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Printing a brain?

3D printing has moved from the printing of small prototypes to industrial manufacturing (like printing the blades for airplanes turbine) and has expanded the possibility of materials that can be printed. Bio-printing is not new, researchers, and doctors, have been printing tissues using cells, starting from skin up to cartilage …

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How much data … can be digested by our brain?

For at least 70 years scientists, researchers and lay people have been comparing the brain to the computer (actually, I remember that when I was young, taking the very first course on computers in high school, the computer was called “cervello elettronico”, Electronic Brain in Italian). The pursue of an …

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At the border of science fiction

Although we are still far away from reading thoughts in a brain it seems that we may be inching forward. The latest I saw was the article “Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non invasive brain recording” published on Nature NeuroScience by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin. The …

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Straight from the Brain

Ever hummed a tune in your head? I bet you have. Hence, you should agree that somewhere, somehow, your brain has recorded and stored that tune and it is able to play it back … on demand. Now the question is: could it be possible to let other people hear …

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Is Generative AI a copycat or a creator?

As a follow up to yesterday post I would like to share some thought, mostly philosophical, on Generative AI. This is a relatively new branch of AI, initiated in 2018, that is using a sort of recurrent neural network with a twist. Basically it analyses in parallel many strings and …

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64 million times better brain imaging

The  quest to understand the wiring  of the brain has been going  on  for several decades now. The Human Connectome Project  has created a large data base of connections obtained by analysing thousands of slices of the brain and reconstructing the connections among millions and millions of neurones. However, even …

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The future is already in your ears

Earbuds have become so tiny and light that you can forget you are wearing them. For some, they have become an integral part of their “persona”. Let a few years go by and the broad adoption of aural augmented reality (getting augmented information through sound and voice, seamlessly, through earbuds) …

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A glimpse on the “mind” of a jellyfish

Researchers have know for many years now that our basic brain components, the neurones, are functionally and physiologically very similar to neurones of all other species. That means that understanding the working of a snail neurone means understanding the working of “our” neurones. I know, it feels bad to know …

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