In defending the NSA's telephony metadata collection efforts, government officials have repeatedly resorted to one seemingly significant detail: This is just metadata—numbers...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
This is going to sound silly, but I think Snapchat was the most important technology of 2013.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
As the new Federal Communications Commission chairman, Tom Wheeler, has kicked up some dust in the tech community by laying the groundwork for a grand vision for...Slate From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
At a racetrack in Florida this weekend, 16 robots competed to complete a series of tasks inspired by challenges faced in cleaning up the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
Right now, the average person's data footprint—the annual amount of data produced worldwide, per capita—is just a little short of one terabyte.Newsweek From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
In a sharp and unexpected shift, the national debate over U.S. government surveillance seems to be turning in favor of reining in the National Security Agency's...The Associated Press From ACM Opinion | December 23, 2013
A proposal to address the problem of too many conference submissions and not enough time for reviewers to carefully evaluate each one.Doug Terry From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2014
A couple of weeks ago, shortly after the Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos unveiled, on "60 Minutes," that his company plans to deliver packages to customers with a swarm...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | December 23, 2013
New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler faces a number of important decisions about the future of the wireless industry.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | December 23, 2013
If you're the kind of person who keeps track of Internet policy and governance debates, you should know that the Internet Society has a new CEO.AllThingsD From ACM Opinion | December 23, 2013
It's a good bet that, in the next few weeks, President Obama will impose some serious reforms—and ask Congress to enact a few more—on how the National Security...Slate From ACM Opinion | December 20, 2013
Theodor Holm Nelson, who coined the term hypertext, has been a thorn in the side of the computing establishment for more than a half century.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2013
Federal Judge Richard Leon has become a sudden political celebrity after his remarkable opinion holding that antiterror surveillance is unconstitutional and, even...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2013
On a mission to convince the world that Bitcoin is enduring and serious, enthusiasts convened at a place that symbolizes the ephemeral and the glitzy: Las Vegas...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | December 16, 2013
Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...Nature From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2013