The British government will spend 97 million British pounds on a new supercomputer to improve the Met Office's weather forecasting and climate modeling. BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 29, 2014
The facility will work 13 times faster than the current system, enabling detailed, UK-wide forecast models with a resolution of 1.5km to be run every single hour...BBC News From ACM News | October 29, 2014
A "deadly serious" bug potentially affecting hundreds of millions of computers, servers and devices has been discovered.BBC News From ACM News | September 29, 2014
Robo Brain is designed to acquire a vast range of skills and knowledge from publicly available information sources such as YouTube.BBC News From ACM News | August 26, 2014
Scientists used a methodology modeled on the behaviors of injured animals to help a six-legged robot relearn how to walk once one or more of its legs were damaged...BBC News From ACM TechNews | August 4, 2014
Engineers have taken a step towards having machines that can operate when damaged by developing a robot that can teach itself to walk, even with a broken leg.BBC News From ACM News | July 31, 2014
Every time you use the flash on your smartphone or camera, you should give silent praise to Harold Eugene Edgerton.BBC News From ACM News | July 23, 2014
The UK unveiled its robotics strategy last Tuesday, revealing a plan drawn up by the Technology Strategy Board that aims to spur the country on towards capturing...BBC News From ACM Careers | July 7, 2014
Duke University undergraduate Brittany Wenger recently spoke about her research into using artificial intelligence to teach computers to diagnose cancer. BBC News From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2014
With 2,000 drummers, 15,000 other performers and vast quantities of fireworks, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was a dazzling spectacle.BBC News From ACM News | May 6, 2014
Prof Stuart Parkin developed a type of data-reading head capable of detecting weaker and smaller signals than had previously been possible.BBC News From ACM News | April 10, 2014
The Philae lander, which Europe hopes to put on the surface of a comet later this year, has been re-activated after three years in deep-space hibernation.BBC News From ACM News | March 28, 2014