The AI boom, love it or find it to be a bit more hype than substance, is here to stay.
That means lots of companies raising oodles of dollars, a healthy dose of regulatory concern, academic work, and corporate jockeying.
For startups, it means a huge opportunity to bring new technology to bear on a host of industries that could use a bit of polish.
But if you read the news, you might notice that men are the far and away most cited, and discussed players in AI today.
So, TechCrunch’s Dominic-Madori Davis and Kyle Wiggers decided to go out and talk to women working in AI to learn more about their work, how they got into the world of artificial intelligence, and more.
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.
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.
At CES 2023, Stellantis unveiled its answer to the competitive battery-electric truck market: a tech-packed pickup with broad shoulders and an extended cabin featuring third row jump seats, cup holders…
