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Vertical Oceans aims to grow sustainable shrimp in huge ‘aqua towers’ inside cities

TechCrunch

The result was Vertical Oceans , a startup that grows sustainable shrimp in huge “aqua towers”, which can be located inside cities, potentially in facilities that even look like buildings. The towers can incubate shrimp without chemicals or antibiotics, and out of season. There is an indoor system in the U.S.

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New Age Meats bites into $25M for cultured meat product line development

TechCrunch

CEO Brian Spears has a chemical engineering background and co-founded the company, which makes meat from animal cells, in 2018 after spending 12 years developing research laboratory and industry automation. “We The cultured meat landscape is gaining new entrants as the technology has evolved.

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Oxyle’s tech uses water movement to remove pollutants

TechCrunch

The startup’s customers include companies in the pesticide, chemical, textile pigments, electronics and pharmaceutical sectors that are regulated by strict discharge limits. Oxyle’s wastewater treatment was developed five years ago by co-founder and CEO Dr. Fajer Mushtaq during her doctoral research at ETH Zurich.

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A road map for climate investors

TechCrunch

Regulation will help incentivize corporations to clean up, but only technology can solve the intractable problem of sustainably giving us what we desire. The heights of dirty industry need to be toppled and rebuilt from scratch with a new goal in mind: Sustainable production for hundreds of years to come. Industrial chemicals.

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Malta’s energy storage tech to stabilize electricity grids reliant on renewables gets $50 million

TechCrunch

That’s why technologies coming from companies like Malta , an energy storage technology developer that just raised $50 million in new financing, are attracting attention and venture capital investment. That modified design is what’s now being developed by Malta, which spun out from X in 2018. ”

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7 major trends shaping the future of the semiconductor industry

Capgemini

These include supply chain volatility, sustainability, government investments, generative AI, geopolitical tensions, equality, and the tremendous opportunities in automotive. As the earth’s ability to provide what we need decreases, the need to act on sustainability is increasing. Companies should design for sustainability.

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IBM Launches Watsonx: A New Platform for Foundation Models and Generative AI

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Watsonx aims to make AI more accessible, scalable, and trustworthy for enterprises. With Watsonx, clients will be able to: Access a variety of foundation models and open-source models curated and trained by IBM for different purposes, such as natural language understanding, code generation, chemical synthesis, or climate change modeling.