payments
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Google’s New Hands-Free Feature Will Let You Pay With These Magic Words
“I’d like to pay with Google.” Say that phrase at a shop’s register, and you could soon check out without even touching your wallet — or phone. It’s called Hands Free, and it comes on the heels of Google announcing its upcoming payments app, Android Pay, at I/O.
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Samsung Wants To Replace Your Credit Cards With These Clever Magnets
Your next Samsung Galaxy smartphone could have a neat trick up its sleeves. Just place your phone next to any ol’ credit card reader, and press a button to pay. That’s because Samsung just announced that it’s buying LoopPay — a company that figured out how to trick magnetic stripe readers to accept your money…
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Now Etsy Has A Card Reader Too
Etsy just released a card reader. It works just like all of the other card readers out there, except it’s orange and only works with Etsy purchases. It is also sort of a brilliant thing for Etsy to do.
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Canadian Startup Wants To Replace Passwords With Your Heartbeat
Passwords are almost undisputedly broke: seemingly every month, a different major online service gets hacked, along with all your credit card details (and a few celeb’s personal photos). A Canadian startup thinks it has the solution: using your heartbeat as the authentication method.