N terms

AI technology that enables computers to understand, interpret, and respond to human language.

Like teaching a computer to read and speak the way a person does.

An app that provides directions.

Like having a personal tour guide.

Singapore's national debit payment network used at most shops, hawker centres, and government offices.

Like a payment highway connecting your bank account to every participating merchant in Singapore.

A group of connected devices sharing information.

Like roads connecting different towns.

A computing system loosely modelled on the human brain, used to recognise patterns in data.

Like a web of connected decision points that work together to recognise a face or translate a sentence.

A short-range wireless technology used for contactless payments and data sharing when devices are a few centimetres apart.

Like a secret handshake that only works when two devices are almost touching.

A unique digital certificate stored on a blockchain proving ownership of a specific digital item.

Like a certificate of authenticity for a digital artwork — the certificate is unique even if the image can be copied.

A message that alerts you about something.

Like someone tapping your shoulder for attention.

The red number shown on an app icon indicating how many unread notifications are waiting.

Like the number on a mailbox showing how many letters are inside.

A category of notifications from an app that can be individually turned on or off.

Like having separate switches for each type of news alert from a newspaper — you can turn off sports but keep headlines.