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Soon-to-launch Chef Nightly app wants to streamline ordering dinner

“Hal, order sushi for two tonight.” A Westford startup called Every Labs is working on the artificially intelligent food-ordering app of the future. While the company’s Chef Nightly app isn’t yet...

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Grove Labs to ship its chic, in-home veggie gardens to first customers this...

Tomatoes year round, fresh-picked fish-fed kale: These are dreams that Grove Labs claims to make real. An idea for an in-home garden nourished by detritus from a fish tank germinated in the MIT dorm...

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What’s for dinner? Let IBM’s ‘Chef’ Watson decide

IBM’s Watson has a voracious appetite for knowledge. In the past five years, this cloud-based cognitive system has played trivia champ, legal aide, and cancer researcher. For the last three years, IBM...

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For employees of eClinicalWorks in Westborough, Indian lunch options abound

I try to fact-check each and every rumor related to Indian food that reaches me. So when someone mentioned in June that eClinicalWorks, an electronic medical records company in Westborough, had a...

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Sampling a high-protein breakfast buffet, made from bugs

Eran Gronich invited me over to breakfast at MassChallenge’s waterfront offices a few weeks ago. I brought an iced coffee, and Gronich supplied a spread of crackers, rice, marinara sauce, and flour –...

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New York Times food writer joins Needham startup Purple Carrot

New York Times food writer Mark Bittman penned his last regular column in September this year, explaining that he intended to join the world he covered — this time as a participant as part of a...

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Game Changers 2015: Edible food wrappers

Harvard University professor David Edwards offers a simple solution to the problem of waste from food packaging: Just eat the wrapping. Edwards is behind a company called WikiFoods, whose “pearls”...

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Octopus-inspired robot ‘hands’ delicate enough to grasp a tomato

Soft Robotics wants to get its speciality robot hands all over your food. Last week, the year-old startup announced a partnership with a California company that makes sorters, washers, and chopping...

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Freight Farms goes back to school, grows greens for Stony Brook U.

Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, is partnering with Boston startup Freight Farms to give students a taste of fresh, locally grown greens. The goal is to give students an opportunity to...

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Chef Nightly food delivery app shuts down amid intense competition

It’s the second on-demand food service to shut down just this week: Berkeley, CA-based SpoonRocket announced it was shutting down on Tuesday.

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