The same type of artificial intelligence that mastered the ancient game of Go could help wrestle with the amazing complexity of quantum systems containing billions...New Scientist From ACM News | February 13, 2017
A wearable device under development at the University of Michigan provides continuous authentication for voice assistants such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2017
Purdue University researchers have developed a system that uses a haptic device to let people interpret visual information using their hands.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 7, 2017
Rochester Institute of Technology have found that although brainwave readings can accurately authenticate someone's identity about 94% of the time, there could...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 20, 2017
Researchers at University College London in the U.K. discovered a Twitter botnet that could be comprised of more than 350,000 accounts.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2017
Stanford University researchers have developed a new transistor that can be stretched to twice its length without losing conductivity, making it well-suited for...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 9, 2017
Artificial intelligence systems can form flawed and stereotypical word associations by learning from biased data samples.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2016
An artificial intelligence system can predict how a scene will unfold and dream up a vision of the immediate future.
New Scientist From ACM News | December 5, 2016
Machine-learning artificial intelligences become more capable with experience, but the trade-off is a lack of understanding about the nature of their intelligence...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 2, 2016
Researchers at Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford are using deep-learning techniques to create a lip-reading system that can perform better than professional...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2016
Researchers have created a spoon with electrodes that can amplify salty, sour, or bitter flavors, and used thermal stimulation to mimic the sensation of sweetness...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 11, 2016
You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.New Scientist From ACM News | November 7, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed eyeglasses with patterned frames that can obscure the identity of the wearer to facial-recognition algorithms...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2016
Self-driving cars can learn the rules of the road by studying virtual traffic on videogames such as Grand Theft Auto V, according to a new study.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 1, 2016
This may have happened to you. You idly browse a pair of shoes online one morning, and for the rest of the week, those shoes follow you across the Internet, appearing...New Scientist From ACM News | October 31, 2016
Sometimes breaking up is the right thing to do. On Sunday at 17:20 GMT, the twin spacecraft of the first stage of the ExoMars mission split in two – one of the...New Scientist From ACM News | October 17, 2016
The first legal framework for autonomous vehicles was outlined in a recently proposed bill in Germany governing how such cars perform in potentially deadly crashes...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 26, 2016