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June’s Top 12 Mobile Pay Moments

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And what better way to mark that milestone than with a monthly recap of the Top 12 news items in one major market in the payments ecosystem: mobile payments. Samsung Pay’s European Debut. On June 2, Samsung Pay officially launched in Spain, bringing the mobile wallet into its first European country.

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What’s The Reward For Early 5G Deployment? Asia Will Soon Find Out

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More specifically, 5G will result in more personalized shopping experiences and more precise marketing data and messaging, as pointed out by AT&T in an example that pretty much matches similar promotional efforts. “In In markets like China or South Korea, where the carriers and government do not face the same frictions [as] in the U.S.,

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Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare

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In the case of UW’s Obama video experiments , which was funded by Samsung, Google, Facebook, Intel, and the university’s Animation Research Labs, researchers used a neural network to first convert the sounds from an audio file into basic mouth shapes. Source: Face2Face , Stanford University.