This palm reader will not be able to tell your fortune, but it will figure out if you are part of Panera's loyalty program. Over the next few months, the bakery-café chain will roll out scanners that ...

Costco is completing its crackdown on membership cards, requiring customers to scan in upon entering the store, rather than as they check out. Having tested scanning tech at various locations starting ...

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.

The technology at the Student Recreation Center door is getting a high-tech upgrade. The student ID card readers that were in place through the summer are being replaced by biometric machines that ...

Imagine a future where you can do just about anything simply by waving your hand: making purchases, taking the subway or letting yourself in at the office. In China, Tencent is already doing it. The ...

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