Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...BBC News From ACM News | September 4, 2013
Games have long been accused of making players violent, but evidence has been building over the years that they can have positive effects.BBC News From ACM News | August 27, 2013
Earlier this summer in a packed and freezing-cold auditorium in Doha, the all-female team of students from Qatar University burst into cheers and tears as theyINJAZ...BBC News From ACM News | August 7, 2013
Imagine a camera that allows you to see through a crowd to get a clear view of someone who would otherwise be obscured, a smartphone that matches big-budget lenses...BBC News From ACM News | July 12, 2013
Imagine a computer that can teach your mobile phone to recognize any object it sees, or one that can instantly find optimal travel routes for thousands of planes...BBC News From ACM News | May 17, 2013
It’s been 30 years since the first message was sent over initial nodes of the Arpanet, the Pentagon-sponsored precursor to the internet. But this month, researchers...BBC News From ACM News | March 14, 2013
For years, Henry Markram has claimed that he can simulate the human brain in a computer within a decade. On 23 January 2013, the European Commission told him to...BBC News From ACM News | February 8, 2013
Latest figures show a sharp rise in patents filed to claim rights over different aspects of graphene since 2007, with a further spike last year.BBC News From ACM News | January 16, 2013
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology, and climate change.BBC News From ACM News | November 27, 2012
Based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner—the tale of a hunt for four dangerous "replicant" humans—is a classic...BBC News From ACM News | June 27, 2012
German scientists are developing a technique that allows for very precise positioning anywhere in space by picking up X-ray signals from pulsars.BBC News From ACM News | April 2, 2012
Robots everywhere, driverless cars, new eco-solutions, screens that "read" feelings, and smart museums and stadiums—just some of the "City of the Future" technologies...BBC News From ACM News | March 9, 2012
Astronomers have created the world's largest virtual optical telescope linking four telescopes in Chile, so that they operate as a single device.BBC News From ACM News | February 3, 2012
A self-guiding bullet that can steer itself towards its target is being developed for use by the U.S. military.BBC News From ACM News | February 2, 2012
The year is 2015, and in a government-owned data centre somewhere in southern England thousands of servers are humming away, hard at work keeping the country running...BBC News From ACM News | January 25, 2012