Everyone knows how easy it is to recognize a friend or family member from their walk—even from a distance.New Scientist From ACM News | September 20, 2012
It's not easy to give over 1.3 billion people access to the internet—especially if that population is spread across a vast area that ranges from hinterland to sprawling...New Scientist From ACM News | September 18, 2012
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is using facial-recognition technology to identify criminals and the system will be rolled out nationwide by 2014. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2012
Smarphone owners carry around more processing power in their pocket than a 1970s-era supercomputer, but most of the time it languishes unused.New Scientist From ACM News | September 4, 2012
New York University programmer Toby Schachman has developed Recursive Drawing, an experimental programming interface that enables coders to manipulate source code...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2012
Many great ideas start out as scribbles on scraps of paper, as thinking visually is an intuitive way to grapple with abstract concepts. Part of the reason is the...New Scientist From ACM Careers | August 29, 2012
It is more than a year since Watson, IBM's famous supercomputer, opened a new frontier for artificial intelligence by beating human champions of the quiz show Jeopardy...New Scientist From ACM News | August 23, 2012
Make a mistake with your average office printer and the worst that happens is a paper jam and some wasted ink. Do the same with a 3D printer, though, and your newly...New Scientist From ACM News | August 22, 2012
U.S. National Science Foundation researchers have developed a smart, animated, digital double that can interact with other people via a screen when the user is...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2012
Small, cheap smart-tag devices that are printed as digital circuits in rolls like newspapers could help kickstart the wireless payment industry. The devices, known...New Scientist From ACM News | August 14, 2012
Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) with uncanny navigation and real-time mapping capabilities could soon be zipping through indoor and outdoor spaces, running reconnaissance...New Scientist From ACM News | July 26, 2012
Cornell University's Andrew Gallagher has developed an algorithm that set a jigsaw puzzle-solving record by sorting through 10,000 pieces in 24 hours, surpassing...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 19, 2012
Friending someone on Facebook makes an association public, but many relationships are never professed online.New Scientist From ACM News | May 24, 2012
Space exploration may have a new direction. In the 1960s, humans did the exploring but since the last moon landing in 1972, NASA's only explorers beyond low Earth...New Scientist From ACM News | May 23, 2012
Hopes that a new breed of commercial drones can be easily integrated into civilian airspace have been dashed after it was revealed that the loss of the technology...New Scientist From ACM News | May 22, 2012
The controller for the next Xbox might be able to take biometric readings of your hand, according to a recent Microsoft patent.New Scientist From ACM News | May 14, 2012
In The Matrix, the famous "bullet time" effect showed how Keanu Reeves's character Neo was able to sway out of the path of incoming bullets, as time appeared to...New Scientist From ACM News | May 1, 2012
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Google have developed software that can identify groups of fraudulent online reviews that attempt to...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2012
University College London researchers Soo Ling Lim and Peter Bentley have developed a simulation of the Apple App Store to study how it works. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2012
Carnegie Mellon University researcher Fred Stutzman has developed productivity apps designed to maintain workers' focus on tasks and prevent them from being distracted...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 5, 2012