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Curious on how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting various regions/cities of the world? Then take a look at Maps by Apple and its feature of Mobility Trends Report. Google provides another view of the effects of Covid-19 that is more detailed since it splits the data variation on retail, grocery …

It’s Easter but we are not talking about eggs, rather about the epidemic. The virus did not take a vacation time and waiting for a vaccine that is still down the road is unsatisfactory. So many people are turning to technology and to bits in particular. There is an unlimited …

I got intrigued on light field photography some 10 years ago. The concept is quite old, going back to the 1930ies, although the first camera exploiting this idea was a prototype back in 1992. The first commercial camera, that I am aware of goes back to 2011 (see clip) when …

LIght Detection And Ranging, LIDAR, is a technology used to create an exact tridimensional map of the environment. It is not a new technology, it started in the 1960ies as a way to map the Earth surface from an airplane. The airplane was equipped with a laser generating pulses and …

  Lots of discussion and news on the coronavirus, ranging from a terrifying epidemic/pandemic to just another flu-like epidemic, just slightly more dangerous (I am leaning more on the second). One point, however, is clear. The influence on this “flu” on the business and on way of living of people …

I remember, over ten years ago, in Seoul talking to Samsung marketing and learning that one of the reason to generate so many new smartphones models in short period of time was the willingness of the South Korean market to get “the newest” (Samsung has delivered over 1200 types of …

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 …

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 …

I bought my Airpods just 2 weeks ago and of course now there is a new, and better, model. That’s life in this never ending tech evolution. You have probably read about them. What stimulated this post it’s not the Airpods per sé but a new sensor that has been …

3. Industry platforms II A separate post to discuss a quite different sort of platform, the car platform. It has been used by the car manufacturing industry for over 50 years now as a way to decrease the cost of production. The idea is to have a common base: floor …