📰 Check out the latest in #TechnologyNews! Today we have an interesting article about synthetic salmon 🐟, an AI chatbot being used in schools 🎓, the season 2 of Good Omens 🌟, and an update on Cruise's robotaxi fleet 🚗. 🌱 Plant-based startup, New School Foods, is developing a salmon substitute that mimics the taste and texture of real salmon. Read more: [link to the article] 🤖 Educators and students, we want to hear about your experiences using AI chatbots for teaching and coursework! Share your thoughts here: [link to the article] 💑 Good Omens fans, the release of season 2 finally puts any doubts about Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship to rest. Read more: [link to the article] 🚗 Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco after concerning incidents. Find out more here: [link to the article] #TechnologyNews #SyntheticSalmon #AIChatbots #GoodOmens #SelfDrivingCars #Cruise
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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.
Are You Using ChatGPT in Your School or University? We Want to Hear About It.
We're asking educators and students how they are using new A.I. chatbots for teaching and coursework. Read more
In Good Omens, diversity is divine
Warning: Spoilers ahead for season 2 of Amazon Prime's Good Omens
With the release of the second season of Good Omens on July 28th, writer Neil Gaiman has officially (and rather devastatingly) put any accusations of queerbaiting to bed. Leaving very little room for interpretation, Crowley and Aziraphale — the respectively demonic and angelic main characters of the Amazon fantasy-comedy series — engaged in some distressingly emotional snogging during the last moments of this season's final episode, thereby ending over 30 years of speculation about the nature of their relationship. The fight is over. The shippers have won.
Cruise complies with California DMV's request to halve its fleet
Kirsten Korosec from TechCrunch reports that Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following "recent concerning incidents" involving its robotaxis. Read more
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