Giving AI Street Smarts Artificial intelligence is book smart, but is it street smart? With similar-sounding words, humans use context to determine the meaning, but AI doesn't yet have that skill. Still, that doesnât mean it doesnât have a place in todayâs organizations â and it will certainly have an even bigger place in tomorrowâs. Karen Webster and IntraNext CEO Patrick Brown talk predictions about how and where and why it will emerge. Read More... |
The Cashier-less Grocery Store Experience Right place, right time. In 2015, when Poly was first building its deep learning visual recognition engine, many asked why. Two years later, grocers looking to implement a fully digital, cashier-less store are now asking when can they implement it. Poly CEO, Alberto Rizzoli, gave Karen Webster an inside look at the tech, the grocery store use case, and why the future of food shopping is small, smart and totally digital. Read More... |
Uber's Rough Ride And Amazonâs Holiday Stride Breaches, scandals galore and not a few losses on the bottom line â call it a year Uber wants in the rearview mirror, with a Fizzling end to 2017. In the meantime, PSD2 remains a puzzle and Amazon grabs holiday cheer, ready for Prime time with Alexa giving voice to payments (literally). Read More... |
| PYMNTS mPOS Tracker™ | NEW REPORT: mPOS Moves Beyond Payments What began as a way to give micro-merchants a path to digital is now a superhighway for enabling a variety of important retail business functions for SMBs. The latest PYMNTS mPOS Tracker⢠charts how developers are embedding inventory tracking, ordering recommendations and more into mPOS solutions. Plus, Prashant Sharma, global lead for Mastercardâs mPOS acceptance team, tells PYMNTS how SMBs worldwide are using mPOS as their onramp to rich data analytics that sharpens the focus of their businesses. Find that, headlines from around the space and a directory of 290 industry players, inside the Tracker. Read More... | |