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Vanadium ion battery startup Standard Energy raises $8.9M Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia

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Founded in 2013 by researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Standard Energy expects one of its main customers to be the energy storage systems (ESS) sector, which the company says is expected to grow from $8 billion to $35 billion in the next five years. “A

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Can Europe compete in the quantum ‘space race’?

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Alice Pannier is a Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), where she leads the Geopolitics of Tech program. The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. Technologies with geopolitical implications.

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History of Cloud Computing

The Crazy Programmer

And JCR Licklider, also known as Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, developed this technology. With his interest in information technology and several achievements he achieved during that life stage, he got hired as the IPTO head at ARPA in 1962. Because the concern of data security has risen due to hacking and malware issues.

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Emulate Inc. closes $82M Series E to fund expansion of ‘organ-on-a-chip’ products

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a biotech company focused on developing “organ-on-a-chip” technology, closed an $82 million Series E round on Tuesday. This latest round is intended to formulate a massive investment in a “roadmap” for developing model organ systems created to fit drugmakers’ needs and bring the idea of an organ-on-a-chip into use in the lab. .

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Volta Labs grabs $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck

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It speaks to the speed with which genetics has permeated our lives, but despite massive improvements to the technology, the process can still be a bit clunky in the lab. What I noticed was that the existing technologies for moving, mixing and heating fluids were archaic,” he said. “I And that sample has to get prepped the right way.

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

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Switzerland-based privacy startup Nym Technologies has raised $6 million, which is being loosely pegged as a Series A round. The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. Who’s funding privacy tech? government.

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CIOs Discover That Dumb Technology Can’t Always Be Upgraded

The Accidental Successful CIO

Sometimes it is not wise to marry smart technology with dumb machines Image Credit: wild trees. As CIO we are always trying to move our companies forward because we understand the importance of information technology. We’ll try to marry modern technology to older equipment in order to extend its life and avoid replacement costs.