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The new film from Bong Joon Ho is a critique of ethical capitalism wrapped in a heartwarming animal adventure story. But it’s not coming to theaters: it premieres on Netflix June 28. Continue reading ‘Snowpiercer’ Director’s New Movie ‘Okja’ Is an Anti-Corporate Mindfuck
How long before drones are delivering us emergency organic cat food? Continue reading How Amazon’s Tech Could Change Whole Foods
You can now take a picture of a cucumber and jump to that tomato-cucumber-basil salad recipe a little faster. The post Suck at Cooking? Pinterest’s Computer Vision Can Help appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Suck at Cooking? Pinterest’s Computer Vision Can Help
Algorithmic gastronomy is here. Continue reading Deep Learning Algorithm Rewrites Traditional Recipes for New Regions, Ingredients
Oakland, Calif.-based Ceres Imaging has raised $5 million in a Series A investment led by Romulus Capital. The startup uses cameras, sensors and software to pinpoint crop stress in the field for farmers, so that they can apply herbicides, pesticides and irrigation just where it’s needed. Ceres, like several other startups, started out with the notion to build a drone just for… Read More Continue reading Ceres Imaging raises $5 million to pinpoint crop stress for farmers
Adulterated food is food that has a substance added to it to save on manufacturing costs. It can have a negative effect, it can reduce the food’s potency or it can have no effect at all. In many cases it’s done illegally. It’s also a widespread problem, one which [G. Vignesh] has decided to take on as his entry for the 2017 Hackaday Prize, an AI Based Adulteration Detector.
On his hackaday.io Project Details page he outlines some existing methods for testing food, some which you can do at home: adulterated sugar may have chalk added to it, so put …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: Detecting Adulterated Food Using AI
Brunch has dominated menus and digital platforms for a while, but how is this trend affecting both diners and food business owners? Continue reading The Brunch Industrial Complex Is Ruining Yelp
As any fan of Kitchen Nightmares may know, the restaurant business is not for the faint of heart, nor is it likely to generate fat margins. Now, a startup called PlateIQ has raised $4 million in new funding to help restaurants automate accounts payable, and nail all their other accounting work so they can focus, finally, on the food and front-of-house. Eileses Capital led the round… Read More Continue reading PlateIQ cooks up $4 million for restaurant management platform
As any fan of Kitchen Nightmares may know, the restaurant business is not for the faint of heart, nor is it likely to generate fat margins. Now, a startup called PlateIQ has raised $4 million in new funding to help restaurants automate accounts payable, and nail all their other accounting work so they can focus, finally, on the food and front-of-house. Eileses Capital led the round… Read More Continue reading PlateIQ cooks up $4 million for restaurant management platform
Has it ever crossed your mind that everything you see for sale–no matter how mundane–is someone’s life passion? Or, at least, their work passion. Somewhere as we speak two or three people are in a room trying to figure out how to make a whoopie cushion for two cents less than before. Someone is touting the virtues of the newest design in egg cartons. The guys that make the tube that carries your money to the bank teller at the drive through window? They exist, too. It is natural for us to think about
It is natural for us to …read more
