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At the recent AWS re-invent conference 2019 Amazon demonstrated DeepComposer, a music program that can take a few hints from your melody (you basically play a tune on a keyboard, even just a few notes) and use that hint to compose a structured musical piece. The result is a brand …

Rumours started to circulate earlier in 2019 on the interest of Apple to move to microLED technology for its devices displays. First the rumours were betting on a new Apple Watch dropping OLED screen in favour of microLED. More recent rumours are shifting the application to new Mac models to …

So what will happen next? I closed the (skimpy) overview of the present of telecommunications emphasising the growing role of data and AI. These are the key technologies that will transform communications in the next decades. Talking of decades, we have seen a basic cycle of ten years in wireless …

The new IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee Newsletter is out and you can read it here. It contains a number of very interesting technical articles and a short, candid,  interview I gave on the present and future of communications. Whilst the articles may need a bit of technical savvy to be …

Every year Dejan Milojicic, a well known IEEE volunteer , former president of the Computer Society and Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs, try to herd a clowder of cats (technologic cats) to come up with predictions on what technologies will set a mark on the coming year. The result …

I would have thought that gastronomy was as far as possible from artificial intelligence but I was wrong. For sure, as you walk through a city in the Far East Asia and smell the plentiful of street food you see plenty of human intelligence and no artificial intelligence, actually you don’t …

On November 20th Sony announced the established of Sony AI to advance fundamental research and development of AI to be applied to many fields. Their first focus will be on gaming, photography and … gastronomy.  I’ll address gastronomy in the next post. That gaming and photography are playing field for Artificial …

OK, I wouldn’t have published this news on April 1st, it would surely have been taken as an April fool. I had to check in several places to be convinced it is not a prank. I even looked at the original in Russian: cows are enjoying Virtual Reality! На ферме …

I read a book sometime ago, “The Story of the Human Body” by Daniel Lieberman, and was intrigued by the observation that quite a few of ailments that are common today, like tooth cavity, diabetes… were not at all common in our ancestors. The reason, according to the author, is …

Our windshield wipers are old stuff, invented by Mary Anderson in 1902 and patented in 1903. They did evolve a a bit from the first version when they were operated by a handle inside the car. The blade material in particular has evolved significantly but you would agree the time …