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People use AI for a wide range of speech recognition and understanding tasks, from enabling smart speakers to developing tools for people who are hard of hearing or who have speech impairments. But oftentimes these speech understanding systems don’t work well in the everyday situations when we need them most: Where multiple people are speaking simultaneously or when there’s lots of background...

The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US.[click to enlarge]Infographic : https://bit.ly/3nhPDsM[asymco]

70% of the ingredients used by McDonald's to make hamburgers in Spain come from local suppliers. To demonstrate its commitment to Spanish farmers and ranchers, the multinational has decided to install its emblematic totem poles in fields that form part of its supply chain and thus vindicate its obsession with the quality of its products.McDonald's installed the first pole in a field in Murcia (...

Covid-19 spurred consumers to change the way they shop, with many opting to go online rather than in store, especially at the start of the pandemic. E-commerce sales surged to a record 15.7% of total U.S. retail receipts in mid-2020, and while they’ve come slightly off that peak as shoppers return to brick-and-mortar stores, they remain elevated, Commerce Department data show.U.S. retailers ha...

The devices will be able to continuously monitor your body's composition and help you take action.Health tech company Abbott is working on “biowearable” devices to track certain elements of one’s body, with the idea that they’ll provide users with more insights about their general health and help them take action. The Lingo devices will measure glucose, ketones and lactate, and eventually t...

Instant purchase and delivery of food and other essentials was one of the big bubbles of opportunity in the world of e-commerce in the last year, with dozens of startups big and small emerging and scooping up funding to build out businesses to bring items like groceries, toilet paper and Tylenol to people’s doors in 30 minutes or less. Now a startup called Arive that’s applying this concept t...

Disney is one step closer to creating its own theme-park metaverse. The entertainment company was recently approved for a "virtual-world simulator" patent. The tech includes a tracking system and 3D image projector — here's what it might do. By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Po...

This game-changer works as an extra pair of hands for moving and fetching items.The Retriever from developer Labrador Systems is like a sleek version of the autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that are now commonplace in logistics centers and manufacturing.After several years of seeing ridiculous robotic humanoids and mobile robot assistants (that amount to very expensive Alexas on wheels) released...