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National Science Foundation’s X-Labs initiative draws fire as ‘terrible idea’

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National Science Foundation’s X-Labs initiative draws fire as ‘terrible idea’
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new initiative to convert new research into products and industries. The $1.5bn programme, called X-Labs, however, has been criticized by some in the US scientific community given that financing the plan could come via cutting the budgets of current NSF directorates by as much as 30%.
The NSF says that the first round of X-Labs funding will focus on two areas – one on quantum sensing and AI-driven computational imaging while the second area w

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