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Walmart adopts virtual reality to train its workforce for Black Friday - Vox
Vox - Patrick Sisson
Walmart’s technological embrace is a big bet on shopping’s human element. Staring down a seemingly endless aisle of products, including an entire grocery store-within-a-store, it seems like the shopping
Hemp
Hemp seed can be sold as food
mpi.govt.nz - Ministry for Primary Industries
Amendments to regulations to allow the sale of hemp seeds as food take effect today. Head of New Zealand Food Safety, Bryan Wilson, says there was …
Technology
Alibaba's Hema stores changing the supermarket experience
ZDNet - Asha McLean
Blending offline with online, Alibaba's 'Hippo Fresh' stores showcase how technology can transform retail, including through an in-store robot …
Honey Bees
For our bumblebees, being cleverer isn't better
nzherald.co.nz - Jamie Morton
When it comes to factors that can hinder your survival, you'd expect being a quick study wouldn't be on the list. Yet that's just the conundrum facing …
Kitchens
KitchenPodular Makes Ghost Kitchens Modular
thespoon.tech - Chris Albrecht
The boom in restaurant delivery has created a mini-boom in companies looking to help those restaurants make delivery. Much like the pickaxe …
'Country of origin' labels a step closer to law
newshub.co.nz
Horticulture New Zealand is thrilled that a mandatory 'country of origin' label for fruit and vegetables is a step closer. The Consumers' Right to …
Business (New Zealand)
A2 Milk management, directors to face the music at AGM
nzherald.co.nz - Andrea Fox
The investment community will gain some insight into one of the share market's most volatile stocks when a2 Milk holds its annual meeting in …
Honey Bees
Can listening to bees help save them - and us?
BBC News - By Tim Bowler
Can artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning help save the world's bees? That's the hope of scientists who are scrambling to reverse the dramatic declines in bee populations. Bees are in trouble,
Bill Gates
Plant-based food maker Beyond Meat files for $100M IPO
fooddive.com - Author
Dive Brief: Beyond Meat has filed to go public with the ticket symbol BYND, the company said in a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission. The …
DNA
Flavour beyond sweetness: Givaudan's 'counter-intuitive' approach to sugar reduction
foodnavigator.com
Givaudan launched this new approach during a tasting session at Amsterdam’s Proeflokaal culinary school this week where Michelin-starred chef Thomas …
China
Alibaba and Amazon move over, we visited connected grocery store in China
TechCrunch - Rita Liao
The arm race to build the future of grocery stores is heating up in China. To no one’s surprise, the main contestants are the country’s ecommerce titans Alibaba and JD.com, which are turning offline for
Café
Coffee cup lending scheme launches in Wellington
radionz.co.nz
A reusable coffee cup lending scheme is about to be trailed in Wellington for caffeine addicts looking for convenient, takeaway coffee that's also …
Breast Feeding
Plant-based breast milk protein breakthrough excites infant formula makers
ausfoodnews.com.au - Aimee Chanthadavong
RESEARCHERS of an American-based company have manufactured proteins from green algae that are the same as those naturally found in human breast milk.
Machine Learning
What is machine learning? We drew you another flowchart
MIT Technology Review - by Karen Hao
It pretty much runs the world. The vast majority of the AI advancements and applications you hear about refer to a category of algorithms known as …
Farming
How small robots may kill the tractor and make farming efficient
Wired UK - Sanjana Varghese
Agriculture has a reputation of being stuck in the past. In reality, for farmers, their workplaces are a fertile testbed for innovative technology – …
Hemp
Hemp plantings on high following law change
stuff.co.nz
Midlands Seed Midlands Seed conversion process of whole hemp seed through to hulled hemp seed. If you see a cannabis crop in a paddock this summer, it …
Fish
Can scientists build a blueprint for bluefin tuna?
adn.com - Tim Carman,
Brian Wyrwas, left, and Mike Selden, founders of Finless Foods. Photo by Nick Otto for The Washington Post. (Nick Otto/)For several years, biotech …
Business (New Zealand)
Auckland dairy-free ice cream company Wahiki Creamery inks deal with Asia's biggest childcare centre
nzherald.co.nz - Aimee Shaw
An Auckland company which uses coconuts instead of milk to make its ice cream has signed a deal to supply Asia's biggest childcare centre with its …
Waste Management
Detpak closes the paper cup loop
packagingnews.com.au
Detpak has launched its new RecycleMe takeaway coffee cup, which features an easily-removable lining that makes it easier to recycle into standard …
The Brain
Tyson Foods on the six trends shaping the future of food
foodnavigator-usa.com
If there’s one common theme from the six trends Tyson Trendtellers Council has spotted, it’s that consumers expect more out of their food and more …
Polyethyleneterephthalate
Blood sucking, transparent, recyclable trays the future at New World
stuff.co.nz
GEORGE HEARD/STUFF.CO.NZ Blood sucking, transparent, recyclable trays the future at New World There's a new technology in town that's brightening up …
Tech Industry
Meal replacements make tech workers more productive. Can they also solve world hunger?
TechRepublic - Alison DeNisco Rayome
Soylent, People Chow, and Huel have found fans in the tech industry who don't want to waste working time eating meals. But some have larger aims to …
Carbohydrates
Marae pushes back against fast food culture with fish head offerings
stuff.co.nz
Matthew Rosenberg05:00, Nov 18 2018 Chris Skelton/STUFF Papatūānuku Marae are feeding their community with a delicacy that is normally discarded by …
Carbon Emissions
Quorn Food opens major meat alternative production facility
fdiforum.net - Dominic Cuthbert
Meat-free food maker, Quorn Foods, has officially opened a new production facility at the company’s Billingham site in the North East. Believed to be …
Top 10
The Top 10 Food Trends For 2019, According To Whole Foods
Forbes - Phil Lempert
Twenty-six subject experts from Whole Foods have been convening for four years to predict what’s coming next to their own shelves and to the food world as a whole. These experts range from a master sommelier
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble won't be breaking up: CEO
yahoo.com - Brian Sozzi
Procter & Gamble (PG) brands such as Tide, Pampers and Gillette will have the same home for the foreseeable future. “No. The company gets tremendous …
FDA
Food Regulators to Share Oversight of Cell-Based Meat
The Wall Street Journal. - Jacob Bunge
Regulators’ decision raises prospects for cell meat coming to market Two U.S. food regulators agreed to share oversight of meat grown from animal cells, moving the emerging technology closer to consumers’
Startups
Africa’s agtech wave gets $10 million richer as Twiga Foods raises more capital
TechCrunch - Jake Bright
Kenya’s Twiga Foods has raised $10 million from investors led by the International Finance Corporation to add processed food and fast-moving consumer goods to its product line-up. The startup has built
New Zealand
The NZ-made products Kiwis can't buy
stuff.co.nz
New Zealand products have a long history of instilling a sense of pride in Kiwis. But some never have an opportunity to shine at home because before …
Sports Nutrition
AI meets sports nutrition: BASF-Nuritas collaboration yields plant-based peptide ingredient to modulate inflammation
nutritioninsight.com - CNS MEDIA
06 Nov 2018 --- BASF has launched a sports nutrition ingredient containing a unique set of plant-based peptides identified using artificial …

