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We tried the $2,295 Magic Leap One Creator Edition, the debut product from mixed reality startup Magic Leap — and found an ambitious vision facing serious technological challenges.

Homeless people are wearing barcodes around their necks in an attempt to increase donations in a cashless society, under an Oxford University backed initiative.

Facial recognition will soon be used in British shops for the first time to judge how old customers are at self-checkout machines when they buy age restricted items, it is understood following a deal with the company that makes the tills for Tesco and Asda.

Asos has become one of the first fashion retailers in the UK to launch on Google Assistant.

Facebook has been a bit slow to adopt the voice computing revolution. It has no voice assistant, its smart speaker is still in development, and some apps like Instagram aren’t fully equipped for audio communication. But much of that is set to change judging by experiments discovered in Facebo…

High-end beauty brands such as SK-II and Sephora showcase the future of retail by incorporating high-tech toys for experience-seeking Chinese shoppers.

Mintel discovers how the future retail landscape will influence Asia-Pacific's economy. Read more.

Fitness company Peloton was recently valued at over $4 billion. But will the UK market buy into its vision of high-end at-home classes?

Launch coincides with 1st TV commercial

See, snap, sale. In a rare partnership for Amazon, the commerce giant will help Snapchat challenge Instagram and Pinterest for social shopping supremacy. Today Snapchat announced it’s slowly rolling out a new visual product search feature, confirming TechCrunch’s July scoop about this p…

The catalogue retailer is the first in the UK to offer shopping services via Google Assistant.

Argos has combined click and collect with voice commerce, launching a Voice Shop service that shoppers can use to reserve from a range of 20,000 products for same-day pick-up from a store.