The LG G6 might feature MST mobile payment tech similar to Samsung Pay

When it comes to mobile payment services, there’s no shortage of options to choose from. PayPal has been around the longest but never really caught on the way the company was hoping, Apple Pay is the most popular and feature-rich solution for iPhone users, and Google has been hard at work with improving Android Pay to be as robust as possible. However, among all of these mobile payment solutions, Samsung Pay is easily one of the most interesting ones out there right now. Unlike Android and Apple Pay that only use NFC technology for the payments to go through, Samsung Pay uses something called “MST” … – Source

The LG G6 might feature MST mobile payment tech similar to Samsung Pay

Qantas unveils updated logo design and its new Dreamliner cabins

Qantas has announced a redesign, but it’s more of a freshening up than a complete overhaul.

It’s only the fifth time the Australian airline has updated its iconic kangaroo logo since it first appeared on the tail of its planes in 1944. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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The new logo has been “simplified,” according to the airline. There are no arms on the kangaroo anymore, and the head has a less pronounced snout and ears. Shading on the end of the logo is to add a “sense of depth and movement,” according to a statement on the Qantas website. …

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Qantas unveils updated logo design and its new Dreamliner cabins

Fighting its loyalists: Samsung to push a Note 7 update in South Korea that severely limits battery charge

After Samsung figured out that whatever is wrong with the combusting Note 7 is no easy fix, the company issued a full recall, announcing that the phablet will be discontinued and customers that bring their unit in will be compensated and get an exchange with another Sammy phone at a bargain. As you may guess, however, there are plenty of users out there who quickly fell in love with their Note 7 and have decided to hold on to it, trusting that there’s a minimal chance that it might blow up.

Of course, Samsung is having none of that. The devices hold the potential to destroy property and … – Source

Fighting its loyalists: Samsung to push a Note 7 update in South Korea that severely limits battery charge

Google gives away almost $4 million to social good technology projects

SMS support for the ill, an autonomous reef surveying robot and a fish stock app were three of the successful projects to win Australia’s second-ever Google Impact Challenge Wednesday.

At an event held at Google’s Sydney office, the top 10 non-profit ideas, all using technology to solve social and environmental issues, were whittled down to three winners along with two people’s choice awards. Each of the five received A$750,000.

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Clara Chow, a cardiologist at Westmead Hospital, helps lead one of the winners, TEXTCARE. The service send personalised text messages to support people with chronic disease. …

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Google gives away almost $4 million to social good technology projects

Sony Xperia XA Ultra and C5 Ultra getting new updates

Sony has started pushing out new updates to its Xperia XA Ultra and Xperia C5 Ultra smartphones, bringing security patches as well as other changes.

Specifically, the Xperia XA Ultra update includes Android security patch for the month of October as well as a fix for an issue related to the device’s camera ISO setting – any manual change to ISO wasn’t getting reflected previously.

Both single SIM as well as dual SIM variants of the phone are getting the update, which arrives as firmware version 36.0.A.2.109 and 36.0.B.2.109 , respectively.

The Xperia C5 Ultra update, on the other…

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Sony Xperia XA Ultra and C5 Ultra getting new updates

Report: Snap (formerly Snapchat) to raise $4 billion with its IPO; company valued at $25-$35 billion

As you might know by now, the parent company of messaging app Snapchat has changed its name to Snap. It plans on going public and raising money via an IPO this coming March, that will raise in the area of $4 billion. This values the company at $25 billion to $35 billion. That is a far cry from the $70 million valuation placed on the company during its first round of financing back in 2013.

The Snapchat messaging app also has come a long way from then, when it was known mostly for its self-destructing messages, both text and video. Messages sent by one subscriber to another … – Source

Report: Snap (formerly Snapchat) to raise $4 billion with its IPO; company valued at $25-$35 billion

Designing mindful machines

Facebook recently fired the entire Trending Topics team of human editors amid accusations they were promoting specific agendas and biasing what news was deemed “important.” Now the company is relying on machine learning algorithms to manage Trending Topics — and finding that keeping the results free of hoaxes and fake news isn’t always easy. Read More

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Designing mindful machines

Surface Studio: The Basics

Microsoft showed off its new …

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Surface Studio: The Basics

23andMe stops work on advanced gene sequencing

The team at 23andMe is dialing back some of its grander plans for DNA analysis. Co-founder Anne Wojcicki has confirmed to BuzzFeed News that her company has stopped working on next-generation sequencing that would reveal much more about your genes,… – Source

23andMe stops work on advanced gene sequencing

Next major Windows 10 "Creator's" update is coming for free in spring 2017

The update brings about a major focus on 3D content creation and simplified multimedia and game sharing.

Microsoft had quite a few interesting new devices to show off on stage today, including the new Surface Book i7 and the Surface Studio. Between all this and the attention-challenging length of the presentation, it was arguably quite easy to slightly neglect the big software news, namely the next major Windows 10 update.

Unlike the aforementioned devices, it will be available absolutely free to the masses of Windows 10 users. And like the name suggests, a central part of the…

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Next major Windows 10 "Creator's" update is coming for free in spring 2017