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  • Google ends Hands Free mobile payments pilot, iOS app will stop working Feb. 8

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    Rayz2016 said:
    slurpy said:
    ... no real thought of mass usage, I knew Google should shut it down shortly.
    I'm surprised that no one at Google spotted the epic fail right at the heart of the scheme: the photograph and the cashier. 

    For security it relies on you not changing your hairstyle or going out in drag (hey! It's my weekend!). It relies on the cashier not being short-sighted and actually giving hoot whether it's you or not. 
    To expand on your thoughts, it also requires honest cashiers. If hands free were in wide use, people would quickly realize that a lost/stolen phone + dishonest cashier = mobile ATM.
    caliwatto_cobraRayz2016

  • Google adds QR code scanner to 3D Touch menu in iOS Chrome 56 update

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    stompy said:
    An old tumblr, but a good one: Pictures of people scanning QR codes
    No pictures load for me.
    Sorry, I should have put  ;) at the end of that post. Whoever created that tumblr did so as a joke, never intending to post any photos.

    Someone's take on, "The trouble with _________ is that when you get there, there isn't any there there."
    watto_cobra

  • Latest 4K drone footage of Apple's 'spaceship' Campus 2 shows interior auditorium work, significant.

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    Duncan Sinfield shot a Christmas morning video as well, 

    I like that in his comments he wrote "Apple die hards only".
    Solipropodpatchythepirate

  • No, Apple did not switch to USB-C on its new MacBook Pros to profit from dongle & adapter sales

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    nubus said:
    mknelson said:
    Remember 1998 when the first iMac came out? There weren't a lot of USB devices so you had to buy USB to ADC and USB to serial adapters.
    The original iMac moved from proprietary ports for keyboard, modem, and network (ADB, GeoPort) to the industry standard USB.
    It removed the extra cost of accessories for Mac and gave us access to more devices.

    This is different. What exactly do we gain by not having MagSafe and mini DisplayPort? Now all our dongles and power adapters are of no value.
    The switch to USB eventually gave us access to more devices, but MacWorld had this to say in May, 1998:

    "Currently, no USB devices exist for the Mac."

    While USB was on many PCs prior to the iMac, I remember that virtually all of them still shipped with PS2 keyboards and mice. USB, a standard in 1998? Well, it was a "standard" from the day it was released, but it was not the de facto standard in 1998 that you seem to be claiming it was.

    For an accurate account of how forward looking USB was on the first iMac, read this post on Stephen Hackett's blog, 512 pixels. He's a noted Mac history buff, and also provides 1998 quotes about the state of USB on the PC (see the "waffling" quote).

    The state of USB-C today is ahead of where USB was when the original iMac was announced in 1998.
    chiamacpluspluspscooter63StrangeDaysai46Rayz2016netmageDeelronDaekwan

  • Samsung to permanently disable any remaining US Galaxy Note 7 models

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    Soli said:
    I can't understand why people would still be using that device? Or is this a case where they don't care about the refund because they think if they hold onto it (turned off with the battery drained, of course) that it will increase in value some day?
    Why? Geniuses that believe their phone is statistically unlikely to explode (based on false assumptions), or believe that since it hasn't exploded yet, it never will (normalcy bias).
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