As financial institutions adapt to increasingly complex compliance landscapes, the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data privacy has emerged as a critical ...

MasterCard Worldwide and USA Technologies Inc., which have been working together to equip vending machines to accept card payments, including contactless transactions, have announced the first ...

With $12 million in new funding, PayRange Inc. wants to place more of its Bluetooth-equipped dongles inside vending machines to enable more consumers to make contactless, and cashless, payments. The ...

Read the transcript below: Welcome to Take Five with Automation World. I’m Stephanie Neil, Senior Editor at Automation World and today we’re talking about machines that can talk to each other. This is ...

Stripe’s Machine Payments Protocol eliminates human delays that have prevented small payments for years by allowing AI agents handle them. Stripe launched its Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) on March ...

Ethereum, a paramount blockchain due to its programmability and sprawling ecosystem of layer-2 networks, is getting a new dimension: time. Smart Transactions (STXN), a new project from Vlad Zamfir, ...

We are moving toward an economic system in which software and devices transact with one another without human involvement. Instead of simply executing transactions, machines will be able to make ...