Why Is It So Hard to Make Vegan Fish? And other tech stories

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February 28, 2023

The world of plant-based meat substitutes is thriving. But when it comes to fish, options have been much more limited—until now. A school of vegan fish startups are beginning to leap the obstacles to engineering plant-based salmon filets and tuna steaks. Read about how they did it in this week's top story!

Sophie Bushwick, Associate Editor, Technology @sophiebushwick

Food Why Is It So Hard to Make Vegan Fish? Futuristic food science technology could finally bring plant-based salmon filets and tuna steaks to the table By Joanna Thompson

Engineering New Color-Changing Coating Could Both Heat and Cool Buildings A thin film can switch from releasing heat to trapping it, and wrapping the coating around buildings could make them more energy-efficient By Allison Parshall

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Politics Why Google's Supreme Court Case Could Rattle the Internet Gonzalez v. Google seeks to hold tech giants accountable for recommendation algorithms in a complicated case that could see the Supreme Court meddle in more than 25 years of Internet policy By Meghan Bartels

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Artificial Intelligence AI Outraces Human Champs at the Video Game Gran Turismo The program also challenges certain assumptions about self-driving cars By Sophie Bushwick

Quantum Computing Google's Quantum Computer Hits Key Milestone by Reducing Errors Researchers demonstrate for the first time that using more qubits can lower the error rate of quantum calculations By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature

Renewable Energy How the U.S. Is Planning to Boost Floating Wind Power The Biden administration is eyeing a 70 percent cut in the cost of floating offshore wind power by 2035 By David Iaconangelo,E&E News

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