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Smart glasses give the blind a clear path ahead

This is part of our Road Trip 2017 summer series “The Smartest Stuff,” about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter.  Tiny drops of rain hit my face as I run through the sleepy residential neighborhood of Littleton, Massachusetts, about an hour’s drive north of Boston. There’s a slight incline to …

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Amazon makes it easier to buy a Jack Daniel’s chicken sandwich

Amazon introduced on Wednesday a new payments feature that will let people use its mobile app to buy stuff in stores and restaurants. For now, Amazon Pay Places is only available for pickup orders at T.G.I. Fridays restaurants in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Richmond, Va. and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Here’s the menu, if you’re feeling peckish.) But, if Pay Places …

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