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IT leaders: check out how 2D barcodes and RFID are reinventing retail

CIO

Some industry experts believe the pull-back is only temporary, and the future for self-checkout is bright — as soon as new technologies begin to be deployed on a large scale. When combined and supported by industry standards, the technologies may be the secret sauce to the next generation of self-check.

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Accelerating Aerospace Organizational Innovation, Speed, and Resilience with Digital Technologies

CIO

Their products, research, and technologies are changing the way the world works. It is their ability to systematically innovate, push boundaries, and challenge norms that propels Aerospace every day — it is what excites growing countries and high-value entrepreneurs to invest. Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 131.68

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NLP helps Eli Lilly work at a global scale

CIO

With more than 30,000 employees spread across more than 60 affiliate locations and 14 manufacturing sites around the world, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly operates at a truly global scale. From internal training materials to formal, technical communications to regulatory agencies, Lilly is translating information often,” says Timothy F.

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AARP Innovation Labs takes a holistic approach to age-tech at CES

TechCrunch

When young (or youngish) people think of age-tech, they may picture mostly clinical solutions—telemedicine platforms, for instance. AARP Innovation addresses that problem with its selection of “community” startups. In its wellness category, AARP Innovation presented three startups focused on overall health and well-being.

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RxAll grabs $3.15M to scale its drug checking and counterfeiting tech across Africa

TechCrunch

Some technologies have helped deal with this menace; for instance, radio frequency identification, which works by assigning serial numbers to containers of each product. More modern approaches are being adopted these days, which is the case of RxAll , a startup using deep technology to provide quality medication to patients.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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After 30 years, ‘Crossing the Chasm’ is due for a refresh

TechCrunch

This framework for marketing technology products has been one of the canonical foundational concepts to product-market fit for the three decades since it was first published in 1991. Why is it that in recent years, wild-eyed optimistic VCs and entrepreneurs keep undershooting market size across the tech and innovation sector?