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Former Intellectual Ventures exec named CEO of startup destroying PFAS ‘forever chemicals’

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Aquagga Photo) After five years, four in-the-field clean-up demos, and more than a dozen lab tests, the “forever chemical” destruction startup Aquagga is ready to commercialize its technology with a new CEO at the helm. The long-lived chemicals are able to escape from products and now contaminate drinking water nationwide.

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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

CIO Business Intelligence

With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes. US multinational Dow Chemical was working with a pulp and paper manufacturer to improve inefficiencies in its chemical process with a goal of producing a better, safer pulp yield.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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

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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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How Women in Tech are rising to the new challenges

CIO Business Intelligence

As Jyothirlatha, CTO of Godrej Capital tells us, Being a pandemic-born NBFC (non-banking financial company), a technology-first approach helps us drive business growth. Since technology evolves rapidly, ensuring seamless adoption while keeping business teams aligned requires continuous change management.

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El CIO Summit 2024 se mete de lleno en la era de la ‘IA en todas partes’

CIO Business Intelligence

También presentarán y moderarán expertos de IDC y Foundry, como Thomas Meyer , director general y vicepresidente de IDC EMEA; José Antonio Cano , director de Consultoría en IDC Research España; Fernando Muñoz , director de CIO Executive Council en Foundry; y Esther Macías , directora editorial de Foundry España.

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The First Quantum Revolution: Foundational information for the enterprise CTO

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Quantum physics helped us understand the periodic table, chemical interactions, and electronic wave functions that underpin the electronic semiconductor physics. In fact, there are many devices available today which are fundamentally reliant on our understanding the effects of quantum mechanics.

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