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Jul
Hotels are reducing how much food they waste at their breakfast buffets by installing AI-powered cameras above their kitchen trash cans.British company Winnow's hardware involves a scale that kitchens place a trash can on, as well as a screen with a motion-sensor camera. Its AI scans the items after they're placed in the trash — it can identify whether that was a bowl of carrot peelings, excess guacamole, or uneaten mashed potato — and the scale then records how much of that item was thrown away.Chefs and restaurant managers can see this data in real time. Winnow's hardware involves a…