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Electric cars are becoming a concrete alternative to many prospective buyers. What is hampering their widespread adoption is the refuelling issue: fewer refuelling (recharging) points long time to fill her up short autonomy range Each of the above is an issue per sé, but making one better helps in decreasing …

Quantum computation is progressing at theoretical level as well as in the lab, in terms of prototypes. There are also a few “products” on the market focussing on very specific applications. Google and IBM are among the leaders in quantum computing and in the implementation race for a practical system. …

Back in March 2019, 2 years ago, NVIDIA released a software, GauGAN, that making use of Generative Adversarial Networks could transform a sketch made using a variety of brushes and palettes into a photorealistic image. Now NVIDIA has stepped up with a new application, Canvas, that can let you create …

“Neuristors” are “transistors” that mimic the computational capability of neurones (our as well as neurones of any other animal, they are not that much different!). So far neuromorphic computing systems requires several transistors to perform Boolean operations (AND, OR, XOR, XNOR…) whilst a single neurone can do that. Having more …

Hua Zhibing has enrolled at the Tsinghua University in Beijing. There are several “things” that place Hua in a category of  her own. To start with she has the cognitive capability of a 6 years old, and it seems quite strange that she would be admitted to the university. However, …

The Israeli attack to Gaza in mid-May 2021, was probably the first example of using drone swarm technology in the field. I am looking at it only from the technical side leaving out all (most important) aspects of “right vs wrong” usage. Each drone is an autonomous system with its …

What can you do with artificial intelligence? Create new cakes is an example! Google has noticed a spike of interest in baking recipe (people searching for them) during the pandemic and people lock-down. A team of researchers have started to look into the search data using AI to detect what …

Robots are becoming smarter and smarter thanks to a brain provided by artificial intelligence. However, this brain, as any brain, has to learn about its environment, what is the goal and how to achieve it selecting among different strategies that have to take into account its surrounding, This learning phase …

Few days ago I stumbled onto an interesting graphic produced by McKinsey reporting an analyses on the incidence of several economic archetypes (clusters of economic activities) on the GDP of a number of Countries. The areas considered are: Discoverers (how much research/innovation generates) Technologists Experts Deliverers Makers Builders Fuelers Financiers …

Every year over 100 million HDD (Hard Disk Drive) are discarded (20 million just from US Data Centres) and contribute to the big problem of e-waste. There have been several attempts to reuse parts of these HDD, recycling them. Now a new opportunity to give new life (and avoid waste) …