The success of the distribution of the movie “Trolls World Tour” has made the headlines of many newspaper, It has generated more revenues (over 100 million$) to Universal than the first movie, a hit in 2016, did during the first 5 months in movie theatres. The harsh protest by the AMC …
Read More »Using drones for delivery? What about fuel efficiency?
Flying, to a layperson like me, seems like requiring quite a lot of energy (power consuming). As a matter of fact thisis not the case. An airplane is pretty thirsty on fuel but only during the take off and climbing phase. The real flight at constant altitude is not that …
Read More »Lights and Shadows of Covid-19 on Digital Transformation – IV
I followed an interesting webinar on “Post pandemic scenarios for AirTransport” organised by Fast Future. It was really interesting, you can get the opening presentation by Rohit Talwar here. Among the different aspects addressed there was the impact of the epidemic and the economic (dramatic) downturn on future investment. Many …
Read More »Lights and Shadows of Covid-19 on Digital Transformation – III
We already have plenty of data that are captured at any time in many places. As shown in the picture, department stores are using analytics on images captured by video cameras to assess the average time customers spend in a specific location, like looking at products on shelves. Based on …
Read More »Morphing a drone into a hummingbird
The news is not a recent one, goes back to 2019 and in technology one year is quite a long time, but what it makes it relevant today is its application in real life. Researchers at Purdue University, probably fascinated by the amazing capabilities of hummingbirds to hover with an …
Read More »Lights and Shadows of Covid-19 on Digital Transformation – II
Teleworking has spiked in most Covid-19 affected countries, moving from a single digit percentage to double digit in a matter of weeks. In Italy all clerical work, both in private companies and in the Public Administration moved to the cyberspace in a matter of days. Clearly, it is too early …
Read More »Lights and Shadows of Covid-19 on Digital Transformation – I
It is difficult to find an upside of Covid-19, but following the optimistic wisdom that sees an opportunity in any crises I am giving it a try. Looking at this from Italy, the country where I live, it is doubtless that this crises has forced a shift to the cyberspace, …
Read More »Is “NowCasting” the Future?
A good side effect of the ongoing epidemic (we’ve got to search also for some upside…) is the concerted efforts of scientists and researchers all around the world. Being quick is important and this is one of the reasons why rather than trying to invent something out of the blue …
Read More »The Venn Room
As I am locked down I turn to the cyberspace to regain a bit of freedom and maintain some sort of human touch. The use of Bluejeans, Skype, Teams, Zoom and similar has increased significantly, in synch with the epidemic, I would say. That is fine, and actually I am …
Read More »If it can be done… it will
In these times of Governments and Healthcare institutions looking for a digital tool to monitor and contain the epidemic by using an app a number of critics are voicing against this approach because of privacy and security concern. What in the beginning is designed as an app to fight the …
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