Playing with a geometric puzzle or stress ball at your desk can seem like idle diversion. It may also spark clearer or more creative thinking.

It's an interesting time to be a computer security researcher.

Thursday, during a rancorous meeting of the Federal Communications Commission, the agencyvoted 3-2 to impose public utility regulations on Internet access providers, resurrecting a 1934 law known as Title II.

My coffee maker is texting me again. It's scheduled to make coffee tomorrow, the message says, but I need to refill its water tank.

Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality, preserving an open Internet by prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing content that flows across their pipes.

Robots are becoming more of a reality in everyday life, and movies have started to overhaul their depiction of them. They're gentler, friendlier, and often better-looking.

Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us.

What would you do with an extra 40 minutes in a day?

Frank Schembari loves books—printed books.

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is having a moment, albeit one marked by crucial ambiguities.

How can we bring our knowledge to bear on a problem?

Here we go again.

Comparing the legacy of Alan Turing in computer science with that of Carl Friedrich Gauss in mathematics.

Sharing experiences running artifact evaluation committees for five major conferences.

Considering the role of institutional review boards in computing research.

In our elation about rising CS enrollments, we are overlooking a growing shortage of computing technicians. Our education system is not responding to this need.

Introducing children to fundamental computing concepts through Computer Science Unplugged.

A recent case challenges the long-standing view that application program interfaces are not protectable under copyright law.

In Akira Kurosawa's film "Rashomon," a samurai has been murdered, but it's not clear why or by whom.

Citizenfour is filmmaker Laura Poitras' account of the first meetings between herself, Glenn Greenwald, and Edward Snowden.

Freeman Dyson, 91, the famed physicist, author and oracle of human destiny, is holding forth after tea-time one February afternoon in the common room of the Institute for Advanced Study.

I have come to think of Tinder as a sort algorithm for the mind.

Good news! A major hack you don't have to worry about! Unless, that is, you happen to be an executive or security employee at one of the hundreds of banks targeted by the group that's come to be known as Carbanak or Anunak.

The first car I ever drove was a bashed Land Rover Defender.

What you are about to read was written by a human. Honest.

Our computers have become too easy to use.

Is another human being necessary for satisfying sex?

Technology giants often meet their end not with a bang but a whimper, a slow, imperceptible descent into irrelevancy that may not immediately be reflected in the anodyne language of corporate earnings reports.

Gordon Moore's famous calculation of the gains in power and economy that would drive chip production continues to have profound implications for every enterprise, no matter what the sector. But most of us have difficulty grasping the full impact of what Moore has laid out.