Customers will still be able to buy tobacco from the machines using cash or coins, provided they insert the AgeKey-encrypted card beforehand, which electronically “unlatches” the machine.
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The Matrix may be the future of virtual reality, but researchers say the Grid is the future of collaborative problem-solving.
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New technologies tend to be presented in terms of existing products so consumers will more readily understand and adapt to them.
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A strange thing happened to the ‘weightless’ and dematerialized economy we thought the Internet would bring: it never arrived…
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Plagued by financial troubles, bad weather and scandals, the notion of world’s fairs has come under fire. Are they relics of the 20th century, or do they have a place in the new millennium?
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The English language is morphing in the white-hot crucible of global nomenclature, and corporations are doing everything they can to drag us kicking and screaming straight into the 23rd century.
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Designers here gathered to examine whether browser mania is just the latest form of “reinventing the wheel,” arguing that typographers have spent centuries successfully honing the art of readability. Why add yet another meta-layer of color-coordinated symbols and rotating orbs that first need to be studied before being put into use?
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