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It’s taken a while, but 7-Eleven has announced that from this month it’s going to finally start offering contactless payments via Apple Pay and Google Pay. The company has around 10,000 convenience stores across the U.S. The post Finally, Apple Pay and Google Pay arrive at 7-Eleven this month appeared first on Digital Trends. Source…
The Huawei Mate 20 flagships will bring even more powerful wired charging than SuperCharge. Even better, they will support wireless charging, which is currently available only on the Mate RS Porsche Design. Digging into the FCC documents, we find some impressive numbers. For one, the wireless charger delivers up to 15W of power. That matches…
Concerns about the weaponisation of artificial intelligence (AI) have increased with the news that the Pentagon is ploughing $2 billion into the technology over the next five years. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the US Department of Defense (DoD), is investing the sum in a bid to make the technology more widely…
Mercedes-Benz shared on Monday its vision for how people and packages will someday move in dense urban environments. It’s called Vision Urbanetic — an all-electric autonomous concept vehicle that can change from a toaster-looking cargo van to a dung beetle-esque (or it is bike helmet) people mover. The Vision Urbanetic joins a growing list of…
Zendesk has mostly confined itself to customer service scenarios, but it seems that’s not enough anymore. If you want to truly know the customer behind the interaction, you need a customer system of record to go with the customer service component. To fill that need, Zendesk announced it was acquiring Base, a startup that has…
Elliot Shmukler, who joined Instacart in 2016 to lead product, is leaving the company to pursue a role at an early-stage company, TechCrunch has learned — and confirmed with the grocery delivery service. Shmukler was brought on as the company’s VP of product, but he’d recently transitioned into a new role, chief growth officer, before…
Sure, 7-Eleven’s never been particularly well-known for being on the bleeding edge — expect, perhaps, in its quest to push the boundaries of human beverage consumption. Still, the Japanese-owned convenience mega-chain has been notably slow on the uptake of mobile payment technology. The company announced today that it will finally be bringing Apple Pay and…
Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity seed fund. More posts by this contributor Lessons from cybersecurity exits Is Symantec getting ready to buy Splunk? As the Gartner Hype Curve goes, from the peak of inflated expectations to the trough of disillusionment, so goes the founder’s emotional…
A promising new cancer vaccine has shown the ability to ward off, and stop the return, of aggressive cancer cells. By adding a molecule called Diprovocim to a vaccine, researchers report being able to draw cancer-fighting cells to tumor sites in mice. It works in conjunction with other cancer-treatment therapies to stop some aggressive, and…
