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Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

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Sustainable chemistry, as defined by OECD , is “a scientific concept that seeks to improve the efficiency with which natural resources are used to meet human needs for chemical products and services.” while hardware production happened in China. When asked why the company straddles China and the U.S.,

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Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

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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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Aigen’s swarm of agtech robots want to make agriculture carbon negative

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Even the diehard people that love chemicals, that love tilling the earth and other practices that have been releasing carbon in the atmosphere for thousands of years are starting to realize, hey, maybe we should be open to other ways to do this,” reflects Richard Wurden, CEO at Aigen. “We are collecting data through images.

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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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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. India’s Vande Bharat trains are powered by WABTEC’s technology. We’re using generative AI use cases to train the drivers to fix problems.

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

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” Qiu, the former chief of staff at Dropbox and the co-founder of Ember Hardware, which designed laser displays for VR headsets, co-founded Generally Intelligent in 2021 after shutting down her previous startup, Sourceress, a recruiting company that used AI to scour the web. ” Image Credits: Generally Intelligent.

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

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In development is a smarter version of the sampler that includes a set of sensors that can do on-site testing for all the most common factors: temperature, pH, troubling organisms, various chemicals. 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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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

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Facebook will stop using facial recognition technology and is deleting its face database, although it is keeping the model trained on that database. Mitre has released a list of important hardware vulnerabilities. coli : Synthetic biologists designed a maze represented by chemicals using bacteria engineered to detect those chemicals.

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