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Apple has made mobile payments look easy, after a decade of mostly failed experiments by banks, telecom operators and retailers to woo consumers away from cards and cash. Apple Pay has taken the United States by storm since its launch in September, and the company has said it already accounts for around $2 out of every $3 spent using “contactless”
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Phone makers will seek to seduce new buyers with even smarter Internet-connected watches and other wireless gadgets as they wrestle for dominance at the world’s biggest mobile fair starting Monday. Along with the launches of numerous new smartphones – dominated by South Korean giant Samsung – tech firms are trying to conquer users’ bodies and connect their environments. Several makers
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From robots that chop up your vegetables to detectors that measure how long you sleep, such “smart” appliances are becoming more and more a part of daily life, according to industry players. Developers at the Dublin Web Summit, one of Europe’s biggest technology conferences, said interlinkage between people, their homes and their devices were opening up new frontiers. The developers
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Go ahead, peek at our patents. Toyota will allow others to use several thousand of its patented or patent-pending technologies for free to speed the development of its hydrogen-powered car dubbed the Mirai, due to be sold in the U.S. by October. Elsewhere, would-be novelists got a new way to write as Lenovo launched AnyPen, which lets you write on
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Sensors that track steps, pulse, diet and more marked a wearable computing fashion trend this year as they evolve from measuring what we’ve done to telling us what to do. Smart bracelets, watches, and pendants increasingly adorned the techno-chic, and for some even their dogs sported medallions tracking whether they nap too much and run too little. Data gathered by
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