https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/computer-sciences-news/ en-us The latest news on computer science, computer science technology, computer science technologies and technology science. Korean researchers have developed a core technology that allows multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) to reliably retain existing knowledge while repeatedly learning new information. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-method-multimodal-ai-knowledge-earlier.html Computer Sciences Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:40:07 EDT news704036817 Quantum computing and AI are among the most rapidly developing modern technologies. AI, in the form of machine learning, has been deployed for decades to recommend movies and TV shows and make it easier to search for images. Over the past several years, large language models have permeated even more facets of daily life, from writing emails to producing images, videos and songs in response to requests expressed in a few written lines. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-quantum-randomness-neural-network-troublesome.html Computer Sciences Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:20:07 EDT news704029997 Researchers at the Universities of Konstanz and Stuttgart have demonstrated a new approach to computation: a computer made from a few hundred microscopic particles oscillating in a liquid. Instead of processing information through carefully fabricated electronic circuits, their system performs computations by harnessing the complex collective dynamics of interacting particles. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-liquid-hundreds-oscillating-particles-complex.html Computer Sciences Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:40:04 EDT news704030423 Researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) presented two papers at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. One paper introduces new methods for texturing highly deformable surfaces, and the other proposes a faster, more precise way to compute geometric properties of shapes. Both show how to boost graphics accuracy while cutting computational cost, with potential applications across video gaming, visual effects and simulation. The studies have been published in ACM Transactions on Graphics. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-graphics-advances-textures-tenfold.html Computer Sciences Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:20:01 EDT news703937758 There are many types of hair—long, short, straight, curly—and today's computer animators have a good handle on many of them. But one type, highly coiled hair, continues to vex animators. With help from a mathematical tool borrowed from the cosmetics industry, Professor Theodore Kim and doctoral student Alvin Shi are changing that. They presented their results at the SIGGRAPH North America conference. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-cosmetics-field-animators-figure-math.html Computer Sciences Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:42:04 EDT news703748507 When architects create plans for a new building, they typically work with an engineer to design the structure so that the building is safely supported. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-civilbot-faster.html Computer Sciences Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:52:28 EDT news703605132 Don't underestimate the power of a yes-or-no question. Some of the toughest computing problems boil down to thousands of tiny yes-or-no decisions. Finding the best combination of answers could be the key to anything from nailing a new drug to keeping a city of commuters on the move. For example, take this scenario: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-professor-unsolvable-problems.html Computer Sciences Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:07 EDT news703500402 An international research team involving the University of Bayreuth has, for the first time, analyzed the "inner workings" of AI language models when predicting political voting decisions. To do so, the researchers examined six national elections and AI-based election forecasts and developed a new method for making more precise predictions. They presented their findings at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) in Seoul, South Korea. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-powered-election-reveal-hidden.html Computer Sciences Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:40:01 EDT news703405416 Artificial intelligence isn't just capable of translating between existing languages—it can also create entirely new ones. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-tool-doesnt-languages.html Computer Sciences Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:50:01 EDT news703341027 The era of building "personalized AI" by training AI models on individual or corporate documents and data is beginning. However, while such customization can improve task performance, it can also weaken a model's existing safety safeguards. KAIST researchers have developed a core AI technology that preserves customized performance while further strengthening safety. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-key-technology-personalized-ai-safer.html Computer Sciences Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:40:01 EDT news703329183 When can we trust the results we get from AI, and when is learning impossible? Researchers have shown that there are some problems that even the most powerful AI cannot reliably solve, no matter how much data it is given. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-limits-isnt-ai.html Computer Sciences Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:00:01 EDT news703144062 Quantum computers lack useful functionality without the right algorithms to facilitate their operation. Currently, there are few simple, standardized operations, known as "primitives," in the quantum toolkit that can help deliver the unique quantum behaviors required for such computers to achieve results beyond classical systems. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-quantum-toolkit.html Computer Sciences Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:40:02 EDT news703146241 Neural networks, a fascinating technology inspired by the human brain, form the basis of artificial intelligence. These networks consist of layers of interconnected nodes, or artificial neurons, that learn patterns from data and make predictions. For example, large language models generate text by predicting the next word or phrase based on the words that came before it. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-easier-parameter-tuning-echo-state.html Computer Sciences Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:00:03 EDT news702897238 Korean researchers have developed a hierarchical AI technology that autonomously plans even complex, long-horizon tasks. The development of this hierarchical task-planning AI technology, which reduces hallucinations and doubles the success rate, is expected to help robots and agents carry out long-term missions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-hierarchical-ai-agent-tackles-complex.html Computer Sciences Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:47:13 EDT news702888416 Training artificial intelligence to enforce even seemingly straightforward rules—like balls and strikes in Major League Baseball (MLB)—is a messy, dynamic process that takes time and careful evaluation of the technology in the wild, according to new Cornell research. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-years-exposed-hidden-offs-mlb.html Computer Sciences Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:00:02 EDT news702552375 Semiconductors are central to modern technology. They are used in computer chips, solar cells, sensors, LEDs and communication devices. Before researchers make new semiconductor materials in the lab, they often test them first using quantum mechanical simulations. One of the main tools for this work is density functional theory, or DFT, a computer-modeling method that skips tracking every single electron and instead uses their overall cloud density to quickly calculate a material's atomic structure and energy. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-method-combines-modern-density-functional.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:19:45 EDT news702551961 A study led by researchers from IMDEA Networks and Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) has carried out the first large-scale analysis of the volatility, content and actual infrastructure of hidden websites on the so-called dark web. This work was among the recipients of the 2025–2026 Spanish Police Foundation Research Awards, which recognize scientific research that contributes to ensuring public safety and protecting citizens' rights and freedoms. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-dark-web-survey-reveals-tor.html Internet Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:20:06 EDT news701946073 When a standard large language model (LLM) is confronted with a problem, it tries to solve it by matching it to similar information it has seen before, and then give an answer based on those past patterns. But how it decides which information to use and what value it gives to different pieces of information can be somewhat inscrutable from the outside. An EPFL team has created a new large language model that is structured similarly to a human brain, allowing users more control and moving away from "black box" AI. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-ways-peer-black.html Computer Sciences Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:20:03 EDT news701694481 Students in the University of Washington's Prosocial Computing Group noticed a trend on social media: People were using generative artificial intelligence to make short science videos. The trouble was that these people weren't scientists, which, given AI's proclivity to be convincingly wrong, could accelerate the spread of misinformation. So the lab wondered how to enable scientists and other researchers to better adapt to platforms like TikTok. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-papertok-ai-users-papers-short.html Computer Sciences Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:04:01 EDT news701683424 In a first for Australian law enforcement, police in Western Australia have deployed live facial recognition technology in marked vans at locations around Perth. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-western-australia-police-scanning-law.html Computer Sciences Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:20:01 EDT news701609036 In 2022, global production of construction materials accounted for more than 7% of total carbon emissions. But how many of those materials were truly necessary to build houses, buildings and bridges? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-smarter-optimization-bridge-materials.html Engineering Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:40:04 EDT news701522909 Giving AI a human-like memory limitation may actually help it learn language better. In their new proof-of-principle study, Abishek Thamma (University of Amsterdam) and Micha Heilbron (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) show that small language models equipped with a transient memory learn grammar more efficiently when trained on child-scale amounts of language input. The findings demonstrate how insights from psycholinguistics can inspire new approaches to AI learning. The findings are published in the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-secret-ai-language.html Computer Sciences Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:40:18 EDT news701440006 The obvious problem with biometrics is that once someone has stolen your fingerprint or iris ID, you cannot simply reset those to block their access as you might a password. Now, research published in the International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics offers a new approach to protecting biometric authentication data so that the risk associated with this kind of irreversible identity theft can be largely avoided and gives users an option to reset their fingerprints and other biometrics, as it were. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-revocable-fingerprint-ids-permanent-biometric.html Computer Sciences Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:40:07 EDT news701353133 One of the greatest weaknesses of AI agents that read and understand vast amounts of enterprise data is "hallucination"—the generation of plausible-sounding but factually incorrect information. KAIST researchers have developed a next-generation database technology capable of understanding documents, data and relationships among entities all at once. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-generation-database-ai-hallucinations-accuracy.html Computer Sciences Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:03 EDT news701088061 More than 1.5 billion people worldwide are expected to watch the 2026 World Cup finals. With that many fans scrutinizing every pass, touch and goal, FIFA is leaning on advanced computer vision technology to help referees make faster, more accurate calls on the way to crowning this year's victors. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-world-cup-referees.html Computer Sciences Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:40:02 EDT news701020381 Clarkson University researchers have developed a new mathematical tool that could make artificial intelligence systems more accurate, controllable and useful across applications ranging from image editing to drug discovery. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-math-tool-sharpen-image.html Computer Sciences Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:40:07 EDT news701019001 Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial intelligence, according to a researcher at Missouri S&T. "With the way AI algorithms are currently structured, they sometimes settle on an answer that seems good enough and stop searching before finding one that may be much better," says Dr. Donald Wunsch, director of Missouri S&T's Kummer Institute Center for AI and Autonomous Systems. "It's important that we find ways to help these algorithms keep searching instead of stopping too soon. When AI is used in areas that affect people's health, safety or cost of living, the difference between good enough and great can have significant implications." https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-combining-lessons-ants-birds-ai.html Computer Sciences Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:20:04 EDT news700985822 In his 1927 paper, "A law of comparative judgment," the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people select one option among multiple alternatives, they are picking the one that has the highest value to them, even though they cannot assign a particular number to that choice. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-people-options-sharpen-ai.html Computer Sciences Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:40:01 EDT news700413438 A single photograph contains a wealth of information, but determining 3D spatial relationships from a 2D scene is no simple task. Many attempts have been made to develop a method to reconstruct both depth and sharp color images from a single snapshot, but many struggle to deliver accurate and reliable output. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-snapshot-3d-depth-coded-aperture.html Computer Sciences Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:00:08 EDT news700402173 Researchers in Japan have developed quantum multi-programming auto mode, a function that automatically runs quantum programs from different users in parallel. Launched on the Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB) quantum computer cloud service at the University of Osaka, the system reduces idle qubit resources, improves throughput and may help ease congestion in quantum cloud computing. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-world-cloud-full-quantum-capacity.html Computer Sciences Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:20:03 EDT news700395243