Category: Podcasts
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Don’t call Connecterra a Fitbit for cows. The Amsterdam-based company’s “Ida” product is actually a complex artificial intelligence platform to help diary farmers manage their farms. Why does a dairy farmer need AI? Well, until now, a lot of farming practices have been passed down through generations. Today we live in the age of data,…
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Using virtual reality to train artificial intelligence to better interact with the real world almost sounds like what you’d get if Inception and Westworld had a synthetic baby. But there’s no deep mystery or ambiguous ending here; it’s the work of a company called AI.Reverie, and it has applications in agriculture technology. This week on The…
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(Ed Note: The original podcast published had an audio glitch. We’ve since fixed in feed and the embedded audio below.) Joe Ray learned to take ‘clean shots’ from François Simon, the legendary French food critic who was the inspiration for the character Anton Ego in Pixar’s Ratatouille. Of course, taking a ‘clean shot’ is writing…
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Each week The Spoon: Automat podcast dives into the world of food-related robots and AI, and in this episode we get all frothy about coffee robots! The guest is Chas Studor, Founder and CTO of Briggo, maker of the Coffee Haus barista-in-a-box. Studor insists Briggo is, first and foremost, a coffee company — and it’s…
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While 3D food printing is still in its early stages, inventor/hacker Pablos Holman believes we’ll eventually live in a world where printers in our homes spit out complicated foods like French bread and even something resembling strawberries. “This isn’t as weird as it sounds,” said Holman, who spends his days working in the lab at…
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Meet The Spoon: Automat, our brand new podcast about food-related robots and artificial intelligence. With more than 66 millions workers around the world projected to have their jobs automated, the time is right to understand our robot-filled future. Actually, between Flippy, Cafe X, Blendid, Spyce Kitchen and more, it’s looking like our robot-filled present. Each…
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I listen to food podcasts to help me fall asleep. That’s not a dig at their quality or content — quite the opposite. Food podcasts are typically a calm audio oasis at the end of a busy day in a chaotic world. Gentle discussions about recipes or food facts is a great way to drift…
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Advancements in molecular sensors, real-time analytics and food production are laying the foundation for a world where consumers will consume food tailored specifically for them based on their own biomarkers, past behavior, and environmental data. And while we may not be living in a futuristic world with personalized food manufacturing machines just yet (though we…
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Growing up in Detroit, Mike Lee loved going to auto shows. His favorite part was seeing the concept cars auto makers rolled out to help consumers envision the future. As he got older, Lee wondered why food companies never created similar concept products. Why not, after all, create the products of the future and show them…
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The International Housewares Show is big. Very big. More than 60,000 professionals from all corners of the world convened in Chicago last week to check out the latest and greatest products coming soon to a home near you (or to your home). Whether you attended in person, or missed it this year, we’ve got you…
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If you’ve listened to an investor conference call for a big food company lately, there’s a good chance you know the following: Consumers are asking for healthier options and want to understand better where their food comes from. The world’s population continues to grow in the face of an increasingly stressed food ecosystem. Food brands…
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If you’re looking for someone who can build a media company with the future in mind, you could do a lot worse that Shelby Bonnie. Bonnie first showed his ability to build forward leaning media properties with CNET, a company he cofounded that helped set the template for tech media for much of the past…
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