To their credit, they enabled modern card transactions
By TOM MARINER // Today, it couldn’t be easier: Wheel your cart to the checkout, stick your debit card into the reader, punch in your PIN and done. The merchant…
By TOM MARINER // Today, it couldn’t be easier: Wheel your cart to the checkout, stick your debit card into the reader, punch in your PIN and done. The merchant…
By TOM MARINER // As I stepped from the airplane directly onto the runway, I remember thinking that the door sill was eight feet higher when I boarded. A silver-suited…
By TOM MARINER // Long Island is recognized as a burgeoning biotech corridor now, though its past biotech efforts “flied under the radar” – despite the region giving birth to…
By TOM MARINER // Videogame sales are a $179 billion industry these days, more revenue than the global movie ($100 billion) and North American sports ($75 billion) industries combined. Names…
By TOM MARINER // Those “closed captioning” sentences that scroll across your screen, and on screens around the world – they mostly come from a firm called EEG Enterprises, based…
By TOM MARINER // Lasers are everywhere: medicine, communications, pointers, Hollywood ray guns. “LASER,” of course, is an acronym for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation,” coined by Gordon…
By TOM MARINER // Last week, I visited the 4-mile-wide dot called Key West at the end of the giant fishhook chain of islands hanging from the bottom of Florida….
Well played: You’ve done it again, dear reader – the workweek is winding down and a well-earned (if wintry) weekend awaits. Butter believe it: It’s Jan. 17 out there,…
By TOM MARINER // A “blast from the past” from your most recent newsletter: A few years after Ray Kurzweil introduced the first Reading Machine, he cranked out his first…