Abstract: Commonly found in public areas, vending machines require interaction between users and the machine in order to acquire products. Handling standardvending machine interfaces has been known to ...

Abstract: Global energy use is shifting towards integrating more renewable energy sources (RESs) in smart grids, especially solar systems and wind turbine, whose performances are quite affected by the ...

A 13.6 billion yen impairment tied to its vending machine unit forced a deep forecast cut, even as Ito En nudged up sales guidance and moves the business into NEOS. In a Tokyo Stock Exchange filing ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and data centres are booming industries, ones that could potentially lead to everything from medical breakthroughs to solutions to the triple planetary crisis of climate ...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is punching his way to TV screens with the streaming release of his sports biopic "The Smashing Machine." Though the film flopped at the box office, debuting with just $6 ...

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to scratch herself. The cow, named Veronika, also appeared to refine her technique ...

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes, and deck brushes. Now that scientists ...