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Retail sales estimates for key sectors Click on a sector to see its sales over the last 12 months. Non-store Clothing & accessories Electronics & appliances Furniture & home General merchandise Sporting goods, hobby, bookstores Clothing & accessories Electronics & appliances Furniture & home General merchandise Non-store Sporting goods, hobby, bookstores Retail Dive calculates “total retail sales” of core segments, as well as what the Commerce Department calls “Nonstore retailers.” That includes e-commerce, mail order and infomercials, but also revenue from subsectors not generally considered traditional retail, including vending machines, home delivery (including newspapers and home heating oil), door-to-door solicitation,…

Forbes: Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research Since getting her Ph.D. in mathematics from Duke, Rachel Thomas has worked as a quant, data scientist, & backend engineer at Uber, and professor in University of San Francisco’s (USF) Masters of Analytics program. She’s currently a researcher-in-residence at USF’s Data Institute and co-founded Fast.ai, which makes practical deep learning education accessible globally. Thomas’ students have leveraged their knowledge to reduce farmer suicides in India, assist the visually impaired, and treat Parkinson’s disease. When Thomas first started researching deep neural networks a few years ago, virtually no educational resources existed online. “It seemed like…

Andrew Ng is something of a legend in the AI community, and so his launch of an online deep learning course is noteworthy. The course on Coursera is simply called ‘Deep Learning Specialization’ and promises to teach students vital skills for the future. Some of the advanced topics covered include neural networks, backpropagation, convolutional networks, recurrent networks, computer vision, natural language processing, and more. “Just as electricity transformed every major industry starting about 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same,” observes Ng. “Several large tech companies have already built divisions dedicated to AI, and have made…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

We all need some assistance with our writing from time to time. You could Google synonyms all day and still be no closer to finding the ideal words for a marketing email or advert.Alternatively, you could ask ChatGPT, but before you know it, it will take over and zap your work of all personality (and land you in hot water with a judicious boss or teacher, to boot). As for the AI editors baked into Apple and Samsung’s phones, they don’t cut it for longer essays. If you’re battling writer’s block or want to add a bit of flair to…

Following a limited, four-month preview, Google is making its Veo 2 video generation model available to more people. The company has begun rolling out the tool to Gemini Advanced users, who can use it to create 720p clips that are up to eight seconds long. “The more detailed your description, the more control you have over the final video,” Google says of the model.For the time being, Gemini will only generate footage in 16:9 landscape orientation, meaning it won’t be great for creating social video. That said, Google notes you can upload videos directly to TikTok or YouTube through Gemini’s…

GPT-4, OpenAI’s first big upgrade to ChatGPT months after unleashing it on the world, is on its way out. A changelog the company published on Thursday said the model will be retired from ChatGPT on April 30. GPT-4o, which has been available since last May, will fully replace it.Despite GPT-4’s significance in modern AI’s brief but world-changing history, its sunsetting isn’t a great loss for customers. OpenAI says GPT-4o improves on it in writing, coding and STEM. Recent upgrades have boosted the newer model further, enhancing its instruction following, problem-solving and conversational flow. The company describes the multimodal GPT-4o as…

It might be around that time of year when you’re starting to figure out your summer vacation plans. Google has revealed some new features that can help with that, including a handy AI-powered one for Maps.If you turn on the new screenshot list, Gemini can automatically recognize locations that are mentioned in screenshots you take in the app. You can then save the places you’re interested in to a list. These saved spots will appear on the map, and you can share the list with your travel companions. This feature will be available on iOS in English in the US…

Midjourney has released the alpha version of V7, which it says is an “entirely new” AI image generation model and is much smarter at processing your text prompts. The image quality of its output is noticeably higher, the Midjourney team says, and can create better textures, bodies and hands. AI image generators typically struggle with creating accurate depictions of hands, but based on photos posted by some users on their socials, V7 is capable of spitting out some photorealistic images of human hands.The new model comes with a feature called “Draft Mode,” which can render images at half the speed…

International Business Machines Corporation IBM is scheduled to report first-quarter 2025 earnings on April 23. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for sales and earnings is pegged at $14.45 billion and $1.42 per share, respectively. Earnings estimates for IBM for 2025 have declined to $10.73 per share from $10.77 over the past 60 days, while the same for 2026 have decreased to $11.51 from $11.59. Zacks Investment Research Image Source: Zacks Investment Research The cloud and data platform delivered a four-quarter earnings surprise of 6.1%, on average, beating estimates on each occasion. In the last reported quarter, the company pulled off an…