Curious on how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting various regions/cities of the world? Then take a look at Maps by Apple and its feature of Mobility Trends Report. Google provides another view of the effects of Covid-19 that is more detailed since it splits the data variation on retail, grocery …
Read More »Your smartphone as a compass to the stars
I love to look at the heavens and I got a few apps on my iPad that help me identify heavenly objects. Sometimes I try looking with a tele-lens on my digital camera but pointing it to a specific planet or star is quite difficult. There are a number of …
Read More »Towards interactive walls
We have got used to larger and larger television screens at home, as well as using these screens well beyond watching television. If using them to display the photos from our last vacation seems just natural, using those screens to set ambient mood is a little but more unusual, and …
Read More »Give me more storage, ’cause I need more storage
It is almost 35 years since the introduction of the MacIntosh Hard Drive 20 (September 17, 1985) of which I became a proud owner, bragging with my friends and colleague of its huge capacity, 20MB. Now I could buy a 20 TB hard drive, at about the same price I …
Read More »Technology is just one side of the story…
I was interviewed yesterday by a journalist that was getting confused, as – most likely- his readers, on the cacophony on apps to trace Covid-19. There are quite a few of them around and apparently many more are coming. Is it because the ones out there are not good? Because …
Read More »Digital rendering of molecules
I addressed in yesterday’s post the use of AI to discover a drug, among existing ones, that could work with a new disease, like the current quest for fighting Covid-19. Today I take a look at the work being done in creating a drug based on what we know about …
Read More »From Data to Medicines
Bringing a medicine to the market is possibly one of the most complex and time consuming processes of our industrial society. And for good reasons. You want to make sure not just that the medicine works, it does what it is supposed to do, but also that it is not …
Read More »Telemedicine for real
It is probably 40 years that I a hearing about Telemedicine and I have been ’round the world to demonstrate and see telemedicine applications. The pervasiveness of telecommunications infrastructures and the emergence of affordable and portable technology for local sensing and diagnostics coupled with a growing capability of Artificial Intelligence …
Read More »Let’s take a view from high above
Over the last two decades several satellites have been put in orbit to take high resolution images of the Earth. The Worldview-4 satellite orbits some 610 km over our heads (for those that cannot live with approximation it has a perigee of 609.95 km) and detects details with a resolution …
Read More »Hacking your dreams
Just few days ago I was wishing Happy Birthday to a friend of mine turning 70 and I told him that a back of the envelope calculation indicated that he spent some 23 years sleeping, wasting a tremendous amount of time. Now I stumbled onto this news reporting on a …
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