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Seattle startup has a climate friendly solution to the sticky problem of petroleum-based adhesives

GeekWire

Nvirovate launched in May 2021 and recently landed $850,000 in angel investments from two clean-tech focused investors — VertueLab and E8 Angels — as well as Diversified Chemical Technologies ; Willamette University ; Keeler Investments ; Family Angel Management Fund; and an individual investor.

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Seattle startup TwinStrand raises $50M to expand tech that identifies rare genetic mutants

GeekWire

Real-world applications: The technology can be used for early cancer detection, searching for cancer cells that survive despite treatment, and monitoring for cancer recurrence. The startup is planning similar licensing deals with other companies that will be announced later this year, Salk said.

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Merck Life Sciences banks on RPA to streamline regulatory compliance

CIO Business Intelligence

Merck Life Sciences, a leading chemical and pharmaceutical company, with 60,000 employees working across 66 countries, was one of them. The pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated one, especially for multinationals doing business across the globe. Dependency on human resources is both time-consuming and fraught with errors.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

IFI Claims writes that over the last five years, applications for gen AI patents have grown at a compounded annual rate of 31%. An additional use of new proteins is to detect chemicals in the body very quickly. “If So far, Castillo has been publishing her work with open-source licenses.

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The Internet of First Responder Things (IoFRT)

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

There are many applications for the IoFRT, and I’d guess they fall into several buckets: First Responder Personal Things – the sensors and equipment which would be on or near a First Responder to help that officer do the job and keep the officer safe. Applications to support 911 response can be harnessed to many of these “things”.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

In addition, Lonely Planet licenses its brand for a television travel series that is screened worldwide, and now it even publishes world music CDs. Lonely Planet’s customers are by their nature on the move, so it seemed a natural fit to offer telecommunications services. It is also a strong proponent of RosettaNet, described in Chapter 3.

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Sandbox AQ CEO: Enterprises must prep for quantum threats

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the applications of quantum computing that he discusses in that book is Shor’s Algorithm , which — if you have access to a working quantum computer — makes it possible to crack many of today’s encryption algorithms, finding private keys in seconds rather than (billions of) years. We have three pieces of this.