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Retro Chic: The IoT Means Hardware Engineers Are Cool Again

The Investing Edge

In 1862, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute inaugurated a course in something called “mechanical engineering.” The top of the entrepreneurial/technology pyramid is now firmly occupied by the Software Engineer. In the same way that mechanization ate the world for 150 years, software is eating our modern world.

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Fresh blueberries 8 weeks after harvest? RipeLocker raises $5M to extend life of produce with patented containers

GeekWire

Left to right: RipeLocker lead systems engineer Eric Levi, head of software Andy Harrah and CEO and co-founder George Lobisser with a RipeLocker container. TerraClear, another AI-based hardware system, is being created by Smartsheet co-founder Brent Frei to remove pesky rocks from farmers’ fields. RipeLocker photo).

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ODC-Noord: The Netherland’s northernmost government data center is committed to a zero carbon future

CIO Business Intelligence

The migration to software-defined data centers was an important step in the right direction, but it’s just the beginning. And of course, there are myriad small steps we take each day, from recycling in our offices to promoting public transportation. It’s all important.”

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Networking the Cloud for IoT - Pt. 2 Stressing the Cloud

Cloud Musings

From a systems engineering point of view this data flow is multiplied by the trillions of other IoT sensors in the cloud, introducing unprecedented data processing and data transport stress. Industries and competing companies within those industries will also be forced to weigh the economic impact of paying for this transport and processing.

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Why Shenzhen is a hotbed for startups

Galido

In 2017 the city of Shenzhen is one of the fastest growing cities of the planet and a global manufacturing hub which produces a host of electronic items like drones, electric cars, smartphones, cameras, computer, hardware, software and more. These platforms annually raise a fund which amounted to $2.12

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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

GeekWire

” Helion and Microsoft have signed a power purchase agreement in which the software and cloud computing giant agrees to buy electricity from the fusion startup once the facility is generating power. The new reactor will be the same size as Polaris, and include additional hardware and technology for putting energy on the grid.

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Can TV take down the cult of the tech founder?

Vox

Of course, these stories are particularly tantalizing, especially to the tech companies producing them. Holmes, whose blood analysis hardware never actually did what she said it did, was found guilty of defrauding investors and is facing jail time. That wouldn’t be good TV.

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