Google’s Chromebook initiative for the education market, which the company announced Tuesday, comes with its first targeted set of apps. Adobe has refreshed a select handful of its Creative Cloud Android apps to work in the latest version of Chrome OS, which can run apps designed for Google’s other mobile platform. Notably, the Chromebooks offer …

In early June of 2016, the trial run of the troubled CurrentC mobile-payment system sort of quietly shut down. The standard, floated by a group of retailers including Target and Walmart, was an attempt to loosen the grip that Apple Pay has on device-based payments. Some of the retailers began offering mobile payments individually afterward, but Target wasn’t among them. …

Tap-to-pay key fobs, those gadgets you dangle off a key chain and wave or tap over a payment device to debit from a linked account, are nothing new. But they’re usually ugly, functional-looking plastic thingamabobs. Not in Japan, though. Starbucks there teamed with clothing designer Beams to offer a leather-clad fob for fashion-first Starbuckians. This Starbucks card replacement isn’t cheap …

Not everyone is wedded to styluses as input devices for tablets. In fact, I’d bet a lot of people would gladly trade the built-in cost of a stylus for a different accessory — in the case of the Microsoft Surface Pro 4, for example, a keyboard. Now Microsoft has sheared $100 US ($799), and AU$450 (AU$899) off the price of …

Have you been dying to try the Canon 5D Mark IV? Itching to see what all the Sony A7 series fuss is about? Had your eye on the Nikon 200-500mm lens but didn’t want to blindly drop $1,400? Now’s your chance to find out by taking advantage of gear-rental holiday discounts. A lot of the gear gets rented by professionals …

Now playing: Watch this: Gift cards and exchange tips 1:00 Most shoppers go into Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the pre-holiday shopping frenzies with the concern that their most-desired bargains will sell out. But the truth is many manufacturer discounts, which make up the bulk of those “great” seasonal prices, run until at least the end of the year and …

The impressive-sounding LG UltraFine 5K display that Apple debuted in October has officially started shipping — or at least it will in two to four weeks. If you want to fetch it yourself, it’s listed for pickup availability in NYC Apple stores on January 20. And pay attention, bargain hunters. Until March 31 you can save $325 off its list …

Following Shake Shack’s limited test of an ordering app in Manhattan (where it’s too cold to stand in outdoor lines right now), the purveyor of Danny Meyer‘s super-popular, line-inducing gourmet hamburgers and concretes has expanded its mobile-ordering reach to more cities. The Shake Shack app is now serving Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas (just in time for CES …

Messaging app Viber will soon join the crowd of apps that allow you to record and share short videos, according to The Next Web. In Viber’s case, that means you’ll be able to record up to 30 seconds, tap and send. The update will also introduce Chat Extensions, which allows Viber’s partners to add bot-like services to the app. Initial …

Now you don’t have to give up the convenience of your iPhone to produce more sophisticated Facebook Live video. An update to the DxO One‘s app in early 2017 will let that add-on camera for the iPhone support live-streaming to Facebook. The One has a 1-inch imaging sensor, much bigger than that in the iPhone, which helps it deliver better …