What’s Possible: 19th August, 2022

We hope you enjoy this week's hand-picked selection of important and interesting stories from the frontiers of tech.

Congratulations Fable — named finalists in the World Plant Based Awards 2022 for ‘Best Meat Alternative’! 🌱

These awards celebrate the most ambitious and innovative plant-based brands who are making waves and leading the charge for a more sustainable future.

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“We feel so privileged to stand beside so many rocking brands and like-minded businesses in our mission to help end industrial animal agriculture. This is only the beginning of our journey, and we’re stoked to share kick-arse Fables and show the world what we’ve got when it comes to clean, natural, and delicious meaty food made from mushrooms.” (read)

Confidential and scalable deep learning

Startup Autobahn Presentation from Moritz Eckert, Chief Architect at Edgeless Systems & Stefan Gehrer, Research Engineer at Bosch (watch)

Dismantling vestiges of the industrial age: an interview with Tariq Rauf, founder of Qatalog

The world of work is changing, with a preference toward remote teams, asynchronous timetables, and diversity of work force over in person, timetabled, and supervised work. Technology has had a significant part to play in this development, but, Tariq Rauf, founder of work hub platform Qatalog, believes that what has been achieved by technological development is only a fraction of what it can actually achieve. (read)

Tariq Rauf, Qatalog founder

Immutable flips Solana in secondary market NFT volume over the last 24hrs

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Look which chain just flipped #Solana in secondary market NFT transactions: @Immutable It's just a 24-hour window, but #Solana hasn't been outside the top 2 since Ronin collapsed. And ImmutableX has been gaining for weeks, so this probably isn't a fluke.Games are the future.

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Rocket Lab is sending its Photon spacecraft to Venus in search of life

Supported by a science team at @MIT, this is the 1st private mission to Venus & 1st opportunity to probe the Venusian clouds in nearly 4 decades. (read)

Europe is seriously considering a major investment in space-based solar power

"It will be up to Europe, ESA and its Member States to push the envelope of technology to solve one of the most pressing problems for people on Earth of this generation," said Josef Aschbacher, director general of the space agency, an intergovernmental organization of 22 member states. (read)

Interesting adjacencies

• Jason Chen’s 10 resources for getting up to speed on VC (thread)
• Leo Polovets on "funding round/market fit." (thread)
• $33.5 billion of VC money went into Foodtech over the past year (thread)
• How the Inflation Reduction Act will supercharge climate tech startups (link)
• Molecule is hiring a Head of Engineering (link)

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