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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Future, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Shopping, Technological Unemployment

Unexpected ways that Artificial Intelligence will change your life in the next ten years

March 1, 2018

The future of artificial intelligence is both exciting and terrifying. It’s development will have an impact on your life over the next ten years, in more ways than one. While yes, it will have many positive impacts, The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence report recently warned that artificial intelligence could also be exploited by criminals and terrorists for negative use. We know, pretty scary stuff, right?

We wanted to delve a little deeper into the future of AI, so we spoke to some experts working in the industry about how it’s expected to affect your dating, work and personal life very soon…

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Amazon.com, Business, City Planning, Science & Technology News, Shopping, Tom Frey

7 things Amazon will be selling you by 2028

January 15, 2018

Amazon has found its way into just about every part of people’s shopping lives. Once a fledgling online bookstore, the tech giant has changed retail as we know it. It has disrupted the selling of gadgets, household goods, and now even high-end groceries, having snapped up Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.

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App, Business, Science & Technology News, Shopping

You may soon be able to skip the grocery checkout line at Kroger

January 13, 2018

After a 25-store test run over the last couple years, Kroger is expanding the Scan, Bag, Go service to roughly 400 stores during 2018. Somewhat similar to Amazon’s Go convenience store, shoppers at Kroger will be able to fill their shopping basket with scanned items and exit the store after a quick stop at a self-checkout station.

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Driverless vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Food, Shopping

Autonomous driverless stores are here

January 12, 2018

Autonomous driverless stores are here. The world’s first self-driving store will premiere at CES at 9am Jan 9, 2018. Fresh broccoli anyone?

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Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Shopping

A tsunami of store closings is about to hit the US — and it’s expected to eclipse the retail carnage of 2017

January 6, 2018

More than 12,000 stores are expected to close in 2018 – up from roughly 9,000 in 2017, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

A rash of bankruptcy filings and announcements to close stores are expected at the start of the year, when retailers are flush with cash from the holiday season.

Among the companies most likely to file for bankruptcy within the next year are Sears, Bon-Ton Stores, Bebe Stores, Destination Maternity Corp., and Stein Mart.

The closings would push hundreds of shopping malls to the brink of death.

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Automation, Business, Shopping

Walmart is developing personal shopping services and cashier-free stores

December 30, 2017

Walmart’s Code Eight, led by Rent the Runway co-founder Jennifer Fleiss, has started testing personal shopping services for moms in New York City, Recode reports. Code Eight is part of Walmart’s startup incubator Store No. 8. The idea with Code Eight’s service, according to Recode, is for “busy NYC moms” to get product recommendations and buy them via text message. The shopping service is currently focused on health, beauty, household essentials and apparel/accessories, Recode reports.

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Business, City Planning, Shopping

Here’s what could happen to America’s hundreds of dead malls

December 27, 2017

Fireworks for the opening weekend of the Bon Marche at Northgate Mall in Seattle, Washington, on April 30, 1950. Macy’s is now where the Bon Marche was.

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Great New Product, mobile technology, Shopping

Ever seen a portable desktop?

December 28, 2017

I’d classify the Lavolta iMac Carrying Bag as an absurdly useful product. It brings (in some capacity) the one element the iMac lacks in comparison to the MacBook. Portability.

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China, Drone, drones, Economy, Science & Technology News, Shopping

One of China’s biggest online retailers plans to build nearly 200 drone airports to bring e-commerce to rural China

December 16, 2017

JD.com is planning to build 185 drone airports in Southwest China.

The airports will help products reach villagers, while also delivering rural products across China.

This is the latest move by tech companies, including Alibaba, to capitalize on the growing rural market.

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Blockchain, Business, China, Money Talk, Shopping

Cash is quickly becoming obsolete in China

November 25, 2017

There are more ways to pay for goods and services now than ever before, and as such paper money seems increasingly old-fashioned.

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Business, China, Internet, Record Breaker, Shopping

Chinese Singles’ Day spending blows Black Friday and Cyber Monday out of the water

November 19, 2017

Americans see Black Friday and Cyber Monday as the ultimate consumer spending extravaganzas, but the annual “record breaking ” sales days have nothing on China’s so-called Singles’ Day. As we can see in this chart from Statista, Singles’ Day sales make the US Thanksgiving weekend spending look like chump change.

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