Daily Archives: December 15, 2015

Samsung’s Hero Smartphone Leaks, And It’s Not The Galaxy S7

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Following on from yesterday’s news that the Galaxy S7 should feature a pressure-sensitive touch-screen that mimics the principles behind Apple’s 3D Touch, the latest leak describes a phone that could replace the Galaxy S flagships as the financial backbone of Samsung’s mobile division.

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Get Blume, Snap A Selfie, Start The Chat, Make The Date

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Sometimes there’s no accounting for taste with human beings. Some might say that this unaccounted taste might be as ridiculous as the appeal of a certain Donald Trump, while others might refer to the enduring power of crowdfunding. The things we believe, the ones we love, there is no doubt that it’s a mad world.

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Android Pay can now be used to make purchases inside apps

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Android Pay comes to your apps. Photo: GoogleYou can now use Android Pay to make purchases inside compatible Android apps. Lyft, OpenTable, and Wish are some of the titles that already support Google’s mobile payment service, and many more will be updated with Android Pay support in the coming months. Millions of users have activated Android Pay since it launched this fall, Google says, and

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The post Android Pay can now be used to make purchases inside apps appeared first on Cult of Android.

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Samsung Pay pulls in an additional 19 Visa and MasterCard issuers

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Support for Samsung Pay is larger than ever with the announcement that Samsung’s payment service is partnering with 19 new banking services which use Visa and MasterCard. The news comes a week after Samsung Pay added support for gift cards from 50 major retail brands.

Much like Google Wallet and Apple Pay, Samsung Pay uses NFC for mobile payments, but it also uses special Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) technology inside. Samsung Pay is compatible with the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy S6 edge+ and Galaxy Note 5, which can digitally replicate an old fashioned magnetic card to pay at the over 30 million magnetic card readers worldwide. It may not be as flashy as Apple Pay, but Samsung is claiming that it is the most widely accepted mobile payment system in the world.

If you haven’t given Samsung Pay a try yet, we recommend you do. There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing the look on a cashier’s face when you tap your phone on an old magnetic card reader and watch the transaction go through.

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Android Pay support now available in apps

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Android Pay launched this fall and it has already seen rapid adoption from users. Now it’s time for developers to get in on the fun.

On Tuesday, the Official Android Blog announced that, beginning today, Android Pay now works in Android applications. That means that users won’t have to pull out their card when making a purchase on their mobile device, and entering in the information is no longer a necessary step, either, as Android Pay saves all the pertinent details for a quick checkout procedure.

There are already plenty of different apps that support Android Pay, including Lyft, Doordash, Fancy, Instacart, OpenTable, Spring, and many others. The list is obviously still growing, and the Android team has included an Android Pay API on a dedicated developer site to make sure that support continues to grow.

There are some deals, too, to take note of when you use Apple Pay in select apps:

“For a limited time, you’ll also get special savings by using Android Pay in select apps—from $20 off on OpenTable* dining, $10 off your Lyft ride*, $10 off DoorDash* to 30% off Vinted*—there’s something for everyone.”

That’s not all, though. Android Pay is coming to Australia in the first half of 2016, too. The post says that many of the country’s major financial institutions are in negotiations, including Westpac, ANZ and many others, to add support for the mobile payment option through their MasterCard and Visa cards.

Have you tried out Android Pay yet?

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Mycroft AI ahora es partner de Canonical

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Mycroft IA

Canonical pretende entrar fuerte en el mundo del IoT o el Internet de las cosas que se abre tras la llegada del IPv6, con un sin fin de direcciones IPs disponibles para conectar a Internet a diestro y siniestro numerosos de aparatos que hasta el momento eran ajenos a la red de redes. Por eso creó Ubuntu IoT. Canonical se ha mostrado muy interesada en este sentido, al igual que por otros aspectos como la nube, juguetes inteligentes, drones y robots, convergencia, smartphones y tablets, etc.

Por otro lado, Mycroft AI es un proyecto muy interesante que consiste en un hardware libre acompañado de un software igualmente abierto y que ha creado una fuerte expectación y en el que podremos contar con Ubuntu además de los usuarios de Ubuntu contar con el software del nuevo dispositivo. Para los que no lo sepan, Mycroft AI es un dispositivo que es capaz de correr un motor de Inteligencia Artificial y que nuestro ordenador se relacione con nosotros con su altavoz inteligente, algo así como un Siri o un Cortana avanzado. 

Sin duda supondrá un cambio radical en cuanto a los asistentes de IA y sobre todo en el mundo GNU/Linux. A partir de ahora, la Store de Ubuntu para dispositivos IoT admitirá a Mycroft AI como plataforma, al igual que ya lo hace con robots de la compañía española Erle-Robotics. Una buena asociación que podría posicionar a Canonical en buen puesto para luchar contra Siri de Apple y Cortana de Microsoft…

El artículo Mycroft AI ahora es partner de Canonical ha sido originalmente publicado en Linux Adictos.

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