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Jun 14, 2024

What Salesforce learned after saving 50,000 hours of work using AI

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Salesforce recently announced that it has introduced more than 50 AI-powered tools among its workforce and reported that these tools have collectively saved all of its employees in excess of 50,000 hours—or 24 years’ worth—of working time in just three months.

As a company, Salesforce serves as an especially compelling case study for the impact of AI on work—not only because the company tests tools on their own workforce, but because so many others rely on Salesforce’s products to do their jobs each day. Simply put: Salesforce is in the business of work.

Salesforce has more than 70,000 employees worldwide—a 30% increase since 2020. And the software giant builds the products that are used by employees at some 150,000 workplaces, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies; from sales and customer service teams to marketing and tech teams.

Jun 14, 2024

New study offers clues into genetics of X chromosome loss

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

The DNA a woman is born with may influence how her cells respond to chromosomal abnormalities acquired with aging, according to a new genomic analysis co-led by NCI researchers.

Jun 14, 2024

Mineralizing emissions: Advanced reactor designs for CO₂ capture

Posted by in categories: particle physics, sustainability

In advancing sustainable waste management and CO2 sequestration, researchers have crafted reactors that mineralize carbon dioxide with fly ash particles. This avant-garde technique is set to offer a sustainable and lasting solution to the pressing issue of greenhouse gas emissions, repurposing an industrial by-product in the process.

Jun 14, 2024

Physicists confirm quantum entanglement persists between top quarks, the heaviest known fundamental particles

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

An experiment by a group of physicists led by University of Rochester physics professor Regina Demina has produced a significant result related to quantum entanglement—an effect that Albert Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”

Jun 14, 2024

MacOS Sequoia brings iPhone remote control and Passwords app

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

Apple’s first reveal of the new macOS Sequoia includes a way to remote control your iPhone directly from the Mac, and a new Apple Passwords app.

Announced in the WWDC 2024 keynote, macOS 15 is called macOS Sequoia, and as expected, it brings AI — or Apple Intelligence — to every platform and practically every feature.

Across macOS Sequoia and Apple’s other platforms, users can write, summarize, and proofread text almost system-wide with Writing Tools. It will be able to generate sketches, animations, or illustrations with Image Playground, which is built into apps including Messages — and has its own brand-new app too.

Jun 14, 2024

NVDIA Nemotron

Posted by in category: computing

Open synthetic data generation pipeline for training LLMs.


We release the Nemotron-4 340B model family, including Nemotron-4-340B-Base, Nemotron-4-340B-Instruct, and Nemotron-4-340B-Reward. Our models are open access under the NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement, a permissive license similar to Apache 2.0. These models perform competitively to open access models on a wide range of evaluation benchmarks, and were sized to fit on a single DGX H100 with 8 GPUs when deployed in FP8 precision.

Jun 14, 2024

BRAF-Targeted Drug Approved for Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

FDA has granted an accelerated approval to tovorafenib (Ojemda) for kids and teens who have low-grade glioma with changes in the BRAF gene.

Jun 14, 2024

Ask Ethan: Is the Universe finite or infinite?

Posted by in category: cosmology

The Universe’s history, from cosmic inflation to the Big Bang to the present, is known. But whether it’s infinite or not is still a mystery.

Jun 14, 2024

High-speed baby stars circle the supermassive black hole Sgr A* like a swarm of bees

Posted by in category: cosmology

Observational astronomy shows that newly discovered young stellar objects (YSOs) in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A located in the center of our galaxy behave differently than expected. They describe similar orbits to already known young evolved stars and are arranged in a particular pattern around the supermassive black hole.

Jun 14, 2024

New carbon nitride membrane improves lithium extraction from salt lakes

Posted by in categories: energy, innovation

In a breakthrough for lithium recovery technologies, researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, have developed a crystalline carbon nitride membrane that could transform the lithium extraction industry.

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