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Digital commerce company NCR Voyix has introduced a new self-checkout offering.  The NCR Voyix Next Generation Self-Checkout Solution, announced in a news release Sunday (Jan. 14), was designed with the arrival of frictionless hybrid stores in mind, letting retailers “pivot quickly between assisted and self-checkout lanes or cash and cashless lanes.” The solution uses multiple signals — such […]

Last year was not a good one for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Sales for the blockchain-based digital assets fell 63% to $8.7 billion in 2023, even with volume tripling between October and November, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (Jan. 14), citing data from CryptoSlam.  As that report notes, NFTs were a defining feature of the crypto bull market in 2021, deemed […]

For sale now on Amazon: dozens of products labeled “I cannot fulfill this request.” Actually, the exact wording is, “I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy,” an error message from the artificial intelligence (AI) company. Descriptions like these, according to a Saturday (Jan. 13) report by Ars Technica, are […]

Sam’s Club is replacing the practice of verifying receipts as shoppers exit the bulk retailer.  Instead, the Walmart-owned company is rolling out new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology that can visually scan customers’ carts, thus eliminating long lines along with the sometimes controversial practice of receipt checking, while still ensuring customers are paying for their purchases. “Eliminating even […]

Google has removed several cryptocurrency platforms from its Indian Play store. The removal, as reported Saturday (Jan. 13) by TechCrunch, involves crypto giants including Binance and Kraken, and follows a similar move last week by Apple.  The move comes amid a crackdown on digital asset companies by the Indian government. Late last month, the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit India announced it was […]

Apple is reportedly closing down a 121-person artificial intelligence (AI) team based in San Diego. This group, called Data Operations Annotations, was informed last week that they would be relocating to Austin to merge with a similar team, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (Jan. 15), citing people familiar with the matter. These sources say Apple told workers they […]

Goldman Sachs is reportedly increasing its efforts to court ultra-rich clientele. The banking giant has been more focused on lending to private wealth customers — those with an average of $60 million deposited, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (Jan. 14). In addition, the report said, loans to clients such as hedge funds are […]

Billing platform Octane says it has joined the payments processor Stripe. “We started Octane to democratize consumption-based pricing by building the billing infrastructure needed to support it,” the company said in its announcement last week. “Today, we continue to see tremendous growth of consumption-based pricing use cases.” By joining Stripe, the announcement said, Octane is working with […]

Two U.S. senators want the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to up its cybersecurity game after a recent hack. Last week, someone breached SEC’s account on X to falsely announce the regulator’s long-awaited approval of bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). While that approval would come a day later, the phony news did serve to temporarily drive up the price of […]