On the surface, there's very little to distinguish Huawei's Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro from the Pixel 2 XL or Galaxy S8. They have the same 6-inch screens, small bezels, curved edges, and sleek design as their premium peers, but Huawei isn't trying to wow you with the Mate 10's beauty. It wants you to fall in love with its brain. And the Mate 10s have a big, beautiful one. Powered by the Kirin 970 chip, Huawei's newest flagships aren't just about speed boost and power efficiency.

Huawei announced its Mate 10 series in Munich Monday, showcasing three models of the device, which features the new Kirin 970 chip. The SoC is the first on the market to introduce a dedicated NPU or Neural Network Processing Unit to enable artificial intelligence capabilities natively on the device. The Huawei Mate 10 will be available to markets including Spain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia in late October for €699, while the Mate 10 Pro will be available to markets including Germany, France, Italy, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand in November for €799. The Porsche Design Mate 10 will also be available to select markets in mid-November for €1395. With the Mate 10 series, Huawei is promoting the transition from the smartphone to the "intelligent machine."

Chinese powerhouse Huawei makes smartphones, smartwatches and the hardware that powers mobile phone networks around the world. Today, in Munich, the company revealed its latest high-end mobile, the Mate 10. Get past the branding, both of the company's name which can sound like you've sneezed (Hwah-way!), and the idea that the phone in your pocket can be considered your mate, and you find a capable, glossy handset from a manufacturer reaching its greatest level of confidence. Like Google, which recently announced its Pixel 2 handset, Huawei is betting the farm on artificial intelligence (AI) with a powerful processor, called the Kirin 970. It boasts eight cores and a neural processing unit (NPU).

The most important phones of the year have already been announced, but one company might still be able to pique our interest. Huawei unveiled its AI-focused Kirin 970 processor at IFA, saying the chip's real world benefits would be shared at the launch of its next flagship. Now, the company is ready to reveal how the Kirin 970 performs in a phone. The Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro were designed around AI -- so much so that Huawei wants to call them "intelligent machines." We don't know how much these intelligent machines will cost yet, but Huawei told Engadget to expect the prices to be competitive.

The next big thing in phones: high-end handsets that harness artificial intelligence to drive advanced features like smart photography, machine translation, and predictive behavior. While we're waiting for the Pixel 2 and the iPhone X to show up in the stores, Huawei has joined the AI fray with its new handset, the Mate 10 Pro. This is the company's first smartphone with a chip tuned to power artificial-intelligence software. Inside the phone's new Kirin 970 processor (which Huawei designed and built itself) is a component the Chinese manufacturer calls the Neural Processing Unit, and it's this corner of the phone's brains that fuels the machine-learning features. I spent some time with the new Mate 10, and the function where I could most clearly spot some intelligent behavior is the Translate app, which offers offline translation between different languages.

Huawei's new Mate 10 Pro takes aim squarely at Samsung, Google and Apple with a large screen, competition-beating big battery and AI baked in. The Mate 10 Pro is the latest in third-largest smartphone manufacturer Huawei's big-screen line, which has become popular for its battery life and multitasking prowess. The new top-end Huawei features a 6in, 18:9 elongated OLED screen, matching its Samsung rivals with tiny bezels at the side, top and bottom, which are only just big enough to fit the front-facing camera and sensors at the top and company logo at the bottom. The back of the phone is curved glass, with metal sides that feel significantly more premium than previous Mate smartphones, matching the level of build-quality and design of rivals. "The Mate 10 shows Huawei can now produce devices that can really compete with the quality of flagship devices like Apple," said Francisco Jeronimo, research director for European mobile devices at research firm IDC.

SoftBank and Huawei jointly demonstrated various use cases for their forthcoming 5G network. With 5G technology, getting and staying connected will get easier. You'll still need a robust network provider but your devices will learn to do things like sync or pair automatically. When 5G comes online, around 50 billion "things" will be connected and that number will be growing exponentially. Think of self-driving cars that have capabilities to communicate with traffic lights, smart city sensor systems, savvy home appliances, industrial automation systems, connected health innovations, personal drones, robots and more.

Samsung may be looking to take on the iPhone X in 2018 by introducing a 3D image mapping sensor to the front camera of the Galaxy S9, tech informant, Ice Universe Tweeted Thursday. If true, this could indicate Samsung plans to make its facial recognition a lot more like Apple's. While Samsung released the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8 with Face Unlock and iris scanning, the features have proven not be the safest biometrics security measures. Meanwhile, Apple claims its Face ID feature on the iPhone X has a one in a million chance of being spoofed. This claim hasn't yet been tested as Apple has so refrained from allowing the press to share official opinions on the device with several weeks left until its market launch.

Meet Zia Chishti, the person who likes to show his investors that Pakistan is safe and they need to understand the country to understand his company. Recently, Chishti embarked off a helicopter- skiing his way downhill in the northern snow capped peaks of Pakistan, with the aim to convince investors, clients and CEOs that the nation that was once recalled by the economist as'the world's most dangerous place' is officially safe for business and everyday living. Chishti, gathered a group from several countries including Alessandro Benetton, a heir to a billionaire family and owner to the iconic Italian clothing company, and Huawei Technologies Co. rotating CEO Guo Ping earlier this year in Pakistan. An Afiniti ski group enjoys the Karakoram mountain range. Last month, his artificial intelligence company -Afiniti- signed a deal with Huawei.

Two new Pixel phones and a competitor to Amazon's Echo Dot are among the products expected to be unveiled today at an event held by Google. The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones will be iterations of the first Pixel phones released a year ago, according to leaks, while the Google Home Mini smart speaker is expected to be similar to Amazon's shrunk-down Echo Dot smart speaker, squeezing the voice-control features into a smaller package but requiring a separate speaker for high-quality music playback. It appears the phones are part of the company doubling down its efforts to compete directly with Apple in smartphone hardware. Additionally, they will continue to provide Google the opportunity to demonstrate the extent of its software prowess when freed from the requirement to work closely with other Android device manufacturers. These are the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL https://t.co/cXCs560jNH