Archive for the ‘business’ category: Page 241
Jan 2, 2018
Climate-Proofing the Global Economy | UN Global Compact
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, environmental
Dec 30, 2017
To Californians, it looked like a UFO. To Elon Musk, success | Bloomberg | Business Standard
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, Elon Musk, satellites, space
“The mission from California’s central coast was Space Exploration Technologies Corp’s 18th this year.”
Dec 30, 2017
Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality — By Robert S. KaplanGeorge SerafeimEduardo Tugendhat | Harvard Business Review
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, economics, finance
“Our first principle, therefore, is that corporations should search for projects that generate economic benefits for themselves while creating socioeconomic gains for all other actors in the new ecosystem.”
Dec 30, 2017
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and brother Mark give a rare interview … | Summit
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, futurism, space, sustainability
Dec 26, 2017
Virgin Hyperloop One just broke its speed record
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: business, transportation
Virgin Hyperloop One set a test speed record of nearly 240 miles per hour during its third phase of testing at its site in Nevada.
The company also tested a new airlock which helped transition test pods between atmospheric and vacuum conditions during a test campaign which was completed on December 15, 2017.
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Dec 22, 2017
Better, safer biotech production
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, business
Continuous automatic sampling during production aims to keep Danish biotechnology at the forefront. The equipment, and the company behind it, are the result of fruitful collaboration between businesses and universities.
Biotech companies can now take samples from their production as often as they wish, untouched by human hands.
This is all thanks to new equipment developed by start-up company Biomatics Technology. Both the company and product were nurtured in the Biopro network, which involves a number of Danish biotech companies and DTU and the University of Copenhagen.
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Dec 15, 2017
A New Industrial Hack Highlights the Cyber Holes in Our Infrastructure
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, energy
Freshly discovered malware called Triton can compromise safety systems that control many kinds of industrial processes.
For years, security experts have been warning that hackers can disable systems that control critical infrastructure we all rely on, such as dams and power plants. Now researchers at Mandiant, which is part of the security firm FireEye, have revealed that a new form of malware, dubbed Triton, closed down the operations of a business in the Middle East belonging to Schneider Electric, a French company. The researchers say that they haven’t attributed the hack to a particular attacker, but they do say it bore hallmarks of threats from a nation-state.
Triton appears to have targeted a so-called safety instrumented system, or SIS, which monitors the operation of a physical process using sensors and acoustics. By taking control of it, hackers can destroy or damage the process the SIS is monitoring by tricking it into thinking everything’s normal, when in fact the process is operating at unsafe levels.
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