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30.04.26 - 19:18
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Zoo Employee Arrested for Allegedly Damaging Wife′s Body (Nippon)
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Sapporo, April 30 (Jiji Press)--Police on Thursday arrested a man for allegedly burning his wife's body in an incinerator at his workplace, Asahiyama Zoo, in the city of Asahikawa in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido. Arrested by the Hokkaido police department was Tatsuya Suzuki, a 33-year-old employee of the Asahikawa municipal government. The zoo, which is very popular, is run......
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28.04.26 - 19:09
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Fermeate Raises $2M Seed to Improve Fermentation with Light (Business Wire)
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fermeate, an industrial biotechnology company developing optogenetic control for industrial-scale precision fermentation, today announced a successful $2 million Seed round led by Newfund Capital with participation from SOSV, Ajinomoto Group Ventures, Ki Tua Fund, Heuristic Capital Partners, Momentum Capital, Plug & Play, Tesserakt Ventures, and Ag Startup Engine. The funding will support Fermeate's mission to transform unit economics and enable cost parity for precision fermentation products.
"Until now, the fermentation industry has largely relied on scale to reduce costs," said Kevin Xu, Co-Founder and CEO. "We take a different approach, unlocking more outputs from existing reactors with minimal capital investment and a typical payback period of under 11 months based on third-party TEAs."
Even highly optimized microbes can lose significant productivity over the course of an industrial fermentation run, reducing outputs and limiting efficiency. Fermea...
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24.04.26 - 11:06
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Kikkoman FY Business Profit Rises (AFX)
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BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT/PARIS (dpa-AFX) - Kikkoman (2801.T) reported fiscal year profit attributable to owners of the parent of 61.6 billion yen, down 0.1% from last yer. Basic earnings per share was 6......
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24.04.26 - 04:06
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CPUs regain central role in AI as Intel highlights growing importance alongside rising ASIC demand (Digitimes)
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Intel executives are placing renewed emphasis on the central role of CPUs in artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that shifting workloads are elevating their importance even as specialized chips gain traction. Management said the transition from model training to real-world deployment is driving stronger demand for server CPUs, reinforcing confidence in Intel's competitive position. At the same time, the company is expanding into custom silicon, or ASICs, as part of a broader strategy to address evolving AI infrastructure needs....
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21.04.26 - 11:42
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INTERVIEW: NH Foods to Address Spanish Pork Ban with Substitutes (Nippon)
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Tokyo, April 21 (Jiji Press)--Major Japanese meat packer NH Foods Ltd. plans to launch more bacon substitutes to address a shortage of pork belly, a raw material for bacon, triggered by a ban on imports of Spanish pork caused by an African swine fever outbreak, its president, Fumio Maeda, has said. The company is set to roll out new products made of meat other than pork belly as early as thi......
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