RFID chips with burgers new for McDonalds menu – LANs – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
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Fast-food junkies visiting McDonalds drive-thrus will soon no longer have the choice if they want chips with their orders: the burger behemoth is trialling RFID-chipped cards as a means of payment.
Animal health officials say that the Vesicular Stomatitis (VS) outbreak in Texas appears to be winding down as of mid-August, but more than 150 infected animals have been detected in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado and more cases may be seen before the outbreak is over. VS is a viral disease that appears every few years. Infected livestock, such as horses, cattle, goats, deer, swine or other susceptible animals, develop blisters, ulcers, or sloughing of the skin in and around the mouth, teats or hooves.
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As of August 10, laboratory results have confirmed that anthrax infection killed three animals — a cow, kudu and a whitetail deer — on three premises in Uvalde and Val Verde Counties in Southwest Texas. Anthrax, caused by the spore-forming Bacillus anthracis bacteria, can remain dormant in soil for years, but may become vegetative after periods of wet, cool weather, followed by weeks of hot and dry conditions. Animals become infected when they ingest the invisible bacteria as they graze.
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Defense Department reveals its RFID rollout plans – LANs – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
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The US Department of Defense (DoD) has announced the details of its plans for obligatory use of RFID among its suppliers.
The DoD has approved the mandating of RFID tags across the supply chain, [...]
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By Kevin Maney
USA TODAY/August 8, 2004
In two new tests, car owners will be able to let insurance companies monitor their driving via new technology in exchange for lower rates.
The technology will track some combination of when, where, how far and how fast they drive, giving insurers a way to reward low-risk driving. Now just experiments, [...]
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RFID gets skin-deep alternative – LANs – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
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One German start-up has created an alternative to RFID that is likely to get under consumers’ skin.
Ident Technologies has dreamt up Skinplex – which could be used in all the same ways as RFID and Bluetooth [...]
44,000 prison inmates to be RFID-chipped – LANs – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
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One US state reckons it’s cracked how to keep track of all of its 44,000 prison inmates – RFID-chip them.
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRH) has approved a $415,000 contract to trial [...]
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