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Humans have changed their ecosystem in many ways, we see signs everywhere and yet we are so used to the here and now that we don’t even notice the profound changes we made. Take chickens, as a point in case. I remember some 30 years ago I went to Cuba …

Imagine you fancy a McDonald’s. You walk towards the nearest one and as you approach you get a message from Burger King telling you: “Are you sure you want a Mac? There is a Whopper waiting for you a few steps away and you can get it for just 1c!” …

Verizon has increased steadily the capacity of its network and the capacity offered at the termination points over the last decade and it is investing to continue doing that in the coming one, mostly through 5G and its supporting core network(s). In parallel Verizon workforce has decreased steadily, losing 80,000+ …

I was part in the last two days of the IEEE presence at ArticNet, the major annual event looking at different facets of life and environment in artic regions (of Canada, although the issues are common to all artic regions). The artic region of Canada is a vast spread of …

Walmart announced the hiring of 360 janitors for its stores in US. This makes the news because the janitors are not human beings, rather robots endowed with artificial intelligence. Indeed, these will be smart robots. They will sweep the floor and will also collect data as they move along the …

“Are you feeling blue today?” I guess it happened a few times to hear you friends say that after a few seconds of meeting you, or just by listening at your voice over the phone. Most likely you said the same thing to some of them once in a while. …

For those of you, as old as I am, the name HAL rings a bell. It is now 50 years since the “2001: A space Odyssey”, the movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. At that time it made quite an impression, a spaceship with an AI support, HAL, able to talk …

Proteins are a crucial component of our body. It is always difficult to make rankings but if you want a ranking I would say that proteins make the number 1 place in terms of importance. A protein consist of long sequence of amino acids,  there are 20 different of them …

Selves and Emerging super self We are clearly moving towards mixed teams, humans and machines operating hand in hand, learning from each other. The relation may become as spontaneous as the one experienced today in human teams (I am using the term “team” in a broad sense, including an aggregation …

We, humans, have the capability of creating, imagining, inventing something out of the blue, or so we like to think. Computers can only do what they have been programmed to do. Yet, when neurologists look at the human brain, using advanced monitoring technologies, they tell us a different story, as …