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Google Pay and Apple Pay are finally coming to Walmart

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Walmart is finally embracing Apple Pay and Google Pay, with tap-to-pay rolling out August 24 and reaching all U.S. stores by the end of 2026.

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Google Removes Cost Barrier As Nigerian Students Get 1 Year Free Gemini AI Access

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Google has announced a one-year free subscription to its Google AI Plus service for students in Nigerian universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, in a move aimed at widening access to artificial intelligence (AI) tools and…

Ex-Google Engineer Wins Partial Acquittal After IP Theft Trial

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A California federal judge acquitted an ex-Google software engineer of espionage charges Thursday while upholding his trade secret theft conviction, ruling that although trial evidence showed his trade secret theft was "ad hoc,…

Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

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Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips — Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc.'s Google,…

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Seven Emergency Features You Should Enable on Your Google Pixel

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If you're ever in an emergency situation, your can use your Google Pixel to get more information about what's going on and receive the help you need. While some emergency features are enabled by default, you do have to set most of them up…

Walmart shoppers can finally use Apple Pay and Google Wallet

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The biggest holdout on digital payments has just relented and will begin accepting tap to pay before the end of the year.

Google Will Soon Let You Tell It What Stories You Want to See in Your Discovery Feed

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Natural language prompts are coming to the Google app's Discovery feed.

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How to Build a Law Firm Website That Ranks on Google and AI Search

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A lead-generating law firm website does more than look professional. It attracts prospective clients through search engines and AI platforms, answers their questions, establishes trust, and makes it easy for them to contact your firm.

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Mint Mobile will basically give you a FREE year of wireless when you buy the Google Pixel 11 — here's how it works

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Mint Mobile has finally received its Google Pixel 11 stock, and the deals are epic.

Google Bid $10M For Spirit Airlines Data, Employee Privacy Concerns Raised

Google won a bankruptcy auction for a collection of Spirit's corporate data, including internal documents, workflows, employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, and software code.

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Google Tightens Android Sideloading: Unverified Apps Now Face a 24-Hour Wait

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Google’s new Android verification flow adds a 24-hour wait for apps from unverified developers as broader identity checks approach.

David Bozell Tells Sinclair News: Apple & Google News Push Media Outlets that Haven’t Backed a Republican in 36 Years

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Between 1988 and 2024, the top five outlets promoted by Apple News and Google News that endorse candidates issued 31 presidential endorsements, and 100% went to Democrats. A Media Research Center (MRC) study analyzed the historical…

Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says its stores will get the tech, which supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, by the end of 2026 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says its stores will get the tech, which supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, by the end of 2026 — Apparently, hell has frozen over. Walmart on Friday said it will finally…

A new Gemini for Home update is rolling out, but users are slamming Google for not fixing ‘missing and broken features’ despite the voice upgrades

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Gemini for Home is getting some new upgrades, but users are still waiting for Google to fix the real problems.

Pigs are flying: Walmart will accept Google Wallet and Apple Pay next week

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Tap-to-pay with phones didn’t take off in the U.S. as quickly as in other countries, but it’s now available at most retailers. There’s been one massive hold-out the entire time, though: Walmart. Finally, that’s about to change, and it’s…

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Are Meta smart glasses doomed to fail like Google Glass? Have your say on what fate is most likely for wearable cameras

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There couldn't be a worse time for Meta and Samsung to release new smart glasses, but what could they do instead?

This new malware can use Google passkeys even after a victim resets their password

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A newly discovered toolkit can deeply compromise Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, and LinkedIn accounts

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5 reasons I'm switching to Samsung after using Google Pixel for 8 years

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Google has been my favorite Android manufacturer for a long time. I've used Pixel phones for nearly a decade, and before that, I used Nexus phones and tablets. But that run is coming to an end. Next time I upgrade, I'll be switching over…