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$5M Climate Impact Fund launches to support entrepreneurs tackling the climate crisis

GeekWire

Clean tech startups can be slower moving as their innovations often include hardware and their prototype process can take longer, particularly if it involves biological or chemical processes. But the sector faces it’s own challenges. Ken Vaughn, VertueLab’s director of Impact Investments.

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Financial IT leaders prep for a quantum-fueled future

CIO Business Intelligence

The premise is that even if a few individual components underperform, the rest buoy the net result, delivering a fairly predictable return over a fixed amount of time. Their focus was traditional Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), which comprise hundreds of thousands of equities that make up a certain return over a period of time.

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California company breaks ground on Washington’s first commercial sustainable aviation fuel plant

GeekWire

Washington is a long-time aviation hub and the sector is in pursuit of technologies to meet its carbon reduction goals, with commercial airlines committing to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, is the quickest near-term climate fix as the cleaner fuel can replace jet fuel in existing planes.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. That's where you know, your water plants come in, that's where your chemicals, your oil and gas, your big manufacturing facilities.

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