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Development
A headset scores fast food workers on friendliness
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Burger King is deploying Patty, a headset-mounted voice AI that assists with meal prep and scores employees on friendliness, while a San Francisco Gap store began using World ID Orbs to scan shoppers' faces to verify humanness.
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