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Cultivated meat companies spent much of the last decade promising to help fend off the climate crisis while also helping to wean the world off animal agriculture. However, as the industry transitioned from bench scale to pilot facilities and eventually to scaled manufacturing, costs increased and timelines lengthened. This shift happened just as the venture…
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Last month I was in New York City, so I decided to drop and visit the Good Housekeeping Institute. I went to visit Nicole Papantoniou, the director of the Kitchen Appliances Lab at Good Housekeeping, who had promised to give me a tour of the place. If you haven’t visited Good Housekeeping Institute, it’s great…
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While some companies like NotCo have positioned themselves as the OpenAI of the food world, the truth is that the AI transformation of the food industry is still in the first inning. That is partly because the food system itself, a mix of legacy CPG giants, agricultural suppliers, ingredient developers, and regulators, moves at a…
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Nowadays, when a smart light bulb shifts from soft white to red, it usually means someone’s at the door, the dog got out, or another home automation routine has been initiated in your smart home app. In the near future, that same light bulb might tell you the donut you ate for breakfast is spiking…
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Earlier this month at IFA, Midea showed off a range of new smart kitchen gear, including a new refrigerator lineup that features a smart clip system to keep track of food expiration dates. The smart fridge system, called the INSTA-FIT MASTER, included what the company calls “AI PREPMASTER” and the NFC clips “AI Food Clips”.…
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There’s a new delivery robot in town, and its name is Dot. DoorDash announced the new delivery bot today, confirming months of rumors that they were working on their own robot. The robot, developed entirely by its internal DoorDash Labs team, is the delivery company’s first homegrown bet on delivery automation and street-level autonomy, signaling…
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If you were to bet on what the oldest kitchen tool in existence is, you’d be smart to put your money on the knife. It’s not just centuries old but tens of thousands of centuries old, as humans have been using sharp objects to cut food for over two million years. So when someone says…
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Samsung confirmed this week that they have rolled out an over-the-network software update to Family Hub refrigerators in the US that will enable advertising on the fridge’s video display. The ads, which will be introduced as cover screens, which are essentially screen saver images that the fridge displays when the screen is idle. Samsung’s ad…
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As a former semiconductor analyst, I realized one truism of the tech world: makers of component building blocks for any hardware product eventually move up the stack, integrating with software solutions so their OEM partners see them as the preferred foundation on which to build their products. So it’s not surprising to hear that one…
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Apeel, a maker of produce life-extension technology, announced this week that it is suing an online influencer who had spread misinformation about the company’s product for the last two years. The company, which earned early recognition in the food waste innovation space for its non-toxic, plant-based coating that helps extend the shelf life of vegetables…
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One of the defining characteristics of early successful food robots has been focus. Whether it’s the Flippy burger-flipping robot, Bear’s front-of-house robotic waiters, or the Autocado avocado-coring and processing robot, the ability of these focused-task robots to automate one or two core functions hyper-efficiently has been a – if not the – key ingredient for…
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Sure, food prices are going up everywhere, but as my fellow chocolate lovers know, prices for this universally loved treat are really going up due to the increasing threat from climate change. Cocoa prices have jumped 136% between July 2022 and February 2024, hitting record highs as extreme weather and plant disease devastate harvests in…
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