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Walmart has some big pricing changes in store
We may never see that Smiley rollback guy chop a paper tag in half again. That's because Walmart plans to switch all its US stores over to easily updatable digital price labels by the end of the year. And last week, news broke that the retail giant secured patents to help inject enough machine learning and automated sy...
Rise of the robots (to revive Indigenous languages)
No matter how long your Duolingo streak is, learning a language is hard. Especially if you're trying to learn one of thousands of endangered Indigenous languages. To help preserve disappearing languages, 25-year-old robotics designer Danielle Boyer created SkoBot, a wearable robot to teach young people Indigenous langu...
Tech innovations are breathing new life into sleep apnea treatment
Sleep, the thing we all do each night, has come to represent a fast-growing industry worth $65B. For a better night's rest, just about everything is now on offer - from $6k smart mattresses and zzzs-inducing cereals, to sleep coaches, sleepcations, sleep trackers, and more. But for people with obstructive sleep apnea (...
Prime number: Calling BS on corporate BS
We have good news for anyone who has ever rolled their eyes during an all hands while some higher-up prattled on about "blue-skying around synergizing cross-collateralization while maximizing growth-hack paradigms." A recent study out of Cornell found that the workers who are most susceptible to "corpora...
