European innovation news

Pay with Smile🇬🇧

Revolut deployed Pay with Smile at selected Kiss the Hippo cafes in London, allowing enrolled customers to authenticate an in-store purchase by looking at the checkout terminal instead of presenting a phone or card. The pilot moves facial-payment authentication out of the lab and into an ordinary retail setting, where convenience, consent and public trust can be tested together.

RevolutSeptember 24, 2026

Era Calendar public beta

The first public beta of an open-source calendar application for mobile and desktop, written in Rust and libadwaita and distributed through Flathub.

EraSeptember 23, 2026