Often the term will bring to mind the ability to pay by holding your phone over a reader, but the system can also use NFC tags embedded in credit cards, ID card, passports, and the like.

Powered by “a nice little NFC EEPROM from NXP”, (the NT3H1101) the business card even has an energy harvesting mode. Moreover, one can interact with the card via four buttons and an LED.

Wise will now have a chance to compete on a Commanders team that made it all the way to the NFC Championship Game last season. He'll be rejoining his longtime Patriots teammate, Jonathan Jones ...

Veteran Jones will be joined in the NFC East by flexible defensive lineman Deatrich Wise Jr. He also agreed terms on a one-year contract. Jones will get “$5.5 million, with another $1 million in ...