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Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving — here’s why

Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving — here’s why

Published by skeptic

Chef Robotics CEO Rajat Bhageria likes to tell people — correctly — that his industry is a veritable startup graveyard. Whether you’re talking about Chowbotics, a salad-making startup that was acquired and later shut down by DoorDash, or Zume, a $400 million attempt to “disrupt” pizza delivery that collapsed in 2023, the effort to automate a process that has heretofore required opposable thumbs and a sentient brain has not always gone so smoothly. Bhageria thinks he’s figured out the workaround. The premise is simple, even if the execution isn’t: use AI-powered robot arms to take the labor out of large-scale food production. Originally, Chef sought to do that in fast casual restaurants, the kind that litter America’s cities. But the company pivoted early, finding success instead in food manufacturing, where it now serves enterprise customers like Amy’s Kitchen and Chef Bombay, and works with one of the largest school lunch providers in the country. Now, the company says that it has passed an important milestone: 100 million servings. What’s a “serving,” exactly? A company spokesperson …

Ciara Miller Addresses Amanda, West Summer House Scandal: ‘Thriving’

Ciara Miller Addresses Amanda, West Summer House Scandal: ‘Thriving’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Ciara Miller subtly addressed the Summer House scandal at Tuesday night’s Euphoria premiere, promising her supporters she’s thriving amid the controversy. The reality star attended the season three debut for the HBO series, where she very briefly spoke with Entertainment Tonight and also interviewed the star-studded cast for HBO Max. In a short and sweet interview with the former outlet, Miller was asked how she’s doing, to which she responded, “We’re thriving.” “We’re at Euphoria, how can we not?” she quickly quipped. Elsewhere, Miller interviewed the show’s stars, including Sydney Sweeney, Hunter Schafer and Maude Apatow, but her chat with the Christy star was certainly the buzziest of the three. A piece of Miller’s interview with Sweeney was shared on the HBO Max Instagram, where the two were seemingly discussing Sweeney’s character Cassie stealing Maddy’s (Alexa Demie), her best friend, boyfriend Nate (Jacob Elordi) in season two. “I mean, if you steal your friend’s ex-boyfriend…” Miller began in the clip, to which The Housemaid star rebutted, shaking her head and replying, “It’s not good.” “What …

3 hikes near L.A. where wildflowers are thriving right now

3 hikes near L.A. where wildflowers are thriving right now

Published by Sam Flores

I went to the Santa Monica Mountains on the hunt for wildflowers. I was nervous. What if I found absolutely nothing? I’d used data collected by plant lovers during previous blooms and checked on iNaturalist, a citizen science app, about where wildflowers had recently been noticed to discern where I’d be most likely to find blooms. But, even then, I knew the unusual spring heat wave that prompted some wildflowers to bloom early could have also killed them. I knew the heat had already zapped the bright orange beauties at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. What if I’d already missed this annual springtime magic? It was with this level of eagerness and anxiety I recently entered the Santa Monica Mountains. I feel more than lucky to have discovered a resplendent rainbow of native plant blooms. I hope you also witness this abundance on the three trails below. L.A. is forecast to have more springtime rain, and you know what they say about April showers! If not, though, I want to underscore that regardless of …

Christian nationalists are panicking because religious progressives are thriving 

Christian nationalists are panicking because religious progressives are thriving 

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Christian nationalists are sounding a bit panicked these days. I can’t say I am surprised. On Saturday (March 28), 8 million Americans of diverse faiths and beliefs joined together in streets and squares around the world for No Kings protests. The next day, the Christian holy day of Palm Sunday, thousands more came out again. All of these people were rejecting the rising autocracy of our current moment, and many of them were Christians.   No wonder, then, that the late James Dobson’s Family Institute recently published an article blaring an alarm: “The Left Wants to Hijack Jesus! Don’t Let Them.” The essay, written by longtime religious right activist and failed Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer, warned that the “secular left” is out to take away “the Jesus we know.” These arguments break down quickly, however, as Bauer focuses on the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, James Talarico, and Kentucky Governor and possible presidential candidate Andy Beshear, whom Bauer attacks for supporting full dignity of transgender people and for their faithful conviction that …

