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 ...

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 ...

Amazon is expanding its palm-scanning payment system to a Whole Foods store in Seattle, the company announced Wednesday, the first of many planned rollouts at other locations. Amazon One, which ...

If you are a regular visitor of the Class of 1953 Commons, it has been difficult to miss Dartmouth Dining’s new hand scanner initiative that promises the ability to scan into Foco with just a wave of ...

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 ...

Paying for a coffee or lunch by simply scanning your palm still sounds like science fiction to most of us. However, an engineering student in Sweden has made it happen -- making his the first known ...

With just the wave of a hand, Amazon is reportedly aiming to speed up checkout at Whole Foods stores. Amazon is testing a new system that lets customers pay for items by waving their hands in front of ...

Amazon is testing out a new payment method at its New York offices: hand scanning. So far, the e-retailer has refused to comment on the project, which is code-named "Orville," but a report in the New ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about tech that impacts my small business - and yours. Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and ...

LG just announced an upgraded version of the G8 called the LG G8X, which among other features is compatible with a dual screen attachment, similar to the LG V50. For starters, the 8-megapixel camera ...