Gamers are always hungry for new eye candy, and Nvidia keeps them satiated with a faster graphics card every six months or so.

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It's faster than a credit card or cash and it works so fast that Chicago-area McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) burger joints now let customers use their Speedpass to pay for food.

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Consumers can also rack up rewards points much faster than when they swipe their credit card.

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Their calling card is being smaller, faster, and cagier than the other teams, and they get their biggest advantages from stealing passes, rebounds, loose balls, and dunking spectacularly before the other team knows what happened.

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"Huge focus in a system like this goes into its graphics performance" Dell goes through dual graphics-card setup, saying it's faster than any gaming PC or gaming console.

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By connecting NFC-enabled devices to a credit or debit card, paying for goods or services is simpler and faster than ever before.

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