Retail 2.0: Tech-Based Commerce Jun 19, 2019 ... WeChat Pay are already at the forefront of mobile payments, and now they're taking it one step further with facial recognition. The Chinese companies have launched competing point-of-sale systems over the last few months that let customers pay simply by scanning their faces. The Wall Street Journal said the machines—which are about the size of an iPad—are already in vending machines, grocery stores, and hospitals across the country. One Chinese bakery said it had installed Alipay's facial ...
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Family Ties Jun 13, 2016 ... other inside the narrative. The prototype technology is being tested with families in the UK. Lufthansa To help parents who are traveling and cannot be home to read to their kids, Lufthansa airline placed Bedtime Story pods in select airports. Each room contains a mobile recording studio where parents can record a narrative as an audio book in their voice, which they can send to their kids via email or text. Kidoma Storytime iPad app Kidoma Storytime marries ebooks with video chat, allowing parents ...
The Optimization Generation Sep 04, 2015 career home social life spending shopping ... Internet. After all, Ys are early adopters of technology, but they are not digital natives like Zs, who swiped iPads before they could talk. Managing digital behaviors with ease is a learned skill for Ys, not an inherent one. What’s more, most of them first gained access to the web during a tenuous time in their development: their tween and teen years. They essentially had to learn an entirely new set of social and tactical skills during an already confusing time in their development. Thus, learning to ...
Life Skills Mar 10, 2015 education gen z play technology hobbies ... can build characters through programming blocks, and can then edit characters visually and add their own voices, sounds, and photos. Currently available as a free iPad app, Android and web-based versions are slated for release later this year.PRIMOWooden playset Primo teaches kids the foundations of programming. The toy consists of a robot called Cubetto, a board that serves as a programming interface, and colored instruction blocks, which act as code and go in slots on the board to create a ...
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