The family of animal robots created by German robotics company Festo is growing. As part of its Bionic Learning Network, the company has introduced two new robots...CNET From ACM News | March 30, 2015
For the first time, quantum entanglement of a single particle has been observed by researchers—an event that Albert Einstein believed to be impossible under the...CNET From ACM News | March 30, 2015
Object recognition makes up one part of autonomous car technology, but then comes the question of what the car does in response to what it detects.CNET From ACM News | March 18, 2015
Startups as well as large tech firms now realize their products need to be both visually appealing and deliver great user experiences.CNet From ACM TechNews | March 16, 2015
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday finally spelled out how it will preserve the open Internet, publicly releasing a 400-page PDF that details its...CNET From ACM News | March 12, 2015
When it comes to the new Net neutrality rules adopted last week by the Federal Communications Commission, people think either that US regulators have liberated...CNET From ACM News | March 2, 2015
Spring is seen as a time of renewal. Flowers bloom. Days get longer. New life emerges. Something similar could happen on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the object...CNET From ACM News | February 2, 2015
Before you blast off to the moon in search of $30 million offered as part of the Google Lunar XPrize—or the juicy $20 million grand prize for being the first to...CNET From ACM Careers | January 23, 2015
Floor tiles that generate electricity when people walk on them. Streetlamps that transmit data to people passing beneath them.CNET From ACM News | January 20, 2015
It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.CNET From ACM News | December 29, 2014
Replacement limbs that completely replicate the functions and abilities of real limbs are the current white whale of prosthetics, and we're getting closer: mind...CNET From ACM News | December 18, 2014
When it comes to life, biologists have long hypothesised that its origins—on Earth, at least—were in thermal vents on the ocean floor, following a period of ...CNET From ACM News | December 2, 2014
Even famed hacker Kevin Mitnick—labeled a "computer terrorist" by the FBI in the '90s—worries about getting hacked.CNET From ACM Opinion | December 1, 2014
There's no Nobel prize for computer science, but after a grant from Google, the top award in the field now just as lucrative.CNET From ACM News | November 14, 2014
Sure, dealing with lane changes, firetrucks and construction projects is difficult for engineers building self-driving cars. But what about deciding which people...CNET From ACM News | November 5, 2014
Eau de Comet isn't, we now know, the most seductive scent floating around in our galaxy. The Rosetta probe's Rosetta Orbiter Sensor for Ion and Neutral Analysis...CNET From ACM News | October 27, 2014