The Philips Baristina espresso machine surprised me with a very cool feature I've never seen before

Literally taking the espresso-making process out of your hands.

Coffee’s ‘Fourth Wave’ rides into Bay Area with Brewbird’s high-tech, single-serve machine

The Brewbird machine uses compostable pods, whole beans ground in the machine for “pour-over” quality with one-touch — and if you work at Meta or GAP, you might have tried a cup.
Scientific American

Poetry was humanity’s first language technology. AI is the next

Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...
Food in Japan

How Japanese Coffee Culture Influenced the Global Specialty Coffee Movement

Ask a tourist what Japan drinks, and they will say ‘Matcha.’ Ask a local, and they might just point you to a fifty-year-old ...