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Magdrive secures seed funding for new propulsion system which could take us to the stars

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A startup with a new type of spacecraft propulsion system could make the interplanetary travel seen in “Star Trek” a reality. Magdrive is developing a next generation of spacecraft propulsion for small satellites. Chemical thrusters have high thrust but lack efficiency and are hazardous and expensive to handle.

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UniSieve’s filters use special crystals to reduce industrial emissions

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The energy-intensive process of separating and purifying chemicals and gases is a big reason why industries like plastic manufacturing cause so much pollution. During the course of their work, they developed a way to integrate porous crystals called zeolitic materials into polymeric membranes and use them for high-precision filters.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others.

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How the new AI executive order stacks up: B-

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As other recent technology waves have taught us, developments will simply come too fast for such an approach and will be driven by the speed of private industry. Similarly, the executive order calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to develop programs and resources on how educators can responsibly use AI tools.

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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

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AgBiome , developing products from microbial communities, brought in a $116 million Series D round as the company prepares to pad its pipeline with new products. Obloj said AgBiome is operating in a $60 billion market where the problems include products that put toxic chemicals into the ground that end up in water systems.

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Merck Life Sciences banks on RPA to streamline regulatory compliance

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Merck Life Sciences, a leading chemical and pharmaceutical company, with 60,000 employees working across 66 countries, was one of them. As part of its RPA solution deployment, Merck has cloud-based on-premises development and production control rooms. “In In the development control room, there are 25 users with different roles.

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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

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We collect lots of sensor data on machine performance, vibration data, temperature data, chemical data, and we like to have performative combinations of those datasets,” Dickson says. As for No. 2, machine learning/AI (31%), the packaging company has three use cases in proof of concept. We’re a very purpose-based company.”