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Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch

TechCrunch

The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. The structured, semisolid fuel is more stable and easier to transport than other fuels, and burns in a very predictable way.

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Massachusetts startup OPT Industries is perfecting a 3D-printed nasal swab for COVID-19 tests

TechCrunch

One small company that stepped into the fray of swab production was the two-year-old OPT Industries, a Massachusetts-based company with 15 employees involved in additive manufacturing (think 3D printing) of dense microfiber structures. While the pandemic is still a global disaster, the vaccines have changed the game when it comes to testing.

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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI

CIO

Vince Kellen understands the well-documented limitations of ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AI technologies — that answers may not be truthful, generated images may lack compositional integrity, and outputs may be biased — but he’s moving ahead anyway. You can then move on to editing very quickly, looking for errors and confabulations.”

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SAP aims for more digital and resilient supply chains

CIO

As a result, managers in manufacturing were more inclined than those in other industries to introduce intelligent technologies on a large scale in order to make better predictions. Every automation has to pay off,” says Rothe, and automating transport processes in the warehouse is currently not economical.

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Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

TechCrunch

It’s a long road taking an idea from the R&D stage in a lab to successful commercialization, especially when you’re talking about technologies as complex and costly as robotics and artificial intelligence. She has held senior roles at General Dynamics and other defense contractors.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. The company is embedding AI into each level of the tech stack it sells to customers, he says. “We

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Logistics Management Systems: How Warehouse, Transportation, and Distribution Software Work

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Digitalization will allow warehousing and transportation operations to elevate customer experience, deliver more value to partners, and consequently – create an effective ecosystem of supply chain providers: manufacturers, carriers, freight forwarders, and more. 3D visual warehouse design, Source: Infor. Warehouse design.