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Life sciences startups in Eastern Washington find a welcoming ecosystem away from big cities

GeekWire

Washington State University assistant professor and Appiture Biotechnologies co-founder Georgina Lynch. WSU Photo). The biotech and healthtech community in Eastern Washington has a loyal base of startups that laud their local connections and the support of a tight-knit group of entrepreneurs.

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2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead

GeekWire

And I’ll earn my A-class license on iRacing…. Our region is very well positioned to capitalize on the huge inflows of investment capital into biotechnology and other tech sectors over the past year which are projected to continue for at least another year if not longer. Magdalena Balazinska , professor and director of the Paul G.

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Why the global chip shortage is making it so hard to buy a PS5

The Verge

So you buy a processing unit design from somebody like Arm in the UK, who is very popular, and then maybe you need the USB interface, so you get a USB IP block, which you license. And then they’ll lay down an interconnect network of little copper wires, which they also print on there to connect all those transistors.

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