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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 ...

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Amazon is set to ‘wave’ goodbye to card payments at its cashierless grocery store. The firm received a patent for a ‘touchless scanning system’ that identifies customers using hand recognition.

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 ...

Amazon Go customers could someday enter the store with a simple wave of the hand, replacing today’s process of swiping in with a dedicated smartphone app. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...

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A new report sheds light on Amazon’s thinking about the rumored plan to let customers pay for purchases by scanning their palms. The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon may sell pay-by-hand ...

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Forgetful shoppers might not have to worry about getting all the way to the front of the checkout line and realizing they forget their wallet in the car for much longer. Amazon is working on a ...

Are biometric payments the future of in-store purchases? Proving your identity with a wave of your hand, so to speak, is not new. A little over 18 months ago, the technology was introduced to Red ...