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

TechCrunch

And it would prompt Cohen to found his own startup, Flite Material Sciences , which debuted virtually at TechCrunch Startup Battlefield. ” Early research that tried to create these textures focused on a combination of gases and chemicals. “It moves material around or redeposits it back on without just burning it away.”

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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. San Diego-based startup Nanome uses virtual reality to solve that problem.

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Profet AI helps manufacturers build prediction models and industrial AI software

TechCrunch

The company’s flagship products are its AutoML Virtual Data Scientist Platform and Ready To Go Applications. They are intended for use by clients in the semiconductor, electronics, chemicals and textile manufacturing industries.

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Microsoft makes quantum breakthrough, plans commercial offering

CIO

On Tuesday, Zander said the partners had applied their improved qubit virtualization system to create and entangle 12 highly reliable logical qubits on Quantinuum’s 56-physical-qubits H2 machine. In April, Microsoft and Quantinuum demonstrated logical qubits with an error rate 800 times better than physical qubits.

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Secure Your 5G Business Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

5G-OT Connectivity A chemical manufacturer set up a private 5G network to connect its OT devices, like sensors, to monitor temperature and chemical composition, ensuring the process remains safe and stable. Operators can monitor and control machinery virtually.

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Shauntel Garvey of Reach Capital will join us to judge this year’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

Now we’re very excited to reveal one of the fine people who will be judging Startup Battlefield at this year’s all-virtual event in September: Shauntel Garvey, a general partner at Reach Capital, a VC specializing in the world of education technology. We’re really looking forward to her input as a Startup Battlefield judge.

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Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Startups will be competing for $100,000 in equity-free prize money and the attention of international press and top investors from around the world. With just over a 1.5%

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