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Google begins replacing Android Pay and Google Wallet with new app Google  launched its  latest answer to Apple Pay  on Tuesday. It's called Google Pay and replaces Android Pay, a previous solution that let Android users buy goods with their smartphones. It's also Google's answer to  Apple  Pay and  Apple Pay Cash . Google Pay follows several failed attempts by Google to launch a widespread payment platform. The company launched Google Wallet several years ago before folding it and launching Android Pay. Google Pay combines features from both, including the ability to pay at checkout counters with a smartphone, and even the option to scan into transit systems in cities such as Kiev, London and Portland, initially. In the coming months, Google says users in the United States and the U.K. will be able to send money to one another using "Google Pay Send" — Apple offers a similar feature through its Apple Pay Cash platform which launched la...

    Scientists at Russian nuclear research facility arrested for mining cryptocurrency Scientists working at one of Russia’s top-secret nuclear facilities have been arrested by state police for allegedly trying to use the site’s powerful research computers to mine cryptocurrencies . According to reports from BBC News and Agence France-Presse, the incident took place at the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov, one of a number of “closed cities” created by the Soviet Union solely for the purpose of nuclear research. These cities are off-limits to travelers and aren’t even marked on Russian maps. A spokesperson for the facility, Tatiana Zalesskaya, told the Interfax news agency that several researchers had been detained after making “an attempt to use the work computing facilities for personal ends, including for so-called mining.” “Their activities were stopped in time,” said Zalesskaya. She added: “The bungling miners have been detained by the competent a...

                                                                                      THE MAN WITH MAGNIFICENT PERCEPTIONAL SKILLS        Tesla (1856-1943) was a brilliant scientist and engineer who earned more than 700 patents. He is most famous for developing alternating current, but his work also led to advances in wireless communications, lasers, x-rays, radar, lighting, robotics, and much more. "A lot of people nowadays are more interested in Tesla," said Jane Alcorn, a retired teacher who is president of the  Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe , home to the new statue. "He speaks to those who work hard but don't get recognition, and people are starting to recognize how important his contributions were." As a sign of ...