Apps such as PayPal, Square, Breadcrumb, Apple Pay and Facebook have a new payment feature that is supposed to make paying for things easier
New electronic tipping platforms have been quickly spreading in many places such as cafes, restaurants, beauty salons, taxis and anywhere else a tip jar used to be
The problem customers have with this feature is that it forces them to have to give a specific amount for a tip
Nir Eyal, a tech writer and entrepreneur, stated that the base tip for taxi cabs used to be 8 percent, but with new apps, it has climbed to 15 percent and even 25 percent
The tip percentage has always risen in restaurants, where 20 percent is the base tip price
A storage company called Backblaze has been simultaneously running 25,000 hard drives to figure out how long the data will last in one's hard-drive or USB stick
The company concluded that some data may last longer than a decade, but other data may last just a little more than a year
Researchers at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, believe that a permanent solution to store data for millions of year may be DNA
In DNA storage terms, one gram of DNA would be capable of holding 455 exabytes, where one exabyte is equivalent to a billion gigabytes
Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Robert Grass, said the problem with DNA is that it degrades quickly
Because of this, Grass and his team are hoping to find ways of combining the possibility of the large storage density in DNA with the stability of the DNA found in fossils
On Monday, Apple held a media event to explain how the new Apple Watch works and how much it costs
Apple demonstrated what the watch is capable of doing with apps made by other companies
The Apple Watch relies on an iPhone to fully operate, so users would have to install watch apps on the iPhone as well
Apple will offer three models of the watch: Watch Sport, a version with an aluminum case, Watch, which has a stainless steel case, and Watch Edition, which has a case made of 18-karat gold
Some are worried that the watch’s small screen can limit features or ads
The United States industry has been anticipating Google's entry into insurance shopping
The company announced on Thursday that it was introducing a United States version of its Google Compare auto insurance shopping site
The site will start in California and focus on car insurance
The company has been acquiring state licenses to sell insurance and forming partnerships with the insurance sites like CoverHound, an online insurance agency in San Francisco
Many insurance brokers who have been in charge of insurance trade for decades are now worried about Google's move into insurance
CrediThe United States insurance industry has been anticipating — or dreading — Google’s entry into insurance shopping for the better part of a year. The wait is over.gle said. Customers enter information like their name and driver’s license number, and the site provides quotes in a few minutes. If and when a customer buys, Google will collect a referral fee from insurers.
