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The ongoing  epidemic is placing healthcare infrastructures under stress and unless it is absolutely necessary you are asked not to go to a hospital but stay isolated at home. Doctors will be providing support by phone, telling you what to do. Clearly, it is a different quality of care from …

Supply and delivery chains are possibly some of the most complex and successful achievement of modern society. The computerisation of their management has made possible an unbelievable effectiveness. With quite a bit of simplification (over-simplification possibly) we can recognise these stages: Innovation and streamlining of transportation Creation of warehouses and …

Sony researchers were due to present a paper at CHI 2020,  scheduled at the end of April in Honolulu, Hawaii, but because of the epidemic the conference was cancelled. Their paper, however, is available. And it is a paper worth reading. The title, “Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques for hand …

Just few days ago I was wishing Happy Birthday to a friend of mine turning 70 and I told him that a back of the envelope calculation indicated that he spent some 23 years sleeping, wasting a tremendous amount of time. Now I stumbled onto this news reporting on a …

As the epidemics in Italy keeps growing to an alarming rate (and so it does in several other Countries) measures have been taken to limit the mobility of people, thus decreasing the chance of contact and spread. Yet, it seems that a few Italians keep moving around. How many? Well, …

2. Better use of energy, raw materials and more sophisticated tools Societal evolution has been marked by the use of energy, raw materials and tools. From the Stone Age (the issue was to pick up the right stone, usually obsidian, to make arrows) where fire was domesticated to the Bronze …

Researcher at the Osaka University are exploring artificial pain nervous systems to equip robots with a skin (and software) that would be able to pick up touch sensations and convert them into sensation of pain if the touch is too hard, similarly to what happen to a person. Their goal …

Smart homes Homes are populated by a variety of systems  like power, communications, water (plumbing), waste, heating and air-conditioning, security networks. They are also populated with many devices, some fixed like fridge, oven, fan-coil, television, others wandering around like robotic vacuum cleaner and others moving in and out, like smartphones, …

Technological Enablers Technological enablers can be clustered into 4 main categories from the point of view of supported class of activities: Conversion of atoms into bits/data Use of data Conversion of data into physically executable actions Support systems 1. Conversion of atoms into bits Here with atoms we intend any …

In these last few days we have been flooded by tech news from CES 2020 in Las Vegas. No point in repeating all of that on this post. If you missed something just google for CES 2020 (at the time of writing of this post a Google search on CES …