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As usual reports from the Consumer Electronic Show, CES 2023, highlight some, shall I say?, funny inventions, like this one: a spoon that promises to enhance the taste of food. By using electrical stimulation of our tongue taste buds, according to its inventors the SpoonTek start up, it will enhance …

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 …

I participated to an event organised by Anitec Assinform -the association of Italian industry operating in the information technology area- on the topic of AI regulation. The EU is getting close to finalise its AI Act and industry is looking at the implication of such regulatory framework. The meeting was well …

Over the last three months I have been seeing an audiologist to buy and finely tune hearing aids (another sign I am getting older). It started with a set of hearing tests (you basically have to listen to a variety of frequencies at different loudness and signal the audiologist when …

If you are curious about deep fake and would like to try it out there are plenty of (free) apps that will let you do so. You can find a list of the 12 best 2022 deep fake app here. The use of something existing and its manipulation to get …

Artificial Intelligence is becoming an avalanche in the consumer and business world. The last year has seen the widespread adoption in many fields and the parallel growth in the availability of tools that ease the adoption of AI. This is just the beginning. It is an easy bet to foresee …

DoNotPay is a US startup that feels artificial intelligence can be used to replace lawyers. They have set up a Lawyer-as-a-Service offer that at a push of a button let a customer be represented in a hearing by a chatbot. To mark that they are able to match any need …

Several years ago I used to travel for work quite a bit driving my car. Although I prefer reading books rather than listening to audiobooks I tried a few of them and in a little while I was hooked. The voice was clearly one of a professional reader, an actor, …

I took the title of this post from an article published by the French newspaper Les Echos, on January 6th, 2023: “Comment les automobiles sont devenues  des smartphones sur roues”. The article is nice, pointing out some figures like;: an average modern car embeds some 1,500 “chips” (puces in French) …

In yesterday post I outlined part of my presentation at ICCE2023 focussing on technology evolution and convergence making the Smartification Megatrend possible. Today I want to complement yesterday’s post discussing, as I did in my ICCE presentation, the reasons why we have this megatrend. Technology is an enabler, not a …