A new generation of hearing aids, your guides to Twin Cities Startup Week, and more. This is the news in Minnesota tech and startup for the week of Friday, August 20.
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Dr. Achin Bhowmik, CTO and EVP of Engineering of Starkey
Starkey Announces New Generation of Hearing Aids
Genome Medical Acquires GeneMatters
Ecommerce Startup GrocerKey Acquired for $42 Million
Twin Cities Startup Week 2021: The Ultimate Guides
The Jed Mahonis Group and Constant Variables
This week’s episode of Constant Variables:
“Last year alone, over 60 million incidents of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) were reported online. Social enterprise Krunam is stopping that cycle of abuse with its breakthrough platform.
Krunam CEO, Chris Wexler, joins the show to talk about how technologies like computer vision and deep learning are aiding content moderators in identifying and removing CSAM from the internet, how social algorithms incent the distribution of harsh content, and why it’s also important we don’t create an Internet that’s entirely encrypted.”