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Walmart adopts virtual reality to train its workforce for Black Friday - Vox

Hemp seed can be sold as food

Alibaba's Hema stores changing the supermarket experience

For our bumblebees, being cleverer isn't better

KitchenPodular Makes Ghost Kitchens Modular

'Country of origin' labels a step closer to law

A2 Milk management, directors to face the music at AGM

Can listening to bees help save them - and us?

Plant-based food maker Beyond Meat files for $100M IPO

Flavour beyond sweetness: Givaudan's 'counter-intuitive' approach to sugar reduction

Alibaba and Amazon move over, we visited connected grocery store in China

Coffee cup lending scheme launches in Wellington

Plant-based breast milk protein breakthrough excites infant formula makers

What is machine learning? We drew you another flowchart

How small robots may kill the tractor and make farming efficient

Hemp plantings on high following law change

Can scientists build a blueprint for bluefin tuna?

Auckland dairy-free ice cream company Wahiki Creamery inks deal with Asia's biggest childcare centre

Detpak closes the paper cup loop

Tyson Foods on the six trends shaping the future of food

Blood sucking, transparent, recyclable trays the future at New World

Meal replacements make tech workers more productive. Can they also solve world hunger?

Marae pushes back against fast food culture with fish head offerings

Quorn Food opens major meat alternative production facility

The Top 10 Food Trends For 2019, According To Whole Foods

Procter & Gamble won't be breaking up: CEO

Food Regulators to Share Oversight of Cell-Based Meat

Africa’s agtech wave gets $10 million richer as Twiga Foods raises more capital

The NZ-made products Kiwis can't buy

AI meets sports nutrition: BASF-Nuritas collaboration yields plant-based peptide ingredient to modulate inflammation