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Scanning in Louisiana

November 3, 2023October 17, 2023kenritley

Louisiana is not exactly the high tech capital of the US. In fact, most people would say its downright “backwards.” Anyway, you can imagine my surprise when I found this very high-tech check-out counter at a gas station in very rural Louisiana. It works not by RFID or barcode scanning, but rather by image recognition:

Information Technology, Interesting things, Louisiana

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