When you're buzzing through the air at 60 kilometres per hour, it can be hard to take in the view. But now drones can create highly detailed 3D maps as they fly...New Scientist From ACM News | July 27, 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
One hundred and fifty years of mathematics will be proved wrong if a new computer program stops running. Thankfully, it's unlikely to happen, but the code behind...New Scientist From ACM News | May 11, 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
You will know me by the buzz in my head. Biometric systems, which identify people by their physiological features, can use everything from ear shape to walking...New Scientist From ACM News | April 22, 2016
The fate of an entire world is at stake. Astronomers are enlisting every telescope and space probe they can think of in the hunt for the solar system's potential...New Scientist From ACM News | February 25, 2016
On 11 February, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave observatory, or LIGO, announced it had spotted gravitational waves, the stretching and squeezing of...New Scientist From ACM News | February 18, 2016
Google DeepMind just entered the 90s. Fresh off their success in playing the ancient game of Go, DeepMind’s latest artificial intelligence can navigate a 3D maze...New Scientist From ACM News | February 8, 2016
This delicate, glowing flower could one day save your life. It’s the latest example of "4D printing"–3D printed objects that change their shape over time—and it...New Scientist From ACM News | January 28, 2016
Scientists from around the world will meet in Toulouse, France, in November for the world's first car race conducted at the nanoscopic level. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 19, 2016
Farewell, Philae. The space lander that touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (and in our hearts) in November 2014 has not responded to a last-ditch attempt...New Scientist From ACM News | January 12, 2016
Swedish researchers built a working electronic circuit from an ordinary garden rose by filling its veins with conductive polymer. This is the first step toward...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 25, 2015
Silicon's limited electrical conductivity holds back computer processing speeds and the efficiency of solar panels. Ordinary silicon enhanced with certain abilities...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 24, 2015
Blind people have long relied on sound as a substitution for sight, and some even use echolocation to navigate around objects. But it turns out that sound can be...New Scientist From ACM News | October 30, 2015
Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you.New Scientist From ACM News | October 13, 2015
Last Saturday I took part in a battle of wits at Bletchley Park, the stately home that housed the U.K.’s codebreakers during the second world war.New Scientist From ACM News | September 22, 2015
An autonomous helicopter gunship is flying over a military base in Arizona. Suddenly, officers on the ground lose radio contact: hackers have taken control of an...New Scientist From ACM News | September 18, 2015