If you ever had to place suitcases and packages in the trunk when living for a vacation with family (4 kids and a wife) you will have surely realized how fitting all that stuff in the trunk is a big challenge. I remember loading one way, taking it off and …

Brain Computer Interfaces have got us used to see helmets of sort with plenty of wires coming out of them or, even worse, boxes plugged on the skull through surgery to connect with electrodes implanted in or on the brain. In other words from inconvenient to scaring. Now researchers at …

This is not a news on technology but on basic science. Yet, there is an amazing amount of technology that made this possible. The news comes from CERN: a new experiment has been able to prove that antimatter behaves exactly like matter with reference to gravity. Or in other words, …

Few days ago I was invited to give a seminar on the Industrial Metaverse at the EIT Manufacturing hub in Milan.  I started by posing that the first, necessary, step towards an Industrial Metaverse, IM, is the Digital Transformation of the company. This will give life to Digital Twins along …

Staring with IOS 15 Apple has been providing, without much fanfare, the possibility of identifying objects in a photo (matching faces pre-dated this) and the same is possible in smartphones with the Android engine. Over the past two years “Visual Look up” (this is how Apple calls the functionality) has …

Would it be better to save 5 people or to save just one? I guess all things being equal it is a no brainer. However, you can also phrase this sentence is a different way: Would it be better to kill 5 pople or just one? And further: would it …

An interesting report from the World Economic Forum analyses the expected (possible?) impact Generative AI will (may) have on various job sectors. It is surely worth reading. What strikes me most is that (Generative) AI is shifting automation to, and jeopardize, white collars, doing what robots did to blue collars. …

OpenAI has recently released a toolset to support speech recognition and text to speech.  Spotify has immediately capitalized on that and has announced Voice Translation, an integration of these tools in their system to offer podcast translated in other languages (they are actually claiming that we can listen to their …

In Italy the sentence  “Verba volant, scripta manent” is often used, although it is not Italian but Latin. That is the sentence that came to mind when I read the news of the availability of a spoken interaction with ChatGTP. Whereas till yesterday you had to type your questions and …

Although we are still far away from reading thoughts in a brain it seems that we may be inching forward. The latest I saw was the article “Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non invasive brain recording” published on Nature NeuroScience by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin. The …