King penguins are thriving in a warmer climate, but it may not last

King penguins are thriving in a warmer climate, but it may not last

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Two king penguins calling in the middle of a colony on Possession Island, a French territory in the southern Indian Ocean Gaël BARDON (CSM/CNRS/IPEV) King penguins are not just surviving, but thriving as temperatures rise in the sub-Antarctic, with more of their chicks surviving to maturity. Yet although the species looks like a climate change winner, some researchers fear it could eventually lose access to crucial food sources and decline. King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Possession Island, a French territory midway between Antarctica and Madagascar, began breeding about 19 days earlier in 2023 than they did in 2000. Thanks to this longer breeding season, 62 per cent of chicks now survive on average, up from 44 per cent in 2000, according to research by Gaël Bardon at the Monaco Scientific Center and his colleagues. “With king penguins, we can see that there are super-fast changes in the Southern Ocean that are good for them for the moment, but for the long term, we don’t really know,” says Bardon. Pairs of king penguins, which are recognisable …

Spain’s Wind Towns Are Thriving

Spain’s Wind Towns Are Thriving

Published by Daniella Wilson

Go looking for wind farms in Spain, and you might quickly end up in Castilla–La Mancha, a region southeast of Madrid. This is the place where Don Quixote, Miquel de Cervantes’s delusional Man of La Mancha, attacked small wooden windmills he perceived as fierce giants and where today giant wind turbines have become an embedded part of the landscape. There, I met Mayor Isabel Martínez Arnedo, who has run the town of Higueruela since 2019. The region’s distinctive wind whipped her dark curls as she stepped out of her car. “Look!” she said in Spanish. “Windmills, windmills, windmills.” They were lined up along a ridge at the edge of the small rural town, blades spinning high atop pale-blue towers. A verdant valley lay below, and beyond that, another ridge was crowned with more turbines. When the town’s wind farms were first built, more than 25 years ago, “this was seen as futuristic,” she told me. She was just 23 years old then, and it was the largest wind farm in Europe, the second largest in …

How Vanessa Williams is thriving in her 60s thanks to ‘game-changer’ Mounjaro and vampire facials – exclusive

How Vanessa Williams is thriving in her 60s thanks to ‘game-changer’ Mounjaro and vampire facials – exclusive

Published by Daniella Wilson

Vanessa Williams walks into the restaurant of London’s Broadwick Soho Hotel with the assurance of someone who knows precisely where she belongs. In the past year, she has become a familiar presence on the British cultural circuit, sitting on the front row at Burberry next to Sir Elton John and air-kissing designers at the British Fashion Awards. It is not the high‑wattage entrance of a visiting star, but the measured confidence of someone who feels right at home. © Andrew WoffindenVanessa Williams tells HELLO! about why her sixties have been her best chapter yet For just over a year, Williams has anchored the West End production of The Devil Wears Prada, inhabiting the lead character of Miranda Priestley with an authority that segues from a withering “that’s all” to a high-octane song and dance number. The show’s run has been extended until September, but she’s showing no signs of fatigue, despite a gruelling schedule of eight shows a week. If anything, it seems to have energised the 62-year-old New Yorker.  Now, she settles down to …

Dog hours from death now thriving – amongst record pet neglect | UK | News

Dog hours from death now thriving – amongst record pet neglect | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

Animal neglect in Britain has reached a five-year high, with cruelty investigators warning that suffering pets are increasingly being hidden away in filthy homes across the country. New figures from the RSPCA show reports of animal neglect rose by 28 per cent last year, with the charity now receiving an average of 17 neglect reports every hour its cruelty line is open. Frontline officers say the problem is worsening and they are braced for further pressure on rescue services as the cost of living crisis is exacerbated by household winter pressures. Behind the stark national figures are individual cases of animals pushed to the brink. One recent case involved a springer spaniel called Floss, who was found starving and close to death after being shut inside a filthy house with no food or water. In the same property, another Mastiff had already died. Floss was rescued by RSPCA inspectors from a rubbish-strewn, faeces-filled home near Northallerton in North Yorkshire. When officers entered the property, they found her desperately scavenging through waste in a futile attempt …