Samsung Galaxy Ring to come with Samsung Food integration

Samsung previewed the Galaxy Ring at MWC 2024 but told us little about what exactly it will do. Today we learn about one of its killer features – meal planning. According to Korean sources, the Samsung Mobile eXperience division (MX) and the Home Appliance department are working together to link Samsung Food with the Galaxy […]

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Samsung’s AI Family Hub+ Refrigerator with 32-inch touchscreen keeps an eye on food items

Ahead of the CES 2024 expo, Samsung has unveiled a few new home appliances, each featuring IoT connectivity and smart features. Those appliances include its new 2024 Bespoke 4-Door Flex Refrigerator with AI Family Hub+, Anyplace Induction Cooktop, and Slide-In Range, all featuring touchscreen displays for advanced functions. It looks like AI and Generative AI […]

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The World’s Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year

The United Nations has published a major new tally of the impact the world’s food system has on our health and the planet. According to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the total hidden costs of the world’s food system add up to $12.7 trillion dollars—roughly 10 percent […]

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Personalized Nutrition Programs Are Making People Feel Weird About Food

Chrissy Kinsella was looking for a more personalized approach to her health. “You know, what is good for you as an individual may not necessarily be good for the next person,” she says. So she reached for a subscription to Zoe—a personalized nutrition service cofounded by Tim Spector, a celebrity scientist and a genetic epidemiologist […]

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Whisk recipe and meal planning app has been renamed to Samsung Food

Yesterday, the Samsung Food app was unveiled. It is a new addition to the company’s SmartThings platform. It was clear that the company is integrating the existing Whisk service that offers meal planning and recipes. Now, it has been revealed that it is a complete rebranding of the Whisk app. Samsung has now announced that […]

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Microsoft blames human error, not AI, for recommending tourists visit a food bank on an empty stomach

What you need to know Microsoft shared an article that recommended a food bank as a tourist attraction in Ottawa, Canada. The piece suggested that people “consider going into [the food bank] on an empty stomach.” Microsoft has since removed the article and blamed human error for the publication of the piece. Microsoft published an […]

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Microsoft retracts bizarre AI-generated article that recommended Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist attraction

What you need to know Microsoft published an AI-generated article highlighting key tourist attractions in Ottawa, Canada on Microsoft Start. The article has since been pulled down after recommending Ottawa Food Bank among the top three places to visit. The company is currently investigating the matter to determine how the piece made it through the […]

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This Heat Is Shaking the Very Foundation of the Ocean Food Web

Secondly, the warmer water gets, the less dense it becomes. At the surface, you end up with a band of hot water, with cooler waters in the depths, a layering known as stratification. “If you’ve ever gone swimming in a lake in the summer, if you’re at the surface, it’s nice and warm, and then […]

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It’s Time to End the Tyranny of Ultra-Processed Food

Diet-related disease—which includes obesity, heart attack, strokes, cancer, and dementia—is the leading cause of early death in the UK. Driving it is a set of industrially processed products that are sold as food, known formally as ultra-processed food (UPF). This type of food is usually wrapped in plastic and has additives that you won’t find […]

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Galaxy Watch not enough? Now buy food from Samsung to get fit!

We look at Samsung as an electronics brand, and we don’t expect the company to suddenly start selling something that isn’t its forte, such as cars, clothes, or food. But that’s exactly what Samsung has done this time. It has just started selling all kinds of food items in Korea, right on its official website. […]

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The Food System Is Awful for the Climate. It Doesn’t Have to Be

As people’s incomes rise, they tend to switch from “starchy staples” like grains, potatoes, and roots to meat and dairy products. “You’d think there would be big cultural differences across human populations in these patterns,” says Thomas Tomich, a food systems economist at the University of California, Davis, who wasn’t involved in the new paper. […]

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Fat, Sugar, Salt … You’ve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong

In the late 2000s, Carlos Monteiro noticed something strange about the food that Brazilian people were eating. The nutritionist had been poring over three decades’ worth of data from surveys that asked grocery shoppers to note down every item they bought. In more recent surveys, Monteiro noticed, Brazilians were buying way less oil, sugar, and […]

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Apple Maps to Let You Order Food, Buy Tickets, Book a Hotel, Make Dinner Reservations, and More

Apple Maps users will soon be able to order food or groceries, purchase tickets, make hotel or dinner reservations, view movie showtimes, schedule an appointment, and more directly in the app via participating businesses. A free Business Connect tool announced by Apple today allows businesses to customize their location card in the Maps app with […]

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Why wearables and food tracking could be the next battle ground

Kane McKenna is wearables analyst at CCS Insight. In this series, he shares his research on the wearables industry. We’ve seen wearables tackle heart rate tracking, recovery metrics, and sleep scores – but what we eat could be the next focus. Nutrition is an area where wearables still have some space to develop. While smartwatches […]

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The Sustainable Future of Food Must Bring Everyone to the Table

How can we feed the world sustainably? Right now, 325 million people are acutely hungry. 35 million Americans don’t know where their next meal will come from. The world’s food systems are uneven, fragile, and only becoming more fragile with the climate crisis. “When we talk about from farm-to-fork, we need to transform the food […]

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How Drought and War Are Really Affecting the Global Food Supply

Even if those differences average out nationally—possibly even globally, when you balance Southern Hemisphere production against the US and Western Europe, or the Americas against Central Europe and Asia—there’s a persistent sense that things are, well, wiggly. Some of the changes in productivity come from farmers’ decisions, like choosing to plant more in order to […]

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How Drought and War Are Really Affecting the Global Food Supply

Even if those differences average out nationally—possibly even globally, when you balance Southern Hemisphere production against the US and Western Europe, or the Americas against Central Europe and Asia—there’s a persistent sense that things are, well, wiggly. Some of the changes in productivity come from farmers’ decisions, like choosing to plant more in order to […]

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How the Inflation Reduction Act Affects Food and Agriculture

Black farmers are “going to have to do some paperwork to document the discrimination that occurred, but we can work through that,” Lloyd Wright, a retired farmer and former director of the USDA’s Office of Civil Rights, told Civil Eats’ Lisa Held. “I think it’s really going to help the Black community.”  “I am excited that […]

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Apple Shares Singaporean Food Documentary Shot on iPhone 13 Pro

Apple recently shared a short documentary film about Singapore’s hawker food culture that was shot entirely on the iPhone 13 Pro. The video revolves around two food stalls competing over chicken rice, a popular dish at open-air food courts known as hawker centres in Singapore. The documentary showcases iPhone 13 Pro camera features such as […]

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Climate Change Is Taking a Big Bite out of Our Food Supply

This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With its siege on neighboring Ukraine, Russia has embroiled two of the world’s five leading wheat exporters in a chaotic war, representing about a quarter of the global trade in staple grain. Not surprisingly, global wheat prices surged during the […]

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