What may finally push classic vending machines toward extinction isn’t wear and tear, but the industry’s shift from analog to ...

Taken individually, none of the policy issues is likely to upend the vending industry overnight. Taken together, though, they can reshape the economics of vending and unattended retail.

This doesn’t bode well for humanity. Just in case bots weren’t already threatening to render their creators obsolete: An AI model redefined machine learning after devising shockingly deceitful ways to ...

If you've used a vending machine lately, you've probably noticed that they're pretty high-tech now, but this invention was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NewsNation) — More Americans are picking up ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. On a May afternoon, customers fill empty five-gallon jugs at vending machines beside the ...

Worcester requires people put their trash in the yellow trash bags that the vending machine and other local retailers sell. If people don’t use the bags, garbage collection workers won’t pick up their ...

Vending machines have become one of the latest tools in the fight against the opioid crisis. Kansas residents can access the naloxone, a medicine designed to rapidly reverse an opioid overdose, by ...