Tap-to-pay functionality slated for next generation of Android Wear

Upcoming Android Wear devices might be getting some feature parity with the Apple Watch once Tap-to-Pay functionality comes to Google's wearable platform. In order for this to happen, the devices will likely need to run the next version of Android Wear (slated for next year) as well as have a smartwatch with an NFC chip. 

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Nest gets Android TV support

Nest brings to your Android TV the only “reality TV you actually care about” with support for said television operating system. Anyone who owns a Nest Cam and an Android TV will now be able to watch what happened at home through the TV. It lets you scrub through the video history and lets you switch between feeds (in case you have multiple cameras). You can link your Nest Cam to your Android TV through this download link.

Aside from that, Nest also turns the Nest Cam into something that can take your digital holiday card. With Nest Aware you can create an Instaclip or a short video you can share over social media. For example, you can record what’s happening in your living room during Christmas morning and share that clip with your loved ones.

Source: Droid Life

Here's a new ‘Rogue One’ teaser

And that dream is to not have the Death Star built to destroy so many lives. There isn’t much left to tease without giving away the entire movie but Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s new trailer focuses on the desperation the rebels feel and the hope that is still there. At least that is what Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) wants to remind everyone. The movie comes out on December 16.

This is what a Tesla car ‘sees’ as it drives your car

Tesla plans to equip all its new cars with the technology needed for these vehicles to be self-driving cars. Now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweets a demonstration video of how that’ll work and what these vehicles “see” when it’s out on the road. The video shows a passenger in the driver’s seat (because of the law) but the car itself is doing all the driving. You can see the car navigate through traffic and stop lights before it parks itself at its destination. The video shows the car’s interiors, car’s left rear, medium range, and right rear cameras, too.

You see a variety of color boxes and lines in the video. Colored boxes for “in path objects” are for things like road lights, objects, and road signs. It also highlights people, other vehicles, and other hazards that human drivers might take into consideration when driving. According to Tesla, its new cars will come with onboard computers that carry “40 times the computing power of the previous generation” so it can process vision, sonar, and radar imagery that the car takes in.

Source: The Verge