Google Pay has expanded yet again, its long list of partners now made even longer by the addition of thirteen various US banks and credit unions. Newest institutions that support Google Pay are: Educational Community Alliance Credit Union (OH), Exchange Bank (GA), First Bank Hampton (NW), Incommons Bank (TX), Legends Bank (MO), Members Choice of Central Texas Federal Credit Union, MidAmerica National Bank (IL), Park Community Credit Union (KY), Priority Bank (AR), Republic Bank (PA), Republic Bank of Chicago (IL), State Bank of Waterloo (IL) and The Citizens-Farmers Bank of Cole Camp (MO). ...

Sky, originally billed as an Apple TV exclusive video game, is now available on more platforms. That is not all, though: the game is said to come out for even more platforms soon, namely Android, Mac and PC. Cool.Sky: Children of the Light is an adventure game with simple but beautiful graphics, much of which is spent in the air as our character flies across the beautiful world. The game can be played alone or with friends in a co-op mode. It can be downloaded for free from App Store, and contains microtransactions that cost 0.99$ or ...

In his Sunday TV appearance, Peter Thiel said that he believes Google needs to be investigated by both FBI and CIA due to the company’s treasonous, as he put it, decision to work not with the US government but with the Chinese military instead. As is often the case in such, err, cases, Thiel has no evidence of Google’s wrongdoing: nevertheless, billionaire investor implied that not only the company is working for China, but that it has also been infiltrated by Chinese spies. The only real backing for Thiel’s opinion – at least only real backing that is known to the ...

Many people have problems with Apple blockade called Find my iPhone (iCloud). Find My iPhone is a special security option available for all Apple products. The owner of the device creates a special login and password for his/her device. The information is not stored on any servers or websites so there is no way even for Apple company to know your password. If for any reason you lost or forgot your password you can contact Apple company to reset your account, but you won’t receive the password itself. To reset your login information you need to access the e-mail connected to the given ...

According to the Tech blog Ata Distance, the leak that has later been officially confirmed by Octopus Cards Limited, iOS 13 will be released with built-in support for the Octopus contactless payment system. Snippet of the code has been spotted in Apple’s online JSON-based Apple Pay pass identifie; it showed references to Octopus.iOS 13 will hit Apple smartphones sometime in Fall; it is expected to support Octopus Transit Card right off the bat. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Maybe that is because they do not use electric watches? 😀 According to the scientists from the University of Cambridge, energy consumption of Bitcoin mining has reached great/hilarious/horrible proportions. Using a so-called CBECI (Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index) engine, the scientists calculated that Bitcoin mining is responsible for 0.25 percent of worldwide electrical power usage. That is more than the aforementioned Switzerland, a modern country, requires to keep running. Creating Bitcoin currency requires 8 gigawatts of electrical power per day, or 61,76 ...

Gunfight will consist of six short rounds, 40 seconds each. Two teams of two players each will fight in small maps made specifically for this game mode. Gunfight will not allow for healing or picking up teammates – the whole point is for the matches to be fast and short. Interestingly, players will not pick up their own weapons. Instead, the game will give both teams a set of random guns every two rounds.Over an hour long stream from Gunfight can be watched under here – ...

Xinjiang, border crossing between China and Kyrgyzstan. There, chinese border agents have requisitioned some of the Muslim tourists crossing into China to hand over their smartphones, as well as share any passwords and unlock codes they deem neccessary. Border agents then analyze the tourist’s smartphones via a spyware application, scanning it for one or more of the 73,000 content types deemed dangerous by the regime. At least afterwards they return the phones and not burn them on a stake… Still, the tourists are not informed of the process, and agreeing to it is mandatory for ...

This year has been good for Vivo, with the company doubling its market shares in the first quarter of 2019; hopefully, the release of Z1Pro will make it even better for them. This mid-ranger’s main selling points are its hole punch selfie camera and triple rear camera, topped by a modest price.– 6.53″ display, FHD+, IPS LCD– Corning Gorilla Glass, 6th gen– Snapdragon 712 CPU– 4/6GB RAM, 64/128GB storage, microSD up to 256GB– 16mpx (f/1.78) x 8mpx x 2mpx main camera– 32mpx (f/2.0) selfie shooter– 5000mAh battery, 18W charging ...

Both devices receive the update simultaneously, though the update is not the same for both of them. Pixel phones have drawn the long straw in this contest, getting not only a number of security fixes, but also a a small list of improvements:Improves “OK Google” and music detection (Pixel 2 and newer),Fixes an issue for some devices getting stuck during boot (Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL),Fixes an issue for some devices getting stuck in EDL mode with a blank screen (Pixel 3 and newer),Improves Unicode Japanese language support (All Pixel smartphones),Improves Titan M module (Pixel 3 ...