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World Service,03 Aug 2019,10 mins

RFID: The tech you’ve never heard of – but use every day

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

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Radio frequency identification - RFID - is the foundation on which many contactless technologies are built. But is it getting left behind amid the "internet of things"? Tim Harford argues its best days may still be to come.

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