Kraft Foodspresented an innovative in-store kiosk, called Next Generation Meal Planning Solution, which is able to recommend recipes based on the customer’s facial features, at theNational Retail Federation Convention in New York City. The kiosk was produced in collaboration withIntel, another major technology company that seems to turn its focus on the production of in-store kiosk, much likeIBM that has worked with cosmetics brands for the production of augmented reality “mirrors”....

If you’re a dry brand without much “cool”, how do you make sure the youth market is aware of your existence? In Intel’s case, the answer appears to be “Hire one of the Black Eyed Peas”. Rapper and producer Will.I.Am is the company’s new ‘Director of Creative Innovation’, itannouncedtoday. He will apparently be collaborating with the manufacturer on “many creative and technology endeavors across the “compute continuum” that may include such devices as laptops, smart phones and tablets....

Intel has joined bothAppleandGooglein gaining approval from US antitrust regulators to enter the auction for patents and assets which have been put up for sale by bankrupt communications firm Nortel Networks Corp. Reuters reportsthat the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the approval in a bulletin which is published a number of times each week, deciding that Intel would not be able to monopolise the market if it was to successfully outbid its rivals....

Nearly eight years afterGrand Theft Auto Vwas released, modders are still enriching — andruining— the game’s celebrated visuals. Last week, researchers from Intel Labs unveiled an AI-powered revamp of the Rockstar classic that brings the graphicsclose to photorealism. TNW spoke to Intel research scientist Stephen Richter to find out more about the technique — and the potential to productionize the method. The cornerstone of the Intel Labs method is a convolutional network, a deep learning architecture that’s commonly used for image processing....

The metaverse. Everyone’s talking about it, major companies are working on the hardware to access it, and it increasingly seems like it couldeventuallybe the next major communication platform on the scale of the world wide web. But if you ask Intel, ‘eventually’ is still a long way off. In its first real statement since everyone started chiming in on the metaverse after Facebook’s rebrand, Intel says that for immersive computing to really hit its stride, we will need a 1000x increase in computation efficiency from today’s very best tools....