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
At least one U.S. bank has started supplying its customers with credit and debit cards that contain a physically unclonable function. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2016
Has your bank recently sent you a credit or debit card with a chip in it? If so, you may now be in possession of a little piece of tech that is quietly helping...New Scientist From ACM News | June 9, 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed software that can scan hand-drawn sketches and search for a photograph that looks like them. ...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 20, 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
Rice University's Krishna Palem wants to address the trade-off between computing performance and energy efficiency.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 1, 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
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
Israel Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new technique for taking snapshots of neural networks as they work through a problem. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 22, 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