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3D-printed shoe startup steps into $3M to help reduce carbon footprints, localize manufacturing

GeekWire

Hilos Photo) Portland-based 3D-printed footwear startup Hilos has landed $3 million to boost its efforts in reducing the carbon footprint linked to shoe production. The company developed an internal method of manufacturing modular footwear parts using 3D printers and thermoplastic polyurethane powder.

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ZERO10’s multi-task ML model provides real-time AR try-on for fashion

Dataconomy

ZERO10 , a prominent player in the fashion industry’s virtual try-on (VTO) space, has introduced its novel Multi-Task ML model. AR try-on for apparel and accessories requires complex machine learning (ML) tasks like 3D body tracking and multi-class segmentation, each demanding real-time execution.

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GE will make taller wind turbines using 3D-printing

The Verge

GE announced today that it’s developing skyscraper-sized wind turbines with massive 3D-printed bases. GE hopes to 3D print the base of a turbine wherever they want to place it, so that they won’t need to haul around such a gigantic hunk of concrete or steel. But it won’t be the first company to look into 3D-printing for wind energy.

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Amazon will make custom-fitted $25 T-shirts after photographing your body

The Verge

The Made for You product page is littered with zealous quotes from fashion influencers. While the collection of body-type data will undoubtedly help Amazon compete with traditional fashion houses, Amazon says customers can delete it at any time by tapping the profile icon in the upper left of their Made for You page, according to TechCrunch.

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Amazon Never Should Have Named It 'Alexa'

Gizmodo

Going ahead, we may need to rethink fashioning the household robot maid in the likeness of a woman with a human name. In hindsight, assigning them common human names in order to do our bidding was probably not a great idea. Only with the wisdom of years could we know that this could have gone wrong. Now that at least … Read more.

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Epic Games buys Seattle-area video game development toolmaker RAD

GeekWire

.” Other major RAD products include Granny 3D, a toolkit for building 3D games; Telemetry, a profiler for real-time application performance; and Miles, a middleware sound system named after its primary developer. Epic bills its Unreal Engine as “the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool.”

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3 technology trends set to revolutionize retail

CIO Business Intelligence

From big fashion brands to staples and grocery stores, every retailer is looking to apply algorithms to improve the bottom line, especially in the areas of omnichannel retailing, demand forecasting, and predictive analytics. Realistic 3D visualizations provide a good idea of how a product would look like when viewed from different angles.

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