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Is IFT’s Launch of an AI Tool For Food Scientists an Indicator of Where Trade Associations Are Going in Age of AI?
July 3, 2025 Michael Wolf

July 1, 2025

From Red Bull to Zevia, Amy Taylor Shares Lessons Learned From a Career Built Around Buzzy Beverages

June 30, 2025

Study: AI-Powered Drones Fuel Advances in Precision Ag for Early Detection of Crop Stress

June 26, 2025

Could Lasers Made From Olive Oil Be The Next-Gen Freshness Detector or Use-By Label?

February 1, 2025

A Conversation With Bear Robotics’ John Ha on LG Deal and The Future of The Company

Amazon Key Adds More Connected Lock Options from Yale and Kwikset

April 5, 2018 Chris Albrecht

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Amazon Key, the in-home delivery service that allows packages to be dropped off inside your home while you’re away, added compatibility with five new smart locks from Kwikset and Yale […]

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Kenwood Partners With Drop To Create A Smart Multicooker

April 5, 2018 Michael Wolf

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Today Drop and Kenwood announced a new Wi-Fi connected multicooker food processor called the kCook Multi Smart. The new countertop appliance, available this month in France for a retail price of €799.9 […]

Culinary Incubator Pilotworks Is On Track to Be the AWS of the Food Industry

April 5, 2018 Jennifer Marston

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The company’s shared kitchen infrastructure makes startup up a food business a whole lot less painful for the average entrepreneur.

Crispr Gene Editing Software May Dramatically Change Our Food — And Soon

April 4, 2018 Catherine Lamb

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Last week, the USDA ruled that organisms gene-edited by Crispr technology will not be subject to the same regulations as genetically modified organisms (GMO). US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said that the USDA […]

Teleported Sushi Has Big Implications for Digital Food

April 4, 2018 Catherine Lamb

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When I first heard internet murmurings that a company had figured out a way to teleport sushi, I immediately thought of one of my favorite childhood films: Willy Wonka and the […]

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Plant-Based Impossible Foods Raises $114 Million

April 4, 2018 Chris Albrecht

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Perhaps the universe is trying to tell us something this week. The day after 7,000 pounds of raw beef was recalled across nine states, Impossible Foods, maker of a meatless […]

NASA and the Army are Developing the Future of Food Packaging

April 3, 2018 Chris Albrecht

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When I was a kid, my dad, who was in the military, showed me an MRE (meal ready to eat). To my impressionable young eyes, it was like looking at […]

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Retail Apocalypse? Not If You’re A Kitchen Tech Startup

April 3, 2018 Michael Wolf

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much are live product demos or in-store education classes worth? Apparently a lot – at least that’s the thinking of a […]

Restaurant Robots Starting to Fill in for Fatigued Staff

April 3, 2018 Chris Albrecht

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Often, when we talk about robots in the food industry, there is a measure of doom and gloom associated with it. I’m guilty of this as well, trying to balance […]

You’re Invited! The Spoon Launches Monthly Food Tech Meetups in Seattle

April 3, 2018 Catherine Lamb

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Big news — The Spoon is launching a monthly food tech meetup series in our home city, Seattle! We hope these meetups will provide a space for people to learn […]

Study: Food Workers Do Not Fare Well in Our Robot Future

April 2, 2018 Chris Albrecht

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We’ve known for a while that the robots are coming for our jobs. Now a recent study from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sheds some light on […]

Albertsons’ Grocery Digital Marketplace is All About Data

April 2, 2018 Chris Albrecht

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Between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, “data” has almost become a different kind of four letter word. But acting out of fear can make it easy to forget that data can […]

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