Google has announced that it’s shutting down Hands Free, its experimental payment app that allowed customers to pay for items simply by saying “I'll pay with Google” to a cashier, on February 8th.
The app, which launched on iOS and Android in March last year, allowed users to enter in payment and photo information, and then used a combination of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and location services to identify if your phone was in a store. When paying, a cashier would be presented with a photo that the user had set up in an app to confirm the transaction.
When Hands Free was first announced, Google noted an intention to eventually reach the point where facial recognition-based shopping could be done entirely by computer-controlled systems, but it...
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