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. At least 57 nations have live antipersonnel land mines in their territories. In 2024 alone, 1,945 people were killed by mines and 4,325 were injured, 90% of whom were civilians. Nearly half of those were children. Demining operations removed 105,640 mines in the same year. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-combining-drones-ai-faster-safer.html Robotics Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:00:05 EST news691937882 When artificial intelligence systems began acing long-standing academic assessments, researchers realized they had a problem: the tests were too easy. Popular evaluations, such as the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) exam, once considered formidable, are no longer challenging enough to meaningfully test advanced AI systems. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-dont-panic-humanity-exam-begun.html Computer Sciences Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:00:04 EST news691247385 Training police officers with a virtual-reality game can significantly improve their ability to regulate stress, even in realistic, high-pressure situations. The VR game, developed at the Donders Institute at Radboud University, has already been integrated into several police training programs. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-vr-game-police-officers-stress.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:50:19 EST news691328931 Reasoning large language models (LLMs) are designed to solve complex problems by breaking them down into a series of smaller steps. These powerful models are particularly good at challenging tasks like advanced programming and multistep planning. But developing reasoning models demands an enormous amount of computation and energy due to inefficiencies in the training process. While a few of the high-power processors continuously work through complicated queries, others in the group sit idle. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-drafter-downtime-llm.html Computer Sciences Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:20:08 EST news691322821 The Care Bears taught a generation of kids that sharing is caring, but not everyone has carried this principle into adulthood. Researchers at Michigan State University have found a new angle to promote cooperation: artificial intelligence (AI). The results of this study, titled "Promoting cooperation in the public goods game using artificial intelligent agents," are published in npj Complexity. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-ai-society-selfish.html Computer Sciences Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:00:03 EST news691257061 The automatic detection of surface-level irregularities—defects or anomalies—in 3D data is of significant interest for various real-world purposes, such as industrial quality inspection, infrastructure monitoring, robotics, and autonomous systems. However, collecting annotated defect examples at a large scale is costly, and existing 3D anomaly detection methods either require templates or heavy memory, multiple inference passes, and brittle heuristic clustering. These shortcomings limit real-life deployment. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-framework-unsupervised-cloud-anomaly-localization.html Computer Sciences Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:00:01 EST news691235581 When a human says an event is "probable" or "likely," people generally have a shared, if fuzzy, understanding of what that means. But when an AI chatbot like ChatGPT uses the same word, it's not assessing the odds the way we do, my colleagues and I found. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-doesnt-ai.html Computer Sciences Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:40:03 EST news691160522 It is not easy to bring new technologies from the laboratory to market. Researchers and companies face very different demands for new developments and do not always find common ground. Scientists at Empa and other institutions have analyzed two emerging solar cell technologies to identify the greatest risks. Their conclusion: Research and industry must start collaborating much earlier. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-successfully-commercializing-solar-cells.html Energy & Green Tech Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:00:01 EST news690717061 Large language models (LLMs) are dealing with an increasing amount of morally sensitive information as people turn to them for medical advice, companionship and therapy. However, they are not exactly known for possessing a moral compass. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-roadmap-ai-morality.html Computer Sciences Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:50:01 EST news691074114 The use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, systems that learn to make predictions, generate content or tackle other tasks by analyzing large amounts of data, is becoming increasingly widespread. Some of these systems have become so advanced that they can also be combined in ways that allow them to interact with each other. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-ai-agents-social-network-moltbook.html Computer Sciences Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:20:03 EST news691063645 Just like each person has unique fingerprints, every CMOS chip has a distinctive "fingerprint" caused by tiny, random manufacturing variations. Engineers can leverage this unforgeable ID for authentication, to safeguard a device from attackers trying to steal private data. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-chip-fabrication-method-twin-fingerprints.html Electronics & Semiconductors Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:34:19 EST news690820437 A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in complex two-dimensional (2D) data, with potential applications ranging from particle physics to machine learning. The research was published in AIP Advances. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-noisy-2d-algorithm-imaging-ai.html Computer Sciences Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:20:22 EST news690805202 One night in 2010, Mohit Gupta decided to try something before leaving the lab. Then a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, Gupta was in the final days of an internship at a manufacturing company in Boston. He'd spent months developing a system that used cameras and light sources to create 3D images of small objects. "I wanted to stress test it, just for fun," said Gupta, who would begin his postdoctoral research at Columbia Engineering a few months later. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-3d-vision-technology-powers-factory.html Computer Sciences Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:00:01 EST news690796654 By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they're far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as certain tones, personalities, biases, and moods. However, it's not obvious exactly how these models represent abstract concepts to begin with from the knowledge they contain. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-method-ai-output-uncovers-vulnerabilities.html Computer Sciences Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:00:22 EST news690626281 It happens every day—a motorist heading across town checks a navigation app to see how long the trip will take, but they find no parking spots available when they reach their destination. By the time they finally park and walk to their destination, they're significantly later than they expected to be. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-aware-frustration-emissions.html Computer Sciences Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:30:25 EST news690719401 Researchers from the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University and from NVIDIA's AI research center in Israel have developed a new method that significantly improves how artificial intelligence models understand spatial instructions when generating images—without retraining or modifying the models themselves. Image-generation systems often struggle with simple prompts such as "a cat under the table" or "a chair to the right of the table," frequently placing objects incorrectly or ignoring spatial relationships altogether. The Bar-Ilan research team has introduced a creative solution that allows AI models to follow such instructions more accurately in real time. