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New source of lunar water discovered by China’s Chang’e-5 Moon lander

E&T

China’s Chang’e-5, which touched down on the Moon in December 2020, found water at its landing site using spectral reflectance measurements of soil and rocks. Now, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) found that impact glass beads in Chang’e-5’s lunar soils also contain some water.

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Flawed CIA covert websites may have risked sources’ lives, research says

E&T

Four years prior, an article published in Yahoo News reported that a CIA covert communications system had been compromised by Iran and China around 2011, leading to the death of “more than two dozen sources” in China and Iran. The notion that CIA would not work as hard as possible to safeguard them is false.”.

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Industry IoT Consortium and Digital Twin Consortium Merge

Gary Mintchell

Two major sources of technology buzz from around 2015 to 2020 or so found homes in industry consortia within The Object Management Group. I talked often with people from the IIC, aka Industry IoT Consortium , and with the Digital Twin Consortium. These were most likely too much overhead for the supporting suppliers and industry.

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Würth Group Releases 2020-2022 Sustainability Report

Fastener News Desk

Bettina Würth, Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of the Würth Group It was possible to create and foster these connections in the blink of an eye that constituted the last several decades driven by a linear economy: mining, sourcing, production, distribution, disposal. We are striving for climate neutrality by using renewable energy sources.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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IFR: world sets record for operational robots in 2022

Robotics Business Review

Source: IFR South Korea was the most automated country by robot density in 2022, according to the IFR. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as South Korea was the most automated country in 2020 and 2021. Most automated countries worldwide Robot density by country in 2022. It clocked in at 1,012 robots per 10,000 employees.

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Virtual Incision wins FDA nod for miniature MIRA surgical robot for use in colectomies

Robotics Business Review

Source: Virtual Incision Virtual Incision announced that the FDA granted marketing authorization to its MIRA miniaturized surgical robotic system. Source: Virtual Incision The MIRA platform received IDE approval in October 2020 , followed by approval for an IDE supplement in April.

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