Soft Machine is one of a select number of musical entities to have adopted names from William S. Burroughs’ writings; others include Steely Dan and DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. To do so in some way ...

The Raspberry Pi has become one of the best-selling British computers of all time. With more than five million of the credit-card sized computers out the door, the £35 board has moved closer to ...

The BBC wants to leverage machine learning to improve its online services and the programmes it commissions every year. Today, the broadcaster announced a five-year research partnership with eight ...

If a band exemplified the term mercurial, it was Soft Machine. Starting as a kind of post-Dadaist pop band in the late '60s only to end a little more than a decade later as a guitar-driven fusion ...

The BBC has announced that it’s piloting “virtual voiceover” technology, which will be used to automatically translate TV reports into Japanese. In early 2016, the broadcaster’s Russian service will ...

Once again Technologies that Time Forgot takes you back to an age where children's programme Grange Hill was the best soap opera on television and New Romantics were ushering in an era of electro-pop, ...

IT TOOK decades for Jimmy Savile to become a beloved national institution, but only a few weeks for his ghost to trash another one. On October 3rd a documentary screened on ITV, a commercial ...

Today, BBC’s R&D team announced a five-year initiative to use machine learning to work out what audiences want to watch. To accomplish this, the team is partnering up with data scientists and experts ...

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond yesterday launched a broadside against the "BBC machine" for his party's exclusion from the televised prime ministerial debates. The Scottish National Party has ...