To create machines that can always tell when someone is lying, we need to know much more about what goes on in our brains.BBC News From ACM News | April 10, 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
The Cassini spacecraft is to make its lowest pass yet over the south pole of Enceladus, an active moon of Saturn which may harbour a liquid water ocean.BBC News From ACM News | March 27, 2012
A pair of rare Enigma machines used in the Spanish Civil War have been given to the head of GCHQ, Britain's communications intelligence agency.BBC News From ACM News | March 23, 2012
Twitter has admitted copying entire address books from smartphones and storing the data on its servers, often without customers' knowledge.BBC News From ACM News | February 16, 2012
After logging in to the bank's real site, account holders are being tricked by the offer of training in a new "upgraded security system."BBC News From ACM News | February 8, 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
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
A novel high-speed, high-security computing technology will be compatible with the "cloud computing" approach popular on the Web, a study suggests.BBC News From ACM News | January 20, 2012
Self-repairing electronic chips are one step closer, according to a team of U.S. researchers, creating a circuit that heals itself when cracked thanks to the...BBC News From ACM News | December 27, 2011
Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflops, equal to one trillion calculations per second.BBC News From ACM News | November 18, 2011
Future microchips may have only one type of component, capable of rewiring itself to do different jobs. Researchers from Northwestern University in the U.S. have...BBC News From ACM News | October 26, 2011
Graphene is a "wonder material" waiting to happen. Since this super-conductive form of carbon, made from single-atom-thick sheets, was first produced in 2004,...BBC News From ACM News | June 30, 2011
The material graphene was touted as "the next big thing" even before its pioneers were handed the Nobel Prize last year. Many believe it could spell the end for...BBC News From ACM News | May 24, 2011
A circuit component touted as the "missing link" of electronics is starting to give up the secrets of how it works.BBC News From ACM News | May 17, 2011
IBM researchers led by Bruno Michel have developed a water-cooling method for creating supercomputer processors that could shrink them to the size of a sugar cube...BBC News From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2010
Inside your smartphone, a battle is raging. As tiny chips with big ambitions fight for processing power, is there anything the phones of the future will not be...BBC News From ACM News | September 23, 2010
Silicon chips that are allowed to make mistakes could help ensure computers continue to get more powerful, say US researchers.BBC News From ACM News | May 26, 2010
A working transistor that contains only seven atoms has been built by a team in Australia. The researchers, led by University of New South Wales professor Michelle...BBC News From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2010