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For hundreds of years, there was a stigma surrounding periods: from 73 AD when the primary Latin encyclopedia implied that contact with menstrual blood would mean “crops change into barren”, “fruit of trees fall off” and “hives of bees die”, to the current day where tampon tax still stubbornly stays casting tampons into the category of “luxury.” Periods are still in lots of cases a taboo, so Moody Month is here to vary that.
Founded by Amy Thomson, Moody Month is a mood and hormone cycle tracker designed to assist women higher understand their bodies, filling the void of female produced, female-focused technology. The tech company built by women, for...
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LONDON — The Estée Lauder Cos. U.K. and Ireland has pulled AR and AI out of gaming and the metaverse to resolve real-world challenges by making a mobile app aimed toward helping visually impaired people apply makeup.
The Voice-Enabled Makeup Assistant app desires to help customers apply cosmetics easily and confidently and enable “further self-expression and self-empowerment through their relationship with makeup,” the corporate said Wednesday.
Lauder said the app’s “smart mirror” technology is driven by its AR and AI capabilities, and was developed using machine learning.
The corporate said it developed the app “while connecting with visually impaired consumers who expressed the necessity for technology that may empower them with more independence to use their makeup with confidence.”
VMA uses voice instruction technologies...
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TikTok parent company ByteDance appears to hope lightning can strike twice within the U.S. market with its Lemon8 app.
Introduced in Japan in 2020, Lemon8 launched within the U.S. this past February — around the identical time legislative efforts to limit TikTok ramped up — and inside one month, it briefly ranked among the many top 10 most downloaded apps on the U.S. App Store.
On the app, users can post and examine beauty, fashion and lifestyle content — namely in the shape of static photos, though video-sharing is an option as well — and, like TikTok, the app’s central feature is its “For You” page, which features content tailored to a user’s interests.
Beauty and wellness are amongst Lemon8’s...
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