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The new Apple M1 chip has been around for a few months now and the feedback on its performance are so impressive that quite a few people are asking how is that possible. A low cast Mac Mini is now offering better performance than last year Mac Pro that had …

I started to work in 1971 and after a few months I made my first acquaintance with the 4004. It was an extraordinary chip, the first microprocessor ever, firstly manufactured in March 1971, fifty years ago, packaging an unbelievable 2,300 transistors. I remember how excited all people around me were, …

The pandemic has forced individuals and companies to move to the cyberspace and a metrics to gauge this shift can be the increase of conf calls all over the world. Microsoft Teams, see graphic, had seen a 6x increase in use in the period Nov. 2019 – Oct. 2020, Zoom …

18. Hi-Res VR in Retail VR – Virtual Reality- and AR – Augmented Reality- have been the talk of the town for quite a while. In the beginning the focus was on VR, the possibility of exploring with our senses virtual worlds in an immersive way to the point that …

Photography I was born in the age of film rolls. There were rolls with film for 12, 20 and 36 shots and before shooting a shot you always asked: “will it be worth it? Should I wait for a better opportunity?” The peak of film photography was in 2001 with …

Imag Apps Every time I use an App on my smartphone (as well as on my tablet, Pc., Smart Television,…) this app is getting data from the interaction I am having with it (and the OS is getting the info that I am using that app at that specific time, …

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 …