AI & RoboticsNews

Nordstrom CTO on AI-powered analytics and consumer insights

Join executive leaders at the Data, Analytics, & Intelligent Automation Summit, presented by Accenture. Watch now! Customer service is Nordstrom’s bedrock, and that wasn’t going to change just because the retail giant was engaging with customers online and not in the store, Edmond Mesrobian, Nordstrom’s chief technology officer and chief information officer, said during VentureBeat’s…
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WhatsApp for iOS working on a new call experience

WhatsApp had released version 2.21.140.11 beta on TestFlight. This update brings a new call interface and a few more tweaks to this function. According to WABetaInfo, when WhatsApp beta testers make a call using the app, they will see a new interface similar to FaceTime.
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Verizon and Mastercard team up to turn iPhones into NFC payment terminals [U]

Verizon and Mastercard have announced a new partnership that hopes to advance contactless payment solutions with 5G cellular service. The collaboration is aiming to help small and medium-sized businesses and one of the most interesting possibilities is making iPhone and other smartphones contactless payment terminals without needing any external hardware. Update: While the report from CNBC noted…
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Some iOS versions mysteriously refuse to show ‘69’ as the temperature in the iPhone Weather app [U]

In a curious turn of events, iOS 14.6 and some earlier versions are preventing the temperature from showing as 69 degrees on iPhone in its default Weather app even if that’s the actual reading. Instead, the temperature is being rounded up or down to 68 or 70. Update: Mentioned by my colleague Gui Rambo, one possible explanation could be an issue with converting from Celsius to Fahrenheit: I…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Zero FXE launched as new electric motorcycle model, and we got the first test ride!

Zero certainly has not been resting on its laurels as a leading electric motorcycle manufacturer. However, the last few launches of new models were targeted at the more premium end of the market with the SR/F and SR/S electric motorcycles. Now Zero has launched a new model that targets the entry-level end of its catalog with the Zero FXE. The company was kind enough to invite me out to Santa…
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