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Windows 8 is complete, Digg is reborn, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Wednesday, August 1, 2012

2012-08-01
it's Wednesday August first 2012 i'm ross miller and with your written consent let's spend 90 seconds on the verge Windows 8 is finished Microsoft's next operating system has hit release to manufacturing status and will be delivered to the company's hardware partners in the next few days windows 8 officially launches October 26 which should give om's plenty of time to make their special edition windows 8 bloatware and digg com is back the iconic aggregator was relaunched as version 1.0 last night but only in name beta works the company behind the resurrection completely throughout Diggs old code and decided to start anew there are no comments there is no dig bar and all front page stories are editorially curated by three humans an amazon instant video is now available for the ipad users can stream video content and even choose to download for offline viewing airplay functionality however is limited to audio only there is no option to stream video to your Apple TV just like with kindle for ipad you'll still have to purchase all content outside of the app directly through amazon coms website and Google Wallet has long been plagued by two main issues a lack of supported devices and a lack of supported credit cards today the company has solved one of those issues the new Google Wallet now lets you use any major US credit or debit card instead of charging your car directly purchasable instead go through google itself your bank statement in will just be a series of Google Wallet charges you'll still probably get the amex points and that's it for today's top stories tune in tomorrow or will test drive the first two-door sedan decontrol entirely with your eyebrows
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