Technology HUAWEI Mate 10 - Features powered by its Mobile AI HUAWEI’s Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro, are highlighting two main features - full-view screen and artificial intelligence, two features that all smartphones aim to overcome to win the market. Review on AI, just to see how intelligent it gets. Scene Identification: In auto mode, Mate 10’s camera recognized 13 conditions, including Text, Food, Stage, Blue Sky, Snow, Beach, Cat/Dog, Night, Sunrise/Sunset, Plant, Portrait, and Flower. Once a scene is identified, the AI camera will adapt the capture parameters in real time, and also tweak picture postprocessing. It pursues a balance between real presentation and visual effects. AI Selfie: With Portrait mode on using the front camera, you can get a bokeh effect similar to the dual lenses in the back, making your face standing out from the background. When taking a selfie with the front camera of Mate 10, the NPU of Kirin 970 accurately highlights the person and naturally bridges the edge of the person to the background, without blurring the edge. AI Night: Huawei has partnered with Leica to co-engineer a dual lens camera with the world’s largest smartphone First Biometric EMV Card for Contactless Payments Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has launched the world’s first EMV biometric dual interface payment card for both chip and contactless payments. Using fingerprint recognition instead of a PIN code to authenticate the cardholder, customers place their fingerprint on the sensor and a comparison is performed between the scanned fingerprint and the reference aperture of f/1.6 for both lenses. This means that the camera is capable of brightening up even the most dimly lit photographs. Equipped with AI-powered intelligent photography settings, the HUAWEI Mate 10 series makes it even easier to capture professional night photos. AI Translation: The pre-installed Microsoft Translator app powered by AI on Mate 10 belongs to another field where AI is making a name. HUAWEI claims that it is 300% faster than those without AI, and it supports back and forth translation between 50 languages. With AI’s support, Mate 10 is able to translate several paragraphs incredible fast (within seconds) by aiming the camera at the original text and up to 50 languages. AI Battery Management: Meanwhile, HUAWEI has also developed battery management feature with the AI just to extend the battery life even further, although Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro already have a gigantic 4000mah battery and 22.5W SuperCharge. AI helps extend battery life by learning user habits, which are categorized into four groups - gaming, business, travelling and taking photos, and under each group, there are 14 labels for different scenarios. After mapping the user habits according to these labels and groups, the phone will generate a customized plan to save power. biometric data securely stored in the card. The biometric sensor card is powered by the payment terminal and does not require an embedded battery; this means there is no limit from battery life nor on the number of transactions. The Bank of Cyprus is the first institution to adopt this technology for its customers. Gemalto’s biometric sensor payment card is based on the principle that biometric data should always remain in the hands of end users. Bank customers will complete the swift enrolment process at the bank’s branches, using Gemalto’s tablet designed for the solution. The biometric personalization and card activation process is designed to avoid transmission of biometric data over the air to ensure that users’ data privacy is protected. The fingerprint template captured during the enrolment process is stored only on the card. Samsung installs Samsung Pay on the Gear S3 Samsung is constantly innovating to make their customers’ lives simpler, and with the latest and greatest in mobile technologies, they are leading the way towards a cashless society. Samsung has now made it possible to install your mobile wallet right onto your wrist. While wearable payments are only beginning to make waves in the technology landscape, many industry experts believe that wearables will match smartphones as a common payment modality within the next few years. By incorporating MST technology on a wearable for the first time, and finding a way to embed both MST and NFC antennas in the Gear S3’s compact body, Samsung has made huge strides towards providing the ultimate convenient mobile payment experience. This process proved to be a challenge on early prototypes, especially when trying to ensure that the smartwatch’s battery was powerful enough to drive the service; but after much perseverance, they found the optimal design. Now, the Gear S3 is as stylish as ever, with even more functionality. Samsung has created a design that enables the Gear S3 to connect to the terminal regardless of the angle in which the user positions the smartwatch, which makes it easy and convenient to use. Just like Samsung Pay on mobile devices, the developers have made security a top priority in Gear S3. Samsung Pay uses the same trusted Samsung Knox security system to protect personal payment information, meaning that each service transaction uses an encrypted digital token to replace a user’s payment information. To further prevent digital pickpockets from RFID skimming, a transaction can only be made by long pressing the dedicated payment button on the side of the Gear S3. In order to enhance convenience, the user only has to enter their PIN once; however, the added feature that can detect when you take the watch off of your wrist, and will force you to enter the PIN again once you put the watch back on to ensure that your card information is protected in case the device is lost. If you do happen to lose your watch, you can also easily delete all of your Samsung Pay information via the Find My Mobile website. 70 January-February <strong>2018</strong>
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