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We're less than seven days away from TC Sessions: Mobity 2022, our first in-person mobity event since 2019. The event takes place on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California with online analyst commentary on May 20. It's the must-see mobity event of the year, and you have unt Monday, May 15, to s

Here's something to wrap your brain around: Google has never made its own smartwatch. The company has played in and around the space at least since 2014, with announcement of Android Wear, but it's never gone as far as making its own product. Given that the market has been as hot as it has

Modern Fertility co-founder Afton Vechery is leaving healthcare unicorn Ro about a year after her company, built alongside co-founder Carly Leahy, was sold for north of $225 million. According to an internal e-mail from Ro's executive team, obtained by technewss, Vechery is leaving her role as

Roe v. Wade, the case guaranteeing the right to choose an abortion, has officially been reversed by the Supreme Court, leaving the decision to states. This means the option is or soon will be illegal in half the country. While the fight for reproductive rights will continue in courts and capitals,

Per a leaked draft obtained by Politico, the Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a precedent that protects a women's choice to have an abortion. The move, still yet to go through, would be devastating to the women's reproductive rights mov

Lemon Perfect founder and CEO Yanni Hufnagel didn't know it yet, but his hydrating lemon water brand was about to go viral in 2020, all thanks to an unexpected appearance of the Dragon Fruit Mango bottle in the door of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter's limo. “She had posted a photo with it in her

Don't call it a pivot, exactly — but it's a fascinating journey, nonetheless. Umaro Foods, which is set to release a seaweed-based bacon replacement, entered the world as Trophic. The firm, which is now technically a subsidiary of the former, was formed to compete for the $100 million

Update: The launch was successful and they should dock this evening as planned. Update 2: All aboard! The International Space Station will receive a few fresh faces tomorrow morning, along with some potentially interesting experiments for on-orbit testing. It will be the fourth crewed mission aboar

You can't tackle climate change without taking a hard look at the environmental impact of the global meat and dairy industries. Combined, they emit 7.1 gigatons of greenhouse gasses every year and account for 14.5% of man-made emissions. The direct connection between farming animals and climate

Apple announced today that it’s adding new curated dance workouts and collections to Fitness+ in time for International Dance Day on April 29. The service is adding additional content to its Artist Spotlight series, which dedicates an entire workout playlist to one artist, with new workouts

We've heard a lot about foodtech companies introducing new types of food products to fill the gap in what is expected to be a global food shortage in the next 30 years. Much of the focus over the past six years or so was on the technology to create these new foods and not so much on how compani

Per reports, Egyptians spend about 30% of their income on food in a $17 billion restaurant industry, one of the largest in Africa and the Middle East. Yet restaurants in this North African nation operate on thin margins due to several factors, ranging from large initial investments and high cost o

Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column aims to collect some of the most relevant recent discoveries and papers — particularly in, but not limited to, artificial

Miso made a name for itself with the hamburger-cooking robot, Flippy. The company has done a fine job diversifying itself in the world's fast food kitchens with the additions of Sippy and Chippy, aimed at soft drinks and tortilla chips, respectively. It also makes the CookRight platform, which