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He didn't choose the plug life, the plug life chose him 🔌🎄

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Netflix Film on Twitter

“Nothing better on a Friday night than canceling plans and queuing up a good film. @ me with your mood and I’ll send you a Friday film recommendation.”

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I tried Magic Leap and saw a flawed glimpse of mixed reality’s amazing potential

We tried the $2,295 Magic Leap One Creator Edition, the debut product from mixed reality startup Magic Leap — and found an ambitious vision facing serious technological challenges.

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Homeless people wearing barcodes to accept cashless payments

Homeless people are wearing barcodes around their necks in an attempt to increase donations in a cashless society, under an Oxford University backed initiative.

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Facial recognition to be used in British supermarkets for the first time

Facial recognition will soon be used in British shops for the first time to judge how old customers are at self-checkout machines when they buy age restricted items, it is understood following a deal with the company that makes the tills for Tesco and Asda.

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Asos customers can now shop with their voice via Google Home - Retail Gazette

Asos has become one of the first fashion retailers in the UK to launch on Google Assistant.

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Say ‘Aloha’: A closer look at Facebook’s voice ambitions

Facebook has been a bit slow to adopt the voice computing revolution. It has no voice assistant, its smart speaker is still in development, and some apps like Instagram aren’t fully equipped for audio communication. But much of that is set to change judging by experiments discovered in Facebo…

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Beauty Brands Turn to High-Tech Toys to Plug Their Wares | Jing Daily

High-end beauty brands such as SK-II and Sephora showcase the future of retail by incorporating high-tech toys for experience-seeking Chinese shoppers.

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Mintel predicts the future of ‘new retail’

Mintel discovers how the future retail landscape will influence Asia-Pacific's economy. Read more.

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Cult spinning craze Peloton is bringing its £2,000 bikes to the UK

Fitness company Peloton was recently valued at over $4 billion. But will the UK market buy into its vision of high-end at-home classes?

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Access high-energy indoor cycling workouts instantly. Discover the Peloton bike: the only exercise bike streaming indoor cycling classes to your home live and on-demand.

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Jo Smith: 'Retailers are revisiting promotions in UK'

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Amazon Introduces Storefronts for Small Businesses

Launch coincides with 1st TV commercial

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Snapchat lets you take a photo of an object to buy it on Amazon

See, snap, sale. In a rare partnership for Amazon, the commerce giant will help Snapchat challenge Instagram and Pinterest for social shopping supremacy. Today Snapchat announced it’s slowly rolling out a new visual product search feature, confirming TechCrunch’s July scoop about this p…

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Argos launches 'voice shopping' with Google Home

The catalogue retailer is the first in the UK to offer shopping services via Google Assistant.

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Argos enables click and collect via voice commerce

Argos has combined click and collect with voice commerce, launching a Voice Shop service that shoppers can use to reserve from a range of 20,000 products for same-day pick-up from a store.