Category: AI
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Over the past decade, millions of Americans, myself included, have started quantifying our daily activity and biomarkers using wearables such as smartwatches and rings. First, it was activity tracking, then heart rate, and then sleep. More recently, over-the-counter continuous glucose monitors became widely available, giving broad access to real-time insights into the state of our…
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When Brava shut down earlier this year, it marked the end of one of the more ambitious experiments in cooking technology of the past decade. For nearly nine years, Travis Rea helped build the company from an ambitious startup with a novel idea—using high-powered light instead of traditional heating elements to cook food—to a respected…
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When most people talk about food waste, they’re usually referring to the food we throw into the garbage or food waste bin, whether that’s a wilting head of lettuce or a bruised banana. But what about the extra “invisible” food sent to lower-value, non-human-consumption destinations such as rendering or composting? This type of “waste” occurs…
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Have an idea for a food app but don’t know where to start? Now’s your chance to finally get moving on how to build that app, leveraging AI to bring your big idea to reality. That’s because our guest for this month’s edition of the Food AI Co-Lab, food futurist Mike Lee, will walk through…
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Here at The Spoon, we’ve been following pretty much every robot restaurant concept for the past decade, and have watched dozens of company ideas and hundreds of millions of dollars come and go in this space. One company that has gone and appears to be coming back again is Creator. For those new to the…
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For much of the past two decades, recipe blogs have been a burgeoning space for independent culinary creators to share their ideas, build a community, and sometimes even make serious money. The online recipe space grew rapidly in the mid-2000s onwards as tens of thousands of independent creators used push-button online publishing platforms like WordPress…
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Last week, grocery AI startup Afresh announced it is expanding beyond its original focus on the fresh food aisles to manage inventory, ordering, and replenishment across the entire store. The company said its AI platform will now cover everything from produce and meat to center store items and general merchandise, allowing retailers to manage replenishment,…
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We spend a lot of time talking and writing about how AI will transform food, but often the lens is shaped by those building companies and products in major economies and tech centers. But if you zoom out and look at how a transformative technology like AI will impact the broader world, the questions start…
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At both IFA last fall and this year’s CES in Las Vegas, there was one big trend everyone seemed to be talking about: the rise of humanoid robots from science fiction fantasy to a powerful, multifunctional tool for work and home. Whether it was folding clothes, pouring drinks, or cooking a meal, the past year…
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Food companies trying to understand how consumers feel about a new product have relied on surveys, focus groups, and sensory panels for decades. But according to Mario Ubiali, founder and CEO of neuroscience company THIMUS, these approaches often elicit misleading (and sometimes completely wrong) responses from consumers. “One of the most interesting discrepancies we’re seeing…
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For most people, the smart home is about convenience: lights that turn on automatically, thermostats that learn schedules, and voice assistants that respond to simple commands. But over the last couple of years, a few companies have been experimenting with something different: homes that respond not just to routines and schedules, but to signals from…
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Jay Lee and Springhouse want to help us figure out what’s for dinner. Not only that, but they want to do so by keeping an up-to-date inventory of what’s in our fridge, so we can plan around the food we already have and know what we may need to run to the store for, or…
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