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A new clinical trial showed that personalized treatment durations based on blood tests greatly enhance survival and remission in CLL, marking a major advancement in leukemia therapy.Personalized therapy enhances survival rates for patients with CLL leukemia.A phase III trial conducted by the University of Leeds discovered that personalized treatment for the most prevalent type of adult leukemia extends patient survival and maintains remission.This significant research was recently published in the New England Journal of…

There’s a lot of money in voice cloning. Case in point: ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create and edit synthetic voices, today announced that it closed an $80 million Series B round co-led by prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and entrepreneur Daniel Gross. The round, which also had participation from Sequoia Capital, Smash Capital, SV Angel, BroadLight Capital and Credo Ventures, brings ElevenLabs’ total raised to $101 million and values the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeZack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire has achieved impressive numbers in its first week after debuting on Netflix, but critics and industry experts are still expressing doubts about the new franchise.The streaming giant announced earlier this week that the sci-fi fantasy film had become the most-viewed title after its release on 21 December, generating 23.9 million views…

A collaborative international effort has led to the creation of the first mid-infrared supermirrors with exceptional reflectivity, as reported in Nature Communications. This innovation is expected to significantly enhance environmental gas sensing and industrial processes, marking a major leap in mirror technology. Credit: SciTechDaily.comAdvanced infrared mirrors enhance climate and biofuel research via precision trace gas sensing.An international team of researchers from the United States, Austria, and Switzerland has…

In a groundbreaking achievement, artificial intelligence (AI) has transcended the bounds of human physical prowess, marking a historic moment where machines outperform their human counterparts in a skill-based game. Conventionally, AI's dominance was observed in cerebral challenges like chess and Go, or virtual scenarios. However, a recent development by researchers at ETH Zurich has propelled AI into the realm of physical skill, a domain traditionally considered exclusive to humans.The ETH Zurich team introduced an AI…

By Katherine Schauer, NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) December 16, 2023NASA’s ILLUMA-T payload in a Goddard cleanroom. The payload was installed on the International Space Station to demo higher data rates with NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration. Credit: Dennis HenryNASA successfully completed the first two-way laser communication link between the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and the Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal (ILLUMA-T) aboard the…

Quantum computing has made a significant leap forward with Harvard’s new platform, capable of dynamic reconfiguration and demonstrating low error rates in two-qubit entangling gates. This breakthrough, highlighted in a recent Nature paper, signals a major advancement in overcoming the quantum error correction challenge, positioning Harvard’s technology alongside other leading quantum computing methods. The work, a collaboration with MIT and others, marks a crucial step towards scalable, error-corrected quantum computing.…

MYGI station location. Credit: Satellite Navigation (2023). DOI: 10.1186/s43020-023-00120-7 In a study published on 4 December 2023, in the journal Satellite Navigation, researchers from Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping have developed a self-structured Empirical SSP (SESSP) approach to overcome previous limitations. This novel method utilizes a three-parameter Empirical Temperature Profile (ETP) model, structured using…

Fairphone’s Android handsets are known for their sustainability and repairability, and it’s no different with the latest model. The Fairphone 5, which debuted in August this year, achieved a perfect ten in the iFixit repairability score. It is the fourth straight model to receive a 10/10 in the firm’s repairability evaluation. The Fairphone 5 achieved a 10/10 repairability score The Fairphone 2 was the first-ever phone to achieve a perfect ten for repairability from iFixit. The company has since reiterated this winning…

Last Updated: December 07, 2023, 19:13 ISTMaruti Suzuki: Gujarat Unit Achieves Production of 30 Lakh Vehicles. (Photo: Maruti Suzuki)Maruti Suzuki's Gujarat unit, Suzuki Motor Gujarat, celebrates producing over 3 million vehicles since its start in 2017.Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) announced on Wednesday that its Gujarat-based manufacturing unit, Suzuki Motor Gujarat (SMG), has successfully crossed the milestone of producing over 30 lakh vehicles since it commenced operations in February 2017.In a statement released by MSI,…