The Swiss alternative protein company Planted has its second round of the year worth 17 million CHF (currently around 18.5 million CHF Try the schnitzel. Planted appeared in 2019 as a spin-off from the Swiss research university ETH Zurich, where the founders developed the original technique of extruding vegetable proteins and water into fibrous structures … Read more
Klipsch’s redesigned T5 II true wireless earbuds are a huge improvement over the T5 that launched in 2019. However, the company’s 2020 models didn’t offer Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), and only the more expensive Sport version had wireless charging. Today Klipsch offers these two standard functions with the T5 II ANC and also offers AI-supported … Read more
Dance Church has partnered with Pioneer Square Labs to launch an online streaming product called Dance Church Go. (Go to dancing church photo) On a foggy Saturday morning earlier this month, I was among the hundreds of people who had gathered on the Seattle Center lawn and danced as if no one was watching. The … Read more
Unacademy has raised $ 440 million in a new round of funding as the Indian online learning startup seeks to expand into several additional categories. Temasek led the new funding round for the Bangalore-based startup, while Mirae Asset and existing investors such as SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, as well as Zomato … Read more
Paramount + is effectively centered around Alex Kurtzman due to its ongoing reliance on Star Trek, and it is clear that CBS will do whatever it takes to keep the director and producer on board. CBS Studios has signed a contract under which Kurtzman and his Secret Hideout unit will produce shows exclusively for Paramount … Read more
As a kid growing up in Portland, Oregon, Luna Abadia was always curious about the nature around her. She carried a diary with her, which she called her “Book of Questions”, and filled it with observations of her world. What if we sneeze? She wrote. Why is my dog’s nose wet? She’s not sure if … Read more
Digitizing your haircut might not be on your 2020 bucket list, but 2021 has an even more surprising item: Tech-powered barbershops are now close to a billion dollars worth of business proposition. Squire is a back-end barbershop management tool for independent businesses. I first treated it in the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. … Read more
Misuse of location technology can only lead to heated political disputes. According to Wired, SkyWatch and Global Fishing Watch have conducted studies that show over 100 warship locations have been forged since August 2020, including the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth and the US destroyer Roosevelt. In some cases, the false data showed the ships … Read more
Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite in 2016, two years after serving as Microsoft CEO and a few months after the company announced the acquisition of LinkedIn. (GeekWire file photo / Kevin Lisota) When Microsoft announced the acquisition of LinkedIn for more than $ 26 billion five years ago, there has been a lot of skepticism, … Read more
TuSimple, the self-driving trucking company that went public earlier this year, has partnered with Ryder as part of its plan to build a freight network that will support its autonomous trucking operations. Under the agreement announced this week, Ryder’s fleet maintenance facilities will act as terminals for TuSimple’s freight network. TuSimple’s so-called AFN or Autonomous … Read more