Apple Pay’s encouraging early adoption isn’t just a boon for Apple — it seems that it might be a boon for Google and its Google Wallet mobile payment platform as well. Ars Technica’s sources say that Google Wallet “weekly transactions have increased by 50 percent, and in the recent couple of months, new users have nearly doubled compared to the previous month.” Ars says that while it’s not clear that Apple Pay’s launch is responsible for this recent surge, the media attention and positive reviews that it’s received certainly haven’t hurt.

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On Tuesday night, it was announced on the official PlayStation Twitter account that PS4 software update v2.01 was on its way, addressing the Rest Mode issues which have been widely reported since the 2.00 update launched last week. PlayStation Europe confirmed that the rollout would commence on Wednesday, and users have begun to report that the update is currently available to download.

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Many Android fans rocking a Nexus device are waiting for Google to finally roll out their respective Android 5.0 Lollipop update, but the company isn’t ready to do it just yet, Android Police‘s Artem Russakovskii said on Google+, as Google is still dealing with some bugs.

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When Google updated the Nexus 6 listing on the Play store this week to assure consumers that more inventory was on its way, we assumed that many of the slighted early adopters who missed out on the initial batch would have their chance to pick one up on Wednesday. Unfortunately, unless you just happened to refresh the page at the perfect moment, you probably missed this week’s inventory.

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Now this is the key Google app that we’ve been waiting to get a Material Design upgrade. Google on Wednesday took the wraps off its latest update to Google Maps that will prominently feature Material Design, the gorgeous new design language used in Android 5.0 Lollipop. The new update, which Google says will be rolling out over the next few days, doesn’t just look pretty — it also adds several key features that will make Google Maps more useful than ever.

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The highest profile multiplatform game of the year has arrived. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare launched on November 3rd, but as you might have assumed, there are some discrepancies between the multiple releases of the game. Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry put the PS4 and Xbox One versions to the test in order to see if one has an edge over the other.

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It’s tough being a fast-food chain in the Internet age where viral videos can seemingly pop up overnight that purport to show that your food is actually made from styrofoam and cardboard compounds. McDonald’s was recently the target of such a dastardly smear campaign, which is why it’s put together an incredible video that proves once and for all that its McRib sandwiches are actually made from meat.

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Is there a better way to celebrate hump day than by downloading a bunch of cool paid iPhone and iPad apps for free? Yesterday’s list had eight great apps on it — some of which are still free — and today we’re back with another nine iOS apps that are on sale for free. As is always the case, of course, these sales could end at any time so hurry up and grab them before these great sales come to an end.

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If you’re still not convinced that Google’s Android 5.0 Lollipop is the biggest update Android has received in a while, then you absolutely have to look past Material Design and check out the massive changelog for the new Android release. As Android Police points out, there are a total of 128,680 commits, making Lollipop the biggest update Android has received so far.

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Even though Apple has only recently launched the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and still can’t make enough units to meet demand in various markets, the company is already rumored to be working on a special new feature for the next-gen iPhone — likely to be called the iPhone 6s rather than iPhone 7. According to Chinese publication Economic Daily News, Apple may be interested in bringing a glassless 3D viewing experience to next-gen iPhones, which could be one of the biggest selling points of the new devices.

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