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Google Wallet: Pick a card, any card - CNET Update

2012-08-02
thanks to yahoo the Olympics can be a hoot I'm Bridget Carey and this is your C hat update google wallet used to require a citibank mastercard or google prepaid card well now google has put the system in the cloud and it's allowing users to pay with any major debit or credit card and as cool as that sounds is still going to have one of the few sprint devices with an end of see trip that's because verizon AT&T and t-mobile they don't want you using google wallet they want you to use the competing system that they invested in isis which has been under development for more than two years and there's no clear launch date the Transportation Security Administration has been ordered to address comments and concerns from the public about its airport body scanners you see when the TSA started using body scanners in 2009 the law required a 90-day public comment period because it could affect the rights of air passengers but the TSA never did it they broke the law they were told a year ago to do it and they still have not now court says they better respond by the end of august there's also a white house petition to force TSA to follow the law and if it gets enough signatures the president has to respond critics say the radiation used to see through clothing is a health hazard and a threatens privacy some have posted videos on YouTube about how they just don't work now this comment period will give TSA an opportunity to respond to these critics here's some news that may be hard to swallow the FDA has approved pills with digital sensors that report to a doctor when you're taking your pill as well as details about your health the sensor is about the size of a grain of sand and is powered by stomach acid it lives in you for seven days and collects data on your heart rate temperature body position and it sends it all to a mobile phone app we have come across fake accounts on Facebook but the site has stayed in a public filing that 83 million accounts are fake or duplicates that's about eight point seven percent of total users while you're waiting for the Mars rover to land on Sunday you could zoom in on NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to get a street view close up at the complex the new images were added in part to honor the Space Center's 50th birthday want to add some fun to watching the Olympics on tape delay you gotta try the TV check-in app into now it's run by yahoo and it just got an addictive new feature it's shazam where it knows what you're watching just by listening to what's on TV but after you check in it provides an endless stream of still fringing the show pick one add a funny caption and set it free on Facebook and Twitter to go viral you'll find yourself refreshing the clips all night laughing about captions people come up with during the games that your tech news update for more on the stories mentioned today's show you can head on over to cnet com / update or stay updated by follow me on twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey
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