🌍📰 Check out today's top technology news! 📱🔍 1️⃣ Ever wondered what synthetic salmon tastes like? 🐟🌱 Read about one journalist's experience and find out if synthetic fish is worth the hype. 🤔🍽️ #SyntheticSalmon #PlantBased #FoodTech 2️⃣ Can AI-generated artwork be copyrighted? 🤖🎨 A US Federal Judge has ruled that it can't. Get the details of this groundbreaking decision and its implications. 📜🖼️ #AIArt #Copyright #LegalNews 3️⃣ Evacuees from the wildfires in Yellowknife are having a hard time sharing important information due to Meta's news fight with the Canadian government. Learn more about this concerning situation. 🔥📢 #Wildfires #MetaNews #PublicSafety 🔗 Read more: - Synthetic Fish: The New York Times ➡️ [link] - Synthetic Fish: Ars Technica ➡️ [link] - AI Art Copyright Ruling: The Verge ➡️ [link] - Meta's News Fight: CBC News ➡️ [link] #TechNews #AI #SalmonSubstitute #CopyrightLaw

Today's Technology News

I try synthetic salmon and enter the "uncanny valley" of taste

I could count on one thing as I sat down for a multiple-course meal based on something that looked very much like salmon: I would not have to worry about any bones. The plant-based theme ingredient came from a Toronto startup called New School Foods that has been developing a way to construct a salmon substitute with not just the taste but also the texture of the real thing.

New School treated a table's worth of journalists to a tasting dinner in Toronto in late June—subject to a no-food-photos rule for attendees but with no restrictions on taking notes. That comped meal came hours after CEO Chris Bryson gave his sales pitch for the company during a panel at the Collision conference there, in which he said that New School's goal was to see its products "enthusiastically adopted by non-vegans."

New School has given itself a tall order by making salmon its go-to-market product. Salmon both has a distinctive, delicate texture and one of the most identifiable flavor profiles among seafood. And people prepare it with a wider range of techniques than most kinds of meat allow—grilling, poaching, sautéing, smoking, roasting, or even not cooking it at all. For plant-based salmon to pass muster, it has to work across those use cases.

Synthetic fish isn't quite there yet—and may not be worth the effort.

Read more: Ars Technica

Synthetic Fish for Dinner? I Experience the "Uncanny Valley" of Taste

Read more: The New York Times

AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge

United States District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled on Friday that AI-generated artwork can't be copyrighted, as noted by The Hollywood Reporter. She was presiding over a lawsuit against the US Copyright Office after it refused a copyright to Stephen Thaler for an AI-generated image made with the Creativity Machine algorithm he'd created.

Read more: The Verge

Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information

Read more: CBC News