Tag Archives: privacy

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 …

4. Blockchain/NFT As pointed out in a previous post in this series, one of the characteristics of a metaverse is the decentralisation and another is to be a platform sustaining economic transactions. For both of these, distributed ledger technologies are  an important tool. Blockchain and Non Funginble Tokens -NFT- are …

Let me spend a few more words on this “AI in the small” from the point of view of the evolution of AI (both as a consequence and as a fuel to its evolution). As shown in the graphic (bear with me, I am not a professional designer and I …

Clearview AI,  a US company,  has been working on face recognition for several years now. It has harvested publicly available images of faces to train its AI software to recognise faces, like digital fingerprints. A good part of the faces have been harvested from the ones published by each one …

Electromagnetic signals are affected by the environment, and part of the environment is … us. As we move in an electromagnetic field we are creating a disruption (we adsorb and reflect part of the field). This happens to the television signals we are receiving at home as well as with …

The Internet of Things generates data that reflect the status of objects. If you apply (artificial) intelligence to those data you can derive information on the “behaviour” of things. This is also captured through Digital Twins. In 2012 the idea of understanding the behaviour of things by analysing the data …

I listened recently to a podcast by WiredGadget on the future of cars that is already happening today. It makes for an interesting lateral thinking, I would advise to listen to it if you have half an hour to spare. Some interesting points made: vehicles today, and even more so …

Quite a few years ago a journalist saw a young woman taking a picture in the Golden Bridge Park in San Francisco. He took the GPS position of the place she had been shooting and a week later he went on the Internet searching for photos taken in that place. …

The PDT is a model of a person. Part of the model consists of data (and part of the “interpretation” of those data to manage interactions mirroring the behaviour of the person). Over time the set of data will become broader covering many aspects of the person and will include …

I just read an interesting article on Wired on the potential broad application of a Google technology, developed in the Soli project, one of the research initiatives carried out in the ATAP (Advanced Technology and Product) Google division. I should say I got hooked by a sentence in the article …