It's definitely not a bird. Nor is it a plane. The garish orange piece of plastic, small enough to hold in the palm of a hand, could pass for a missing limb of...BBC News From ACM News | June 19, 2013
U.S. spy chief James Clapper has strongly defended government surveillance programmes after revelations of phone records being collected and internet servers being...BBC News From ACM News | June 7, 2013
Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognize human gestures based on how they affect Wi-Fi signals.BBC News From ACM News | June 5, 2013
The idea is to use airborne infra-red cameras to collect evidence, which could then be used to prosecute vandals who deface property at night.BBC News From ACM News | May 28, 2013
Imagine a computer that can teach your mobile phone to recognize any object it sees, or one that can instantly find optimal travel routes for thousands of planes...BBC News From ACM News | May 17, 2013
Why do most smartphones make a clicking noise, like a camera shutter closing, when you take a picture with them? Why do the virtual pages of a book on a tablet...BBC News From ACM Opinion | May 9, 2013
Imagine cruising down a three-lane highway and rounding a bend to find four trucks rolling along in single-file. They are all traveling close together—perhaps too...BBC News From ACM News | April 11, 2013
Wander through the historic streets of the Roman city of Bath in the U.K., and you might sense that they are smarter than average. And you would be right.BBC News From ACM News | March 21, 2013
Confronted with that tiny device, some have seen a way to play old arcade games, as a media server or to monitor their sleeping children. There are some that have...BBC News From ACM News | March 20, 2013
It’s been 30 years since the first message was sent over initial nodes of the Arpanet, the Pentagon-sponsored precursor to the internet. But this month, researchers...BBC News From ACM News | March 14, 2013
Microsoft researchers are developing a whiteboard that can interpret users' sketches to complete the diagrams they are drawing. BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 13, 2013
With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV screen, new technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards something even closer to real life...BBC News From ACM News | March 11, 2013
For a man that made his career out of helping millions of people find their way around, Lars Rasmussen is frank about his own navigational shortcomings.BBC News From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2013