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We’d Love Your Feedback On New Applications Designed To Master Supply Chain Resilience

Forrester IT

But now there is a global shortage of everything from twenty-foot containers to lumber and basic chemicals. Lead time and availability determine customer experience. We all learned about that during the crisis. You must master supply chain resilience to meet your customers’ lead time and availability expectations.

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This startup turns discarded crab shells into useful industrial chemicals

GeekWire

That includes water purification, replacing flame retardants and PFAS “forever chemicals” in clothing, and improving the uptake of fertilizers by plants. The company was an early customer for Tidal Vision’s cleaning chemicals. An acquisition: Tidal Vision added roughly 100 employees when it acquired Everett, Wash.-based

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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

CIO Business Intelligence

For chemists, finding just the right molecule for a particular application can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes.

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‘Forever chemicals’ are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup

GeekWire

Aquagga Photo) It would be fair to expect the destroyer of toxic “forever chemicals” to be a massive, intimidating device. The long-lived chemicals are great at deflecting water, stains and grease — but they escape from products and now contaminate drinking water across the nation and are even detected in breast milk.

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Scientists turn to the cloud to streamline supercomputer calculations for chemistry

GeekWire

Their effort to make supercomputer-scale resources more widely available through cloud computing could aid in the search for methods to break down toxic “forever chemicals” that are currently hard to get rid of. The chemical, also known as PFOA, was banned worldwide in 2019 but still persists in the environment.

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Embedded software development for IoT applications

Dataconomy

Image credit ) What is embedded software development and why is it important for IoT-enabled applications Embedded software development plays a major role in the introduction of IoT-enabled applications. However, through IoT applications comes the challenge of integrating sensors into embedded software systems.

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Microsoft makes quantum breakthrough, plans commercial offering

CIO Business Intelligence

“The main issue with today’s Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) machines is that the physical qubits are too noisy and error-prone, making the machines impractical for real-world applications,” Zander said. The simulation was able to accurately predict the ground state energy for a specific catalyst problem.

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