Greenlight Launches Smart Debit Card For Kids With Apple Pay

We’ve all heard the horror stories of parents waking up and finding a massive credit card bill, no thanks to their kids going wild on in-app purchases for video games. Now if you’re a parent who has kids that still don’t really grasp the value of money, you might be interested to learn that Greenlight has something you could be interested in.

For those unfamiliar, Greenlight is a special debit card and service that allows families to monitor and control the money their kids spend, and recently the company has announced a new smart debit card with support for Apple Pay, and also support for use worldwide which means that kids who are traveling will have a better way of managing their finances.

According to the company’s CEO and co-founder Tim Sheehan, “High schoolers often have a chance to visit other countries through their foreign language classes and many families take vacations internationally, so we’re excited to enable our customers to use their Greenlight Cards worldwide. Young people are leading the way in paying for things using their mobile phones, so we’re pleased to enable Apple Pay for Greenlight customers.”

Greenlight is not a free service and for parents who are interested in signing up for it, there will be a free trial, but after which there will be a monthly subscription fee of $4.99. More details can be found on Greenlight’s website.

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Nike Confirms Partnership With Amazon

Amazon is home is pretty much just about every product you can think of, whether it be electronics, clothes, books, home decor, shoes, and so on. However in some cases, some products are sold on Amazon not by the company directly, such as Nike which does not have an official presence on Amazon.

However recently we have heard rumors that Nike could finally be joining up with Amazon to sell their products directly to customers, and sure enough those rumors have since been proven true. This is according to Nike’s fourth-quarter earnings in which the company’s CEO Mark Fields confirmed that they will be selling some products directly on Amazon’s platform.

According to Fields, “In the US, we’re executing a new pilot with Amazon with a limited Nike product assortment. As we do with all of our partners, we’re looking for ways to improve the Nike consumer experience on Amazon by elevating the way the brand is presented and increasing the quality of product storytelling. We’re in the early stages, but we look forward to evaluating the results of the pilot.”

One of the reasons behind Nike’s decision is that they want to help fight against counterfeit products. As it stands Nike products can be bought on Amazon, but it is done through third-party retailers which means that unless you know who they are and their reputation, there’s a possibility that you could end up walking away with a fake. No word on when this partnership with Amazon will begin, but fans of Nike can look forward to it.

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Alleged iPhone 8 Prototype Finds Its Way Online

Based on all the leaks we’ve seen so far, it’s safe to say that unless they’ve all been wrong, Apple’s iPhone 8 later this year will hardly come as a surprise to anyone. However in a recent tweet by Benjamin Geskin, he has posted several photos that are allegedly that of the iPhone 8 prototype.

What’s different about these leaks is that the handset in question looks nothing like what we’ve seen so far. In fact in some instances it looks like it could have easily passed off as a Samsung handset, although if there is one thing consistent it would be how thin the bezels are, corroborating the rumors that the iPhone 8 will adopt a near bezel-less display.

It is entirely possible that the handset in question is real, but that it could have been an early prototype, which means that it won’t be the final design. The photos only show the front of the phone and not the back, meaning that we’re not sure if this particular prototype has the fingerprint sensor on the back.

In any case it’s best taken with a grain of salt for now, but what do you guys make of this design? Would this have been an iPhone you would have loved to get your hands on? Or are you glad that maybe Apple might have gone with a different design?

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Canceled Netflix Show ‘Sense8’ Will Be Back For A 2-Hour Farewell Episode

“Your love has brought ‘Sense8’ back to life,” co-creator Lana Wachowski told fans.

Watchdog Group Accuses Nikki Haley Of Illegally Endorsing GOP Candidate

CREW says the Hatch Act prohibits the ambassador from using her office to sway an election.

You can now pre-purchase StarCraft: Remastered

While going retro is still a strong trend in the gaming industry, not all are willing to go back to the 8 and 16 bit games of their childhood. That, or their childhood never really wet back that far. Some of today’s gamers, instead, grew up with games like Diablo and StarCraft. Sensing the potential cash cow, Blizzard announced last … Continue reading

The Morning After: Friday, June 30th 2017

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

On June’s final day, we’re checking in with Elon’s tunnel project and celebrating the return of ‘Sense8.’

TAG Heuer CEO Says We’ll Get Used To Changing Smartwatches Every Few Years

There are a couple of reasons why smartwatches aren’t quite the revolutionary piece of technology that many had expected them to be. This is because for starters people aren’t used to the idea that their watch might run out of battery mid-week, when more traditional timepieces don’t require battery changes for at least a year, if not more.

It is also the fact that with companies announcing new models every year, it’s hard to wrap your head around the possibility that you might be buying a new watch every 1-2 years. However according to TAG Heuer’s CEO Jean Claude Biver, he suggested in an interview with TechRadar that this is a notion that we will eventually get used to.

Biver likened this to how people are starting to upgrade their televisions more these days. “People are starting to get used to changing their TV sets. Back in the 50s, people would keep their TVs for 10 or 15 years, then suddenly the TV business witnessed a huge amount of evolution. You will change your TV set at least three times in the next 10 years. That’s our life today and with technology, people will get used to change.”

Given that some smartwatches don’t exactly come cheap, plus with smartphones and tablets and computers being other considerations that we would like to spend our money on, it looks like life is about to get more expensive, but what do you guys think?

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Twitter Looking To Let Users Report Fake News

Fake news is a problem that many social medias are trying to get a handle on. We’ve seen how platforms such as Facebook have introduced various tools and algorithms to help hide fake news and give users the option of reporting them, and in a report from The Washington Post, it looks like Twitter is working on something similar as well.

According to the report, Twitter is considering adding a feature which would let users flag posts that might contain false, misleading, or harmful information. This feature is said to be in the prototype stage and its implementation could come in the form of a tiny tab appearing in a drop-down menu next to tweets, giving users the option of flagging tweets should they deem it to be fake or misleading.

However given that many companies do prototype features and products without necessarily releasing them, there’s no guarantee that this feature will see the light of day. When asked about the feature, Twitter spokeswoman Emily Horne said that there are “no current plans to launch” the tool. She was also quoted as saying, “There are no current plans to launch any type of product along these lines,” with regards to whether or not such a tool was being tested.

We guess it remains to be seen if Twitter does launch such tools, but as it stands Twitter already has its hands full in dealing with posts that harass other users, so perhaps they’re trying to focus on one problem at a time.

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Dubai Will Use A Self-Driving Car Robot To Police The Streets

We’re sure that most of us have seen the movies where robot police are patrolling the streets, where unlike human police officers, everything is done by the book and there is no such thing as leniency. It almost feels oppressive, but ultimately we guess it makes things a lot more black and white, not to mention more efficient.

It seems that by the end of the year, a scenario that’s close to the one described above will become a reality over in Dubai. According to a report from Gulf News (via The Verge), the city will be introducing a self-driving robotic car that will help to patrol the streets. The robot is built by Singapore-based startup OTSAW Digital, who for those unfamiliar actually unveiled this particular robot last month.

Dubai is expected to be the first city in the world to introduce the O-R3 robot to its police force. It will not be replacing any police officers, but rather it will help to accomplish low-level enforcement tasks. According to the commander of the Dubai Police Force, Major General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, “We seek to augment operations with the help of technology such as robots. Essentially, we aim for streets to be safe and peaceful even without heavy police patrol.”

The addition of the O-R3 is part of Dubai’s plans to have a robotic police force by 2030. Whether or not it will prove to be useful and efficient remains to be seen.

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