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Apple surpasses PayPal, now accepted at 36% of U.S. merchants according to recent study

PayPal has apparently fallen as the leader among U.S. merchants and Apple Pay has taken its place. Per NFC World, Apple today sits at 36 percent versus 16 percent a year ago. PayPal, by contrast, is being offered by 34 percent of merchants. Both Apple and PayPal are trailed by MasterCard PayPass (25 percent), Android […]

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New experiments harness satellite communications for wireless networks, show fiber-class speeds in results

Wireless speeds could advance to new levels, complete with a terahertz transmitter that can send data at 100 gigabits a second over a single channel in the 300GHz band. A group of Japanese researchers have begun experiments that show that satellite links like the ones planned by Elon Musk’s Space X could deliver fiber speeds. […]