Last Thursday, Rudy Giuliani, a Trump campaign lawyer, alleged a widespread voting conspiracy involving Venezuela, Cuba, and China. Another lawyer,…
Note: This isn’t my usual essay topic. Still, I want to put it on my blog. Six months into the…
Twitter was hacked this week. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. Someone compromised the entire Twitter…
For decades, we have prized efficiency in our economy. We strive for it. We reward it. In normal times, that's…
The world is racing to contain the new COVID-19 virus that is spreading around the globe with alarming speed. Right…
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned…
Presidential campaign season is officially, officially, upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways…
Technologists and policymakers largely inhabit two separate worlds. It's an old problem, one that the British scientist CP Snow identified…
The United States government's continuing disagreement with the Chinese company Huawei underscores a much larger problem with computer technologies in…
The trade war with China has reached a new industry: subway cars. Congress is considering legislation that would prevent the…