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Zume, SoftBank’s Multimillion-Dollar Robot Pizza Startup, Is Cooked
Zume, a tech company most people have probably never heard of — but that was once worth nearly half a billion dollars — is officially dead. The company, which wanted to use robots, data collection, and high tech culinary innovation to disrupt the pizza delivery business, is officially insolvent and is currently in the process…
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Toblerone Removes Iconic Swiss Mountain From Logo Because Its Chocolate Isn’t Swiss Anymore
Mondelez International, the company that makes Toblerone chocolate, is removing an image of the Matterhorn mountain from packaging of the candy because the product no longer meets the country’s standard of “Swissness” after moving some of its chocolate production to Slovakia.
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A Fighter Turns to Breakfast Alchemy in Sci-Fi Short Steel Cut Oats
In a roadside diner, an ageing former boxer (Seinfeld’s Brian George) tells a friendly server (The School for Good and Evil’s Rachel Bloom) a magical tale from his fighting past — involving a very special match between a monster made of radioactive oatmeal and a steam-powered robot. No wonder he gets misty when he sees…
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Krispy Kreme CEO Says Robots Will Frost and Fill Doughnuts Soon
If you’re a doughnut slinger, a robot could be gunning for your job. Krispy Kreme’s CEO announced in an interview with Yahoo Finance earlier this week that the company is eyeing adding robots to its workforce beginning next year in order to fulfil the company’s demand while cutting production times.