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
Photos taken of snowfall and posted online could help fill holes in satellite weather data caused by cloud cover, says Indiana University Ph.D. student Haipeng...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | 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
Free versions of Android apps use up to 75 percent of their energy serving ads or tracking and uploading user data, says Purdue University's Abhinav Pathak. Free...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 21, 2012
University of Maryland, College Park computer scientist William Gasarch has re-run his poll on the biggest problem in computer science.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 16, 2012
The alarm rings. You glance at the clock. The time is 6.30 am. You haven't even got out of bed, and already at least six mathematical equations have influenced...New Scientist From ACM News | February 22, 2012
John Nash's mind is even more exquisite than we thought. The Nobel laureate, famous for both his work in game theory and his schizophrenia—as portrayed in the book...New Scientist From ACM News | February 22, 2012
Astonishing conductivity helped the discoverers of graphene win the Nobel prize in physicsin 2010. Now a way to switch off the easy flow of electrons in this wonder...New Scientist From ACM News | February 7, 2012
Phase-change materials (PCMs) could thwart the limits of digital memory and enable a massive increase in storage density. PCM's biggest advantage is that it can...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2012
Every microsecond counts in stock trading. The New York Stock Exchange handles a third of the world's stock trading—around 22 billion messages a day. But NYSE Euronext...New Scientist From ACM News | October 17, 2011
Every microsecond counts in stock trading. The New York Stock Exchange handles a third of the world's stock trading—around 22 billion messages a day. But NYSE...New Scientist From ACM News | October 6, 2011
Kevin Wright and colleagues at NIST chilled 100,000 sodium atoms then used lasers to shape the blob of atoms into a torus and give it enough energy to circulate...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 12, 2011
A study to find the quickest way to evolve walking behaviors in virtual robots was conducted by University of Vermont researcher Josh Bongard. He ran simulations...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 12, 2011
Transistors can be built more precisely by using ice as a mask, according to researchers at Harvard University. The ice lithography process resembles how computer...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2010
Isaac Asimov would probably have been horrified at the experiments under way in a robotics lab in Slovenia. There, a powerful robot has been hitting people over...New Scientist From ACM News | October 14, 2010
European roboticists have developed software that enables a modular robot to adapt when one part stops working. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 8, 2010