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

GeekWire

Department of Agriculture started trials with RipeLocker, part of an effort to examine whether the technology can reduce chemicals typically used to extend the storage life of produce. The news : RipeLocker raised $5 million in fresh funding, money that the Bainbridge Island, Wash., It also announced that U.S.

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How quantum computing could transform everything everywhere, but not all at once

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.” Computer scientists might take issue with Kaku’s digital doomsaying — but there’s little doubt that quantum computers will transform the field as much as artificial intelligence is transforming it today. “Chemists who do not use quantum computers to model chemical reactions will go bankrupt,” he says.

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How Computer Vision is Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Supply Chain

CIO Business Intelligence

Taking that a step further—with a computer vision platform leveraging a federated approach —the analysis happens in near real time as there would be no need to push large amounts of data back to a central storage location. The same principle applies to chemical usage, where optimized usage also means less over- and under-dosing.

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Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

CIO Business Intelligence

Active in 69 countries, Eni works across the value chain—from natural gas and oil to electric and renewable energy generation, traditional and bio-refining and chemicals. Modern data analytics spans a range of technologies, from dedicated analytics platforms and databases to deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Meet Nala, the police dog that sniffs out electronic devices to fight internet crimes against children

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Nala, a Seattle Police Department K9 that specializes in electronic storage detection, can sniff out everything from smart phones to hard drives to micro SD cards as part of her work combatting child sexual exploitation. Daljit Gill and Nala, the electronic storage detection K9 that she has been working with for two years.

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Computer Vision Is Transforming the Transportation Industry, Making It Safer, More Efficient and Improving the Bottom Line

CIO Business Intelligence

They require real-time situational awareness, based on the analysis of many different data points, which taxes compute and storage resources at the edge—defined as where the physical world meets the data world. . Railways, airports, cargo ships, and public and private transportation are complex use cases for computer vision.