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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 EconomyAvailable for over a year
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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