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-method-ai-ability-spatial.html Computer Sciences Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:00:29 EST news690717602 People who regularly use online services have between 100 and 200 passwords. Very few can remember every single one. Password managers are therefore extremely helpful, allowing users to access all their passwords with just a single master password. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-knowledge-encryption-password-theft-servers.html Computer Sciences Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:10:02 EST news690461993 When making decisions and judgments, humans can fall into common "traps," known as cognitive biases. A cognitive bias is essentially the tendency to process information in a specific way or follow a systematic pattern. One widely documented cognitive bias is the so-called addition bias, the tendency of people to prefer solving problems by adding elements as opposed to removing them, even if subtraction would be simpler and more efficient. One example of this is adding more paragraphs or explanations to improve an essay or report, even if removing unnecessary sections would be more effective. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-ai-overcomplicate-humans-llms-addition.html Computer Sciences Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:00:09 EST news690124180 Generative artificial intelligence systems often work in agreement, complimenting the user in its response. But human interactions aren't typically built on flattery. To help strengthen these conversations, researchers in the USF Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing are challenging the technology to think and debate in ways that resemble human reasoning. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-flattery-debate-ai-mirror-human.html Computer Sciences Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:20:05 EST news690207758 It's often the worst part of many people's day—bottlenecked, rush-hour traffic. When the daily commute backs up, drivers lose time, burn fuel and waste energy. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Transportation Research Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are tackling this problem with cooperative driving automation (CDA), an emerging technology that allows vehicles and traffic infrastructure to communicate, keeping traffic flowing efficiently and safely. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-rethinking-hour-vehicle-automation.html Computer Sciences Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:33:29 EST news690107581 Advanced nuclear is within reach—and a new digital twin reveals how smarter plant operations can enhance the economic viability and safety of small modular reactors, or SMRs. In collaboration with the University of Tennessee and GE Vernova Hitachi, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently published research in the journal Nuclear Science and Engineering on a new risk-informed digital twin designed to enhance operational decision-making for the GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 SMR design. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-small-modular-reactors-gain-competitive.html Energy & Green Tech Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:38:33 EST news689852282 Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such artificial general intelligence has already arrived. This debate is tackled by four faculty members spanning humanities, social sciences, and data science in a recently published Comment invited by Nature. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-artificial-general-intelligence-case-today.html Computer Sciences Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:00:01 EST news689589400 What happens when you create a social media platform that only AI bots can post to? The answer, it turns out, is both entertaining and concerning. Moltbook is exactly that—a platform where artificial intelligence agents chat among themselves and humans can only watch from the sidelines. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-bot-social-media-platform-moltbook.html Computer Sciences Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:10:01 EST news689517816 By now, it's no secret that large language models (LLMs) are experts at mimicking natural language. Trained on vast troves of data, these models have proven themselves capable of generating text so convincing that it regularly appears humanlike to readers. But is there any difference between how we think about a word and how an LLM does? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-ai-word-humans.html Computer Sciences Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:48:17 EST news689330881 Talking to oneself is a trait which feels inherently human. Our inner monologs help us organize our thoughts, make decisions, and understand our emotions. But it's not just humans who can reap the benefits of such self-talk. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-multitask-easily.html Computer Sciences Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:50:01 EST news688737025 Large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process and generate texts in various languages, are now widely used by people worldwide. These models have proved to be effective in rapidly sourcing information, answering questions, creating written content for specific applications and writing computer code. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-emoticons-llms-silent-failures-coding.html Computer Sciences Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:30:01 EST news688744905 How inconvenient would it be if you had to manually transfer every contact and photo from scratch every time you switched to a new smartphone? Current artificial intelligence (AI) models face a similar predicament. Whenever a superior new AI model—such as a new version of ChatGPT—emerges, it has to be retrained with massive amounts of data and at a high cost to acquire specialized knowledge in specific fields. Now a Korean research team has developed a "knowledge transplantation" technology between AI models that can resolve this inefficiency. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-transmiter-technique-transplants-knowledge-ai.html Computer Sciences Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:58:20 EST news688755481 While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the Polymathic AI collaboration are trained using real scientific datasets. The models are already using knowledge from one field to address seemingly completely different problems in another. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-foundation-ai-physics-words-scientific.html Computer Sciences Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:00:01 EST news688751105 For half a century, computing advanced in a reassuring, predictable way. Transistors—devices used to switch electrical signals on a computer chip—became smaller. Consequently, computer chips became faster, and society quietly assimilated the gains almost without noticing. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-law-famous-road.html Computer Sciences Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:30:56 EST news688656573 Generative AI is reshaping software development—and fast. A new study published in Science shows that AI-assisted coding is spreading rapidly, though unevenly: in the U.S., the share of new code relying on AI rose from 5% in 2022 to 29% in early 2025, compared with just 12% in China. AI usage is highest among less experienced programmers, but productivity gains go to seasoned developers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-software-code.html Software Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:00:07 EST news688293541