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Google's digital wallet app for storing payment cards, tickets, IDs and loyalty passes, with added features like family balances for children and teens.
Google is rolling out Universal Cart in the US, one cart in Gemini and AI Mode for products from multiple retailers. ZDNet reports it runs on more than 60 billion Shopping Graph listings.
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Discord says activity data and account age will label 90% of accounts correctly with no user effort. The other tenth picks from five ways to prove an age, including the ID scan whose vendor breach exposed 70,000 government IDs in October.
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Discord's age-assurance rollout places accounts in Adult, Teen or Unconfirmed groups using signals such as the servers a user joined and how old the account is. The company expects more than 90% of users will never see a confirmation prompt.
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Discord's delayed age assurance starts this week, filing accounts as Adult, Teen or Unconfirmed from signals like account age, servers and games. The seven ways to prove you are 18 exist for the minority the model cannot place.
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Discord's teen-by-default model is already enforced where local law requires it, and the global rollout is held to the second half of 2026. The route a user picks at the prompt decides whether a government ID leaves the device.
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American Banker reports that Walmart, the biggest wallet holdout until now, is supporting Apple Pay. Its sources put the cost on issuers whose cards are not the default credential in a customer's phone.
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Eleven states plus Puerto Rico can now put a driver's licence in Google Wallet, while Google still tells holders to carry the plastic card. That leaves identity teams to decide what happens when a customer offers only the phone.
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Google's new parent-controlled balance needs no bank account. Analysts call the banks' problem branding; the reporting points at unit economics and a missing product roadmap.
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