Roundup: PainChek technology for Scotland’s veterans, Novartis announces companies selected for HealthHub 21 Challenge and more briefs

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NOVARTIS BIOME UK ANNOUNCES SELECTION FOR HEALTHHUB 21

Novartis UK has announced the selected companies for the Novartis BIOME UK HealthHub 21 Challenge, in collaboration with KQ Labs, the data driven health accelerator of the Francis Crick Institute, and LifeArc, the charity helping to turn science into benefits for patients.

The four selected companies are Living With, Macusoft, Mendelian and NeutroCheck.

These startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will be supported as part of the BIOME UK HealthHub 21 cohort to develop and scale their concepts to digitise patient pathways and advance remote care, helping to address the challenges

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Ketlin De Mello Moreira Selected For DOE Summer Research Program

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Ketlin de Mello Moreira became one of 90 community college students nationwide to be selected for summer research opportunities by the U.S. Department of Energy. Ketlin, who is on track to graduate this summer, is a Chattanooga State Community College Computer Information Technology major concentrating in Programming. She is working as a software developer and research intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 

Even though Ms. Moreira holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature, the excitement she expected in the field left her feeling “meh.” Then it happened. “The spark I was missing ignited the instant I

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California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature

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The California legislature unanimously approved a plan to build a statewide, open-access fiber network yesterday. The legislation was supported by Democrats and Republicans in votes of 78-0 in the California Assembly and 39-0 in the state Senate.

The statewide, open-access fiber lines will function as a “middle-mile” network that carries data from Internet backbone networks to connection points in cities and rural areas. A middle-mile network doesn’t extend all the way to residential properties, but “last-mile” ISPs can get access to it and focus on building infrastructure that connects the middle mile

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Disaster! You can’t recover what you don’t protect

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IT infrastructure has evolved dramatically over the years, and alongside this, so too has the nature of disasters. Where once, a disaster was an infrequent event related to extreme weather or hardware failure, today’s disasters are far more granular in nature. There are also numerous new workloads that need to be accommodated, and recovery time objectives may have changed, given the criticality of data. The question enterprises need to ask themselves is, does disaster recovery (DR) meet these needs? The DR strategy needs to be updated with modern solutions for modern problems and ensure there are no holes that could

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Squarespace: The Apple iPhone of web hosting has its limitations

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Seventeen-year-old New York-based hosting firm Squarespace has been dubbed by one Wall Street stock analyst “the iPhone of hosting.” 

That description is apt in more ways than one. 

Like the iPhone, there is a slick quality to many elements of Squarespace that is user friendly, especially to people with limited technical acumen, such as picking pleasing templates for blogging that provide an immediately attractive visual feel.

And similar to Apple products, the veneer of ease can produce a false sense of security. There are times when Squarespace won’t function the way you’d wish, and when it can cause frustration with

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Duality Quantum Accelerator Accepts Six Startups into Inaugural Cohort

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Duality will help quantum startups bridge the gap between the laboratory and the marketplace through entrepreneurship training and access to state-of-the-art facilities.

Duality, the nation’s first accelerator exclusively for quantum companies, has accepted six startups for Cohort 1. Duality is led by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), along with founding partners, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Argonne National Laboratory, and P33. 

Launched in April 2021, Duality is the first-of-its-kind accelerator aimed at supporting next-generation startups

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