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Advanced Computing & Information Technology, Advanced Manufacturing & Design, Health Care, Commerce
AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scratch – and they...

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan (NewScientist, January 2023). An AI was tasked with creating proteins with anti-microbial properties. Researchers then created a subset of the proteins and...

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Advanced Computing & Information Technology, Clean Energy Transition, Government, Commerce
Climate Enforcers Need Hard Evidence. Friederike Otto Has It

By Matt Reynolds (Wired, January 2023). World Weather Attribution ties disasters and extreme conditions to climate change—providing crucial leverage for legal and policy battles.

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Advanced Computing & Information Technology, Advanced Manufacturing & Design, Commerce
America’s first nuclear-powered Bitcoin mining center to open in ...

By Ana Nicenko (Finhold, January 2023). With the expansion of the cryptocurrency sector, mining Bitcoin (BTC) is becoming increasingly mainstream, and the construction of the...

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Advanced Manufacturing & Design, Equity & Inclusion, Commerce, Reimagining the Workplace
New MIT Research Indicates That Automation Is Responsible for Inc...

By Peter Dizikes, MIT (SciTechDaily, January 2023). Recent data suggests that the majority of the increase in the wage gap since 1980 can be...

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Advanced Computing & Information Technology, Commerce, Reimagining the Workplace
Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality...

By Jez Corden (Windows Central, January 2023). Microsoft revealed its joining Amazon, Google, and others in laying off thousands of employees. The cuts reduces Microsoft's...

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Advanced Manufacturing & Design, Clean Energy Transition, Commerce
North American EV battery production forecast to reach 1 TWh annu...

By Michael Schoeck (PV Magazine, January 2023). Rust Belt states of the Midwest have estimated production capacity of 30 GW to over 100 GW per...

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Advanced Computing & Information Technology, Advanced Manufacturing & Design, Commerce
What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware?

By John Timmer (Ars Technica, January 2023). While many companies are now offering access to general-purpose quantum computers, they're not currently being used to solve...