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In yesterday post I discussed the difficulties in understanding the language of our genome. Today, I run onto a different language understanding issue: understanding chickens clucking. Yes, it is on a completely different level of interest and of practical application, but still I found intriguing the idea that we might …

I still remember the excitement at the turn of the century with the human genome sequencing. The hope to identify the root cause of many genome based diseases and thereafter a cure by tweaking the genome seemed about to come true. Actually, in these 20 years we overcome many hurdles, …

First a disclaimer: I am not a believer in any religion, however I have nothing but respect for those who do. Here I am just reporting some facts picked out from the web. The image was also taken from one of the news I captured, no intention to be disrespectful. …

I guess most of you remember this cartoon, showing a very concerned patient as the doctor informed him to have fixed his broken rib using Photoshop… The point made, at that time, was the increased use of Photoshop to alter reality, generating “fakes”. It made smile at that time, and …

The Metaverse is clearly inflated by a strong hype and this is not surprising. Actually, it is what happens to most new technologies that “need”to generate an hype to harvest investment funds. This connects directly to a growing number of startups entering this area. If you are interested in monitoring …

Generative AI has taken the world by surprise. May be a few people were expecting it (although even OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, didn’t expect ChatGPT to have such an amazing success!). First hand, I can tell that the group of IEEE experts (I am part of it)  that prepared the …

Airbus and Dassault are pushing to have airlines and regulators approve long haul flight with just one pilot in the cockpit. The pilot union has immediately objected taking to the floor the case of Germanwings flight 9525 crash to underlie that a single pilot expose to uncontrollable risks. At first …

The Mozilla Foundation has released a report on the level of privacy provided by cars and the result is really bad: “Cars are the worst product category we have ever reviewed for privacy“ If you start to be concerned be aware that it is only going to get worse! Cars …

Beyond the hype (and criticism) that have surrounded Generative AI we are seeing the growth of an ecosystem already including tens of companies that provide tools for the exploitation of this technology. What is of most interest, and this is something that was noted in the Artificial Intelligence working group …

Before Facebook was FaceMash. That was a sort of prank developed by Mark Zuckerberg (I am using his words) when he was a student. He harvested thousands of girls photos and displayed them, one at a time, asking the viewer if he liked the “girl” or rather skip that one …