If you have ever shopped at a Uniqlo store, you've likely been as amazed as I have by the automated checkout: You put all your items in a basket, and they are instantly scanned rather than needing ...

UPS is going all in on RFID. The logistics giant has invested more than $100 million in projects to roll out the technology across its network, the company revealed on Tuesday. “With RFID embedded ...

UPS announced Tuesday that a major rollout of RFID technology is revolutionizing its U.S. network at an unprecedented scale. Thanks to the shrinking cost of radio-frequency identification labels — ...

Remember that scene in the 2002 film "Signs" when Joaquin Phoenix wore an aluminum foil cap to defend against extraterrestrial mind control? While the brief scene is played for laughs, folks the world ...

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 ...

Regular wallets hold your cash and cards in one place so nothing slips out. However, for a while now, there has been some buzz about RFID-blocking wallets everywhere. They look like any other wallet, ...

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...

Which RFID-blocking wallets are best? In today’s day and age, your entire life is contained in a microcosm within your wallet. Debit and credit cards are typically embedded with a radio frequency ...

20th Century Studios has announced a VHS release of Alien: Romulus. For some of the younger IGN readers, VHS (Video Home System) was the dominant physical media format of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. The ...

Independently, radio frequency identification (RFID) and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful technologies for retail. When paired together, though, these solutions can deliver even more value.