OK, so don't panic, but Michelin has been putting RFID chips in our tires for some time now. Before you start watching the sky for black helicopters as you drive to the Piggly Wiggly, Michelin isn't ...

While JD Sports executives offered a lukewarm assessment of RFID technology as recently as mid-2023, the retailer has since signed a multiyear global software agreement with Checkpoint Systems, a ...

Smart tracking technology has made its way into many different corners of the automotive industry, including your tires. Several major tire brands like Michelin and Continental use radio-frequency ...

Some time ago, Michelin partnered with Beontag, an RFID manufacturer, to add embedded UHF tags to tires in both commercial and passenger vehicles. The main aim is stronger tire traceability, improving ...

In sporting venues, airports and other high-volume retail sites, no one wants to wait in long queues. Customers, fans and patrons don’t want to miss the sporting action or be late getting to their ...

Facepalm: A Missouri magician and molecular biologist found himself confronting the limits of modern biohacking after accidentally locking himself out of the technology implanted inside his own body.

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...

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 ...

In a deal that surprised some industry observers, chipmaker Qualcomm has agreed to buy Arduino, which is best known for supplying microcontrollers to the DIY community. The acquisition, whose terms ...

Apple introduced its iPhone 17 lineup today, and the new iPhone 17 Pro models include an interesting new design quirk that the company just got rid of with the iPhone 16 lineup: a glass cutout for 5G ...