Autograph, an NFT agency co-founded by athlete Tom Brady with a particularly deep bench of star power, has banked new funding from crypto investors who hope the platform can bring a new generation of celebrities and their fans into the fold of crypto collectibles.The startup tells TechCrunch it has closed a $170 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with particip...

Amazon on announced the launch of its first physical clothing store, dubbed Amazon Style. The store will open later in the year at The Americana at Brand in Los Angeles and will feature women's and men's apparel, shoes and accessories. Customers can use the Amazon Shopping app to scan a product's QR code to access information including sizes, colors and ratings. Items can then be sent to a fitt...

2021 was a year of transition for the payments industry as we moved towards Payments 4.X − an evolutionary, COVID-19-sparked era that’s fueling even more industry consolidation and attracting tech-expert ecosystem players.As part of this phase, payments are becoming an enabling function that is embedded and invisible to provide an immersive, seamless, and frictionless customer eXperience.This...

The Zaamigo device – which looks like an electric toothbrush but isn't one – sells for $100.While there are camera-equipped toothbrushes that let users see how well they're cleaning their teeth, the Zaamigo goes considerably further. It uses AI to analyze the photos it shoots, in order to monitor the health of its user's teeth and gums.Developed by ETH Zurich spin-off company Zaamigo, the dev...

The metaverse was undoubtedly one of 2021’s top tech buzzwords. With many of the world’s biggest companies getting involved—and even outright shifting their long-term strategies—2022 is looking to be another year filled with developments for the metaverse.We have also been getting involved, with our free Metaverse Report covering the ins and outs of all things metaverse and web 3.0.Most of...

Once this hologram technology is considered as science fiction, now, slowly, it has become more mainstream. PORTL M offers you a window into the Metaverse world, you can view just about anything, from 3D video chats to art displays (perhaps your precious NFTs). The hologram can be adjusted to accommodate both portrait or horizontal content, it’s high-density multitouch holographic display woul...

Overloaded cyberpunk masks, hulking exoskeletons and other imagined wearable tech feature in an exhibition by artist Ikeuchi Hiroto, who mixes pop culture references and model-making.Running until 30 January 2022 at Tokyo's Sai Gallery, the Ikeuchi Hiroto exhibition shows several years of the artist's work, which combines readymade plastic models with technological hardware and industrial parts...

Gen Z and Millennials increasingly willing to buy directly from brands, bypassing traditional retail channels.As the world emerges from the shadow of the pandemic, many of the trends and changes in consumption patterns it sparked are set to stay. To report on and measure these seismic shifts, the Capgemini Research Institute is launching a new annual research series dedicated to the consumer pr...

Israel’s Trigo, the company using computer vision to power checkout-free shopping, is making its US debut in 2022.The Tel Aviv-based startup has announced a partnership with Wakefern Food Corp, the largest retail-owned cooperative in the US, to develop a pilot that offers Trigo’s grab-and-go shopping tech at a local supermarket.Wakefern, the logistics, distribution, and merchandising arm for...