Snap’s head of luxury is touting the promise of augmented reality (AR) to show off branded products such as clothing. Snap’s Geoffrey Perez made the remarks during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in London, the outlet reported Wednesday (Sept. 28). “Every day we have 250 million...
Amazon’s driverless vehicle subsidiary Zoox is hoping to get cars on the streets sooner rather than later, but expanding autonomous infrastructure into new locations beyond the initial cities in the testing phase is proving to be a challenge. Speaking virtually at the Bloomberg Technology Summit...
As grocers look for more profitable ways to run their stores, some are going all-in on self-service checkout, while others are finding that the drawbacks of these technologies outweigh the benefits. On the pro-self-service side, Kroger, the United States’ leading pure-play grocer, has been expanding...
With a business class plane ticket from the U.S. to Europe averaging $11,000 and many companies reassessing business travel after two years of doing without, it’s the ideal time for Star Trek-like teleportation. That’s still centuries off (maybe), but holo-portation is here now. In mid-September,...
Lowe’s has unveiled what it calls its industry’s first “interactive digital store twin,” the home improvement chain said in a press release Tuesday (Sept. 20). Debuting at technology firm Nvidia’s GTC conference, the “digital twin showcases a future in which store associates can visualize and...
Citing what it said were years of customer requests, audio streaming platform Spotify said it is adding audiobooks to its offerings. Beginning Tuesday (Sept. 20), Spotify listeners in the U.S. can buy and listen to more than 300,000 audiobook titles, in a new interface designed...
Technology and making food go hand in hand, from gadgets and utensils for the home chef to factory-level industrial food production. But where FoodTech may once have been all about making the process quicker and easier and developing new techniques, the innovations at the frontier...
Electric vehicles (EVs) are reshaping the urban environment for the better, helping city dwellers breathe cleaner air and reduce their carbon emissions. Across Europe, city councils have been implementing measures to boost EV adoption as part of efforts to reduce the number of combustion engines...
The Linux Foundation wants to do for digital wallets what it did for the private enterprise blockchains used by the likes of Walmart, IBM and Maersk. Working with companies such as Accenture and CVS Health, as well as digital identity providers including Spherity and the...