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One of the defining characteristics of our human species is the way we communicate using voice. Very few other species have this capability and those having it show a very rudimentary set of “voice messages” (this obviously has a lot to do with the vocal apparatus as well as with …

Robots are becoming a ubiquitous presence in factories and warehouses. There are not just “more” robots, they are requiring and establishing a different relationship with human beings, actually I should say with their “co-workers”. This is a step in the direction foreseen by the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative (now merged …

The last decade has been characterised by significant progress, and widespread use, of Artificial Intelligence, thanks to the abundance of data and the possibility of extracting meaning out of them. Of course, high performance computation and storage capabilities at very low cost made this feasible. This has led the big …

As we turn into a new year and a new decade there are plenty of technology foresight, both short and long term. If you missed the IEEE Computer Society 12 tech trends for 2020 you can find them here. If you want to explore more, different trends just google for …

As 2019 wraps up I took a look at what went wrong with technologies this year. Unfortunately there is plenty, and you can Google for tech failures 2019 and spend some time browsing several of them. I am not surprised at all. We have had, in 2019 as in the …

Do you use Google Lens? I do. Actually,I started to use it well before it became Google Lens, back in 2010 when it was known as WordLens, by QuestVisual,  I remember the feeling of looking at a word on a restaurant menu in Japan and “seeing” its translation in English …

In the beginning it was the Cloud. It looked like the solution to massive storage and computation, It was also a perfect support for distributed service architecture with some parts of the service run locally and some part in the Cloud. Then the fog appeared. The availability of storage and …

I pointed out in the previous blog that a true self replication shall involve both top down and bottom up processes. Researchers are taking this system-wide approach in (nanotech) molecular manufacturing, as shown in the diagram. The industrial issue with nanotech and molecular manufacturing is that the yield of the …

The advance in smart material technologies includes the capability of self replication. Studies in this area started in the last decade and exploited the results of Nature: using DNA strings with attached molecules of materials scientists demonstrated the possibility of replication (see the image). Of course the replication instructions to …

I have been fascinated by hydras since I was at elementary schools and I kept tracking the increasing knowledge researchers have harvested on these animals. Their outstanding capability for regenerating missing limbs was well known to our ancestors that created the mythical Hydra, a creature with seven snake like heads …