I am using Leo Bodnar’s fast pulse generator (SMA) in my lectures to teach transmission lines. With sufficient length (I use ~1m) it works quite well to demo with a low cost scope. I originally bought it for TDR with 40GSPS/15GHz scope, which works very well with few orders of magnitude smaller lengths. Old on has upper length limit with 10MHz fixed frequency. There is a new one available with external sync and variable frequency, but I have not bought/tested it.
A similar concept has been used for university lectures to start 15 minutes after the full hour. This was due to nobody having watches and everything being synced to the church bells ringing at the full hour. Then you had 15 minutes to get to the next lecture (in another building). Starting time was given as ct (cum tempore, with time) or st (sine tempore, without time). Usually only st was marked as everybody assumed the 15 minutes delay.
In my EU country Gardasil 9 is the most common HPV vaccine nowadays. This protects against 9 most common strains. I would assume the same is true in other countries. We have gone from HPV 16/18 -> +6/11 -> +31/33/45/52/58 protection with 2/4/9-valent vaccines.
If the input to the weather forecast is mostly /dev/random, then yes, that is called a lie. There is a very big difference between modelling chaotic systems and providing random noise.
Funny thing is, that news, by definition, are written about things that are newsworthy. Newsworthy things are not common, but exceptional and rare. Thus one shall not worry too much about the news as those things practically never happen in everyday life.
Used to develop readers based on similar UHF chips (868 MHz in EU). They were quite expensive compared to printed bar codes those were replacing. Also large. With (folded) antennas we are still talking about 40*10 mm minimum for the label. You can not use them on metal surfaces. Readers nearby will interfere as it works by EM wave backscattering, unlike NFC which is essentially a transformer (with electric field intentionally supressed usually). I think it still is a solution looking for problem. QR codes are cheap and NFC (14 MHz) readers are everywhere.