The director of Google's self-driving car project says he wants self-driving cars to be standard on roads within five years. BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 20, 2015
All kinds of gadgets, from toasters to sprinklers, fridges to domestic heating systems, are now boasting sensors, actuators and low-powered embedded chips.BBC News From ACM News | February 20, 2015
Former ACM president Vint Cerf worries a forthcoming "digital Dark Age" will leave behind mountains of data people will no longer be able to access. BBC News From ACM TechNews | February 13, 2015
It's a video which is bound to go viral. Spot sets off down an office corridor, and then out into the open air.BBC News From ACM News | February 12, 2015
It’s been just over 45 years since the Apollo Moon landings, and some would have it that we are failing to build big anymore; that we've since become too fascinated...BBC News From ACM News | February 11, 2015
An original part of one of the United Kingdom's pioneering computers has been donated to a project that is working to rebuild the machine. BBC News From ACM TechNews | February 5, 2015
French coder Olivier Poudade has created BootChess, which is only 487 bytes in size, and the code can run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux computers. BBC News From ACM TechNews | January 30, 2015
Microsoft Research chief Eric Horvitz thinks Artificial Intelligence systems eventually could achieve consciousness, but he doubts they could become a threat to...BBC News From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2015
Microsoft Research's chief has said he thinks artificial intelligence systems could achieve consciousness, but has played down the threat to human life.BBC News From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2015
The US and UK are soon to take part in cyber war games, testing each other out for when the inevitable real cyberwar kicks off.BBC News From ACM News | January 20, 2015
Whenever the terrorist threat is increased, as it has been since the tragic events in Paris last week, so too are the calls from politicians to increase the powers...BBC News From ACM News | January 13, 2015
The Mars rover Opportunity is having memory problems that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration will try to fix remotely. BBC News From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2015
The landing of the Philae Lander—on a comet travelling at 135,000km/h (84,000mph)—has been hailed as the start of a new chapter in space exploration.BBC News From ACM Opinion | December 23, 2014