Google’s Android Pay is hooking up with banks around the world. The mobile payments service announced Wednesday that it’s partnered with Bank of America, Bank of New Zealand, Discover, mBank and USAA. Now customers of these banks can add their cards to Android Pay. “This latest collaboration with banks expands Android Pay’s capabilities as an …
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Microsoft is working hard to make sure its new Edge browser isn’t dogged by the living-in-the-past reputation its older Internet Explorer suffers. The new Edge, which begins shipping Tuesday as part of Microsoft’s Windows 10 Creators Update, adds some new features that are easier to spot, like the ability to stash away a bunch of tabs for later use or …
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UK-based analyst Juniper Research released a new study Tuesday that showed the number of “contactless” Apple Pay users nearly doubling year over year, with the total number of Apple Pay users reaching 86 million by the end of 2017. Android Pay (Google) and Samsung Pay are also seeing big increases in usage. Still, Juniper expects Apple to dominate the contactless …
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Turns out Google is a better artist than you. The company has unveiled a new web-based drawing tool called AutoDraw, which will turn your terrible Microsoft Paint skills into actual pictures. Just scrawl something on your phone screen with your finger (or on your desktop with a mouse) and Google’s machine learning will detect what you’re trying to draw, and …
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Now playing: Watch this: The easy way to switch from an iPhone to the Samsung… 1:45 Are you ready to give Samsung another shot after last year’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 scandal? The troubled electronics giant just released its newest flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S8. If you’ve taken an iPhone detour while Samsung worked out its issues and are …
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There are some really great tablets out there, but a lot of them suffer from expensive prices. Pricing usually declines to a reasonable point, but only after those models are no longer shiny and new. If you don’t want to wait, or don’t have to, here are the tablets that offer a high-end experience for a premium price. Tablet manufacturers …
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Google‘s simple video calling app Duo just got a little more advanced. Google announced that it will bring audio-only calling to Duo users worldwide, after first introducing the feature in Brazil in March. Duo is Google’s take on Apple’s FaceTime, with some important differences. First, while FaceTime can only be used between people with Apple products, Duo works on both …
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Here’s an early clue to what we can expect to see from Google‘s next Pixel phones: flexible OLED displays made by LG. Google is seeking to invest at least 1 trillion won ($880.29 million) in LG‘s display business to help boost its output of OLED screens, according to a report in the Electronic Times on Monday. The tech giant launched …
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Google Home appears ready to roll out a heavily anticipated feature. The connected smart speaker is set to support multiple Google accounts, according to The Next Web, citing a tweet from tech podcaster Owen Williams. This is a key addition if you want different people in the same household to access their own info like music playlists, flight info or …
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Now playing: Watch this: 5 Google Pixel launcher tips 1:32 If you’re someone who has traditionally used Google‘s Nexus devices and the Nexus launcher, there are a few things you’ll need to know about the new Pixel launcher. And for everyone else, well, it’s a good idea to learn about your new phone, too. Here are some tips to help …
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