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Flite Material Sciences uses lasers, not chemical coatings, to keep ice and rust off surfaces

TechCrunch

Dan Cohen was on the hunt for a coating that could keep ice, snow and frost off of solar panels when he discovered a technology that could cut costs and reduce the environmental footprint of a broad section of products from aircrafts and drones to medical devices, pipelines and even sailboats. How it works. Take a lotus leaf, for instance.

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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

TechCrunch

As part of farmers’ integrated pest program, they often spray fungicide applications 12 times per year in order to yield fruits and vegetables. His firm has an impact fund focused on the future of food and began investing in alternative proteins in 2016 before expanding that to delivery systems in agriculture technology, he said.

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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

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Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. That grew into aquaculture farming technology with Russek and his team creating a startup company around it called Maricultura Vigas. million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO

In the 1970s, five formerIBMemployees developed programs that enabled payroll and accounting on mainframe computers. This technology eliminates the more complex and slower process of first extracting and consolidating data from multiple database tables using queries before displaying the results, as was the case with the previous version.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

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. “Participating LPs [Korean conglomerates] are passionate about climate technology and want to take part to address the climate and environment issue as they agree that the climate crisis is one of the urgent problems.” Its sweet spot is early-stage ventures from seed to series A stages across South Korea and Southeast Asia.

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Auditing IT resources can enhance your ESG programs

Capgemini

It’s not hard to imagine the energy use and e-waste inherent in simply outfitting a company’s internal technology needs, just so people can do their jobs. That means vulnerable people, like women and children working in the informal recycling sector, are often exposed to dangerous chemical substances like lead.

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

TechCrunch

Part of that comes from the need to closely examine every relevant molecule, studying its chemical composition and interactions as well as its physical structure at the atomic level. Discovery and research of new molecular compounds is an expensive business, with development costs exceeding $10 billion per substance in some cases.

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