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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change.

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Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

From lithium battery chemical recycling to smart media, blockchain infrastructure to student-centric educational software, and Sub-Saharan African fintech to cultured-meat production, this batch of companies is sure to wow the investors and the audience. With just over a 1.5% TC aims to pick companies from a range of industries.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

CIO

Initially, I was naïve about the infrastructure space, but was fortunate to have a great mentor. For instance, the IRCTC online booking portal came into India well before tech giants like Amazon and was responsible for many of the mainframes that started the planning and scheduling of trains. I started out as an application developer.

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NeoCarbon wants industrial cooling towers to join the climate fight

TechCrunch

” While DAC sounds great in theory — using chemicals to literally suck problematic emissions out of the air! NeoCarbon’s other founder is CEO René Haas, who was stuck on a delayed train for most of our Zoom chat.). But one big barrier to scaling DAC is the cost of implementation.

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Getty Image has announced a generative image creation model that has been trained exclusively on images for which Getty owns the copyright. These robots have proved much more versatile and easier to train than previous robots. HuggingFace now offers Training Cluster as a Service. Pixel tracking means something different now.

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Facebook will stop using facial recognition technology and is deleting its face database, although it is keeping the model trained on that database. On-premises infrastructure will never disappear; there will always be some data that’s too difficult or important to move. Mitre has released a list of important hardware vulnerabilities.

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CIOs Discover That Dumb Technology Can’t Always Be Upgraded

The Accidental Successful CIO

Problems include confusion about how controls work, software bugs leading to physical accidents and, most worryingly, cyberattacks on infrastructure like chemical plants or power stations that could cause catastrophes. Retrofitted equipment was never designed with both the software and the hardware in mind at the same time.