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SAP aims for more digital and resilient supply chains

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Digital supply chains, therefore, are needed to be more agile, flexible, resilient, and sustainable. Founded in 2019, the company seized its greenfield opportunity to rethink and redesign the press shop as part of a cloud-first development strategy. While companies are aware they need to invest in Industry 4.0

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Prefabs sprout: How Modulous helps housing developers build modular homes without factories

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startup that makes it easier for housing developers, architects and construction firms to configure and design modular homes to address the ongoing housing crisis , has raised £10 million ($11.7 For the construction phase, the kit of parts enables developers to produce large multi-tenant apartment blocks with minimal up-front investment.

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Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2 million NASA contract for lunar construction tech

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ICON , a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. This award will support the development of what ICON is calling “Project Olympus,” an ambitious plan to build structures on the moon and Mars using in-situ resources.

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Sustainable packaging: a critical part of your green credentials

Capgemini

Sustainable packaging A CRITICAL PART OF YOUR GREEN CREDENTIALS Maryem Sahnoun 7 June 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Packaging is the window to the product. Perhaps most importantly in the current age, the choice of packaging shows a company’s commitment to sustainability. Sustainable packaging may also come with design trade-offs.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

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Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. To play catchup, the Beijing-based company added 3D capabilities to its engine last year. and Russia. New arenas.

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

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Discovery and research of new molecular compounds is an expensive business, with development costs exceeding $10 billion per substance in some cases. Nanome streamlines this process by bringing researchers to the same virtual reality space to work on molecule development together. per drug.”.

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4 investors discuss the next big wave for alternative seafood startups

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Many companies say they are in this for the sustainability factor, and even with the initial blessing from the FDA to Upside Foods for its cultivated chicken making process, the focus is on getting these alternative foods close to the scalability and cost of traditional meat. “Now