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Haven't used Apple Pay yet? Try it at your local Apple Store, and you'll get $5 or £5 in credit. Apple Sign up for Apple Pay at an Apple Store, and you'll get a $5 or £5 gift card for your effort.The promotion, which started this week, works as follows, according to blog site MacRumors:Buy something at an Apple Store, and an employee will ask if you wish to use Apple Pay. If you haven't yet tried the mobile payment service, the employee will volunteer to take you through the process. If you agree to use Apple Pay to buy the item in hand, your reward will be a $5 or £5 iTunes gift card.The value on the gift ca...

Enlarge ImageCredit and debit cards can be swiped directly on the entrance barriers at London stations, so you don't need to buy a ticket. Getty Images London's technology for swiping your credit card to board a train or bus could be coming to other cities. The British capital's transit authority Transport for London has licensed its contactless technology to be used elsewhere, with the money eaed earmarked for a fare freeze for London's commuters.London's contactless ticketing system allows anyone with a contactless credit or debit card to swipe it on readers in stations and on buses, allowing you to travel ...

Samsung Say bye bye to your pocket full of microSD cards -- Samsung's new UFS (Universal Flash Storage) cards are here to give them a swift lesson in the ceaseless march of progressionThey new cards are as small as microSD cards, but crucially, they're much faster. Samsung reckons the cards can achieve read speeds up to 530mb/s, which is five times faster than a normal microSD can achieve. Write speeds, Samsung says, are twice as fast on the new cards.The new cards' natural home will be inside video-capturing devices like drones. Many drones -- such as the new DJI Phantom 4 -- shoot video in 4K resolution, w...

Ever want to take a ride in the Ghostbusters company car, Ecto-1? Now you can, with a new promotion from Lyft and Sony -- and you don't have to carpool with Slimer.This promotion for the new "Ghostbusters" reboot offers customers the option to ride in Ghost Mode, an option in the Lyft app that will offer rides in Ecto-1 replica vehicles. On Friday, July 1, and Saturday, July 2, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time, passengers can choose to ride in Ghost Mode using the Lyft app and request a free ride in an Ecto-1 car in their area. According to Lyft, the Ghost Mode option will feature both original Ecto-1 vehicles from the film, as well as movie replicas. No word on whether the orig...

The high-capacity, high-speed miniSD cards from Weste Digital. Weste Digital If you're in the market for high-capacity and superfast miniSD cards, Weste Digital has something to offer. The company aounced today two new 256GB miniSD cards, the SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I and the SanDisk UltramicroSDXC UHS-I Premium Edition. According to Weste Digital, the SanDisk Extreme card (MSRP $199.99) is for pro users and has a read speed of up to 100MB/s and a write speed of up to 90MB/s. This means you can transfer its entire 256GB of storage, which is enough to store some 14 hours of 4K content, in less than 50 ...

Lyft, the second-largest ride-sharing service in the US behind Uber, might be looking for investors. Or, maybe, a sale.The company has hired investment bank Qatalyst Partners, according to a report from the Wall Street Joual. Qatalyst has been involved in sales of other tech companies, including LinkedIn's recent monster deal with Microsoft. CNET has reached out to both Lyft and Qatalyst for comment.Another reason for enlisting Qatalyst could be to raise additional partners, including car makers. General Motors has already invested $500 million, or about 10 percent of Lyft's $5.5 billion value, in a push for driverless cars. GM could be one of the potential customers for a Lyft deal. China's...

Megan Smith, Chief Technology Office of the United States Chuck Keedy/The White House A host of companies, including Airbnb, Lyft and Spotify, have pledged to diversify their staff as part of a White House-led initiative to help the technology industry reflect the country's changing population.Thirty-three companies on Wednesday committed to the Tech Inclusion Pledge, publicly stating their goals to recruit a diverse workforce, publish company data on diversity and invest in partnerships to continue strengthening that initiative."The United States is the best place in the world to start and grow a business," ...