Samsung wants its mobile payment system, Samsung Pay, to replace the plastic cards in your wallet. It works in almost all stores — including those that use older magnetic-stripe point-of-sale terminals — without merchants needing to opt in to any program or update hardware. Lexy Savvides/CNET Where is Samsung Pay […]
Daily Archives: July 28, 2018
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Jeff Spicer/Getty Images Nearly a year after sexual assault allegations were raised against Ed Westwick, the Los Angeles County District Attorney has decided to decline prosecuting the star. The Los Angeles Police Department opened an investigation in November following a police report filing from Kristina Cohen, who accused the Gossip Girl alum of raping […]
The Lexus LFA was an odd supercar. It was an engineer’s car, one where the technical details of its construction were even more exciting than its looks. When its competitors were going crazy with turbos and V12 engines, the standard LFA had a 553-horsepower naturally aspirated V10 that shrieked and […]
His adventure on a 36-inch Nimbus Oracle unicycle has raised more than £300,000 for the charity School In A Bag, which provides educational equipment for poor and vulnerable children. He rode through Europe, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan before travelling across China and through South-east Asia to Singapore. Ed […]
The lunar eclipse kicked off at 5.14pm Universal Time (6.14pm BST) when the July full Moon entered the Earth’s region of faintest shadow, the penumbra. But the real eclipse spectacle started at 6.24pm UT (7.24pm BST) when the Earth’s darkest shadow slowly began eclipsing the glowing face of the moon. […]
Jimenez ended his round near 9pm enjoying a one shot lead at nine-under par and thanks to a three-hole stretch where the golfer known as ‘The Mechanic’ eagled the 14th and then birdied the next two holes in a round of a five-under par 67. Three players – the American […]
Chris Monroe/CNET When Amazon’s controversial facial recognition system mistakenly matched 28 members of Congress with criminal mugshots, it caused quite a stir. Particularly among some of those congressmen, who demanded immediate answers. Now, Amazon has published an official blog post disputing the results of that test — one which includes a […]
Instagram Cardi B respects mothers more than ever before. On Thursday, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper did an Instagram Live after announcing she would no longer be joining Bruno Mars on the last leg of his 24k Magic Tour. In the video, the artist explains that there were multiple reasons for […]