Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...The New York Times From ACM Careers | February 17, 2015
The characters in Gary Shteyngart's novel "Super Sad True Love Story" inhabit a continuously surveilled and scored society.The New York Times From ACM News | December 31, 2014
When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" gathered here in late August 1938 as weekend guests at Bletchley Park, a Buckinghamshire country house, they were accompanied...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 1, 2014
When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 1, 2014
Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs...The New York Times From ACM News | November 24, 2014
Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy.The New York Times From ACM News | October 28, 2014
The Internet might be a useful tool for activists and organizers, in episodes as momentous as the Arab Spring or as trivial as the Ice Bucket Challenge. But overall...The New York Times From ACM News | August 28, 2014
The Association for Computing Machinery, a leading professional association in computer science, is holding its annual conference this week, focusing on what we’re...The New York Times From ACM News | August 27, 2014
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and a host of start-ups, which...The New York Times From ACM News | August 13, 2014
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 4, 2014
The newly installed director of the National Security Agency says that while he has seen some terrorist groups alter their communications to avoid surveillance...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2014
One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2014
As he puts it in the subtitle of his memoir, "Neanderthal Man," Svante Paabo goes in search of lost genomes.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 26, 2014
In a sweeping victory for privacy rights in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Wednesdayunanimously ruled that the police need warrants to search the cellphones...The New York Times From ACM News | June 26, 2014
Two large American steel makers, U.S. Steel and Allegheny Technologies, each lost confidential files giving access to their computer networks.The New York Times From ACM News | May 20, 2014
Google will announce by the end of the month a mechanism for consumers to request that links to information about them be removed from the company’s search engine...The New York Times From ACM News | May 15, 2014
Remember the prediction that one day your oven would be connected to the Internet and have the ability to talk to your car?The New York Times From ACM News | May 15, 2014