AI startup preps for CES 2022
In 2019 the CEO just walked around the huge Consumer Electronics Show… in 2020 it was all virtual… but this year “my time will be spent in a booth talking to people and then we have, like, a suite”
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Author: Paul Riat
1st News NFT Sold
I want to put more reporters on the street. That’s fundamentally expensive. I’m developing some technology to improve news labor costs, but I also need to change the way that news pays for itself. I contend that advertising drives bad behavior in news organizations. The behaviors that are most profitable are often least beneficial (or harmful) to the audience. And news must be directly accountable to the public for the discourse that is required to operate a democracy.
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Plastomics closes $7.1M Series A
“It’ll allow us to get the trait delivery system from the lab through the greenhouse to the field, for both soybeans and corn,” CEO Martha Schlichter told the 4thEst8.
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Geneoscopy closes $105M Series B
The screening technology examines RNA in a stool sample to detect the cancer, but this simple test is just the first of what CEO Andrew Barnell has told the 4thEst8 in the past that he hopes will be a platform of tests. Broadening this technology could be used to detect, prevent, and guide treatment of a wide variety of gastrointestinal diseases.
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