Consumer-products companies are turning to new technology to overcome the biggest obstacle to learning what shoppers really think: what the shoppers say.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 13, 2012
LaserMotive has demonstrated a power system that can keep Lockheed Martin's Stalker unmanned aerial vehicle going for more than 48 hours with laser light—but that's...MSNBC From ACM News | July 13, 2012
It's a hot summer day, and your eyes spot an ice cream cart up ahead. Without even really thinking, you start walking that direction. Planetary scientists would...Astrobiology Magazine From ACM Opinion | July 12, 2012
Holloman Air Force Base, at the eastern edge of New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range, 200 miles south of Albuquerque, was once famous for the daredevil maneuvers...The New York Times From ACM News | July 12, 2012
University of Arizona researchers say they have developed the most biologically accurate robotic legs by replicating the central pattern generator, a neuronal network...BBC News From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2012
The video is called "Seven Minutes of Terror," and describes, with the suspense and cinematography of a movie preview, what will happen next month when a one-ton...The New York Times From ACM News | July 11, 2012
The U.S. military is accelerating its cyberwarfare training programs in an aggressive expansion of its preparations for conflict on an emerging battlefield.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 10, 2012
Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based here in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley.The New York Times From ACM News | July 10, 2012
A computer scientist has published a paper detailing how systems can successfully win at boardgames after watching two minute-long videos of humans playing.Wired From ACM News | July 10, 2012
On the evening of June 19, a group of researchers from the University of Texas successfully hijacked a civilian drone at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico...Wired From ACM News | July 10, 2012
I want to tell you about a special place on the surface of Mars. Back in the solar system's early days, a large object slammed into the red planet, leaving behind...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 10, 2012
Computer scientists from Microsoft Research and researchers from Cornell University and the University of California-Irvine are trying to determine if it is possible...V3.co.uk From ACM TechNews | July 9, 2012
Researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imagery to scan the brain of a student as he imagined moving different parts of his body. The researchers hope...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 9, 2012
Robotics experts predict that within 10 years general-purpose robots will perform household chores while consumers are at work. USA Today From ACM TechNews | July 6, 2012
It's a bird. It's a plane. Actually, it's a drone. And now those unmanned aircraft, best known for being used by the U.S. to kill terrorism suspects overseas, have...NPR From ACM News | July 3, 2012
American researchers took control of a flying drone by hacking into its GPS system—acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.BBC News From ACM News | June 29, 2012
The short figure creeping around the Carnegie Mellon University campus store in a hooded sweatshirt recently isn't some shoplifter, but a robot taking inventory...Technology Review From ACM News | June 29, 2012
Google is attempting to teach computers to recognize human faces without telling the computing algorithms which faces are human.GigaOm 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