Amazingly, Google has a new application. OK, maybe you’re not surprised. Google always has an ongoing, iterative relationship with the homemade apps that Android phones use to access its services. In particular, Google often likes to make big changes to them, rebrand them, or suddenly kill them without explanation. The latest Google apps update is really a resurgence: Google wallet is back to store all your cards and personal information.
“But wait,” you ask, “is Google Pay something? Hasn’t it done that already? ” Yes, that’s right. In fact, when the Google Pay app launched, it replaced the old versions of Google Wallet and Android Pay on mobile. But at the IO event in May, Google announced reported that bring Wallet back with some new features not available in Pay.
These are the differences. Google Pay may store credit card information and link it to digital payment services like PayPal. It can also hold airline boarding passes, proof of immunization passes, and some transit passes. The new Google Wallet can do all of that too, in addition to storing your driver’s license and unlocking your car if you drive a digital key-enabled vehicle.
The Google Pay app on your phone will soon be replaced by the Google Wallet app, and all your payment information and other things you’ve stored in Google Pay will show up in Google Wallet. Google will also check your email for gift cards or any corporate loyalty programs you’ve signed up for. (For example, when I logged into Google Wallet for the first time, it immediately pulled out my Southwest Airlines express rewards number, something I completely forgot. had.) Just know that if you delete it. emails containing that information, those data will disappear from the Wallet.
For most countries, these new features will only be added as an update to the existing Google Pay app. But if you’re in the US or Singapore, Wallet and Pay will be two separate apps going forward. Confuse? Right. The essence of Google? A lot like that. It’s especially weird considering Google grind together two of its video chat apps just last month.
If you’re confused, just download and use the Google Wallet app. It has the latest features, just like Google Pay, and it can be used to make purchases anywhere Google Pay is accepted.
Keeping track of constantly changing apps can be a headache, so switching from an analog wallet to a Digital Wallet (or similar Apple Wallet if you’re using an iPhone) is a good idea. These digital wallets keep things organized, encrypt your purchases and offers more security than an easily lost piece of leather stuffed in a stack of credit cards.
Here’s some other device news from around the web.
Galaxy Unpacked Is Nigh (Again)
SAMSUNG announced that the Galaxy Unpacked event will take place Wednesday, August 10. It’s the biannual ceremony that Samsung uses to unveil its updated phones and devices. (Yes, only one Unpacking event in February.) Expect to see new Galaxy phones and tablets. In the invitation images, Samsung is showing off at least one new foldable.
Samsung says that out of all the foldables it has sold, 70 percent of which were Galaxy Flip Models. It’s the smaller, phone-sized device of the bunch, and since it’s so well-made, we’ll most likely see more from Samsung in similar form factors. Stay tuned on the day of the event for WIRED coverage of everything Samsung will announce.
Prime-ary Care
Not like it increasingly narrow namesake, Amazon The company continues to expand. This week, the empire born of Bezos announced that it has get a medical, a company that provides online and in-person healthcare services to registered patients in more than a dozen US cities. The nearly $4 billion deal gives Amazon access to data nearly 800,000 patients throughout the United States. That said, Amazon may be full of One Medical’s rough history. The company faces a scandal last year when it was accused of prioritizing Covid vaccines for leadership and senior levels over those at higher risk of the disease.
Many can point to the irony in Amazon’s sudden investment in people’s health, seeing how the company is now. under investigation by federal prosecutors for a safety breach in its warehouse.
The exciting future of Facebook
Facebook may have changed its name to Meta, but that hasn’t kept the controversy from sticking with the company. Recently, Facebook decided to once again change the way feeds work, in an effort to catch up with TikTok. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting take down again about a lawsuit from 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal. And Amazon is suing the administrator of more than 10,000 Facebook groups due to alleged fake reviews. Then is there anything going on with Facebook’s vision of reverse.
Join this week Utility Lab podcasts are Shirin Ghaffary from Recode and Alex Heath with The Verge. They talk about the big decisions from Facebook’s early days that led to the company’s tumultuous transition to Meta, and what lies ahead for the platform — and everyone who uses it.
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