Anyone who has ever written in Chinese on a computer, or composed a text message on their phone in that language, knows the typing process is not nearly as simple...BBC News From ACM News | June 6, 2012
Olympic timekeepers Omega are unveiling the latest technology that will be used at the London 2012 Games. It can monitor athletes' performance to the nearest one...BBC News From ACM News | May 3, 2012
How might the blitzkrieg of the future arrive? By air strike? An invading army? In a terrorist's suitcase? In fact it could be coming down the line to a computer...BBC News From ACM News | April 30, 2012
Karen Sandler has a big heart. And that's not just because she is head of the Gnome Foundation—a non-profit community group dedicated to making and giving away...BBC News From ACM News | April 19, 2012
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
The Internet has gained a reputation as somewhere you can say and do anything with impunity, primarily because it is easy to disguise your identity.BBC News From ACM News | March 12, 2012
Robots everywhere, driverless cars, new eco-solutions, screens that "read" feelings, and smart museums and stadiums—just some of the "City of the Future" technologies...BBC News From ACM News | March 9, 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
Thousands of Internet sites are taking part in a "blackout" protest against anti-piracy laws being discussed by U.S. lawmakers.BBC News From ACM News | January 18, 2012