Millions of Apple users can now use their device to replace passports, drivers licenses, state IDs, and credit cards. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Apple users are one step closer to being able to viably travel around the country with nothing but an iPhone in their pocket. On Wednesday, the company announced "Digital ID," a new feature that lets users store a mobile version of their passport in the Wallet app. Once uploaded, iPhone and Apple Watch users can present their Digital ID to pass through TSA security checkpoints at 250 airports in the US.

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There was a young lady called Aisha who lived in the wide and varied continent of Africa. Aisha dreamt of opening her jewelry store one day when she and her family resided in a tiny town. Yet she quickly saw that the absence of financial services in her town impeded her ability to accomplish her aspirations. Aisha and her family often encountered difficult and expensive processes even when they could visit banks despite traveling great distances. But suddenly, a miraculous event took place.

Tech giants may be throwing billions at artificial intelligence, but the PYMNTS Weekender looks at the budding love affair between AI and its salty soulmate, social commerce.

The Machine Economy offers us a tantalizing future, says Till Wendler, co-founder of peaq. Like when you are driving your electric car, the vehicle will not only find you a free space, but pay with its own wallet, ready for when you roll up. From tiny devices to robots and drones, machines will drive 70% of GDP growth in the global economy between now and 2030, according to PwC. The number of connected devices, known collectively as the Internet of Things (IoT), is quickly growing. Interconnected machines are taking over more functions across industries and in our daily lives.

The European Commission has pushed back the deadline for the second wave of Digital Europe Programme proposals that includes the European Digital Identity Wallet under the European Digital Identity framework. The second wave of proposals covers €58 million (approximately US$61 million) in funding to support the implementation of the European Digital Identity Framework and the implementation of the Once Only System under the Single Digital Gateway Regulation, along with the deployment of services for European blockchain services infrastructure, blockchain standardization, and artificial intelligence (AI)-based pilots to aid law enforcement. Originally scheduled to end on May 17, 2022, the new deadline is August 17, 2022. The European Digital Identity Framework portion looks to attain the European Digital Identity's objective of improving citizen access to secure electronic identity and trust services with digital signatures and sharing personal identity data. The Commission looks to develop and test out tools supporting the development, implementation, and support of the EU-eID ecosystem with decentralized technologies and a self-sovereign identity framework under the one-only principle and the sharing of data between public administrations in the EU under the control of the user.

Data science, artificial intelligence and analytics are disrupting the technological landscape as we know it. The pandemic has only accelerated this growth, which is just the start. One of the obvious paths ahead is the convergence of these various technologies to create more advanced solutions and applications. The Ark Big Ideas 2022 report has suggested some possible convergences and their specific applications. For instance, a mixture of robotics, battery technologies, and artificial intelligence can be leveraged to decrease the cost of transportation activities.

This article is part of CMO.com's Industry Spotlight 2019 collection. Digital technology is advancing at breakneck speed--and it's putting pressure on businesses to produce new apps, tools, and technologies as they seek to compete in the digital economy. Not surprisingly, emerging technologies are at the center of this revolution. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and the Internet of Things (IoT) are unleashing enormous changes. Ditto for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), chatbots, image and voice recognition, advanced GPS, and analytics.

Amulya Bhuyan, 37 years old, lives in Dhowachala, in the northeastern state of Assam, and has few ways to buy new things. It takes hours to get to the nearest small town from the village of 1,000 people. Mr. Bhuyan, a teacher, made his first purchase on Amazon in 2016. After a recent delivery of a pair of jeans, he showed off other acquisitions: the shoes, socks, pants and shirt he was wearing; in his house, the curtains, glasses, flowery decals decorating the wall, a peacock clock and a painting of seven white horses running in the moonlight. "Before I didn't even know where to buy these things, and now they arrive on my doorstep," he said.

As a credit union, having mobile capabilities is no longer an option. Credit unions today must offer and utilize a robust mobile solution in order to be in the game. Much is made in the media today about why Apple Pay has not taken off as anticipated. This is a classic "chicken or the egg" conundrum. The journey started with building a phone with the technology and capabilities to be used securely at the point of sale.