Two harm reduction vending machines will be placed outside of two hospitals in Dane County: SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital at the corner of S. Park and Erin Streets, and the UW Health University ...

Abstract: The design and implementation of a vending machine system using Verilog HDL on an FPGA board. The vending machine is equipped with multiple states including product selection, amount ...

Joanna Stern’s “AI Vending Machine Dispensed Pure Chaos” (Personal Journal, Dec. 22) reminded me of one of the bedtime tales my father used to tell me when I was a child. The “coffee-machine story” ...

The boutique chain’s co-founder, Candace Nelson, said that the business had ceased operations at year’s end. It was sold to a private equity firm more than a decade ago. By Christine Hauser Sprinkles ...

Unless you want to lose a whole lot of money, don’t rush to hire an AI bot to run your vending machine. That’s the lesson from a recent experiment in AI autonomy, piloted by Joanna Stern, tech ...

Still think AI is ready to revolutionize the economy? A new experiment might change your mind. In a bold test of Anthropic’s latest version of its AI Claude, The Wall Street Journal gave the large ...

Three red vending machines at Fox Valley Mall make donating winter clothes to the unsheltered, providing breakfast for needy kids, or sending chickens to people in developing countries as easy as ...

Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine in the WSJ office. The LLM, named Claudius, was responsible for autonomously purchasing inventory from wholesalers, setting prices, tracking inventory ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Imagine this: You're sitting at Boston's Logan International Airport, stomach growling (you skipped dinner amid a mad dash to your gate). Looking up from your phone, you spot a blue-and-white vending ...

When one thinks of vending machines, one tends to think of delicious, but likely not healthy snacks like candy bars, potato chips, and soft drinks. But there is nothing wrong with treating yourself to ...