For people who play the video game Counter Strike online, it's hard enough watching your back at the best of times. In the fast-paced first-person shooter, there...BBC News From ACM News | January 26, 2017
The Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia, is one of the most elegant scientific instruments ever built.
BBC News From ACM News | December 8, 2016
Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai issued the recall soon after its cameras were identified as aiding the massive web attacks.BBC News From ACM News | October 25, 2016
It's midday on Mars. The scarlet skies are clear and it's a balmy zero degrees—the perfect conditions for a day out.BBC News From ACM News | October 19, 2016
Bionic arms, robotic legs, powered exoskeletons, brain-controlled computer interfaces and supercharged wheelchairs - all took centre stage to compete at this weekend's...BBC News From ACM News | October 11, 2016
Not only are light bulbs getting sharper and more energy efficient as they are upgraded to LEDs, but they increasingly help fight crime, promote safe cycling and...BBC News From ACM News | October 7, 2016
I know there isn't one dot of light, but I frantically scan the pitch-black area surrounding me out of habit nonetheless.BBC News From ACM News | August 19, 2016
The US has confirmed it is finally ready to cede power of the internet's naming system, ending the almost 20-year process to hand over a crucial part of the internet's...BBC News From ACM News | August 18, 2016
Best known for its part in bringing the internet into being, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has more recently brought engineers together to tackle...BBC News From ACM News | August 2, 2016
Australia is to shift its longitude and latitude to address a gap between local co-ordinates and those from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).BBC News From ACM News | July 29, 2016
"I have seen my death!" Anna Bertha Röntgen is said to have exclaimed upon seeing the first X-ray photograph ever made–an image of the bones in her hand. It was...BBC News From ACM News | July 19, 2016
Fans of crime writer Raymond Chandler's wise-cracking prose would no doubt be pleased that there's a real-life private detective agency run by two men called Raymond...BBC News From ACM News | April 8, 2016
A new supercomputer simulation of the circulation of blood throughout the entire human body correlates very closely with real-world flow measurements.BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2016
Nearly 40 years ago, radio astronomer Jerry Ehman was scanning a part of the sky hoping to detect a signal from an alien civilisation.BBC News From ACM News | February 23, 2016
HoloLens creator Alex Kipman has shown off Microsoft's augmented reality technology at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.BBC News From ACM News | February 19, 2016