Get the latest tech news

Children with Android phones will be able to use Google Wallet’s tap-to-pay next year

Google Wallet for kids will arrive in 2025, expanding the children’s tap-to-pay service in the Fitbit Ace LTE wearable. Parents could approve added credit and debit cards, and Google’s Family Link would let them easily view and manage transactions.

The expansion would make the Google Wallet app available for Android phone-using children whose parents have set up Family Link and approved access. Autonomous delivery vehicle company Avride redesigned its robot buggy with a four-wheel chassis, replacing the old six-wheel model. What regulations are put in place and how forcefully those rules are enforced will have wide ranging impacts on consumer privacy, intellectual property, the media industry and national security.

Get the Android app