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Biometrics Are The Seattle Seahawks’ MVP

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Thousands descended upon T-Mobile Park stadium in Seattle on March 28 — the earliest opening day in Major League Baseball (MLB) history — to see their home team, the Mariners, take on last year’s World Series champions, the Boston Red Sox. CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks , was the first NFL stadium to adopt the technology.

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Tencent To Open Seattle AI Research Lab

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Tencent, whose mobile chat and social commerce app Wechat sees over 889 million active users, has decided to open up shop in Seattle — and by shop, we mean an AI research center run by former Microsoft principal researcher Yu Dong, said The Information. Tencent included.

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Indonesia Levies 10 Pct Tax On Sales From Tech Firms

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The Southeast Asian country’s national tax office announced it will impose a 10 percent value-added tax (VAT) on foreign global technology companies as the nation looks for ways to defray the costs of battling the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reported. “It

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Domino’s Pizza Pedals Delivery Using Custom eBikes

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Saying a bike is often the solution to traffic congestion and parking challenges, the company said Domino’s stores across the nation will soon have the option to use custom eBikes for pizza delivery through a partnership with Rad Power Bikes. In-car ordering is available through a pre-loaded ordering platform dubbed AnyWare.

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Alphabet-Backed Healthcare Startup, One Medical, To IPO

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One Medical , a conglomerate of technology-driven primary care offices backed by Google’s Alphabet , has filed an initial public offering (IPO), One Medical announced on Friday (Jan. One Medical is backed by technology and management firm 1Life Healthcare and will trade under the symbol “ONEM.”

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Deep Dive: How Offering Greater Digital Payment Choice Can Help QSRs Meet Consumers In Any Channel

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McDonald’s purchased California-based voice recognition startup Apprente last year, with plans to eventually implement the technology at its U.S. was locked down last spring as COVID-19 spread across the nation, and countless restaurants were forced to shutter their brick-and-mortar locations and even their entire operations.

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Amazon Launches Pop-Up Stores In UK

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Amazon , the Seattle, Washington eCommerce giant, is expanding in the U.K., In a press release, Amazon said it teamed up with Enterprise Nation , which supports more than 90,000 U.K. planning to launch pop-up stores to give small businesses the chance to sell on High Street. country manager at Amazon, in the press release. “U.K.

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