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Luminate aims to make hair loss from chemotherapy a thing of the past

TechCrunch

Luminate Medical may have a solution in a medical wearable that prevents the chemical cocktail from tainting hair follicles, preventing the worst of the loss and perhaps relegating this highly visible condition to the past. People do, after all, spend that much and more not just on wigs but on other hair retention products and methods.

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DuPont and VCs see lithium mining as a critical investment for the electric future

TechCrunch

China through its mining companies and battery manufacturers is currently in the lead , thanks to a years-long push to control both the supply of lithium and develop massive new manufacturing capacity to meet global demand. Meanwhile, privately-held and venture-backed startups are developing other recycling solutions.

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Financial IT leaders prep for a quantum-fueled future

CIO

Optimization problems, for which a whole chorus of variables must be fine-tuned and modulated, routinely plague financial firms, especially when it comes to highly engineered financial products such as those developed through quantitative analysis. Their work earned them a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership.

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Psychedelics startups are on a long journey to consumer markets, but these 5 VCs are taking the ride

TechCrunch

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. We are most excited by drug developers. “Today, there are 400+ ketamine clinics in the U.S.,

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The Good and the Bad of Selenium Test Automation Tool

Altexsoft

When software engineer Jason Huggins built a new, innovative test automation tool, he named his creation by referencing the chemical element and supplement recommended as an antidote for mercury poisoning – selenium. The largest chunk of the product’s development is focused on this product. Introduction to Selenium.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

CIO

Throughout my career at Textron, I have had many roles, spanning supply chain, manufacturing, integrated product teams, and working on helicopter programs. From that point forward, I was fortunate enough to lead both the IT and OT teams within global pharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chain organizations.

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

What’s concerning isn’t the bad advice so much as the naiveté of the research project. Without a huge step forward in natural language understanding, and in the ability to reason about the history of human thought, why would anyone expect an AI system to do more than parrot back bad ethical advice that it finds in bulk on the web?

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