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‘Forever chemicals’ are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup

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Aquagga Photo) It would be fair to expect the destroyer of toxic “forever chemicals” to be a massive, intimidating device. The long-lived chemicals are great at deflecting water, stains and grease — but they escape from products and now contaminate drinking water across the nation and are even detected in breast milk.

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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

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For chemists, finding just the right molecule for a particular application can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes.

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Seattle clean tech startup lands $1.4M for eco-friendly soy-based suds for shampoos, detergents

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Included are Chief Technology Officer Shawn Eady (far left) and CEO Christoph Krumm (center right, open lab coat). The tech: Sironix has developed a suite of surfactants, which are the chemicals that make shampoo foamy and lifts oily stains out of fabrics. million in new funding. million.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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The First Quantum Revolution: Foundational information for the enterprise CTO

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It turns out that while classical physics works well enough at scales greater than the atom and speeds much lower than the speed of light, outside of this domain, real observations do not match what classical mechanics predicts - quantum physics is more accurate and broadly applicable.

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Climate tech funding news: BattGenie works its magic; lithium refining startup gets Gates’ support

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The technology came out of the lab of Chief Technology Officer Venkat Subramanian , a chemical engineering professor now located at the University of Texas. Its other two co-founders, CEO Manan Pathak and Chief Product Officer Chintan Pathak , both earned their doctoral degrees from the UW. .

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

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During COVID-19 lockdowns, for example, specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle developed a VPA to provide self-service assistance to over 7,000 employees at home, including a natural language interface with a chat bot, and enough AI to help people interface seamlessly with several business applications at a time.

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