Two Students Have Smashed a Quantum Computing World Record
Swedish Engineers have successfully simulated a 45-qubit quantum circuit, breaking the record for the greatest number of qubits to be...
Engineers create the Largest ever Virtual Universe
Researchers from the University of Zurich have simulated the formation of our entire Universe on a supercomputer. This section of...
Inaugural TOCHI best paper award goes to University of Leeds Engineers
The University of Leeds is celebrating after two of its researchers (Professor Roy Ruddle and Rhys Thomas from the School...
Engineering Talks – Colossus & the Breaking of Lorenz
By the end of World War Two 10 Colossus machines were working around the clock to find the start wheels...
Explore – Women in Computing: a British Perspective
The National Museum of Computing and Google have worked together to chart the history of women's involvement in computer science....
Facebook working on Brain-to-Computer interfaces
Facebook’s developers’ conference is underway this week. One of the most intriguing pieces of tech news to come out of...
The University of Bath is offering a fully funded PhD to investigate “Video Dressing Virtual Actors”
The CAMERA (Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications) project, part of the University of Bath, is...
Dexta Robotics showcases exoskeleton glove
Dexta Robotics generated a lot of buzz among fans of VR in 2014 with the launch of its Kickstarter campaign....
Could MIT’s “Interactive Dynamic Video” technique revolutionize Structural Health Monitoring?
Abe Davis has produced a video breakdown of his on-going PhD dissertation at MIT. In it, algorithms are used to...
‘Mayhem’ reigns in Cyber Grand Challenge
This year's Las Vegas Def Con Conference has seen a program called Mayhem provisionally win the "Cyber Grand Challenge". The...
IBM achieves memory storage breakthrough
Scientists at technology giant IBM have achieved a breakthrough in memory storage. The team were able, for the first time,...
Washington University team turns smartphones into active sonar receivers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpVUCEZvNjI Software developed by Washington University allows users to turn any surface into an input area for their smartphones, by...
Google AI beats world Go champion
Google’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program has defeated the world champion of Go, a complex Chinese board game. The program, developed...
Amputee able to feel textures again thanks to bionic fingertip
A team at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have developed a bionic finger which has been surgically...
Cambridge graduates start-up sold to Microsoft for £174m
Swiftkey, a predictive keyboard software designed for smartphones, has been bought by Microsoft for £174m. Set up in 2008 by...
Computer breaks world-record for prime number
The world’s largest prime, a number that can only be divided by 1 and itself, has been uncovered by a...
Leading the race to build a supercomputer
The race is on to build the world’s first practical quantum supercomputer, capable of processing data far faster than it...
Simulation of insect brain can help scientists better understand human brain
Scientists from Columbia University in the US and Sheffield University in the UK are collaborating to simulate the first complete...