Coming soon. The mobile payments service teams with 24 nonprofits, including International Rescue Committee, American Heart Association and World Vision, to make it easy to give money. Now your thumbprint can donate to charity. In time for Giving Tuesday, Apple partnered with two dozen nonprofits to let people use Apple Pay to make donations. Starting Monday, people can give through the mobile payments service to charities including American Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Save the Children and World Wildlife Federation.

What that means for you, a Facebook Messenger user, is that maybe the bots will get a little smarter, and bot makers may be able to tailor the software better to the people using them, Facebook is making a big bet that people would rather text with a bot than call a customer service line when they need help from a business, And recently, more apps, like one called in my defense i was left unsupervised (ultra violet) iphone case Octane AI and another called Chatfuel, have popped up that offer DIY tools to let anyone make a chatbot on Facebook Messenger, Facebook also said Monday that it is accepting bot developers to its FBStart program, which helps early stage mobile startups grow their apps..

The social network has made a big bet on chatbots. Now it's trying to help software developers make them better. Facebook wants to give the bots a jolt. Earlier this year at F8, the social network's most important conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed a big investment in chatbots, which use artificial intelligence to allow people to text with the software to help them do things like schedule calendar meetings or buy a pair of shoes. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion.

Google Daydream View, Samsung Gear VR, Both use phones to create VR experiences on the go, But the Daydream View (left) and the Gear VR (right) are a little different, Samsung's VR headset uses a side-mounted touchpad you have to reach and touch to interact with things, Google's Daydream View uses an awesome included remote that has motion controls and a touchpad, It's like an Apple TV remote for your VR world, The Gear VR (left) is bigger than the Daydream View (right), It's also currently a bit more expensive ($100, vs, $80 in my defense i was left unsupervised (ultra violet) iphone case in the US)..

It's easier to put a phone into the Daydream: you just lie it down and close the door, no plugs. The Gear VR makes you pop your Samsung phone into a USB jack. The Gear VR requires a Samsung Galaxy S6 or Note 5, or later, to work. The Daydream View will work with other phones eventually, but currently just works with the Google Pixel and Pixel XL. Google's Daydream connects with key Google apps like YouTube, Google Photos, Google Play and StreetView, but there are only going to be 50 or so apps by year's end. Samsung's Oculus app store on the Gear VR has over 400 apps and growing, including Minecraft and Netflix.