What if the scourge of false news on the internet is not the result of Russian operatives or partisan zealots or computer-controlled bots? What if the main problem...The New York Times From ACM News | March 9, 2018
One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia released hundreds of posts taking...The New York Times From ACM News | February 21, 2018
Over the past two months, Google has started letting people around the world choose what data they want to share with its various products, including Gmail and...The New York Times From ACM News | January 29, 2018
What vehicle is most strongly associated with Republican voting districts? Extended-cab pickup trucks. For Democratic districts? Sedans.
The New York Times From ACM News | January 3, 2018
Every month, about four million more Indians get online. They include people like Manju, a 35-year-old seamstress in this city of ancient palaces, who got her first...The New York Times From ACM News | December 6, 2017
During President Trump's visit to Beijing, he appeared on screen for a special address at a tech conference.
The New York Times From ACM News | December 4, 2017
Hours after the Las Vegas massacre, Travis McKinney's Facebook feed was hit with a scattershot of conspiracy theories.
The New York Times From ACM News | October 23, 2017
It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around...The New York Times From ACM News | October 11, 2017
At one node of the industrial backbone that keeps the internet running, employees sheltered from the worst of Hurricane Irma in a stairwell of a seven-story building...The New York Times From ACM News | September 20, 2017
We expect a lot from our computers these days. They should talk to us, recognize everything from faces to flowers, and maybe soon do the driving.
The New York Times From ACM News | September 19, 2017
Cars have become rolling listening posts. They can track phone calls and texts, log queries to websites, record what radio stations you listen to—even tell you...The New York Times From ACM News | July 31, 2017
The computers in modern data centers—the engine rooms of the digital economy—are powered mainly by Intel chips.
The New York Times From ACM Careers | July 14, 2017
In April, a photograph of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong'o taken at a Miu Miu fashion show three years ago began recirculating online.
The New York Times Magazine From ACM News | June 6, 2017
President Trump on Monday signed a congressional resolution to complete the overturning of internet privacy protections created by the Federal Communications Commission...The New York Times From ACM News | April 4, 2017
Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on.
The New York Times From ACM News | January 9, 2017
Google is locked in a six-year battle with Europe's antitrust officials. And the stakes for both sides are getting higher.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 31, 2016
Google is hoping to develop its Assistant, a Siri-like technology to be included on the company's new smartphones and other products, into something like the computer...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 4, 2016
Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location?The New York Times From ACM News | September 2, 2016
On a recent Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore, Shvilla Rasheem arrived in Indianapolis, but her luggage did not.The New York Times From ACM News | August 22, 2016
Project Foghorn is one of those straight-from-science-fiction concepts we've come to expect from Alphabet, the sprawling conglomerate formerly known as Google.The New York Times From ACM News | July 25, 2016