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This story is part of Lit City, our comprehensive guide to the literary geography of Los Angeles. Bookstores are wide open again -- the booksellers busy selling, the customers browsing and the house cats doing their thing. In March, staff writers Dorany Pineda and Christi Carras visited 10 shops around town with a photographer in tow -- from a romance bookshop in Culver City and a Black-owned store at the Westfield mall to the Central Library and establishments serving cookbook obsessives, design geeks and others. In the gallery below, customers, employees and owners talk about their favorite shops, books and reading nooks and share what they love about bookish Los Angeles. "Not all romance even has sex, but most of the books that we sell do, and we're trying to promote a very positive environment where it's something that's talked about openly and without judgment, and where there's a real variety represented -- obviously with gender and sexuality," said Leah Koch, co-owner of the Ripped Bodice.

THE TIMELINE for Amazon's flying delivery service has been pushed back after one drone caused a brush fire. Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, has long been vocal about his plan for creating a fleet of drones to deliver Prime packages in 30 minutes. However, despite spending more than $2 billion on the project, Amazon is still not in a place to launch the planned delivery system. In fact, a Bloomberg investigation found that the service is plagued by technical challenges and safety concerns. Furthermore, drones have crashed in test runs, and have even been the cause of a brush fire that spanned 25 acres. Reports found that last year, five delivery drones crashed at Amazon's test site in Oregon, with one causing the fire.

The covid-19 implications coupled with customer expectations have raised the need to go digital. As a result, retail stores have become experience centers than just store outlets in the digital transformation era. To provide an engaging customer experience and boost the marketing strategy, facial recognition has brought a whole new level of advancement in AI technologies. The Allied Market Research Report states that the "facial recognition market will reach $16.74 billion by 2030." And don't you find it fascinating if shoppers pay the bill at check-out by just representing a face, not any card or wallet?

"I'm going to show you a fake bag so you can see how spectacular an imitation can be." Lucía De La Calle, is an appraiser at the second-hand luxury handbags boutique Del Páramo Vintage in Valladolid, in northwest Spain. She shows EL PAÍS a Louis Vuitton Twist MM bag, a classic model that the brand wants to make a basic, betting on its reissue year after year in different colors. "I think my eye is quite trained but, often, even I am unable to perceive the difference," says De La Calle. The woman who bought this bag for €2,500 on the second-hand market brought it to the store with the brand's characteristic orange box and authentic dust cover, as well as a copy of the invoice from its previous owner.

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Jeff Bezos went on 60 Minutes in 2013 and pledged to fill the skies with a fleet of delivery drones that could zip parcels to customers' homes in 30 minutes. Asked when this future would arrive, the Amazon.com Inc. founder said he expected drone deliveries to commence in the next five years or thereabouts. Almost a decade later, despite spending more than $2 billion and assembling a team of more than 1,000 people around the world, Amazon is a long way from launching a drone delivery service. A Bloomberg investigation based on internal documents, government reports and interviews with 13 current and former employees reveals a program beset by technical challenges, high turnover and safety concerns. A serious crash in June prompted federal regulators to question the drone's airworthiness because multiple safety features failed and the machine careened out of control, causing a brush fire.

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However, I really do have to establish my credentials, biases, and agenda for readers -- and sometimes people do ask. Okay, my full name is "Gregory Vaughn Goebel", and I live in Loveland, Colorado. I was born in Spokane, Washington, in 1953, and raised there. I did a hitch in the US Army from 1972 to 1975; went back to Spokane to get an electronics tech degree from Spokane Community College; then got an electronics engineering degree from Oregon State University. From 1981 into 2000, I worked for Hewlett-Packard in Oregon and Colorado, mostly as a factory contact.

We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Digital twins began as a way to harness engineering simulation to improve product design. The Omniverse opens digital twins tools and techniques for a much broader set of use cases. At Nvidia's recent GTC conference, executives from Lowes and Kroger explained how digital twins are transforming retail, customer experience and logistics. The biggest takeaway is how digital twins make it easy to visualize complex relationships between physical things, including product placement, physical customer journeys and the paths robots might take down store aisles for inventory and floor cleaning.