The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology, and climate change.BBC News From ACM News | November 27, 2012
The U.K. branch of an American company has developed a hi-tech software programme it believes can help detect and prevent potentially dangerous passengers and cargo...BBC News From ACM News | November 26, 2012
The world's oldest original working digital computer is going on display at The National Museum of Computing in Buckinghamshire.BBC News From ACM News | November 21, 2012
Mocup is a tiny, adorable remote-controlled robot built from a Lego Mindstorms set with an off-the-shelf Beagleboard computer for a brain and a webcam for an eye...BBC News From ACM News | November 16, 2012
"It once was a small step... now it's six big wheels," exclaimed Curiosity's Twitter account after the Nasa rover landed on Mars in early August. The message itself...BBC News From ACM News | November 8, 2012
Apple's iPhone and its rivals may have introduced touchscreens to the masses, but now a raft of technologies promise to change the way we interact with computers...BBC News From ACM News | October 24, 2012
Got truly and outstandingly lost recently? Enjoy the feeling while you can, for it's becoming an increasingly difficult task.BBC News From ACM News | October 12, 2012
Imagine how different the first pictures sent from the Mars Rover would have been if there had been a software failure.BBC News From ACM News | October 5, 2012
Details of an immersive video games display system that projects images of the title's environment around a player's room have been revealed in a U.S. patent belonging...BBC News From ACM News | September 13, 2012
Cybercriminals have opened a new front in their battle to infect computers with malware—PC production lines.BBC News From ACM News | September 13, 2012
When a pilot in a Eurofighter Typhoon jet glances down, he doesn't see a steel-grey floor. Instead he sees clouds, and maybe sheep and cows in green fields below...BBC News From ACM News | September 5, 2012
Wikipedia is written and maintained by tens of thousands of volunteers across the world. Those, in turn, are assisted by hundreds of "bots"—autonomous computer...BBC News From ACM News | July 26, 2012
An American scientist is to unveil details of work on the brain patterns of Prof Stephen Hawking he says could help safeguard the physicist's ability to communicate...BBC News From ACM News | July 9, 2012
Football's world governing body Fifa and other organisations are preparing to vote on something many fans of the game have been crying out for: goal-line technology...BBC News From ACM News | July 5, 2012
American researchers took control of a flying drone by hacking into its GPS system—acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.BBC News From ACM News | June 29, 2012
Many years ago, long before the birth of the Web, there was a time when France was the happening-est place in the digital universe.BBC News From ACM News | June 28, 2012