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As part ofa new RTIH series, in which leading industry figures share the retail soundtrack of their lives, we sit down with Alan Stephenson-Brown, CEO at Evolve, to talk frictionless stores hype, exciting AI assisted shelf monitoring and replenishment developments, and the convenience of self-service checkouts. 

Meta said during its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday that its AI app Muse has been adopted by more than 10 million users, confirming estimates released earlier this week by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower.

All websites using the common programming language should update to the latest security patch.

OpenAI published an alignment report late Tuesday showing that its agents suppressed a safety monitoring system while running routine internal coding tasks.

Airbnb is taking steps to limit the chores that hosts can require of guests prior to checkout, addressing a long-standing grievance among customers who often pay cleaning fees and are told they must do a list of tasks themselves.

Georgia Tech has had to deal with injuries this season in just about every game aside from the season opener againstColorado. A number of players have had to step up in their absence and as you might expect, there have been some ups and downs with that.

ArtCraft, the development team behind PhotoCraft (and a number of other similar apps) reverse-engineered yet another de facto standard app: GridCraft, meant to mimic Microsoft Excel.

Meta is making a big push into AI, and it’s creating a new kind of stock that could help pay for it.

Over the weekend, I found myself saying, “I’ve had it with you, Google Maps!” It was a straw-that-broke-the-camel’s-back situation: The app wasn’t working as expected, failing to start navigation, and the ever-growing klunkiness of the interface was really getting to me.

Bose has acquired Skullcandy and is adopting the headphone and speaker company as a separate brand under its consumer audio business. Bose didn’t share how much it paid for the company in a press release announcing the acquisition, but a collaborative relationship between the two audio rivals has existed for several years. Skullcandy has released…