Abstract: The design and implementation of a vending machine system using Verilog HDL on an FPGA board. The vending machine is equipped with multiple states including product selection, amount ...

KOCHI -- Kochi University in this western Japan city has installed the first vending machine at a Japanese college that allows holders of a "president's coin" to receive a free drink, courtesy of the ...

Unless you want to lose a whole lot of money, don’t rush to hire an AI bot to run your vending machine. That’s the lesson from a recent experiment in AI autonomy, piloted by Joanna Stern, tech ...

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'I was massively overweight, and I had that much to lose, and I thought it would never happen,' the busy dad-of-four said A DAD who spent nearly £100-a-month buying chocolate and crisps from his work ...

In this special year-end episode of Bold Names, Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims revisit talks with Mustafa Suleyman and Condoleezza Rice. They also debate the 2026 AI outlook, U.S.-China trade, and ...

Still think AI is ready to revolutionize the economy? A new experiment might change your mind. In a bold test of Anthropic’s latest version of its AI Claude, The Wall Street Journal gave the large ...

An AI-powered vending machine pilot turned into an unplanned lesson in what happens when you give software too much freedom in the real world. In the test, the system was reportedly nudged into ...

Maurice’s Black Market Vending Machine is one of the weekly challenges you can pursue in Borderlands 4 after you have completed the campaign. Also known as the legendary vending machine, this unique ...

The Christmas season is on, and not only humans, but AI is also going wild this time. Using agentic AI everywhere is not needed, and this incident that happened at The Wall Street Journal suggests the ...