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Microsoft joins new industry alliance aimed at advancing DNA data storage systems

GeekWire

Microsoft is teaming up with other companies to form an alliance to advance the field of DNA data storage, which promises to revolutionize the way vital records are kept for the long haul. DNA is best-known as the instruction set for life, with a code consisting of four chemical “letters”: adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine.

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GeekWire Awards: Sustainable Innovation finalists create, destroy and transform to protect the planet

GeekWire

These companies are creating technologies to generate clean energy from smashed atoms and natural gas, blasting weeds into oblivion, spinning crab shells into clean chemicals, and sucking carbon dioxide gas out of industrial exhaust flues. They create, transform, destroy and remove — all in the name of saving the planet Earth.

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Hydrogen fuel startup spins out of Bill Gates-backed R&D effort, lands $7.8M

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Its strategy includes using electrolyzing technology to produce valuable industrial chemicals alongside hydrogen. Other co-founders include Stefan Omelchenko, a former Apple engineer; chemical engineer Matthew Shaner; and Orca Sciences founder Ian McKay.

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How Computer Vision is Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Supply Chain

CIO Business Intelligence

Taking that a step further—with a computer vision platform leveraging a federated approach —the analysis happens in near real time as there would be no need to push large amounts of data back to a central storage location. The same principle applies to chemical usage, where optimized usage also means less over- and under-dosing.

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20,000 Microsoft Azure accounts compromised in EU: Is your cloud safe?

Dataconomy

The operation, which spanned from June to September 2024, primarily affected firms in the automotive, chemical, and industrial sectors in Germany and the UK. They could also potentially move laterally across the network to access sensitive storage containers associated with the victims’ accounts.

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Seattle-area startup Group14 raises $17M to charge up battery-enhancing tech

GeekWire

million, including a prize given in September as a winner of the department’s EV-focused Energy Storage Grand Challenge. It spun out of EnerG2 , a University of Washington spinoff that Luebbe also co-founded and was acquired by German chemical company BASF in 2016. Department of Energy has awarded the company an additional $7.5

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Equinix Testing Fuel Cell for Use in Fire Suppression » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Equinix says the demonstration project is the first data center implementation of a system from n2telligence that use the nitrogen-rich output from the chemical reaction inside a fuel cell to manage the surrounding data center environment. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking.