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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

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Chris Nardecchia, SVP and chief digital and information officer, Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation Chris Nardecchia: I started as a chemical engineer doing chemical engineering things, building and operating chemical and nuclear processes, producing polymers and nuclear fuel, etc. Now, software eats hardware for lunch.

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Japan’s Terra Drone lands $70M Series B funding to accelerate global expansion 

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Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles. The company also could raise another funding before its IPO, Seki added.

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Nixie’s drone-based water sampling could save cities time and money

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Regularly testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending responsibility for utility companies and municipal safety authorities, and generally — as you might expect — involves either a boat or at least a pair of waders. Skipping the step of bringing the water back to a lab for testing streamlines the process immensely, as you might expect.

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Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems

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Called Generally Intelligent , it plans to do this by turning these fundamentals into an array of tasks to be solved and by designing and testing different systems’ ability to learn to solve them in highly complex 3D worlds built by their team. ” Image Credits: Generally Intelligent.

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Financial IT leaders prep for a quantum-fueled future

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Because of quantum’s abilities the Ally team could create 50 separate scenarios and back-test the models. For example, “the simulation work we’re doing in options pricing has got lots of similarities with work that can be done in molecular simulation in chemical companies,” he says.

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

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WABTEC products and locomotives have numerous embedded digital pieces – both hardware and software, which allow us to track performance, and assess their reliability and warranty for the customers. Our products are sometimes tested for a year before being launched in the field.

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Luminate aims to make hair loss from chemotherapy a thing of the past

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Luminate Medical may have a solution in a medical wearable that prevents the chemical cocktail from tainting hair follicles, preventing the worst of the loss and perhaps relegating this highly visible condition to the past.