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The Metaverse has become the talk of the town, particularly so after Facebook decided to change their name to Meta. I am currently involved in setting up an event in Milan targeting a very specific industry, the Lottery industry (can we call it “an industry”?), and I was asked to …

Last week I published a post on BMW that is shifting to a subscription model for some of their car features. Do you want to warm up the seat? 18$ a month of subscription will do the trick. In the post I also expressed some doubts on the appeal of …

Image recognition coupled with progress in artificial intelligence getting data from a variety of sensors is turning the magic mirrors we learnt about in fables when we were little kids into everyday reality. Today they are not into the business of telling who is the “nicest of them all”. Rather, …

In 2017 Nikon released the D850, the very best camera on the market according to qualified expert like DP Review. And I bought it. In 2018, less than a year after I bought this top of the line camera, Nikon released their first mirror-less camera: lighter, faster and fully software …

Using CRISPR/Cas9 technology researchers have been able to alter the genome of bacteria, viruses and multicellular animals and plants. The huge amount of data gathered and the ability to process them using machine learning algorithm is making possible, every day more, to associate specific codons (unit in a gene) to …

The concept is clear: rather than selling a product companies tries to generate revenues by selling services. It is nothing new. Several software companies, like Adobe to mention but one, have discontinued the sale of their products turning to a subscription model (I should say that I kept my old …

eCommerce is not completely “e”. There are the products that are bought, warehouses to store them and of course trucks to move them around. To he more clicks there are, the more packages are moving around. How many?  Some 131 billion in 2020 and it is expected to double by …

I presented a lecture to an event organised by the Mexican Government to promote the Digital Transformation of the Country. It had a large participation, including key people of the administration and foreign experts from organisations like the World Economic Forum. Here I just want to point out how I …

There is a lot of talk, and hype,  on the Metaverse. Also, what is, rather could be, the Metaverse is a point of discussion. In the Digital Reality Initiative we focussed on something that to us looks like a pretty good definition of the Metaverse: Digital Reality. At first glance …

I was invited to share a few thoughts on the evolution of AI and how this can impact security aspects. This was in the framework of an event organised by by Enisa, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. What follows is a summary of the points I presented. Feel free …