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This ag-tech startup kept digging, and found an electrifying idea to zap weeds and soil pests

GeekWire

startup that replaces chemical pesticides with devices that zap soil pests with a jolt akin to a controlled lightning strike. For a decade, the company has doggedly kept at its goal, finding creative solutions to hardware challenges and quickly pivoting to seize new opportunities. The chemicals also kill good bugs as well as bad.

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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. TerraClear, another AI-based hardware system, is being created by Smartsheet co-founder Brent Frei to remove pesky rocks from farmers’ fields.

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

GeekWire

Energy generation and storage, food production, climate modeling, disease treatment and genetic repair are all potential targets for quantum supremacy. ” Tech titans haven’t yet settled on the best basis for quantum computing: Amazon, Google and IBM use superconducting circuits in their hardware. Why is that?

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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. To create a productive, cost-effective analytics strategy that gets results, you need high performance hardware that’s optimized to work with the software you use.

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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.

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Equinix Testing Fuel Cell for Use in Fire Suppression » Data Center.

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Equinix says the demonstration project is the first data center implementation of a system from n2telligence that use the nitrogen-rich output from the chemical reaction inside a fuel cell to manage the surrounding data center environment. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking.