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Police in the UK want to predict serious violent crime using artificial intelligence, New Scientist can reveal. The idea is that individuals flagged by the system...New Scientist From ACM News | November 28, 2018
Humble bacterial spores are taking us closer to an age of DNA information storage, thanks to new ways of protecting archived data from corruption as well as from...New Scientist From ACM News | September 22, 2016
Baidu, China's internet search giant, has shown just what you can learn when you have access to enough location data.New Scientist From ACM News | July 22, 2016
It's a memory so small you'll forget where you left it. A new data storage system uses single atoms as computer bits, and could hold the contents of the US Library...New Scientist From ACM News | April 25, 2016
After terrorists attacked Paris last November, nearby Brussels, home of many of the attackers, posted heavily armed soldiers in public places.New Scientist From ACM News | March 28, 2016
Feeling cold? Your home already knows, and turns up the heat. Sick of the TV show you are watching? Your home changes the channel.New Scientist From ACM News | September 17, 2015
Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court's blockbuster decision on marriage equality, a short YouTube video made the rounds online.New Scientist From ACM News | July 27, 2015
Thanks to the latest advances in computer vision, we now have machines that can pick you out of a line-up. But what if your face is hidden from view?New Scientist From ACM News | June 23, 2015
"If you are walking down the street, a public street, should a company be able to identify you without your permission?"New Scientist From ACM News | June 22, 2015
In 1950, Nobel prizewinning physicist Enrico Fermi posed his famous paradox: if extraterrestrial intelligence exists, why haven't we found it?New Scientist From ACM News | December 29, 2014
A man who died in 315 BC in southern Africa is the closest relative yet known to humanity’s common female ancestor—mitochondrial Eve.New Scientist From ACM News | October 9, 2014
An eye-tracking camera calculates where the wearer is looking, and transmits it to all the nearby Internet-connected devices, such as stereos and TVs, via Wi-Fi...New Scientist From ACM News | September 23, 2014
As the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) claimed control of Iraq's biggest oil refinery and akey border crossing between Iraq and Jordan—it lost a key...New Scientist From ACM News | June 26, 2014