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LiveControl is an interesting company. Its mission is to take the incredibly complex and ridiculously expensive world of video production and distill it to a format that just about anyone can use and afford. And, because it’s 2021, that means it’s an AI startup. We love startups here at Neural, but the vast majority of pitches we get come from crappy companies pushing pie-in-the-sky misrepresentations of what predictive algorithms and computer vision can accomplish....

Update (January 5, 2022):Following thenews about a research study proving that psilocybin can be safely administeredin small doses for treating mental health issues, we decided to resurface this story that was first published in October 2020. New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London shows that psilocybin – a psychedelic drug isolated from the Psilocybe mushroom – can be safely administered at doses of either 10mg or 25mg....

Wandering the startup alley of Disrupt as a tech reporter can be overwhelming. Startups are paying upwards of $1,500 (USD) for only a pair of tickets and a tiny table to demo their products, so getting as many eyes as possible on their service or tools is paramount to their success at Disrupt. Often times, founders and PR are aggressively hunting for press through the crowd in an attempt to snag that little bit of extra coverage....

I am in love withSpotifyas it really is the dream online music streaming service and I really didn’t think I would ever see anything that could make it any better than it already was. Until today. This is a design concept that I came across onthis blogand I think it’s one of the coolest concept designs I have ever seen in terms of what it does and the sheer elegance of it....

Tesla is claiming that its upcoming Roadster sports car will accelerate from zero to 60 quicker than pretty much anything else on the planet — 1.9 seconds to be precise. It’s so fast that there isn’t much out there to compare it to, so we don’t really have a frame of reference. What’s more, for reasons we’ll never understand, Elon Musk thinks that going from a standstill to 60 mph in under two seconds isn’t quite fast enough....