Food security is no laughing matter at the best of times, but I gasped when I first read the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) annual food civil contingencies infrastructure report in 2018. It is ...
Economics & Business
Mar 23, 2020
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Google just made ordering pizza, pad thai and fried chicken from your favorite restaurants even easier.
Internet
May 27, 2019
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The technology that unboiled the egg is being used to help improve people's capacity to absorb fish oil.
Nanomaterials
May 22, 2019
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Suraj Nachre works long hours and regularly misses meals but he treasures his job as a driver for a food delivery startup—working in a booming industry that highlights India's expanding apps-based gig-economy.
Business
Feb 20, 2019
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The scope and scale of the so-called "sharing economy" has increased exponentially over the past decade, to the point where it affects almost every aspect of our lives.
Economics & Business
Jan 28, 2019
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Whole Foods will no longer be working with Instacart, the grocery delivery company announced.
Business
Dec 16, 2018
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Meal kits make cooking easier for millions of busy families and time-starved professionals. But a new study by the Center for Labor Research and Education (Labor Center) at UC Berkeley suggests that the workers filling boxes ...
Economics & Business
Oct 31, 2018
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Food delivery service Foodora is pulling out of Australia, with the German-based firm saying it is shifting focus to other markets months after being hit with lawsuits over its treatment of workers.
Business
Aug 3, 2018
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A pair of researchers at the University of Aberdeen in the U.K. has found that people across cultures have a desire for delivery food at two particular times: 7 p.m. and 2 a.m. In their paper published in the journal Royal ...
It's not that drones get tired, it's just that if they're delivering your box of cat food and low-rise socks, dropping down to put it on your patio and flying back up for the next delivery takes power that they need to conserve.
Engineering
Mar 16, 2018
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