Near-field communications (NFC) allow very short-range transmission of data from a device that can be battery-free. The field generator by the NFC reader produces the tiny amount of power required to ...

I discovered that an old hotel key card could trigger iPhone automations. By pairing it with ChatGPT and Gemini, I created a ...

NFC support on the iPhone is about to get a lot more advanced real soon. Apple revealed today that it is adding support for NFC stickers and tags that trigger Apple Pay for payment even if you don’t ...

Optus is extending its Cash by Optus near-field communication (NFC) payments platform to Apple smartphones through the use of a sticker, with a new wearable smartband also enabling customers to make ...

With the release of iOS 11, third-party developers will be able to work with the iPhone NFC chip for the first time. That is good news and a step in the right direction for the identity and security ...

Apple’s VP of Apple Pay Jennifer Bailey today announced a new NFC feature for iPhone: special tags that trigger Apple Pay purchases when tapped, without the need to download a special app first. The ...

Japanese carrier Softbank is responding to complaints about the iPhone 4’s absense of an internal NFC chip by issuing a ‘sticker’ that gets applied to the back of the iDevice. It covers most of the ...