Category: News
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Back when Kai Schaeffner was running Thermomix North America, he helped build what became one of the most successful digital recipe and connected appliance platforms in the U.S. and beyond. Still, despite that success, Schaeffner often wondered whether he and the appliance industry had the right focus. Were they spending too much time trying to…
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Nowadays, when people think of the future of farming, they usually start with robots. And why not? In apple growing, labor has become one of the biggest cost pressures, and as farm worker wages have doubled in some places over the past decade, the economics just aren’t penciling out. But if you ask Neal Carter,…
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Wildtype, the San Francisco-based startup specializing in cultivated salmon, announced today that it has launched a Kickstarter campaign for cell-cultured lox that will ship directly to consumers’ homes. The Kickstarter campaign appears to be not only the first rewards-based Kickstarter campaign for a cultivated animal product, but also the first direct-to-consumer offering built around delivering…
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Most people probably haven’t taken a bite out of a raw onion. Why would you? And even fewer have done so and considered it delicious. But if you’re an astronaut flying in space and your diet consists largely of freeze-dried packaged food, I’m pretty sure you might get a hankering for something fresh. That’s exactly…
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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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If your still waiting to get going on that New Year’s resolution to figure out how to use AI to build an app or some other cool idea, it’s not too late. In fact, a good starting point is to watch the replay of our online Food AI Co-Lab from yesterday, where a friend of…
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Another pizza robot startup has bit the dust. And sadly, this isn’t just any pizza robot startup, but the company that, in many ways, had been the most successful in the space, gaining traction through partnerships with restaurant operators big and small. The news of Picnic’s bankruptcy was first reported by GeekWire, which uncovered a…
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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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If you know any folks in their 20s who live on their own, chances are they use low-cost and simple-to-use countertop cooking appliances to whip up dinner. For my son, a big rice eater, it’s an old rice cooker, a second-hand machine made sometime in the ’90s that we used here at home until he…
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When Jake Berber started thinking seriously about the future of coffee, he wasn’t trying to convince people to stop drinking it. He was trying to figure out what happens when everyday coffee becomes too expensive for everyday consumers. That idea became the starting point for Prefer, the Singapore-based startup Berber cofounded in 2022 with his cofounder…
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