Headspace brings meditation to Meta Quest

[ad_1] Mindfulness and meditation apps have tremendous potential in the world of extended reality. The full immersion created by headsets like the Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro offer great potential to kickstart such practices, which are notoriously difficult to both begin and maintain. As such, partnership between leading meditation app Headspace and Quest-maker Meta … Read more

Tierra Biosciences nabs $11M to create new AI-guided proteins

[ad_1] Scientific breakthroughs have accelerated the pace at which new pharmaceuticals are being developed. Tierra Biosciences thinks that pace can go faster. The San Leandro-based company has developed a platform for AI-guided, custom protein synthesis to help pharmaceutical, industrial and agricultural organizations develop new proteins in weeks rather than months. Simply put, Tierra is enabling … Read more

Microbiome startups respond as industry is accused of ‘questionable practices’

[ad_1] The biotech sector has embraced the microbiome in recent years, a green field market powered by cheap genome sequencing and venture dollars, promising bespoke treatments for everything from gut troubles to skin problems. But a report in Science alleges that these companies lack scientific rigor and meaningful regulation, offering little more than guesswork on … Read more

Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines

[ad_1] Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. A research moonshot, ProGen could  if brought to market  help uncover medical treatments more cost effectively than traditional methods, the researchers behind it claimed in a … Read more

Reliance-Disney India media merger to control 85% of streaming, half of TV audience

[ad_1] The merger of Indian media assets of Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney will create an entity that captures 85% of the countrys on-demand streaming service audience and about half of the TV viewers, analysts said, posing bigger challenges to Netflix, Amazons Prime Video, Apple, Sony and Zee. The merger, which is scheduled to … Read more

Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users

[ad_1] After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan late last year, Spotify today is introducing a $9.99 per month option that will allow its free users to also access its audiobooks collection. The company announced on Friday its new Audiobooks Access Tier, which, similar to the service offered to subscribers, … Read more