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Microsoft and PNNL make a better battery, and show AI’s potential to supercharge science

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A prototype battery developed by Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory uses a combination of lithium and sodium to reduce the overall lithium content. The AI tools reduced the number of candidates from 32 million to 23, of which 18 were new and previously unknown, Microsoft and PNNL say.

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IonQ shows off its new quantum computer factory — and already has plans to expand

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A year ago, when IonQ revealed its plans to create a new kind of research and manufacturing facility in the Seattle area, the idea was to use roughly 65,000 square feet of space on two floors of a three-story building in Bothell that once housed offices for AT&T Wireless. “So, a 50% increase in our footprint in one year.

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Zeno Power teams up with Westinghouse on radioisotopes for nuclear power system

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to process the radioisotopes for its heat sources — creating a partnership that adds a key puzzle piece to its plan for a new type of radioisotope power system, or RPS. Last October, the startup demonstrated the heat source for its strontium-based RPS at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash.

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Zeno demonstrates an innovative type of radioisotope heat source for off-grid power

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Team members at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory remove Zeno Power’s strontium-90 heat source from a transfer port during a series of tests. The demonstration — performed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. — took advantage of the energy provided by the radioactive decay of strontium-90.

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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO Business Intelligence

Giving people access to free pizza or dry cleaning is not about building culture — it’s a way of getting people to stay in the building for long hours and to do a hard job,” contends Tim Wenhold, chief innovation officer, COO, and partner at Power Home Remodeling. It’s a more outward thinking and focused culture, not an inward journey.”

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The New Effort to Embed Cybersecurity Into Manufacturing

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CyManII has identified three high-priority areas to focus research and development to help US manufacturers in preventing these cyberattacks: securing automation, securing the supply chain network, and building a national program for education and workforce development. manufacturing enterprise. CyManII proposed members and funding.

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Pacific NW National Lab opens AI center to concentrate on science, security, energy

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(PNNL Illustration / Chris DeGraaf) The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is shining a brighter spotlight on artificial intelligence by creating the Center for AI @PNNL , but don’t expect the lab’s researchers to build a better chatbot. Researchers at PNNL in Richland, Wash.,

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