When Anna Otto evangelizes about the power of computer science to transform lives, she’s not just talking as the computer science coordinator for a suburban Colorado district. She’s speaking as a mom.

As artificial intelligence platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot go mainstream, power bills from their usage are exploding. In response, researchers are racing to build hardware that ...

Plasma -- the electrically charged fourth state of matter -- is at the heart of many important industrial processes, including those used to make computer chips and coat materials. Simulating those ...

Libre Computer has revealed that its working on new compute modules that use the same form factor as Raspberry Pi’s CM4 and CM5, although there are a few differences in the pin layout, so it’s unclear ...

Microsoft has developed a new component called UI-Evol that makes computer-use AI models much more accurate compared to ones which don't use it. Researchers from Microsoft Research Asia have developed ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.