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Google Pay (stylized as G Pay) logo of a digital wallet platform and online payment system is seen on a smartphone and a pc screen in the background. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google is sending another app to the heavens. This time it’s the long-standing Google Pay app, which users in the U.S. won’t be able to use from June 4th 2024. Google said that the planned move is to simplify its… Source link

speaker and virtual assistant by Google, being exhibited on the Android Smart Home display during the Mobile World Congress 2023 on March 2, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images This story was updated on January 16th. Update below. If you picked up a Nest Hub, or Nest Audio, in Google’s unexpected January sale, make the most of it now because the company is planning to delete some features very soon. Google announced on its… Source link

If quarterbacks are the NFL’s main characters, then this season has been playing out like one long Ozymandias episode for a spoiled generation. Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers — along with more moderately aged stars Russell Wilson and Matthew Stafford — have suddenly been humbled by the game they dominated for so long. After years of outrunning the odds, age and offseason tumult, this simultaneous hitting of the skids has felt disorienting. In trying to grasp the implications, it has been… Source link

PayPal has only known a growth, growth, growth mindset under long-time CEO Dan Schulman. That mindset officially ended as of August 2 as PayPal switches tactics to appease activist investor Elliott Management, which has disclosed a $2 billion stake in the payments giant. Late Tuesday, the company outlined $900 million in cost cuts — mostly through layoffs, real estate consolidation, and project cutbacks. PayPal also uncorked a new $15 billion stock buyback plan. Investors cheered the about… Source link

As a presidential candidate in 2020, Joe Biden never mentioned ransomware. As president, however, he must craft a solution to a burgeoning economic and national-security threat that may now rank as dangerous as terrorism.  Ransomware attacks, perpetrated by hackers who paralyze an organization’s computer network and demand a ransom payment to unlock it, aren’t new. They date back to at least 2006 as a kind of side gig for enterprising hackers. What is new is the corporatization of… Source link

The NBA could barely bask in its slow return to normalcy, hardly get its feet into a non-bubble postseason before fans in three cities treated players to a full serving of disrespect. Ugly incidents Wednesday in Philadelphia, New York and Salt Lake City did nothing to foster appreciation between the players and fans, only reminding players why they often resented the paying customers to begin with. Fans being allowed back into NBA arenas added some soul to a game that relies on the entire… Source link

Theo Epstein shook up the baseball world Tuesday, announcing he would step down as Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations effective Friday. Epstein, 46, walks away one year before his Cubs contract was set to expire. He was the architect behind the Boston Red Sox World Series titles in 2004 — which ended an 86-year drought — and again in 2007. When he joined the Cubs front office in 2011, he oversaw a complete rebuild that culminated with a World Series title in 2016, ending… Source link