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How new public transportation technology is prioritizing passenger safety

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Each year, Americans take billions of trips on buses, light rail, subways, trains and other public transit modalities. Further challenges can come when data sources are siloed in disparate solutions and between different agencies, such as law enforcement, public transit agencies and other organizations.

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Katakem’s ‘robot chef’ speeds up drug development with reliable chemistry

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Organic chemist Manuela Oliverio was working on a new drug when he noticed that test results on mice weren’t consistent, because the molecule being administered was always different depending on the chemist who produced it. “The production of a chemical product is strictly regulated and standardized. Image Credits: Katakem.

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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

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It’s over five years since Dow Chemical merged with DuPont to form DowDuPont — and three since they split up again to form a new agricultural supplies company, Corteva; a specialist chemicals manufacturer, Dupont; and a supplier of commodity chemicals, Dow. Melanie Kalmar was Dow’s CIO through all of that. “It Kalmar says.

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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.” “Ren generates a lot of proprietary data for us to train AI to do better than humans.

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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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Transitioning from mechanical challenges, the global freight organization has embraced more intricate trials, those of remote management, digitization, and preserving technical expertise and quality in the face of emerging obstacles. organization and pick up considerable data from our SCADA level systems. We are an industry 4.0

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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

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The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he started with a non-government organization working with fishing communities. CellMEAT, a South Korean lab-grown shrimp producer, bags $8.1M

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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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