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Purple Dot, a waitlist and preorder platform for the fashion industry, raises $4M

TechCrunch

Because of the unpredictable nature of the fashion industry, fashion brands often have to “guestimate” demand for their products, and if they get that demand wrong, they have to deal with the wasted inventory. All too often clothes end up being incinerated unnecessarily, adding to their environmental impact.

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Green is the fashion flavor of the week with Rubi Labs’ materials made from captured CO2

TechCrunch

When you think of green, climate-aware industries, you’d be forgiven if fashion isn’t at the top of your list. Not a moment too soon, either — the fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and shipping combined, representing around 10% of greenhouse gases every year, the BBC reports.

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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch

Advanced virtual fitting rooms with VR/AR for fashion. Startups that deliver sustainable personalization solutions that also improve business for retailers and brands fall into three categories: AR virtual try-on with shade matching. Smart packaging with IoT and distributed ledger technology. AR virtual try-on with shade matching.

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AI Strategies for Software Engineering Career Growth

Honeycomb

Its responses instead tend toward a hyper-confidence that makes even blatantly wrong hallucinations sound correct, and sometimes debugging the generated code takes longer than writing it the old-fashioned way. TRY NOW The post AI Strategies for Software Engineering Career Growth appeared first on Honeycomb. New to Honeycomb?

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO

Here, we explore the key factors impeding IT modernization and provide recommendations to overcome them (with real-world illustrations of strategies). For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Newly funded Maisonette is becoming a go-to brand for fashion-conscious families; here’s how

TechCrunch

Seemingly, much of Maisonette’s traction owes to the trust it has built with customers, who see its offerings as high-end yet accessible relative to the many high-end fashion brands that are also increasingly focused on the children’s market, like Gucci and Burberry. “It’s why people liked wedding registries.

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5 predictions for emerging ’25 technology trends

CIO

Click on the TV or stream your latest newscast and there is a good chance youll hear AI mentioned in some fashion. There have long been data-driven CX strategies, but never with the autonomous power, or granular insights, that AI and new levels of predictive analytics will deliver in 2025.