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Google’s New AR Feature Lets Users Try Cosmetics Before Buying

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Say you want to know how sheer a lip gloss is, how much pigment is in an eyeshadow or what a product will look like on your skin tone. Users have the option to try makeup shades on themselves using their phone’s camera or apply the colors on a range of models with various skin tones.

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What a Hawkish Fed Pause Means for Banks?

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The Fed now faces the challenge of explaining two contradictory policies: leaving rates unchanged and indicating two more increases later this year. The tone of the Fed is also hawkish in an attempt to cool a resilient economy. And despite the pause, the Fed forecasts higher inflation, a lower unemployment rate, and higher GDP.

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MIT Develops Smartwatch That Can Make Conversation Easier

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According to Wired , the research team at MIT has been experimenting with Samsung’s Simband smartwatch, which can monitor a person’s movement, heart rate, blood pressure, blood flow and skin temperature and pair that info with audio capture that can detect signals like tone, pitch, energy and word choice to determine the speaker’s emotional state.

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Another Cloudless Day: IntraNext Software Saves Call Centers From Migrating

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Thus, said Brown, there’s no impact to the flow of conversation — instead, a call center agent simply asks a customer to enter the sensitive information via telephone keypad, explaining that this is being done for the caller’s security. Previously, those tones required a pause-and-resume process for recording systems, said Brown.

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Google Launches AR Beauty Try-On

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This latest innovation utilizes machine learning and AR technology to offer realistic, virtual product samples that work on a full range of skin tones. It provides more editorial control over 3D objects, including new ways to change animation settings, customize backgrounds, and add realistic reflections,” explained Luber.

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Apple Embraces Paying On Installment

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Apple will not be lowering prices or offering a discount; instead, Tim Cook explained, it will be embracing paying for Apple products on installment. According to Apple, card holders will be able to purchase their new iPhone and pay for it over it over 24 months with zero interest. There have been some rumors that Apple could break the $88.3

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CFPB Issues RESPA Section 8 FAQs and Rescinds 2015 Marketing Services Agreement Bulletin

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In rescinding the Bulletin, the CFPB states that the rescission “does not mean that MSAs are per se or presumptively legal” and that “as explained in the FAQs, whether a particular MSA violates RESPA Section 8 will depend on the specific facts and circumstances.”.

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