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Rinse Clothing Service Raises $14M To Expand To Boston, Chicago And Beyond

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Rinse has a solution for both, and thanks to a $14 million Series B funding round led by Partech, it’s taking that solution to two new cities: Boston and Chicago. It’s an on-time, friendly, well-trained valet. Everyone needs clean clothes, and those working in the industry have to make a living. It’s execution of moving pieces.

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Mastercard Pushes Multiple Cashless Solutions For Transit Payments

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“From mobile ticketing to digitizing commuter cards and enabling contactless payments, Mastercard has already embedded its technology in 16 metro areas including Los Angeles, Boston and Denver to make getting from Point A to Point B as simple as buying a morning cup of coffee,” the company said. merchants and acceptance at Mastercard.

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Uber Looks To Buy AI Startup For Self-Driving Tech

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Getty Images needed help with categorizing all of its photos with the help of people who can train artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, and paired up with Spare5 from there, with IBM coming aboard for a chatbot for spectators at the 2016 Masters golf tournament.

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Freeletics Apps-In To Customizable Fitness

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In a 2014 podcast episode, Planet Money visited one Planet Fitness location that had signed up 6,000 total members – 20 times the number of people their building can serve –secure in the knowledge that less than half of the members don’t ever set foot in a gym again after that initial visit.

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AI and generative AI use cases in banking: 6 real-world examples

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But Boston Consulting Group (BCG) says generative AI serves a fundamentally different purpose than predictive AI, which is the powerful tool with which many financial institutions are already familiar. See President Biden’s Executive Order on the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence.

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Mastercard’s Kirkpatrick: Transit Is The Ticket To Everyday Spend

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It will only happen when one is running late, and the four extra minutes spent loading money onto a transit pass is the difference between sliding in as the doors are closing and waiting 20 minutes for the next train. No more stutter step of buying and reloading a closed-loop transit pass to hop on the train.

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Bringing Luggage Storage Into The Digital Age

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If he could have left the bag in a safe and secure place, he would have been “a happy customer,” he recalled in a PYMNTS interview. Even hotel guests might be his customers, as they might not want to return to the hotel to pick up their bags as they explore a city before catching a train to another one.