For American importers, finding suppliers these days can be challenging not only due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. The U.S. government’s entity list designations, human rights-related sanctions, among other trade blacklists […]
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Back to news homeMIT develops method for lab-grown plants that eventually lead to alternatives to forestry and farming
Researchers at MIT have developed a new method for growing plant tissues in a lab — sort of like how companies and researchers are approaching lab-grown meat. The process would […]
December: Despite Pandemic, Opportunity in Retail Remains ‘Exceptional’
The second trend, according to Stewart, is consumer/retailer emphasis on physical health. “COVID-19 brought fear and panic to the retail landscape. The closure of non-essential retail stores to stop the […]
Sustainability, AI, and the Generations
Walid Ali, artificial intelligence in manufacturing, Microsoft, joins Peggy to talk about sustainability and its importance now and into the future. They discuss how AI (artificial intelligence) is changing in […]
Energy and Sustainability Trends in the COVID Era and Beyond
COVID-19 looms over the 2021 sustainability outlook, and the pandemic has and will continue to impact all aspects of society in large and still unknown ways. Connected World discussed this […]
China’s adaptive robot maker Flexiv raises over $100 million
As businesses around the world look to automate production lines and supply chains, companies making the robots are attracting great investor interest. The latest to get funded is Flexiv, which […]
How Is Industrial IoT Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Industry?
Illustration: © IoT For AllThe Internet of Things (IoT) has been booming all around the globe for a decade. The most obvious focus of IoT is the consumer domain. However, […]
States Pursued Sustainability, Even in 2020
Typically, the space is pretty burned out on tech buzz words of the year by the time December rolls around. But this year, tech buzz words’ place in the news […]
A New and Expanded Playing Field for Cybercriminals
The double whammy for cybersecurity in 2020 has been the huge increase in the number of remote workers and the heightened everything surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, these factors have […]
Space manufacturing startup Varda, incubated at Founders Fund, emerges with $9 million in funding
From a young age, Will Bruey, the co-founder and chief executive of Varda Space Industries, was fascinated with space and running his own business. So when the former SpaceX engineer […]