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Researchers at MIT. coming from different fields of expertise, have created a pill that you can swallow to check for inflammatory condition of your gut. The magic lies in how this pill has been created. First researchers working in the area of synthetic biology have genetically modified e-coli bacteria in …

Would it be better to save 5 people or to save just one? I guess all things being equal it is a no brainer. However, you can also phrase this sentence is a different way: Would it be better to kill 5 pople or just one? And further: would it …

I read a nice article by Melissa Heikkilä on The Algorithm, MIT Technology Review, making a point that part of AI is already “boring” and the exciting one, like today’s Generative AI, will soon become boring too. With “boring” Melissa meant an AI that has disappeared from our perception, and …

To the best of my knowledge, Singapore was the first city to create, and operate, a digital twin mirroring the city assets and processes. It started in 2014 and involved several companies to first model what was existing (digital model), then connect the physical (part of the) city to the …

Conclusions: Creating external support The Industrial Metaverse may start as a local space, fully owned, used and inhabited by a company (like for the design of a product). However, its natural evolution is towards becoming a shared space, open to other parties that are part of the same value chain …

Enabling  the Industrial Metaverse  – The next economy As it  happened, and happens, with the Digital Transformation  -DX-, industry adopting the metaverse as their new environment have to re-consider their business models and evaluate the economic implication. The digital space and the metaverse, includes a digital space, has potentially no …

I stumbled on a recent article on the MIT Technology Review discussing the (expected) evolution of batteries for electric vehicles -EV. It makes for a nice reading also because it looks at the broad scenario of what it takes to shift from the 60+ million ICE -Internal Combustion Engine- vehicles …

A good way to start the new year: Zeekr, a sister company of Volvo, manufacturing electric cars for the Chinese market, is now selling its Zeekr 001 model with the optional Qilin 140 kWh battery pack providing a range exceeding 1,000 km, a sort of magic threshold. The Zeekr 001 …

Peter Diamandis in the nice to read “20 technology and exponential Megatrends” published in Abundance 360° as well as the MIT Emerging technologies 2023 include the evolution of CRISPR as a game changing technology for this and the coming decades. Peter makes a more general claim on CRISPR in its …

Artificial Intelligence keeps making progress thanks to broader training sets and to better use of those sets (algorithms). This leads to translation from one language to another that is ever more accurate, and to interactions with humans that is ever more undistinguishable from a human to human interaction. This is …