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In sporting venues, airports and other high-volume retail sites, no one wants to wait in long queues. Customers, fans and patrons don’t want to miss the sporting action or be late getting to their ...

Modern conveniences such as self-checkout and contactless payments are often taken for granted. Because of this, it’s natural to overlook the critical technology that makes such everyday efficiencies ...

I wanted a way to control all the projects I make. Note: it is not a remote for A/V systems. It is for my projects. I wanted this to work not just at home in my WiFi zone but also at remote locations ...

Facepalm: A Missouri magician and molecular biologist found himself confronting the limits of modern biohacking after accidentally locking himself out of the technology implanted inside his own body.

For all the technology available to safeguard stock against theft, “shrink” remains a serious problem for fashion retailers. According to the National Retail Federation, shoplifting incidents soared ...

I'm new here and would like to build a self-made music box for my child. Unfortunately, I haven't been successful yet. First, I started with the TonUINO project, but soldering isn't my favorite thing ...

New Gen2X innovations inhibit fraudulent items, reduce stray tag reads and focus on desired tags in enterprise use cases Impinj M770 and M780 series endpoint ICs add Gen2X support, target industrial ...

Retail giant Walmart and materials science company Avery Dennison have unveiled groundbreaking radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology designed specifically for fresh food categories that ...

RFID tag technology has traditionally faced operational challenges in cold, moist environments such as meat cases, but Walmart is attempting to overcome those challenges by deploying new RFID-enabled ...

In Julian Huxley's 1927 short story "The Tissue-Culture King," a scientist becomes lost in the jungle and is captured by a tribe. He soon discovers that the tribal leader has developed a way to ...