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Amazon has bought self-driving car start-up Zoox for over $1.2 billion (£970 million), following weeks of speculation that a deal was on the table.

Amazon buys Zoox for $1.2bn in second largest deal in over a decade

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June 26, 2020

Amazon has bought self-driving car start-up Zoox for over $1.2 billion (£970 million), following weeks of speculation that a deal was on the table. The major deal, first reported by…

Intu is repurposing its footfall-tracking technology to ensure social distancing measures are maintained at its UK shopping centres as non-essential retail reopens for business.

Intu repurposes footfall-tracking technology to enforce social distancing it its centres

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June 15, 2020

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Intu is repurposing its footfall-tracking technology to ensure social distancing measures are maintained at its UK shopping centres as non-essential retail reopens for business. The shopping centre giant is using…

Co-op is using facial recognition technology across more than a dozen stores to scan shoppers faces in real-time in a bid to reduce crime and abuse against staff.

Amazon bans police from using its facial recognition technology “that fuels racial profiling” in support of BLM

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#Blacklivesmatter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Amazon Black Lives Matter BLM facial recognition IBM police

June 11, 2020

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Amazon is banning US police forces from using its facial recognition software for a year in support of the #BlackLivesMatter protests. Rekognition, Amazon’s facial recognition technology which is able to…

Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) has launched a new programme dedicated to developing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like visual search and virtual try-on.

YNAP launches research programme to develop visual search and virtual try-on tech

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June 1, 2020

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Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) has launched a new programme dedicated to developing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like visual search and virtual try-on. YNAP has partnered with AI specialists from the University…

Amazon set to purchase autonomous driving startup Zoox

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Amazon Automated driving Driverless Rivian Self-driving Zoox

May 27, 2020

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Amazon is set to purchase self-driving vehicle technology company Zoox marking a major shift into the sector. The ecommerce giant is understood to be in “advanced talks” with Zoox, a…

Co-op is dramatically expanding its robot delivery network after the number of customers using them during lockdown more than doubled.

Automated delivery vehicles see major boost during lockdown

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Alphabet Automated Delivery Autotech Ventures Google Starship Technologies Waymo

May 19, 2020

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Automated delivery vehicles have become “a bigger market than moving people” thanks to a spike in demand during the coronavirus crisis. Waymo, an autonomous driving company owned by Google’s parent…

Lidl launches WhatsApp chatbot to inform customers when the best times to shop are

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Chatbot Ireland Lidl

May 12, 2020

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Lidl has launched an online chatbot via WhatsApp so customers can avoid queues and find the quietest time to shop. Customers in Ireland can now send a message to Lidl…

Asos is dramatically accelerating its augmented reality (AR) “See My Fit” roll out, allowing users to accurately see what items look like in different sizes and on different body types.

Asos ramps up roll out of AR ‘See My Fit’ app to help protect the “wellbeing of our models and staff”

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AR Asos Augmented Reality See My Fit

May 5, 2020

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Asos is dramatically accelerating its augmented reality (AR) “See My Fit” roll out, allowing users to accurately see what items look like in different sizes and on different body types.…

Spoon Guru has launched a new “Immunity Support Tag” for items in the wake of the pandemic to help customers protect themselves from the virus.

Spoon Guru launched “Immunity Support Tag” to help people fight virus

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Andy Clarke Coronavirus COVID 19 Spoon Guru

March 26, 2020

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Spoon Guru has launched a new “Immunity Support Tag” for items in the wake of the pandemic to help customers protect themselves from the virus. The AI-powered dietary tech start-up,…

Alibaba could face yet more fines from the China’s market regulator as a new investigation is launched into its joint venture with Minmetals Development.

Alibaba offers artificial intelligence technology to medial professionals fighting virus

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AI Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Coronavirus COVID 19

March 19, 2020

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Alibaba is offering up its cloud based artificial intelligence technology to medical personnel around the world to help fight COVID-19. Anti-coronavirus solutions have been put together from Alibaba Cloud’s experts,…

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Amazon buys Zoox for $1.2bn in second largest deal in over a decade

Amazon bans police from using its facial recognition technology “that fuels racial profiling” in support of BLM

YNAP launches research programme to develop visual search and virtual try-on tech

Amazon set to purchase autonomous driving startup Zoox

Automated delivery vehicles see major boost during lockdown

Lidl launches WhatsApp chatbot to inform customers when the best times to shop are

Asos ramps up roll out of AR ‘See My Fit’ app to help protect the “wellbeing of our models and staff”

Spoon Guru launched “Immunity Support Tag” to help people fight virus

Alibaba offers artificial intelligence technology to medial professionals fighting virus

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