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AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours

The Verge

An instructor at the Fort Leonard Wood Chemical School, who is designated as an agent handler, carries the VX nerve agent to contaminate a jeep in one of the eight chambers used for training chemical defense on April 18, 2003 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images. Tell me more about what you found.

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Future VR Haptics May Use Chemicals on the Skin to Make You Feel

Gizmodo

Virtual reality experiences are never going to feel like the real world until we’re able to engage all of our senses, not just vision and hearing. As a potential way to simulate a human’s ability to feel physical sensations, researchers have developed haptic VR hardware that applies chemicals to your skin to trigger… Read more.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others.

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Meta fights shutdown of Seattle-area Reality Labs cleanroom by state safety regulators

GeekWire

(Meta Photo via CNET ) Meta Platforms is asking a judge in Seattle to nullify a Washington State Department of Labor & Industries order that has forced the Facebook parent company to shut down a key part of a facility where it develops and tests futuristic devices. 18 order by L&I’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health.

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How do you recycle plastic? Startups and scientists are trying to make it easier

GeekWire

.” “Putting the burden on the consumer is part of the problem,” said Lucas Ellis , an assistant professor at Oregon State University’s School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering. Despite being an expert on plastic recycling with a chemical engineering Ph.D.,

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Creating an open digital twin framework to unlock 5G smart city revenues

TM Forum

The digital twin approach enables collaboration between partners involved in smart city planning, application development and construction, but there are challenges in implementing a digital twin-based smart city. Tianjin – smart chemical industrial park for responsible consumption and production using digital twins of products.

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University of Washington joins $40M campaign to enlist more software engineers for research

GeekWire

David Beck, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington, will lead the Scientific Software Engineering Center at UW’s eScience Institute. (UW “Development of robust, well-engineered software is a critical public service when the software supports projects to make the world better.”