Throughout this past year, U.K. Education Secretary Michael Gove was on a campaign to replace the British schools' ICT curriculum with a computer science program...BBC News From ACM TechNews | December 28, 2012
Online, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing.BBC News From ACM News | December 20, 2012
There's a curious quirk on every official North Korean Website: a piece of programming that must be included in each page's code.BBC News From ACM News | December 18, 2012
When superstorm Sandy was rampaging across the Caribbean and mid-Atlantic, heralded by gale force winds, torrential rain, and surging tides, people rushed to get...BBC News From ACM News | December 14, 2012
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 Raspberry Pi Foundation has named Aaron Hill and Ashley Newson the winners of its summer coding contest for teenagers. BBC News From ACM TechNews | 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, the Witch, has been restored after a three-year effort and was recently put on display at The National Museum...BBC News From ACM TechNews | November 21, 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
Cambridge University researchers will use crowdsourcing to rank the most peaceful and happy places in London. BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2012
Google recently added panoramas of coral reefs to its Street View services, enabling users to navigate their way around the sites.BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 28, 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
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
Based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner—the tale of a hunt for four dangerous "replicant" humans—is a classic...BBC News From ACM News | June 27, 2012