When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton, but...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 23, 2015
For decades after its discovery in 1930, Pluto looked like nothing more than a gray smudge in the abyss of space.The Atlantic From ACM News | July 15, 2015
One of the first electronic, programmable computers in the world is remembered today mostly by its nickname: Colossus.The Atlantic From ACM News | July 2, 2015
One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 18, 2015
Google says in six years its self-driving cars have been involved in only 12 minor accidents, all of which were the fault of humans. The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | June 10, 2015
In 1962, during a period of technological and political transition in the undersea-cable industry, the Keawaula cable station was built on Oahu’s west shore for...The Atlantic From ACM News | May 27, 2015
People have long thought of astronomy as the science of looking to the stars, but discoveries in the cosmos increasingly come from a different kind of observational...The Atlantic From ACM News | May 21, 2015
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries—the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 20, 2015
The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes, worrying about powerful aftershocks toppling the few buildings left standing.The Atlantic From ACM News | May 6, 2015
In March, the neuroscientist David Eagleman stood on stage to give a TED talk on sensory substitution, the idea of replacing the duties of one sense by using another...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 14, 2015
Imagine if every time you learned something new, you completely forgot how to do a thing you'd already learned.The Atlantic From ACM News | April 8, 2015
If the government puts a GPS tracker on you, your car, or any of your personal effects, it counts as a search—and is therefore protected by the Fourth Amendment...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 31, 2015
Even though the sky looks about the same every night to those of us here on Earth, cataclysmic things happen in outer space constantly.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 12, 2015
Human attention isn't stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that...The Atlantic From ACM News | February 9, 2015