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Everything you want to know about Apple Pay

Apple Pay is Apple’s NFC payment system that lets you make purchases using an iOS device. The service is currently available only in the US and the UK, it won’t run on every iPhone, and you’ll run into restrictions on the latest iPads. To sort out the intricacies of Apple’s payment system, we’ve put together …

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Uber settles lawsuit over fatal SF crash that killed girl

Uber’s app in action. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Ride-hailing service Uber has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit brought by the family of a 6-year-old girl killed in San Francisco in 2013. Sofia Liu was walking in a crosswalk with her family on New Year’s Eve when she was allegedly struck and killed by Syed Muzzafar, an Uber driver at …

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Apple HR chief: Diversity challenge won’t ‘be changed overnight’

Denise Young Smith, Apple’s head of HR, says Apple has learned it “requires an incredible amount of mindfulness and focus” to improve diversity. Screenshot by Shara Tibken/CNET Apple knows it needs to do more to encourage diversity, but it will take time to show real results in the numbers, the company’s head of human resources said Tuesday. The “diversity challenge …

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Reddit loses chief engineer just days after Interim CEO Ellen Pao’s exit

Another critical employee at Reddit has left the company as trouble continues. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET Reddit, the traditionally unbridled social-news site and community forum, has lost another key staffer, the third executive to exit this month amid the company’s effort to strike a balance for users between uninhibited speech and a climate free from abusive and other undesirable content. …

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