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Surveilling aging infrastructure using fiber-opticsSomni Solutions, a small startup from The Hague, provided fiber-optic tilt sensors for the new Genoa bridge, which recently reopened, two years after the tragic collapse. CTO Remco Nieuwland explains how his company acquired this prestigious assignment and why we should start monitoring our own aging infrastructure. |
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Holst Centre betting big on the foil batteryCan billions of micropillars make for a better battery than we currently have? Yes, Holst Centre believes, after the final piece of the puzzle fell into place in the lab recently. Now, the institute is looking to scale up and commercialize the technology. |
In other news |
| Inventor of the pixel Russell Kirsch dies at 91 (Gizmodo) |
| Thermo Fisher will be fine without Qiagen (Seeking Alpha) |
| Signify to close Kansas facility, moving production outside of the US (Evertiq) |
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Planning for business agilityThe world has moved from planned and offline to real-time and online. The risk is that we lose track of the long term in favor of an overly strong sprint focus. |