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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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