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GM announces plans to make mobile power generators using hydrogen fuel cells

The Verge

General Motors announced plans to manufacture mobile power generators using its Hydrotec-branded hydrogen fuel cells. GM’s Mobile Power Generator can fast-charge EVs without having to expand the grid or install permanent charge points in places where there is only a temporary need for power.

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How new public transportation technology is prioritizing passenger safety

CIO Business Intelligence

Air monitoring sensors Because of high population density, urban city centers are at a greater risk of targeted biological and chemical attacks. Fleet monitoring Using GPS tracking, fleet managers can track mobile assets in real time to improve utilization, monitor operator behavior, and increase safety and security in public transport.

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‘It’s just astronomical’: Soaring fentanyl deaths help spur tech solutions for combating the opioid

GeekWire

They use costly, mobile chemical detection devices to analyze the substances. But they're limited by the device's onboard database or "library" of known chemicals. Kabrena Rodda , a PNNL senior scientist who leads multiple projects focused on chemical threats, estimates that there are millions of potential fentanyl analogues.

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Vote for Startup CEO of the Year: These five leaders are taking their companies to new heights

GeekWire

Katherine Sizov (bottom left): The CEO and co-founder of Strella Biotechnology wants to help reduce food waste with her company’s hardware that detects ethylene, a chemical released by fruit as it ripens. Founded in 2017, Strella won GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch competition in 2022.

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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s over five years since Dow Chemical merged with DuPont to form DowDuPont — and three since they split up again to form a new agricultural supplies company, Corteva; a specialist chemicals manufacturer, Dupont; and a supplier of commodity chemicals, Dow. Melanie Kalmar was Dow’s CIO through all of that. “It

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They’re putting guns on robot dogs now

The Verge

As well as providing remote video and mapping, the machines could be used as mobile cell towers, to defuse bombs, or to detect chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear matter (otherwise known as CBRN). And, of course, they can become weapons themselves. Image: Ghost Robotics.

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NASA awards millions to boost technology innovations created by small businesses

GeekWire

OptiNav: Bellevue-based OptiNav is working on a noise-measuring system that could provide more accurate readings during aircraft tests for NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility Project and the AAM National Campaign. The VYZion system could also be used for terrestrial power generation. Nonlinear Materials Corp.