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Google dropped a handful of notable software updates today, enabling new features for its line of Pixel Android phones, including its main flagship handset, the Pixel 4. While some of these updates bring brand-new tools to the Pixel 4, others are previously-known features that are either newly available to other Pixel models or expanded to …

Every once in a while, I run into a situation where shopping using AR actually makes sense. Trying on Warby Parker glasses, for example, or test-driving virtual Ikea furniture. Usually, it’s more like casual window-shopping or browsing. Apple’s ARKit is aiming to move past that and make the experience turn into more buying, too. Home Depot, Wayfair, Bang & Olufsen …

Apple Pay can be a convenient way to handle payments when on the go. That may be part of why analysts predict usage of Apple’s mobile payment feature could double in five years.  By 2025, Apple Pay will account for 10% of global card transactions, according to research firm Bernstein as reported by Quartz on Tuesday. The mobile payment feature currently …

T-Mobile provides banking services through its T-Mobile Money offering, but it soon won’t be the only telecom to enter the world of finance. On Thursday Verizon announced that it will be partnering with financial firm Synchrony to offer a co-branded consumer card to its customers later in the “first half of 2020.”  Verizon is the latest, but far from the …

Starting Tuesday, Apple Card users can buy a new iPhone on a 24-month installment plan and pay no interest. Under the program, each installment gets included in the Apple Card minimum payment, and users can track the remaining balance and payment history in the Wallet app. The Apple Card, which launched in August, is designed for iPhone users. It has …

Apple will begin allowing customers to buy iPhones and pay them off over two years interest-free, CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday. But it only works if you buy the handset with the new Apple Card. This will also give customers 3% cash back on the total cost of the phone. “I’m very pleased to announce today that later this year, we’re …

Google’s new Pixel 4 picks up some fascinating new camera features, motion-sensing radar and live transcription, but secure face unlock is the feature you’ll come to know most intimately. With the Pixel 4, Google follows in Apple’s footsteps, doing away with biometric fingerprint scanning and relying on your face to unlock the device. In fact, Google hints that its approach …

Apple may be working on a new, lower-cost iPhone SE 2 with some of the same features as the current iPhone 11, such as the A13 Bionic chip. In this week’s Apple Core roundup, we take a look at the latest rumors about the spiritual successor to the iPhone SE and dissect a new patent that shows a new Apple …

Android users will soon be able to use their phones to pay for transit cards in cities such as San Francisco after Cubic Transportation Systems signed an agreement with Google Pay, the search giant’s contactless payment system, on Monday. Cubic says Bay Area passengers will be able to “add transit cards to Google Pay, securely reload funds and purchase tickets …

Apple CEO Tim Cook says his company isn’t interested in launching a cryptocurrency. In an interview with French publication Les Echos published on Friday, Cook said he believes deeply that money must remain in the hands of states. “I am not comfortable with the idea that a private group creates a competing currency,” Cook told Les Echos, according to a translation of …