📰 Daily Technology News 📰 🐟 I try synthetic salmon and enter the "uncanny valley" of taste 🐟 I had the chance to taste a plant-based salmon substitute that not only looks like the real thing, but also mimics the taste and texture! 🌱🐠 Read the full article and find out how New School Foods is revolutionizing the seafood industry: [link to Ars Technica article] In other news, Sam Bankman-Fried is back in jail and we have an exciting podcast episode about AI and self-driving cars. Tune in for all the details: [link to New York Times article] And Tesla owners, rejoice! The Tesla app now supports automation with Apple Shortcuts, allowing you to control your vehicle and climate settings conveniently: [link to The Verge article] Lastly, Elon Musk has announced that Twitter's block feature might be on its way out. Find out more in this article: [link to The Verge article] Stay tuned for more technology news, coming tomorrow! 🚀💻 #technologynews #syntheticsalmon #AI #Tesla #ElonMusk
Daily Technology News
August 20, 2023
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.
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Sam Bankman-Fried Goes to Jail, Back to School With A.I. and A Self-Driving Car Update
Sam Bankman-Fried lands himself back in jail. Sam Bankman-Fried lands himself back in jail.
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Tesla's app now supports automation with Apple Shortcuts
Tesla owners with iPhones can now use Siri to trigger Apple Shortcuts automations without turning to paid third-party apps like Tessie to do so. The Tesla app's newest update, version 4.24.0, dropped with a release note saying "Access your vehicle controls and climate from the Apple Shortcuts app."
To use Siri with Shortcuts, all you have to do is invoke Apple's digital assistant and say the name of your automation. It's a little clunkier than actual Siri integration, because to trigger Shortcuts automations, you have to memorize the names you've given them and repeat them verbatim, but it's probably the best Tesla owners will get, at least for now.
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Elon Musk claims "block is going to be deleted as a 'feature', except for DMs"
Elon Musk says X's (formerly Twitter's) block feature is on the chopping block, except for direct messages (DMs).
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