🍛 Would you eat this 'hybrid'-engineered beef rice? It could come to your rescue

Plus: Ancient humans and their pets found buried next to each other                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 February 15, 2024 | [Read Online]( In eatables that could be used during wars or in space, where there’s usually a scarcity of edible food, a new kind of ‘hybrid’ meal can come to the rescue. Scientists from Korea have created a new recipe wherein they have grown animal muscle (beef) inside grains of rice, and they are calling it cultured beef rice. The researchers plan to commercialize this method, and they believe it could offer a more affordable protein alternative with a smaller carbon footprint. 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This process could improve the performance and efficiency of electric vehicle (EV) batteries, making them faster to charge and longer to last. [Read more >]( Question of the day Would you consider incorporating hybrid foods into your diet? [Absolutely! Intrigued by the nutritional and culinary possibilities.]( [Maybe, need more information about the safety and health aspects.]( [Unsure, would like to taste and understand before deciding.]( [No, prefer traditional foods and cautious about new food technologies.]( YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Yesterday, we asked for your take on Nvidia's 'Chat with RTX' that can efficiently summarize videos and large documents? Here are the results: 🟨🟨⬜️️⬜️️⬜️️⬜️️ Something I would use – I love the idea! (16%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Interested – I see potential, but I'd need to explore more (39%) 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ Neutral - I'm open to AI chatbots, but they tend to be overrated (21%) 🟨🟨🟨⬜️️⬜️⬜️ Not interested – I prefer traditional methods for information processing (24%) “Now I see a world of possibilities for this grain-based hybrid food. 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