EditorialFor American vacationers, traveling overseas used to involve the ritual of obtaining local currency, whether from a bank at home before heading off, or from an A.T.M. or currency exchange at their destination. (Jinhwa Jang/The New York Times)
EditorialThe lobby of 25 Kent, a 500,000-square-foot office building in Brooklyn that uses contactless entry, on Feb. 11, 2022. The lobby of 25 Kent, a 500,000-square-foot office building in Brooklyn that uses contactless entry, on Feb. 11, 2022.
EditorialYolanda Sanchez, right, scans a fan?s contactless parking ticket before the University of New Mexico Lobos played a home football game in Albuquerque for the first time in 642 days, Sept. 2, 2021. (Adria Malcolm/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: April Reibestein, a volunteer at the Armed Services YMCA at Fort Bragg, N.C., the organization's associate executive director, prepare orders for contactless pickup at a food bank serving military families on the base on Dec. 9, 2020. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)