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Title: Google's new Hands Free payment app lets you buy stuff with your face Post by: HCK on March 05, 2016, 09:00:17 am Google's new Hands Free payment app lets you buy stuff with your face
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Google hopes to make in-store smartphone payments even easier with a new app called Hands Free (http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2016/03/testing-testing-one-two-hands-free.html) that doesn’t require you to take your phone out of your pocket. The new system is available on Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.instore.consumer) and iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hands-free-pay-hands-free/id1076036399) devices and is currently being tested in the South Bay area near San Francisco.</p><p> Hands Free uses your face and your phone’s location as two identifying factors to ensure it’s you making the payment. Let’s say you wanted to pick-up a (still VR-free (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3039883/mobile/mcdonalds-transforms-happy-meal-boxes-into-vr-googles.html)) Happy Meal at a participating McDonald’s location.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3040572/mobile/googles-new-hands-free-payment-app-lets-you-buy-stuff-with-your-face.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Google's new Hands Free payment app lets you buy stuff with your face (http://www.macworld.com/article/3040572/mobile/googles-new-hands-free-payment-app-lets-you-buy-stuff-with-your-face.html#tk.rss_all) |