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I just read a nice article, not brand new, it was published in January 2019, as I was looking for image recognition advances. The article, written by Melanie Mitchell an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute with which I had the pleasure of interact long time ago (with the …

In the previous posts I pointed out the current status and limitations of BCI, Brain Computer Interface, showing that at the moment there is a tradeoff to be taken between higher precision and sensitivity provided by implanted electrodes/chip and non invasive interfaces. I also pointed out that at present interfacing …

I have been following carbon nanotubes for over 20 years. They looked very promising from the very beginning as a substitute of silicon for chips. Carbon nanotubes can create much smaller transistors, that in turns would result in faster switching, lower power consumption and higher density >>> hence faster processing. …

6. Internet of Things Internet of Things is no news. Sensors (most IoTs are sensors) are everywhere and a city with a million people has probably over hundred million sensors (a smartphone has some 14 sensors, a car can have 200 sensors, a home can have a hundred or more …

I don’t know about you but I often wonder as I am talking on the phone to a person I never met how that person would look like. Is the voice pointing to a specific age, to some specific traits? Of course it is in general easy to tell a …

A group at MIT is looking at the strange properties emerging when two layers of graphene, each one a single atom thick, are layered onto one another at different angles. They are not alone: some other 30 groups, expected to grow to over hundred in the coming two years, are …

On Planet Earth, and as far as we know in the whole galaxy and beyond, we have some 92 different types of atoms that over time have aggregated in different forms (both in terms of molecules composed by different atoms and molecules having the same atoms arranged in different structures). …

In spite of the fact that the Moore’s law has reached its ending point, researchers are still working on finding alternatives that would push its limits. The present most advanced chips in terms of density are already doing that. Basically the Moore’s law stopped in 2015 in terms of cost …

Machine learning is making significant progress, soft agents are duplicating themselves to explore different strategies and learn in the process, researchers are finding new ways to tag reality (like movie clips) to let machine learning by capturing those tags. Children do not need any of that to learn. They experience …

3D printing of living cells is no news. It started at the turn of the century as bi-dimensional printing of skin cells to create patch for healing burns and it has evolved becoming capable of printing 3D structures. It is getting more and more sophisticated (more on this tomorrow). Hence …