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How do you capture the ocean’s energy? Peek under the hood of a startup’s ‘anti-boat’ power device

GeekWire

Oscilla Photo) Oscilla Power , a startup developing devices that capture wave energy to produce electricity, has ocean-sized ambitions. There are no land-based energy systems to borrow from and adapt to the sea. Navy Wave Energy Test Site. A fiberglass cover will protect the hardware. Oscilla has raised $7.5 In the U.S.,

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Apple has a new head of hardware engineering in latest executive shuffle

The Verge

John Ternus, Apple’s new senior vice president of hardware engineering | Photo: Apple. Apple’s hardware team is getting its biggest shakeup in nearly a decade, as Dan Riccio — who served as the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering since 2012 — transitions to “a new role” at the company.

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Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy leads $65M funding round for Stoke Space’s reusable rockets

GeekWire

Breakthrough Energy Ventures , the multibillion-dollar clean-tech initiative created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is leading a $65 million funding round to back Kent, Wash.-based But Stoke Space’s co-founder and CEO, Andy Lapsa, told GeekWire that his company wants to change all that. Stoke Space Photo).

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CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

GeekWire

of Commerce will lead a delegation of companies to the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), taking place in Las Vegas next Tuesday through Thursday. The delegation of six companies includes robotic barista maker Artly — a Seattle-based startup founded in 2020 in a bid to use tech to make the perfect cup of coffee — and others.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

How Nvidia got here and where it’s going next sheds light on how the company has achieved that valuation, a story that owes a lot to the rising importance of specialty chips in business—and accelerating interest in the promise of generative AI. Efforts to stay in the $1T club Nvidia is driving forward on many fronts.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Among those ranked in the 59 th edition of the TOP500 announced at the 2022 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, are standouts conducting powerful research in energy generation, cyber and physical threats, and astrophysics. Eni, HPC5: The Supercomputer Working for Energy. Rmax [TFlop/s], 51,720.76

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A company wants to build a massive solar project in Montana — of course it’s for crypto

The Verge

A company looking to build a massive solar project in Butte, Montana claims it would provide 300MW of renewable power and cost $250 million, Gizmodo reported. That’s according to Madison River Equity LLC, whose parent company also manages cryptomining outfit Atlas Power. Photo by Janie Osborne/Getty Images.

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