Charging to use public restrooms isn’t new in China or other parts of the world but having to watch an advertisement before being granted access to toilet paper is. Now, some social media users are ...

Walk into a shop, board a plane, log into your bank, or scroll through your social media feed, and chances are you might be asked to scan your face. Facial recognition and other kinds of face-based ...

Google Drive’s document scanner works well, but it’s getting a big upgrade. A new Google Workspace Labs feature lets users switch to a Material 3 Expressive UI with a faster, fully automatic document ...

As I’ve said before, passwords suck. Microsoft agrees—last year, it announced a goal of getting one billion users to embrace passkeys instead. As part of that effort, setting up a passkey for a ...

Brazil’s fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular. The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies. By Ana Ionova Reporting from Rio de Janeiro ...

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At the core of contemporary China is a contradiction: it’s the world’s most prominent Communist-ruled country, yet it’s found steadily increasing affluence in recent decades by embracing a degree of ...

The QR code is part of a broader Israeli public-diplomacy push in New York this week. Dozens of billboard trucks and digital screens near the UN headquarters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday wearing a pin with a QR code that directed viewers to a website documenting the October 7 attacks.

In a fiery speech that prompted a walkout by some U.N. delegates, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the U.N. General Assembly as many Western nations began recognizing Palestine as a ...