Google Wallet Is Still Alive And It Just Got Better With Automatic Transfers: No Need To Cash Out and other top stories.

• Google Wallet Is Still Alive And It Just Got Better With Automatic Transfers: No Need To Cash Out

  

  Google Wallet users, rejoice! You can now save time and handle your money more easily, thanks to automatic transfers. When Google introduced Android Pay, many thought it would soon mark the demise of the older Google Wallet platform. The company reassured users that it was not the case and Google Wallet would live on, coexisting alongside Android Pay, and it made good on its word. Not only is Google Wallet still very much alive, but it also just got a whole lot better thanks to the latest updat..

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• Apple CEO Tim Cook Collects $36 Million in Stock Sale

  

  Apple CEO Tim Cook sold $36 million worth of company stock this week, according to a securities filing on Friday. The sale came as Cook just passed his fifth anniversary running the company, lifting the restrictions on 1.26 million shares of stock he’d been awarded earlier. Apple withheld more than 656,000 shares to meet tax withholding requirements, while Cook chose to sell 334,000 shares on the open market this week, garnering almost $36 million, according to the filing with the Securities an..

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• Stop fretting about the Note 7's performance

  

  The Galaxy Note 7 is this year’s best new phone, edging out Samsung’s own S7 Edge, and easily the most talked-about new device of the summer. But with great fame comes great scrutiny, and this week has seen the Note 7 subjected to allegations of having "embarrassing real-world performance." Well, I’ve been using the Note 7, out here in real-world Europe, as my main phone for 10 glorious days now, and I’m here to tell you that the benchmarks lie. This phone doesn’t have a performance problem. On..

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• Kindle crashes and broken PowerShell: Something isn't right with Windows 10 testing

  

  Amazon reader comments 195 Last week, we learned that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update caused trouble for many webcam users. Today, it's the turn of Kindle owners to cry foul, with numerous reports that plugging a Kindle into a Windows 10 machine with the update will make the PC crash with a Blue Screen of Death. This problem has more than a hint of the same feeling as the webcam issue: it's the kind of thing that shows up quickly when using Windows 10 on a primary system but is going to ..

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• Blizzard Launches Facebook Streaming for Battle.net Games

  

  Twitch who? Though Blizzard hasn't come out and said it, there's no doubt that the company is keen on keeping gamers involved and engaged with its Battle.net platform as much as possible. Whether you're controlling space armies, controlling orc armies, fighting demons, playing card games, or trying to shoot at an enemy team behind a giant force shield, it's not that difficult to livestream your epic gaming sessions with the world. It does require a bit of work on your part to set up the softwa..

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• Facebook ditches helpful Trending Topic descriptions for global scale

  

  Twitter’s “Trends” are often confusing. Why is #MPBMS or #TechMunch trending? You had to click through and figure it out for yourself. When Facebook copied Twitter’s trends in 2014, it vastly improved them by adding human-written descriptions right below so you knew if you cared or not. Today Facebook is removing those descriptions, and claims it’s to increase the scalability and personalization of the product. This is a win for users who don’t browse Facebook in English and might get access t..

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