Author Archives: Megusta

Healthcare startup Gabbi lands $4.4M to help women assess breast cancer risk and take action

Gabbi CEO and founder Kaitlin Christine. (Gabbi Photo) Gabbi, a Portland, Ore.-based startup building a tool to help women assess their risk for breast cancer, raised $4.4 million. Gabbi’s breast cancer risk calculator is also designed to propose a health action plan. The company aims to launch its product in the beginning of 2023 as…

A new reuse guide seeks to reduce material waste

Surveying windows for re-use must include an assessment of the condition of the frame, gaskets and sealing strips, fittings and insulating panes. Credit: SINTEF The construction industry generates a lot of waste, and both rehabilitation and new projects require large amounts of materials. Currently, we mainly use new building materials, which are in turn made…

Fully immersive virtual simulations can boost industrial accident prevention

Structure of the VR-ACM. Cited from Dhalmahapatra et al., (2020). Credit: https://osuva.uwasa.fi/handle/10024/14553 Industries must embrace 3D modeling with fully immersive virtual simulations in their occupational safety management systems. According to a new study from the University of Vaasa, Finland, this will help them to optimize accident prevention. The benefits of VR (Virtual Reality) technology stem…

Superconducting hardware could scale up brain-inspired computing

Artistic rendering of how superconducting circuits that mimic synapses (connections between neurons in the brain) might be used to create artificial optoelectronic neurons of the future. Credit: J. Chiles and J. Shainline/NIST Scientists have long looked to the brain as an inspiration for designing computing systems. Some researchers have recently gone even further by making…