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How new public transportation technology is prioritizing passenger safety

CIO

A recent survey of lapsed riders found 87% said safety was the biggest factor in whether they would return to mass transit. Air monitoring sensors Because of high population density, urban city centers are at a greater risk of targeted biological and chemical attacks.

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

TechCrunch

Terra Drone has about 500 customers including oil and gas companies like Shell, Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Vopak and Japan’s Inpex Corporation as well as chemical companies like BASF and Kansai Electric Power.

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Planbox Conducts State of Corporate Innovation Survey

Planbox

Participate in the State of Corporate Innovation Survey. The survey will close on February 14, 2020, and the results will be compiled in a report made available through Planbox and its partners in March 2020. Click here to take the State of Corporate Innovation Survey. About Planbox.

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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

CIO

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. Having that data in the cloud and piping it into our data pipelines is a much more effective way to do that.” As for No.

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B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups

TechCrunch

A survey of business buyers conducted by Digital Commerce 360 found that 20% of purchasing managers spent more on marketplaces, and 22% spent significantly more, during the pandemic. Insurance: Business buyers frequently purchase insurance as part of their transactions, particularly in high-value verticals such as jewelry.

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Four short links: 9 April 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The Electronic Nose and its Applications: A Survey — very good summary of tech, limitations, and applications of “electronic noses” aka multiple chemical sensors plus some machine learning/statistics. (via Everest Pipkin ). AutoHotkey — an automation scripting language for Windows.

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5 C-suite bridges every IT leader must build

CIO

That’s especially true when functional areas outside IT routinely buy their own technology and hire their own technology professionals, says Irving Tyler, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, and former CIO of Quaker Chemical and IMS Health. Leaders of an organization’s various function areas tend to have differing needs and priorities.

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