Apple and Google make it easy to leave your wallet be when it's time to pay at the register, but now there are murmurs about factoring out your smartphone as well. The Wall Street Journal reports that ...

Hand scanners for city employees has been put off for now! Last month, the NY Times reported that some city employees were required to scan into offices using biometric hand scanners in an effort to ...

Amazon reportedly is testing scanners that can identify a human hand to use as a payment method for in-store purchases. The company plans to introduce “Orville,” as the system has been dubbed, to some ...

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KALAMAZOO, MI -- It’s not quite the Starship Enterprise mess hall -- like on “Star Trek” -- but new hand scanning technology is making Western Michigan University dining halls a bit more futuristic.

Instead of developing technology that makes people spend money more slowly and with more thought, big businesses are continuing the trend of helping us spend it at least a thousand times more quickly ...