Helmet-mounted cameras mean live video can be sent direct from the front line back to headquarters. This technology enabled military and intelligence chiefs to...BBC News From ACM News | May 4, 2011
The walking patterns of crabs, lobsters and spiders are helping to inspire new ways of getting robots to move around.BBC News From ACM News | March 29, 2011
One of the most complex efforts toward a quantum computer has been shown off at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas in the U.S. It uses the strange...BBC News From ACM News | March 22, 2011
An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth—from global weather patterns and the spread...BBC News From ACM News | December 30, 2010
IBM researchers led by Bruno Michel have developed a water-cooling method for creating supercomputer processors that could shrink them to the size of a sugar cube...BBC News From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2010
With a global economy and flights that can take you all over the world in hours, why is it that we still struggle with a language barrier that technology is finding...BBC News From ACM News | November 10, 2010
A man with an inherited form of blindness has been able to identify letters and a clock face using a pioneering implant, researchers say.BBC News From ACM News | November 3, 2010
It is a remarkable acrobatic display. Two German radar satellites are now flying in tight formation as they prepare to make the most detailed ever 3D map of the...BBC News From ACM News | October 19, 2010
Inside your smartphone, a battle is raging. As tiny chips with big ambitions fight for processing power, is there anything the phones of the future will not be...BBC News From ACM News | September 23, 2010
Silicon chips that are allowed to make mistakes could help ensure computers continue to get more powerful, say US researchers.BBC News From ACM News | May 26, 2010
A working transistor that contains only seven atoms has been built by a team in Australia. The researchers, led by University of New South Wales professor Michelle...BBC News From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2010
With the Glonass satellite-navigation constellation nearly complete, Russia's plan to wean itself off the US Global Positioning System (GPS) appears to be coming...BBC News From ACM News | April 6, 2010
China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world. Its Tianhe-1 computer, housed at the National Super Computer...BBC News From ACM News | November 19, 2009
A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers.
The construction...BBC News From ACM News | November 11, 2009
China has announced plans to hold a robot Olympics in 2010, in which humanoid robots will compete in 16 different events ranging from athletics to machine-related...BBC News From ACM TechNews | November 10, 2009
More than 70 demonstrations of interactive technologies that use sensors for a wide range of applications were showcased at the Human Computer Interaction conference's...BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2009
A silicon chip about the size of a penny that uses photons to run Shor's algorithm has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of Bristol in the...BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor John Rogers has led the development of a new technique for manufacturing tiny inorganic light-emitting diodes...BBC News From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2009