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2 and a half years ago I published a post on a Samsung beginning the production of a new digital sensor designed to fit smartphones’ cameras. It had 108 million pixels making the point that resolut6ion (image definition, in other words the capability of the sensors to capture more and …

Neuralink has been working on connecting the brain to a computer for some years now. It has made a number of announcements over the past two years demonstrating the workability of their ideas and prototypes on animals (to take a look at their technology watch the clip). Now they are …

I spent the last two weeks without ever meeting a night. Sunlight reigned over darkness. I experienced sunsets, or possibly dawns, without being able to tell them apart, You would tell me that sunset is towards the West, dawn comes from the East but that wasn’t true. Both came from …

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 …

I remember 20 years ago looking in awe at a new Nikon digital camera: it embedded a 5 Mpixel sensor, 5 million pixels! At that time I had a 1.3 Mpixel camera. Now my smartphone has a 12 Mpixel camera (plus another one for selfie). However, even my current 12 …

Many of our homes have double, even triple glass panes windows. Adding glass panes provides better heat and sound insulation, saving money and providing enhanced comfort. The characteristics of these windows do not change with seasons, they remain the same in Winter as in Summer. Yet, the problem in Winter …

As any major transformation, the shift from ICE to EV creates ripples all around it. I mentioned in yesterday’s post the need for a re-thinking of the energy infrastructure as gasoline is replaced by electricity. This is an obvious impact, but it goes well beyond that. Refuelling today means stopping …

In the last ten years the number of cars sold in the developed countries has seen a decrease (or at best a flattening out). The increasing number of sales per year worldwide has been sustained by the emerging markets, most notably China and India. The pandemic struck a blow on …

The Digital Reality Initiative is presenting a  IEEE Future Tech Forum Roundtable on Sustainable Manufacturing moderated by Craig Bauhaus, Industry executive in Manufacturing at Microsoft. It will be held as a Virtual Event on Tuesday June 28th, at 12 noon New York time, 6pm Central European Time. You can register …

That the telecommunications network can be used as a gigantic, and pervasive, sensor is not a news. As an example the mobile network has to track the movement (and position) of cellphones to be able to connect them. Get those data and you can have a very accurate map of …