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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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Future VR Haptics May Use Chemicals on the Skin to Make You Feel

Gizmodo

As a potential way to simulate a human’s ability to feel physical sensations, researchers have developed haptic VR hardware that applies chemicals to your skin to trigger… Read more. Virtual reality experiences are never going to feel like the real world until we’re able to engage all of our senses, not just vision and hearing.

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Microsoft gives developers a new method for estimating quantum computing needs

GeekWire

Microsoft has an app for that — and now developers around the world can have it, too. It’s a software tool that was originally developed for Microsoft’s internal use. And we’ve been able to redesign our hardware accordingly as well.” The app is called the Azure Quantum Resource Estimator.

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Protect produce: New startup in Seattle aims to make food last longer with high-tech fridge

GeekWire

Tomorrow has developed technology that reduces water loss in produce with a patent-pending cooling system that can manage the atmosphere. The Seattle-based company, which develops software to assist salespeople, was valued at more than $4 billion valuation a few years ago. Andrew Kinzer. Kinzer left the company in 2020.

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AWS opens up its Amazon Braket platform as ‘launch pad’ for quantum computing

GeekWire

IonQ, one of the hardware partners for the Amazon Braket quantum computing platform, uses a specialized type of chip known as a linear ion trap. “Thousands of customers are asking for ways to experiment with quantum computers to explore the technology’s potential and contribute to its development,” Vass said today in a news release.

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Retro Chic: The IoT Means Hardware Engineers Are Cool Again

The Investing Edge

Less than 20 years later the American Society of Mechanical Engineers was organized and, with the development of a magical force called electricity, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers was founded a short time later. This, of course, is the old world of the Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical Engineer. engineering folks.

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USNC-Tech and Blue Origin win a contract for nuclear thermal propulsion design

GeekWire

Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies and its partners are among three teams winning $5 million contracts from NASA and the Department of Energy to develop reactor designs for space-based nuclear thermal propulsion systems. Such propulsion systems are considered more efficient than chemical rockets for missions beyond Earth orbit.

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