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it won't be long before we're watching premium YouTube and ordering gorditas on our turbos I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene that update how much would you pay to watch youtube without advertisements YouTube's looking into different ways to make money and that includes paid subscriptions the news came at a recode tech conference YouTube has also been working on a music subscription service and last year youtube lit a few content owners sell subscriptions for shows including Sesame Street maybe we'll see other shows sell episodes on youtube or content creators could earn more income from fans that pay for subscriptions to skip ads you see the video game streaming site twitch which was bought by amazon has seen lots of success from paid subscriptions where viewers don't mind paying a few bucks to support the channels and personalities they love when new smartphones are announced you tend to hear lots of talk about their size and help then they are their screens and cameras but what consumers really want is an improved battery Motorola is answering that call with the droid turbo the smartphone's biggest feature is a battery that lasts for forty-eight hours and it charges fast too the phone is said to give you eight hours of battery life after charging it for just 15 minutes you could only get the turbo at Verizon it goes on sale thursday starting at two hundred dollars with the contract and speaking of smartphones Apple CEO Tim Cook said more than 1 million credit cards have been activated with Apple pay in the first three days it went live now some retailers are pushing back against Apple pay and NFC technology and instead will promote an app called currency unlike Apple pay which keeps your payment data private from retailers currency will be able to track what you buy and it works with loyalty point programs currency is also a way for retailers to save money and avoid paying credit card companies a transaction fee because it only takes payments from your checking account the currency app isn't fully launched yet but people have already flooded the itunes app page with negative comments bashing the app and bashing the merchants that supported for standing against NFC and Apple pay documents for the app reveal that it requires you to give a disturbing amount of personal information including your social security number meanwhile Wells Fargo is hoping customers won't be discouraged it's giving twenty dollars to customers that use Apple pay with a wells fargo credit card and there are other retailers doing their own thing with mobile payments Taco Bell just launched an app that lets you order your fourth meal ahead of time and pay right inside the app when you approach the store your orders sent to the kitchen and you can pick it up inside or at the drive-through Outback Steakhouse will launch an app next week i'll let you reserve a table ahead of time that's your tech news update if you crave more had to cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey