Tag Archives: societal issues

The quest for a longer life span

The quest for immortality has been part of the literature for as long as we can go back in time. There were immortal entities, the Gods (some got killed and may be resurfaced …). Could humans become immortal? There have been tales of fountains of youth, tales on the first …

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This is really, really scaring

Artificial Intelligence can be a wonderful tool helping us in many ways but is has some dark sides as well. This is one: there is a website that you can use to upload a photo of a person (a woman, more specifically) and using AI the site will return you …

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Connecting the Unconnected

Worldwide there are 7.97 billion people and 10.98 billion mobile connections. There are 7.26 billion mobile users that is 91% of people own a mobile phone. Great, so where is the problem? Unfortunately, it is the usual problem we have with with statistics. If I ate 2 chicken and you …

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Smile, AI is watching you!

Have you ever switched off your computer camera when joining a video conf because you did not feel at ease with people watching your room or the way you have dressed up? Well, now you might have a further reason to keep your computer camera off: artificial intelligence based software …

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AR to Augment winning chances at poker

Augmented Reality is great, no doubt about it. It let us merge the digital with the physical space. The problem today is that we are missing “tools” that can make this bridge seamless. Sure, I can use my smartphone (and I use it from time to time) to get a …

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