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The pandemic and the work shift to the cyberspace (working from home became the norm for several companies) has opened the door to cons that are using “advanced” technology to trick people into activities that would have been “unthinkable” just two years ago. This is the case of a con …

A first, and rapidly growing area of Personal Digital Twin is focussing on the creation of a model of the physiology of a person, how that specific body “works”. This is clearly important in healthcare, be it for assessing the impact of drugs, detecting early signs of malfunction (and generating …

The extension of the Digital Twin concept to model a person is already underway. Very few are attempting to model a whole person, the physical, the emotional, the cognitive, the behavioural parts. What is being done is to focus on a specific area and create a model that can be …

The fully autonomous car is right there, at the end of the rainbow. We have been hearing about self-driving cars for over a decade now, and it seemed that they were always just around the corner. They are still there. In the meantime self-driving care (with an assisting human pilot, …

I cannot count the times I faced the problem of an app on my computer and smartphone no longer working because a new software release of the device operating system made the software incompatible and the company producing it no longer willing/able to support it. That has been a problem …

Three months ago I wrote a post discussing the growing issue of apparels returns following on-line shopping. Now I stumbled onto a very interesting article (a must read, I would say) explaining what is actually happening to returned apparel. First of all look at the statistics: increasing on-line shopping, from 427B$ …

Saying the politicians are at the topo of trust is a long shot. Of course, they all strive to cast an image that can stimulate trust in voters and their speeches, when not focussing on bashing their opponents. Now the question is what kind of trust can a deepfake generate? …

Autonomous ships are coming. A few have already been sailing in a controlled environment, with human supervision (watch the clip). So, where is the “news”? Building a ship takes time and is expensive. There are, end of 2021 figure, 5,434 container ships in the world. There were 4,966 at the …

A cross disciplinary team at the university of California San Diego, comprising surgeons, engineers and researchers, announced the development of a membrane designed to pick up electrical activity from the brain cortex with a never before achieved spatial resolution. The membrane is a thin pliable foil embedding nanorods of platinum …

There are some 8,000 satellites orbiting over our heads (watch the clip), an incredible number if we think how much a satellite used to cost (including the cost of launching it) just 20 years ago. All of a sudden technology has slashed the cost, completely changing the economics of space …