As Apple Battled the FBI for the last two months over the agency's demands that Apple help crack its own encryption, both the tech community and law enforcement...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2016
On the eve of his company’s court date with the FBI, where it will defend its right to not weaken the security of its own devices, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 22, 2016
Are Apple and other tech companies somehow against America's national security if they create uncrackable encryption software that government investigators or even...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 29, 2016
The news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation—and...Wired From ACM News | February 19, 2016
The end of White House terms are often about trying to shape historic legacies, and President Obama is out to build his in the new area of cybersecurity.Wired From ACM Opinion | February 11, 2016
When digital dystopians and critics of Internet libertarians need a rhetorical dart board, they often pull out a document written by John Perry Barlow, co-founder...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 8, 2016
Yesterday, the 46-year-old Google veteran who oversees its search engine, Amit Singhal, announced his retirement. And in short order, Google revealed that Singhal's...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 4, 2016
American politics has long accepted the strange notion that just a pair of states—namely Iowa and New Hampshire—get an outsize vote in choosing America’s next president...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 1, 2016
Tom was discussing the film star Tang Wei with a chatbot named XiaoIce, and the bot was excited: "A goddess! She stole my heart … and then went off and married!"...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 26, 2016
For many of us, the concept of artificial intelligence conjures up visions of a machine-dominated world, where humans are servants to the devices they created.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2016
This year, lawmakers surprised us by taking initial steps—albeit, baby ones—to rein in some of the NSA's mass spying and provide better oversight of the intelligence...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 4, 2016
Elon Musk and Sam Altman worry that artificial intelligence will take over the world. So, the two entrepreneurs are creating a billion-dollar not-for-profit company...Wired From ACM Opinion | December 15, 2015
For the last 30 years, the MIT Lab has been a breeding ground for technological progress that’s pushed the world into the future.Wired From ACM Opinion | December 4, 2015
A ruling the Europe Union’s highest court yesterday may create enormous headaches for US tech companies like Google and Facebook.Wired From ACM Opinion | October 7, 2015
If you want to understand the potential of 3D Touch, the new of method of tapping and pressing on the screens of the latest iPhones, forget about the marketing...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 5, 2015
There's something about the Red Planet—so close yet so far, inhospitable yet perhaps not totally uninhabitable—that keeps us dreaming about getting there one day...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2015