network.Wired From ACM Opinion | December 11, 2013
Maybe it's your mom and/or dad. Maybe it's a sibling or a grandparent. Or maybe it's just that one friend who still uses a Motorola Razr from the early 2000s.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 27, 2013
For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 25, 2013
The internet backbone—the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels—went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active...Wired From ACM Opinion | November 14, 2013
Since I started working with Snowden’s documents, I have been using a number of tools to try to stay secure from the NSA.Wired From ACM Opinion | October 9, 2013
It is now 30 years since I launched the campaign for freedom in computing, that is, for software to be free or "libre" (we use that word to emphasize that we're...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 1, 2013