How stem cell descendants preserve flexibility while maintaining distinct identities

Stem cells are the body's ultimate shape-shifters, sustaining tissues by balancing two competing demands: maintaining their ...
InfoQ

AWS Enables Lambda Function Triggers from RDS for SQL Server Database Events

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Agent workflows make transport a first-order ...
InfoWorld

Google tests BigQuery feature to generate SQL queries from English

The ability to write parts of SQL queries in natural language will help developers speed up their work, analysts say. Google is previewing a new AI-driven feature in its BigQuery data warehouse that ...
InfoWorld

Google BigQuery gets managed AI functions to simplify unstructured data analysis

The new managed functions will let enterprises apply LLM reasoning to structured and unstructured data directly in SQL, eliminating prompt tuning and external tools. Google has boosted its BigQuery ...
VentureBeat

Databricks: 'PDF parsing for agentic AI is still unsolved' — new tool replaces multi-service pipelines with single function

There is a lot of enterprise data trapped in PDF documents. To be sure, gen AI tools have been able to ingest and analyze PDFs, but accuracy, time and cost have been less than ideal. New technology ...
The Hill

The ostrich approach to data won’t solve US hunger

Business titan and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg popularized the phrase: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” That phrase applies to every major institution in American ...
GitHub

SQL: Can't do math between aggregate function calls with modifiers (e.g., DISTINCT)

This query doesn't work in super but does in Postgres. $ super -f parquet -o data.parquet -c "values {a:1},{a:1},{a:2}" && super -c "SELECT SUM(DISTINCT a) + SUM ...
The Harvard Crimson

DEI May Have Failed at Harvard. So Will the Rebrand.

This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. It is the product of discussions at regular Editorial Board meetings. In order to ensure the impartiality of ...
eLife

Phasic and tonic pain serve distinct functions during adaptive behaviour

The article presents important findings of a dissociation between phasic and tonic pain functions in adaptive behavior, combining immersive VR, computational modeling, skin conductance, and EEG data.
National Geographic news

Use this ancient technique to remember (almost) anything

In Orlando, Florida, a dozen seniors gather in a YMCA twice a week. Some push walkers, others roll in on wheelchairs. After some light exercise and corny jokes, they get down to the real ...
Business Wire

Sigma Launches Native Semantic Layer Integration and AI SQL Capabilities on Snowflake AI Data Cloud

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sigma, the industry-leading analytics platform with unique cloud data platform writeback capabilities, today announced at Snowflake Summit 2025, two major platform ...
WSB-TV

How artificial intelligence is transforming HR departments

Human resources departments are finally shedding stereotypes of being a company's unofficial paper-pushers: They're now at the forefront of integrating artificial intelligence. While many HR ...