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Google Wallet will let you add passes by taking a photo
Google Wallet will soon let you add a pass just by taking a photo of the card.
Apple finally lets businesses customize their listings in Maps
Apple hopes to make Maps more helpful by giving stores custom location cards.
Samsung Wallet payments and passes are coming to 13 more countries this year
Samsung Wallet is expanding to 13 countries by the end of the year, including Denmark, South Africa and UAE.
Apple Card users can soon sign up for a 'high-yield' savings account
Apple Card users can soon open a high-yield savings account that takes their Daily Cash or even their bank funds.
Apple's digital car keys may work with Hyundai and Genesis models this summer
Hyundai and Genesis vehicles might support Apple CarKey by this summer.
Brave browser now includes a built-in crypto wallet
Brave's desktop browser now includes a crypto wallet — you can make purchases and trades without an extension.
Crypto scammers stole $500K from wallets using targeted Google Ads
Scammers used Google Ads to steal $500,000 worth of crypto from wallets.
Apple Wallet is getting verifiable COVID-19 vaccination cards
The Wallet app on your iPhone will soon support verifiable COVID-19 vaccination cards.
Apple says eight states have signed up to let people store IDs in Wallet
Arizona and Georgia are first up, with six more to follow.
Apple's digital student IDs are coming to Canada and more US schools
n 2021, the University of New Brunswick and Sheridan College outside of Toronto will allow students to add their ID cards to Apple Wallet and use their iPhones and Apple Watches to access facilities and pay for food and other items and services across campus.
Realme's 'MagDart' is an Android take on MagSafe, but faster
Realme, the sister brand of Oppo and OnePlus, has announced its very own "MagDart" magnetic wireless charging system, which is essentially the Android version of iPhone's MagSafe.
Apple Pay will soon work on BART and other Bay Area transportation
Apple has announced that the Wallet app support for the Clipper card, the Bay Area's all-in-one reloadable transit card, is "coming soon."
LA residents can use their phones to provide COVID-19 vaccination proof
Los Angeles County has teamed with startup Healthvana on an app that will that will store vaccination records in Google or Apple wallets.
Apple's iPhone 12 Studio lets you 'try' MagSafe accessory combos
Apple now offers an iPhone 12 Studio that lets you mix and match MagSafe accessories, much like it lets you customize the Apple Watch.
Apple is now presenting its privacy policy as if it were another product
It's not uncommon for users to skip reading an app's privacy policy because it's too long and jumbled. Apparently, Apple wants to change that. Today, it released a new privacy page that makes its privacy policy easier to read and understand. The new privacy page looks more like a product page than your standard screen of black and white text.
Apple's contactless student IDs come to 12 more schools
A new school year is approaching, and for Apple that means an expansion of its contact-free student IDs. Apple Watch and iPhone owners can tap their devices to access campus facilities in 12 more schools, and these are institutions you'll likely recognize -- Georgetown University, the University of Tennessee and the University of San Francisco are some of the institutions. Considering that tap-based IDs were limited to just seven schools before, this is welcome news if you'd rather not pull out plastic to grab lunch or access the gym.
Apple Pay can be used for iTunes, App Store and Apple Book purchases
You can now use Apple Pay to make purchases from iTunes, the App Store and Apple Books. MacRumors spotted the change in a recently updated support document. The added Apple Pay options are coming to users in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates, but they might not be available in all of those locations just yet.
Samsung Galaxy S10 leak hints at cryptocurrency wallet
Samsung' Galaxy S10 appears to have leaked again, but this time the big deal is what's on screen. Gregory Blake and Ben Geskin claim to have leaked images of a Samsung Blockchain KeyStore that would serve as a cryptocurrency wallet, whether you're bringing over an existing wallet or starting fresh. The imagery only shows it supporting Ethereum, but SamMobile noted that its sources also anticipated support for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and ERC20.
Apple Wallet now supports contact-free student ID cards
Apple has been promising support for contactless student ID cards ever since it unveiled iOS 12, and it's finally here a few weeks after the software itself. Students at Duke University, the University of Alabama and the University of Oklahoma can now add their ID cards to Apple Wallet and use their iPhones and Apple Watches to access facilities, or pay for must-haves like food and laundry. You might not have to dig through your wallet just to return to your dorm after a long night out.
Twitter will ban most cryptocurrency ads
It's not just the likes of Facebook and Google who are clamping down on cryptocurrency ads. Twitter has confirmed an earlier rumor by announcing plans to ban most cryptocurrency-related ads in the near future. The restrictions will cover initial coin offerings, crypto wallets and token sales, as well as most crypto exchanges (with "limited exceptions," according to Reuters). There's no timetable for the ban at the ban at this stage.
