Paying for the morning commute will soon be accomplished by the wave of a smartphone. State and local governments are joining Internet, credit card, and wireless...Businessweek From ACM News | July 22, 2011
What's the point of a smartphone? If you answered "To make calls," then congratulations: You're in the minority. A new survey from social communications company...Time From ACM News | July 22, 2011
Tom Sherlock demonstrated his wearable computer. Steven Neff, hemmed in by a scrum of recruiters from Google, Rackspace and Pulse News, showed off his art-filled...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | July 21, 2011
Picture the scene, a few years from now. "Robot, fetch me that pillow over there," you say to your ever-willing butlerbot. "Certainly sir," it replies. "What's...New Scientist From ACM News | July 21, 2011
What better way to combine your nerdy loves of computer programming and Star Wars than with a robot that can actually battle with a light saber?Wired From ACM News | July 21, 2011
Princeton University researchers and Lockheed Martin are developing fiber-optic-based computational devices that work 1 billion times faster than human neurons. ...Princeton niversity From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2011
Visible light communication continues to attract academic and commercial interest because light-based technology is practical, economical, and would provide an...New York Times From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2011
Autonomous machines, networks, and robots should publish their own suggestions for upgrading the technology on the Internet, says the University of Southampton's...AlphaGalileo From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2011
When we think of being connected to the Internet, our minds immediately shift to our computers, phones, and most recently tablets. This week at Cisco live, I...Cisco Systems From ACM Opinion | July 20, 2011
Digital sky surveys and real-time telescopic observations are unleashing an unprecedented flood of information. Astronomers have recently created new tools to...Discover Magazine From ACM News | July 20, 2011
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up image after beginning its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. On Friday, July 15, Dawn became the first...NASA From ACM News | July 20, 2011
We've all found ourselves in the uncanny valley before. It's that uneasy feeling you get when viewing a realistic humanoid or CGI person that’s so close to looking...Wired From ACM News | July 20, 2011
The twin challenges of parallelism and energy consumption are enlivening supercomputers' progress.Tom Geller From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a method for controlling the shapes of submicroprocessors that makes it possible to build entire...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2011
Henry Evans recently shaved himself for the first time since a stroke left him mute and partly paralyzed 10 years ago. His achievement came thanks to researchers...Technology Review From ACM News | July 19, 2011
When the Taliban dug an elaborate tunnel system beneath the largest prison in southern Afghanistan this spring, they set off a scramble to catch the 475 inmates...The New York Times From ACM News | July 18, 2011
Carolina State University researchers have developed a memory device that it is soft, pliable, and works well in wet environments. The researchers used a liquid...NCSU NewsNorth From ACM TechNews | July 18, 2011
Microsoft has added Kinect's software development kit (SDK) to its free Robotics Developer Studio. Access to raw data as well as Kinect's pattern-recognition algorithms...EE Times From ACM TechNews | July 18, 2011
Tang. Velcro. Teflon. Each is popularly known as a product of the space age, and yet none of them represent actual NASA tech spinoffs. The real truth behind the...MSNBC From ACM News | July 18, 2011