Imagine strolling into your local supermarket, popping your essentials into a basket, heading to the bagging area - where no items are unexpected - and walking out with your weekly shop.There is no need to make a payment, no fiddling with coins, and no placement of a debit or credit card in a terminal. In fact, there is no till at all.This is not casual shoplifting but a realistic prospect of the future way to pay - when technology recognises your presence, scans your shopping, and invisibly takes payment from your account.Amer Sajed, the chief executive of Barclaycard, says it will spell the ...
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Figures from the Labor Department showed the US economy created 178,000 jobs in November, while the jobless rate fell to 4.6% from 4.9% in October.The data adds to recent evidence of healthy growth in the economy, although wage growth was weaker than expected.Most analysts think the Federal Reserve will raise rates at its next meeting."This was the last hurdle on the path to a December hike, and it has been cleared convincingly," said Luke Bartholomew, investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management.The Federal Reserve will hold its next two-day policy meeting on 13-14 December.Last ...
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Figures from the Labor Department showed the US economy created 178,000 jobs in November, while the jobless rate fell to 4.6% from 4.9% in October.The data adds to recent evidence of healthy growth in the economy, although wage growth was weaker than expected.Most analysts think the Federal Reserve will raise rates at its next meeting."This was the last hurdle on the path to a December hike, and it has been cleared convincingly," said Luke Bartholomew, investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management.The Federal Reserve will hold its next two-day policy meeting on 13-14 December.Last ...
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Huawei announced a major breakthrough in its research into Li-ion batteries, unveiling the world’s first long-lifespan graphene-assisted Li-ion battery able to withstand high temperatures. The announcement was made by Watt Laboratory, an organization under Huawei’s Central Research Institute, at the 57th Battery Symposium held in Japan.Huawei’s research results show that new graphene-based heat-resistant technologies allow Li-ion batteries to remain functional in a 60°C environment, a temperature 10°C higher than the existing upper limit. The lifespan of the graphene-assisted Li-ion ...
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Researchers are creating a skin patch that can test those droplets while people exercise and beam results to their smartphones, possibly a new way to track health and fitness."Sweat has biochemical components within it that tell us a lot about physiological health," said John A. Rogers, who directs Northwestern University’s Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics and led the new research.Today’s wearable technology helps people track their calories, activity and heart rate. A wearable biosensor would be "radically different," Rogers said.For simple fitness purposes, it could ...
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