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The European Union's VERE project aims to dissolve the boundary between the human body and a surrogate. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2016
Self-driving cars can learn the rules of the road by studying virtual traffic on videogames such as Grand Theft Auto V, according to a new study.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 1, 2016
This may have happened to you. You idly browse a pair of shoes online one morning, and for the rest of the week, those shoes follow you across the Internet, appearing...New Scientist From ACM News | October 31, 2016
Sometimes breaking up is the right thing to do. On Sunday at 17:20 GMT, the twin spacecraft of the first stage of the ExoMars mission split in two – one of the...New Scientist From ACM News | October 17, 2016
Humble bacterial spores are taking us closer to an age of DNA information storage, thanks to new ways of protecting archived data from corruption as well as from...New Scientist From ACM News | September 22, 2016
Some of the best lessons come from the school of hard knocks. But some kit is too delicate or expensive to be subjected to this.New Scientist From ACM News | August 12, 2016
Researchers are working to automate the detection of harassment, but one says humans do not agree on what constitutes harassment.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 8, 2016
One day your hard drive could just be a pile of plastic. Researchers have coded a word into short chains of plastic molecules, which could be used as a space-saving...New Scientist From ACM News | August 5, 2016
Researchers at the University of Lisbon have developed a machine learning system that can identify sarcasm on Twitter by examining a user's past tweets.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2016
There's nothing quite like the human brain. Today, researchers at IBM unveiled their latest attempt to mimic it: an artificial neuron that switches between crystal...New Scientist From ACM News | August 4, 2016
When you're buzzing through the air at 60 kilometres per hour, it can be hard to take in the view. But now drones can create highly detailed 3D maps as they fly...New Scientist From ACM News | July 27, 2016
Baidu, China's internet search giant, has shown just what you can learn when you have access to enough location data.New Scientist From ACM News | July 22, 2016
An augmented reality "IT help desk" could allow factories to identify and mitigate cyberattacks on industrial control systems. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 18, 2016
Stanford University researchers say they have developed an algorithm that outperforms Google's DeepMind in reading and understanding written content.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 21, 2016
Has your bank recently sent you a credit or debit card with a chip in it? If so, you may now be in possession of a little piece of tech that is quietly helping...New Scientist From ACM News | June 9, 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed software that can scan hand-drawn sketches and search for a photograph that looks like them. ...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 20, 2016