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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. The PTC can then automatically trigger a train’s braking system if high speeds are detected, or it can prevent a collision with another train on the line.

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

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With Katakem, Oliverio aims to develop what he calls a “robot chef” for chemists — a device that makes chemical reactions more consistently reproducible while accelerating the experimental process. “The production of a chemical product is strictly regulated and standardized. Image Credits: Katakem. million ($1.27

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

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The three-pronged technology includes biofloc technology, which creates an ideal environment to protect shrimp from disease and so they can grow without the need for antibiotics or harsh chemicals and with minimal need for water discharge. CellMEAT, a South Korean lab-grown shrimp producer, bags $8.1M Series A funding . Now armed with $3.9

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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.