PayPal Galactic, Facebook's beta program, and Woz: 90 Seconds on The Verge
PayPal Galactic, Facebook's beta program, and Woz: 90 Seconds on The Verge
2013-06-27
it's a thursday jun 27 2013 i'm katie
drummond and i really need to find
somewhere else to work this is 90
seconds on the verge paypal is tackling
the problem of payments in space the
company has announced the paypal
galactic initiative it's a working group
formed alongside the SETI Institute and
the space tourism society designed to
look at how monetary systems will need
to evolve as humans leave Earth paypal
of course would like to be the
intergalactic answer to the payment
question but seriously guys what about
cubits Facebook is looking to Android
users to test new updates for its mobile
app the company has announced a new beta
program Android users just sign up to a
Google Group and they'll be able to try
the newest version of the facebook app
and provide feedback right now the
program applies dress for the main
facebook app but google did not rule out
the possibility that it could be used
for things like Facebook home down the
line and finally turns out Steve Wozniak
isn't that much of a fan of the original
Macintosh the apple co-founder said that
the Mac shouldn't have been a mouse
driven computer at all calling the
original machine a quote really weak
lousy computer was also professed love
for the Newton handheld saying I didn't
have to learn its language and it
changed my life forever and that's it
for today's top stories coming tomorrow
oh hey Katie can I borrow 20 bucks I
need to buy e cigs
you
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