Even amid fresh’s success, frozen alternatives are making inroads with consumers.Ask a random person walking down the street to draw a picture of “food.” If they don’t just stare at you funny, nine times in 10 you’ll likely get handed a sketch of the iconic fruits, vegetables, steaks, chicken, or fish that industry professionals classify as “fresh food.” Fresh equals food in the mind of...

The main purpose is to explore sustainable food production, as cellular agriculture requires significantly less energy, water and produces fewer carbon emissions. Finland’s VTT research institute has been studying producing lab-grown coffee, using cells harvested from real plants. Recent milestones involved the researchers producing its very first cup of lab-grown coffee, which the researchers...

111 million Netflix accounts streamed at least two minutes of Squid Game in the last 27 days according to the tech giant's Twitter account. This announcement follows one of the rare instances of Netflix publishing viewership data on their original shows at Vox Media's Code Conference in September. As our chart shows, the competition is lagging behind considerably.The former top show now bumped...

Party.Space has raised $1 million to scale up its metaverse-themed virtual events business.The company will use the money to scale its sales, explore new applications, launch its first metaverse setting for virtual events, and create a collection of nonfungible tokens devoted to the purpose.The metaverse is the fabled universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such a...

Just when you thought Magic Leap had disappeared into the graveyard of failed AR headsets, the company announced today that it had raised another $500 million at a $2 billion valuation. Oh, and it’s working on a second version of its headset for release next year.The news came straight from Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson during an interview on CNBC’s Power Lunch. Johnson revealed that the devic...

World’s biggest luxury group says there are no signs a feared crackdown in China is affecting sales.LVMH has seen no sign of a slowdown in the luxury boom in China, its second-biggest market, since the authorities there hinted at a crackdown on the mega-rich and called for a focus on “common prosperity” in August.Investors have worried that new curbs on conspicuous consumption in China would...

The smallest-ever computer chip resting in a hypodermic needle.Electronics are getting imperceptibly small, opening new avenues for medical technology to place advanced monitoring and treatment devices inside our bodies. And Columbia University engineers just demonstrated a new and revolutionary version of this, creating the world's smallest single-chip system ever developed, according to a rec...

According to Channel Factory, 64% of consumers say Covid-19 won’t impact their holiday shopping plans.Channel Factory's forecast sees gift-givers shelving experiences for the classics like electronics and clothes. It might be football season, but America’s real pastime between now and the holiday season is shopping—and consumers aren’t letting Covid get in the way this time. Infographic : h...

Technology has emerged as the primary disruptor and value creator across all sectors.Most of the largest creators of value in recent years, regardless of sector, have one thing in common: technology is critical to their business (see Figure 1).In general, companies and sectors with less tech-enabled innovation had smaller market-value gains from 2015 through 2020.The clear message is that techn...