In keeping with the general theme of Mobile ID World, this week’s most popular articles were, for the most part, concerned with new, emerging, and future technologies – not to mention one particularly hot trend in today’s payments industry.

That trend is the evolution of payments from cash to digital, contactless mechanisms that offer greater convenience for end users, whether that involves waving a credit card in front of a POS terminal or even paying for gas from the comfort of the driver’s seat:

World Cup Analysis from Visa Shows Consumer Shift to Contactless Payments

DriverDash Lets Shell Customers Pay for Gas Without Leaving the Car

Looking to the future, other popular articles this week covered a forthcoming Google Pixel smartphone and a plan to establish wide-ranging AI standards:

New Pixel 4 XL Renders Hint at In-Display Fingerprint Scanning

New NIST Draft Plan Seeks to Establish AI Standards

And as for technological solutions emerging right now, OneLogin’s launch of a new access management platform for the enterprise also garnered some attention from Mobile ID World readers:

OneLogin Launches Cloud-Based Device Management Platform for the Enterprise

Stay posted to Mobile ID World next week as we continue to bring you the latest news and interviews from the exciting world of digital identity. To see the hottest stories of the week in biometrics, visit our sibling site FindBiometrics.