By Dawn Gesk

The 3D virtual shopping experience comes courtesy of gourmet grocer McEwan Fine Foods Don Mills through a partnership with Inabuggy – an online grocery delivery service that launched in 2015.

Through the virtual 3D walkthrough of McEwan Fine Foods, customers can browse curated aisles of the store just like they were shopping in person. They can select items they want to purchase from store shelves and display cases and add them to their cart for purchase.

The shopping tour gives customers the ability to shop quickly or browse aisles for produce, meats, fish, prepared meals, and gourmet grocery items.

“We have a wide variety of unique products and quality produce and this feature will allow our guests to discover our offerings from the comfort of their homes, making it even easier to eat well,” Mark McEwan, chef and owner of The McEwan Group, said.

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Khari Johnson

Canvas, a company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites, emerged from stealth today. Canvas was founded in 2017 and uses a modified JLG lift, robotic arm, and sensors to automate drywall installation.

Once that task is perfected, Canvas plans to expand into areas like painting and spray-on insulation. The company focuses on commercial construction sites larger than 10,000 square feet, and Canvas’ founders say its machines operate faster and at a higher level of quality than humans working without a robot.

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The once-daily medicine, called baricitinib, was first identified as a potential treatment for the virus by BenevolentAI, a startup based in London.

The company used its AI software to comb through scientific literature for drugs that might block the infection process. The most promising treatment it discovered was baricitinib, which it predicted could stop the infection from entering lung cells.

The new study has now shown the drug’s safety and efficacy in the largest group of patients published thus far.

Continue reading… “AI discovered an old arthritis drug that can help elderly people survive COVID-19”

Damian Carrington 

Cultured meat, produced in bioreactors without the slaughter of an animal, has been approved for sale by a regulatory authority for the first time. The development has been hailed as a landmark moment across the meat industry.

The “chicken bites”, produced by the US company Eat Just, have passed a safety review by the Singapore Food Agency and the approval could open the door to a future when all meat is produced without the killing of livestock, the company said.Advertisement

Dozens of firms are developing cultivated chicken, beef and pork, with a view to slashing the impact of industrial livestock production on the climate and nature crises, as well as providing cleaner, drug-free and cruelty-free meat. Currently, about 130 million chickens are slaughtered every day for meat, and 4 million pigs. By weight, 60% of the mammals on earth are livestock, 36% are humans and only 4% are wild.Revealed: UK supermarket and fast food chicken linked to deforestation in Brazil

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The revolutionary Zmirror all-in-one smart mirror eliminates the need for all other vanity desk products. Its superiority is defined in the high-quality Harman Kardon speakers often found in luxury cars like BMWs and Range Rovers, but it doesn’t stop there.

As a CES 2020 Innovation Awards Winner, Zmirror takes smart speakers to the next level. That’s thanks to its seven-inch LCD touchscreen on the nine-inch diameter tempered glass mirror. If you don’t feel like touching the mirror or your hands are full, easily use Amazon Alexa voice control. That means this all-in-one smart mirror can even tell you the weather, search YouTube, read Kindle books, and more.

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by David Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have created tiny building blocks that exhibit a variety of unique mechanical properties, such as the ability to produce a twisting motion when squeezed. These subunits could potentially be assembled by tiny robots into a nearly limitless variety of objects with built-in functionality, including vehicles, large industrial parts, or specialized robots that can be repeatedly reassembled in different forms.

he researchers created four different types of these subunits, called voxels (a 3-D variation on the pixels of a 2-D image). Each voxel type exhibits special properties not found in typical natural materials, and in combination they can be used to make devices that respond to environmental stimuli in predictable ways. Examples might include airplane wings or turbine blades that respond to changes in air pressure or wind speed by changing their overall shape.

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Want to buy with cryptocurrency in any shop? You can—sort of. All you need is a crypto debit card; we’ve picked out the best options.

Robert Stevens – December 2,2020

• Crypto debit cards enable you to pay using cryptocurrency at any store that accepts debit cards.
• You can use crypto debit cards at ATMs, in shops, and on online merchants.
• There are a number of different options available, supporting a range of cryptocurrencies and offering a selection of fees and cashback incentives.

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