It’s not only shopping that is getting more visual via new and emerging technologies, a trend that promises to get more intense in the 2020s,...
When talking about advances in home automation and artificial intelligence (AI)-guided systems for consumers, the conversation has a natural tendency to drift toward younger consumers,...
One of the new realities of augmented reality is this: the technology is attracting more investment from China than from sources in North America. This...
There could be so much more to a cashier-less checkout experience — and for so much less than what Amazon is spending to do it...
Tech companies are spending big on research and development (R&D). In 2017, for example, FactSet found that five U.S. tech companies invested a total of...
Retailers lose $14 billion annually in “scan avoidance” — that is, when items are bagged at the register without ever being scanned or paid for....
Shopping on eBay just got easier. The auction site has announced the launch of two new visual search tools that will allow people to use...
Amazon has announced further expansion, this time through the acquisition of Manhattan-based artificial intelligence (AI) 3D body scanning startup Body Labs, according to Tuesday (Oct....
Facebook stock (FB) was trending upward in midweek trading, with mid-day values on Wednesday (Feb. 8) rising 1.68 percent from the previous day’s close, up...