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While the food technology investment sector has established its own direction over the last year, New Zealand-based food technology company Milk has been busy staying ahead of the curve in molecular agriculture technology. This aggressive strategy puts the company “about three to four years ahead of emerging competitors,” CEO Amos Palfreyman told TechCrunch. “Milk not only aims to overcome the challenges posed by a changing climate that impacts traditional dairy production, but also broadens its focus to address the critical issues of food security and nutrition. ,” Palfreeman said in an email interview. In 2022, TechCrunch plans to develop a…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Eva Meidel is a Bulgarian politician and member of the European Parliament. She was first elected to Parliament in 2014 at the age of 28 and was the youngest MP at the time. In 2019, Ms. Meidel was re-elected to Parliament…
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we look at a new financial-based dating app, Robinhood's financial results, and the startup in which PayPal Ventures made its first investment. Let's dive in! Get TechCrunch's roundup of the biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. PT. Subscribe here. big story A new dating app has been released just in time for Valentine's Day, but there's a catch. You need a credit score of at least 675 to use it. Launched by financial platform Neon Money Club, Score is a dating app…
Few categories are as ripe for disruption through automation as the construction industry. This industry is worth approximately $2 trillion annually in the United States alone. Much of the work is arduous, repetitive, and sometimes dangerous. This is exactly the kind of problem industrial robots were built to solve. Another thing that construction brings is a wide range of different challenges. This means more startups can operate in this space without direct competition. Bricklaying robots are by no means an undeveloped concept. At the moment, perhaps the best known player in this field is Hadrian X. This American company specializes…
LThe constant use of resources such as virtual data rooms and shared labs makes it easier for biotech startups to grow. This is good news. We need more companies to tackle cancer from new angles, such as early detection using AI. And one of these days he may become a trillion dollar company. — anna Expanding early cancer detection Latest from Y Combinator request for startings (RFS) is worth reading. That's not just because it's been a while since the incubator shared an idea or category that its partners would like to see more people working on. As my colleague…
Last Monday, I discovered Boston-based indie musician Walter the Producer. His music isn't on any of the playlists I follow, and he has less than 150,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. If I hadn't searched for his songs on Shazam when I was at a brewery in Phoenix, 3,000 miles from home, I probably wouldn't have found him. Finding new music has become a kind of game. Producer Walter also makes fun of this. His Spotify artist profile simply says, “If you make me a gatekeeper, I'll hunt you down.” Artists with deep pockets have always had an advantage over independent…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Irene Solaiman began her career in AI as a researcher and public policy manager at OpenAI, where she led a new approach to the release of GPT-2, ChatGPT's predecessor. She joined Hugging Face as head of global policy after nearly a…
centered on AI As it's a well-deserved and overdue time for female academics and others in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. As a reader, if you see a name we missed and think it should be on the list, please email us. I will try to add more. Here are the key players you should know about. Gender gap in…
for many organizations 2023 was a tough year economically, with some companies struggling to raise funds and cutting staff to survive. Meanwhile, ransomware and extortion gangs had a record year of revenue, according to recent reports. If you look at the current state of ransomware, that's not surprising. Over the past year, hackers have continued to evolve their tactics to become more sneaky and extreme in an attempt to pressure victims into paying increasingly exorbitant ransom demands. This escalation of tactics, and the fact that governments stopped short of banning ransom payments, made 2023 the most lucrative year for ransomware…
About a year ago, Alphabet's growth-stage venture arm, Capital G, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the division's founder, David Loewy, stepped down. Few were surprised by Sturdy's promotion to the post. She joined Google in her marketing role in 2007 and was pulled into many departments over the next few years, and in 2013 she was hired by Rowley when CapitalG was launched. Ta. Lowry told CNBC in 2021, Laella's name came up a lot when it came to figuring out who the stars were within Google. ” Of course, for many investors, the past…