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Flite Material Sciences uses lasers, not chemical coatings, to keep ice and rust off surfaces

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Dan Cohen was on the hunt for a coating that could keep ice, snow and frost off of solar panels when he discovered a technology that could cut costs and reduce the environmental footprint of a broad section of products from aircrafts and drones to medical devices, pipelines and even sailboats. How it works. Take a lotus leaf, for instance.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

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Many technology leaders already worked with AI for over a decade for things like predictive maintenance and supply chain planning. Some even implemented their own virtual personal assistants (VPAs), which included at least natural language processing—and sometimes more intelligence than that.

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

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Part of that comes from the need to closely examine every relevant molecule, studying its chemical composition and interactions as well as its physical structure at the atomic level. San Diego-based startup Nanome uses virtual reality to solve that problem. Nanome helps scientists get on the same page quicker,” he wrote in an email.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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As the technology exhausts its honeymoon period, and companies in all industries find new ways of using it to get ahead of the competition, a new race is on. An additional use of new proteins is to detect chemicals in the body very quickly. “If Or you might use new proteins to test for other compounds, such as antibodies. “We

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Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

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Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. It’s apparent that this next wave of founders are very much focused on building unicorns and also building deeply impactful technologies. With just over a 1.5%

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Shauntel Garvey of Reach Capital will join us to judge this year’s Startup Battlefield

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Now we’re very excited to reveal one of the fine people who will be judging Startup Battlefield at this year’s all-virtual event in September: Shauntel Garvey, a general partner at Reach Capital, a VC specializing in the world of education technology.

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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

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Before we were quite fragmented across different technologies. Enabling consistency in the data sets from these varied sites is integral to DS Smith’s analytics strategy, as well as for anticipated changes in the company’s technology and business models, Dickson says. Much of our digital agenda is around data. As for No.