Biotech startup SynFlora brought an enticing pitch for a new type of skin treatment technology to 4YFN at the MWC tradeshow in Barcelona this week.
The Spanish startup, whose three co-founders all have PhDs, is working to improve understanding of the skin’s microbiome and engineer skin microbes with the goal of enabling more targeted and novel therapeutics.
Including things that range well beyond what we might consider skincare.
), per Knōdlseder, or even vaccines and anti-inflammatory treatments.
But the co-founders suggest they could be between one to three years away from their novel system powering a new generation of skin-delivered therapeutics.
Plex CEO Keith Valory confirmed the round closed this month, but was unable to disclose Plex’s new valuation.
Recently, the company has been developing social features, as well, allowing Plex users to opt into a feature that tracks their viewing and shares it with friends.
To date, however, it’s Plex’s ad-supported streaming that’s been helping Plex grow its revenue.
And we’re in, at least, the top five if not higher in this space, and we feel like we’re doing really, really well,” he said.
As a result of Plex’s ability to track users’ media discovery behavior and consumption across platforms and services, the company has a unique perspective from a data standpoint.
When HPE announced its intention to acquire Juniper Networks for $14 billion in cold, hard cash earlier this month, it was a bit of a shock.
In fact, in a blog post announcing the deal, Juniper CEO Rami Rahim suggested it was more about AI.
“This combination with HPE is expected to enable us to deliver more comprehensive, more competitive, truly end-to-end experience-first AI-native solutions,” he wrote.
Assuming regulators don’t object — not exactly a given these days — this deal could close later this year or early next.
Since the deal was announced on January 12, HPE investors seem lukewarm about it; that is, if the stock price is any indication of their sentiment.
I really wanted to hate the $2,000 earbuds I tried at CES Instead, I need to hide my credit card away so Breggz won't bankrupt meLook, anyone who is saying they’re going to start selling a pair of $2,000 studio monitor-quality in-ear headphones had better show up with the receipts.
I spoke with Breggz Audio‘s CFO, Jeroen van Els, to figure out what it was about these in-ear headphones that was so special.
From there, the company fell into a rabbit hole of creating the best possible in-ear headphones.
After the (admittedly brief) demo, van Els showed me the “transparency” mode, which meant he was able to talk to me while I was still wearing the earphones.
For professional artists needing lower latency, we’re working on solutions to be introduced later,” van Els shares.
Wandering around the CES preview events, it’s clear that AI and other smart tech is coming to toasters, grills and all sorts of other devices.
“We can cook a one-inch ribeye steak in about 1 minute and 45 seconds” says Jordan Aspley, the company’s founder.
Wave, baby, waveAnother device shown off at CES 2024 is the “Macrowave” from Revolution Cooking.
The instructions are, you know, defrost in your microwave, preheat your oven, take it out of the microwave, put it in your oven.
One example is Spark One — the $1,100 smart grill we featured in our 2020 gift guide — which went out of business by 2022.
More recently, the potential use of weaponized robots by law enforcement has been a political lightning rod in places like Oakland and San Francisco.
Earlier this week, I spoke about the bill with Massachusetts state representative Lindsay Sabadosa, who filed it alongside Massachusetts state senator Michael Moore.
Does the bill apply to law enforcement as well?
And what we’ve heard from law enforcement repeatedly is that they’re often used to deescalate situations.
We haven’t had law enforcement weaponize robots, and no one has said, “We’d like to attach a gun to a robot” from law enforcement in Massachusetts.
The company also announced today it’s expanding its AR collectible tickets to cinema partners in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
Each Fandime gets a unique Blockchain-based ID and is minted on Avalanche’s blockchain network and stored in a user’s Really account.
Users can redeem Fandime for digital rewards, movie-related AR content, exclusive opportunities, “AR trophies and wearable face filters,” the company explained.
If we combine those two things today, which Really is doing, we believe we are ahead of the game,” Really AR founder and CEO James Andrew Felts told TechCrunch.
In the long term, Really plans to create original AR content and branch out to other areas besides the entertainment industry, Felts revealed to us.
