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THE boss of a Colchester business has paid tribute to four students who were killed when their car hit his shop.

Salesforce is cutting jobs as its latest fiscal year gets underway, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter, even as the company simultaneously hires workers to sell new artificial intelligence products. From the report: More than 1,000 roles will be affected, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Displaced workers will be able to apply for other jobs internally, the person added. Salesforce had nearly 73,000 workers as of January 2024, when that fiscal year ended.

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Kim Kardashian gave Bianca Censori a crash course in fashion just hours after Kanye West's new wife caused quite a stir with her controversial Grammys appearance on the red carpet. 

For Trump and Vance, the inauguration was a crowning moment of their political journey, but it also marked the beginning of a unique relationship between the pair.

Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – again

Vast numbers of webpages have disappeared from federal sites in an effort to meet the deadline to implement the Trump administration's executive orders targeting diversity initiatives and gender.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Advanced artificial intelligence is to revolutionize fundamental physics and could open a window on to the fate of the universe, according to Cern's next director general. Prof Mark Thomson, the British physicist who will assume leadership of Cern on 1 January 2026, says machine learning is paving the way for advances in particle physics that promise to be comparable to the AI-powered prediction of protein structures that earned Google DeepMind scientists a Nobel prize in October. At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), he said, similar strategies are being used to detect incredibly rare events that hold the key to how particles came to acquire mass in the first moments after the big bang and whether our universe could be teetering on the brink of a catastrophic collapse. "These are not incremental improvements," Thomson said. "These are very, very, very big improvements people are making by adopting really advanced techniques." "It's going to be quite transformative for our field," he added. "It's complex data, just like protein folding -- that's an incredibly complex problem -- so if you use an incredibly complex technique, like AI, you're going to win." The intervention comes as Cern's council is making the case for the Future Circular Collider, which at 90km circumference would dwarf the LHC. Some are skeptical given the lack of blockbuster results at the LHC since the landmark discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 and Germany has described the $17 billion proposal as unaffordable. But Thomson said AI has provided fresh impetus to the hunt for new physics at the subatomic scale -- and that major discoveries could occur after 2030 when a major upgrade will boost the LHC's beam intensity by a factor of ten. This will allow unprecedented observations of the Higgs boson, nicknamed the God particle, that grants mass to other particles and binds the universe together. Thomson is now confident that the LHC can measure Higgs boson self-coupling, a key factor in understanding how particles gained mass after the Big Bang and whether the Higgs field is in a stable state or could undergo a future transition. According to Thomson: "It's a very deep fundamental property of the universe, one we don't fully understand. If we saw the Higgs self-coupling being different from our current theory, that that would be another massive, massive discovery. And you don't know until you've made the measurement." The report also notes how AI is being used in "every aspect of the LHC operation." Dr Katharine Leney, who works on the LHC's Atlas experiment, said: "When the LHC is colliding protons, it's making around 40m collisions a second and we have to make a decision within a microsecond ... which events are something interesting that we want to keep and which to throw away. We're already now doing better with the data that we've collected than we thought we'd be able to do with 20 times more data ten years ago. So we've advanced by 20 years at least. A huge part of this has been down to AI." Generative AI is also being used to look for and even produce dark matter via the LHC. "You can start to ask more complex, open-ended questions," said Thomson. "Rather than searching for a particular signature, you ask the question: 'Is there something unexpected in this data?'"

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President Donald Trump's FBI nominee Kash Patel had a flurry of close friends and family gathered in the front row of his Senate confirmation hearing last week.

The "Galentine's" hamper is available now in all Primark stores

The range is on sale now in all New Look stores

Nicole Kidman's niece Lucia Hawley is moving from Sydney to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of being a writer after quitting her 7Bravo hosting role. 

Rachel Reeves has told several Whitehall departments to prepare for their budgets to be frozen under 'flat cash' spending plans, it emerged last night.

Allison Holker can be seen hurling expletives and breaking down in tears in her arrest video from 2018 exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.

Ministers have dismissed attempts by the Mail and MPs to find out the true scale of what was branded the Government's 'review-itis' by the BBC on Sunday.

Thames Water has applied to a judge to approve its plans to secure a £3billion cash loan to stop it going into administration.

Elrich Daudet left Vanessa De Souza feeling 'very uncomfortable' when he told her she appeared to him in his sleep 12 months before they met and went on to tell the woman that she was 'haunting' him.

Former President Joe Biden signed with Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency in one of his first post-presidential moves.

Sabrina Deanna Coyne, 34, was arrested on January 24 after she allegedly broke her ex-boyfriend's window with a brick commemorating the first time they went out.

JEMIMA CAINER: Today, Venus enters Aries and offers support to new beginnings. Jupiter stations from retrograde to direct in Gemini and brings a boost of enthusiasm and flexibility.