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Zalando’s Director of Engineering on AI and the future of fashion

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by on May 16, 2019 at 3:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider, TNW2019


Last week’s TNW Conference featured an amazing lineup of speakers, all sharing their unique knowledge and insights into the future of tech. A prominent theme this year was machine learning and artificial intelligence — namely, how industries can harness its power. Stacia Carr, Director of Engineering at Zalando, gave an inspiring keynote about how she integrates this tech into her work. As the fashion industry moves more and more online, customers want to know if the clothes they’re ordering will fit. Together with her team, Carr uses machine learning to make intelligent predictions on variations in size across the industry. We…

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The most compelling tech tools to assist the visually impaired

May16
by on May 16, 2019 at 2:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, High Contrast, Insights


In our ongoing series, High Contrast, we’re looking at how assistive technology can help people with disabilities overcome challenges in their lives, and the pioneers innovating in solutions to make everyday tools more accessible. Technology is increasingly improving our lives by conveniently tackling menial tasks – and it’s also helping people with disabilities lead more independent lives and improve their skill sets. With this in mind, and in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, here’s a look at some of the most innovative apps and solutions helping people with visual impairment today. Facebook’s AI-captioned photographs Back in April 2016, Facebook introduced…

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Designing products for people with disabilities has never been so important

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by on May 16, 2019 at 1:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, High Contrast, Insider


In our ongoing series, High Contrast, we’re looking at how assistive technology can help people with disabilities overcome challenges in their lives, and the pioneers innovating in solutions to make everyday tools more accessible. Today marks the eighth annual  Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), an event that was set into motion in 2011 to spread awareness about the importance of digital access and inclusion and how technology can help empower people with different disabilities. The idea for GAAD started with a simple post by Los Angeles-based web developer Joe Devon. “First, let’s agree on a Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This…

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Big, greedy Ethereum whales account for 33 percent of cryptocurrency’s supply

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by on May 16, 2019 at 1:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Ethereum whales account for just 7 percent of transaction activity in the market – but they control a third of the cryptocurrency’s entire circulating supply. That’s according to a new study by Chainanalysis which found that although these whales don’t have a sizeable impact on Ether’s price, their large sell-offs do make the market more volatile on a daily basis. For context, whales are defined as the top 500 cryptocurrencies excluding services, who keep their coins off exchanges. As of May 1, 2019, Chainalaysis’ research showed that out of the top 500 holders, 124 were services and the remaining 376…

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