Sainsbury’s has partnered with e-cargobikes.com to trial zero-emission deliveries from its South London store in Streatham. Five cargo bikes will deliver up to 100 online orders a day to customers across South London and will be able to avoid heavy traffic during peak delivery hours and park closer to customers homes. When a delivery is made,...
Startup Lydian Dental aims to disrupt the dental industry by offering a mobile office that comes to you and lets customers pay a monthly subscription fee for its service. Founded in 2014, Lydian hopes to offer a cooler, more user-friendly program that will appeal to millennials, many of whom may neglect dental upkeep due to factors like...
The smart cameras of 2018 are getting smarter still. Startup Horizon Robotics has debuted a new HD smart camera that boasts serious artificial intelligence capabilities and can identify faces with an accuracy of up to 99.7 percent, the company claims. That’s probably better than most humans. The company claims the new HR-IPC2143 smart camera is...
German low-cost company FlixBus is beginning daily service of a new green bus. The service will link the French capital to the northern city of Amiens, a 160 kilometres journey which will take a little over two hours. The bus, which seats 49, has all the advantages of an electric vehicle: zero emissions, quiet, and drives more smoothly than its...
We’ve seen many examples recently of machine learning platforms providing services for diverse industries such as medicine and policing. Now, aiLearn is putting its own AI algorithm to the test with an educational platform. Generalized education systems don’t always cater to every child. Some need additional support or to be taught at a slower...
Upmarket UK grocer Waitrose has announced that it is trialling yoga classes in three of its stores. Waitrose says that classes will be suitable for all levels, and will cost £7 per session. "We know that overall well-being is increasingly important to our customers," said Moira Howie, nutrition manager at Waitrose. "In addition to eating well...
For many of us, there are items in our closet that were trendy for a minute and now never see the light of day. Fashion entrepreneur Christine Hunsicker, CEO of Gwynnie Bee, has launched a new platform called CaaStle, short for Clothing as a Service, that will allow fashion brands to let customers borrow a portion of their inventory for a flat...
In the past couple of years, we’ve seen a number of big hotel companies add fitness or wellness brands to their portfolios.
The reason is simple: High-end consumers are now prepared to spend money on making themselves look and feel good. The likes of Hyatt and AccorHotels have identified this trend and want a piece of the action. But when...
Want your news delivered with the icy indifference of a literal robot? You might want to bookmark the newly launched site Knowhere News. Knowhere is a startup that combines machine learning technologies and human journalists to deliver the facts on popular news stories. Here’s how it works. First, the site’s artificial intelligence (AI) chooses...
One ongoing concern in university education is that too many students drop out before finishing their degrees. This can happen for many reasons, including personal or financial issues, or students feeling overwhelmed. The University of Arizona is tracking freshman students’ ID card swipes to anticipate which students are more likely to drop out...