At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the ...

Ordinarily, programming an industrial knitting machine to knit a certain type of item is quite a complex process. As a result, they're generally not used to create one-offs. That could change, though, ...

When the National Library of Australia (NLA) began digitising old newspapers and magazines and adding them to its database Trove, one search term was surprisingly popular. "We started to notice that ...