The Amazon One devices let customers check in at Amazon stores and pay at checkout with the scan of a palm as long as they signed up for the service and entered their payment information ahead of time.

The Central Bank of the UAE is trialling facial and palm biometric payments at the same time as Amazon abandons similar technology at retail outlets.

Paying with a handwave once sounded like science fiction, but contactless palm recognition service Amazon One has already been used more than 8 million times, according to the company. That’s Amazon, though, which explains why it has been deployed in ...

Amazon is dismantling some of its most visible consumer experiments — from cashierless stores to palm-scanning payments — just as it cuts another 16,000 jobs. Why it matters: This isn't just belt-tightening.