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In the last few years more and more people have started to turn to their watch to glance at their fitness, how many calories have been burnt through the day, how many steps have been taken, even look at their heart beats through the day. People practicing sports have been …

From time to time I read on a newspaper, or hear on television, concern on privacy. Well, privacy is long gone and the more time passes the more information about ourselves are gathered. I thought of this once again as I looked at the US Atlas of Surveillance – go ahead …

We have seen over the last 70 years a progressive squeezing of size and decreasing of price of high tech systems to the point that it has become feasible the shift from centralisation to decentralisation. When I started working, “the computer” was a big, costly, machine that could only be …

I love to look at the heavens and I got a few apps on my iPad that help me identify heavenly objects. Sometimes I try looking with a tele-lens on my digital camera  but pointing it to a specific planet or star is quite difficult. There are a number of …

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on an AI based test for Covid-19 that uses your voice pattern for analyses by comparing it to the voices of hundreds of thousands of other people, infected and not. You can participate in the trial and get yourself checked here. Once you …

The disparity in the world healthcare among Countries is huge, as shown in the World Bank data, and, unfortunately, it is no April fools. Bet869ween the Gambia 20$ and the US 9869$ per person per year there is a factor of 493! Now, one might observe that the value of …

We are going through something that just 3 months ago was unthinkable and I am amazed how, overall and through the endeavour of millions people around the world, we are copying with it. We are lucky to have a worldwide communications infrastructure, Internet (but it is actually a mesh of …

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, …

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, …

  Societal Enablers The Digital Transformation has huge impacts on Society, both positive and negatives. These will be considered at length in future posts. The Digital Transformation is also, at least partially, enabled by the evolution of culture and “habits”, the main one being the adoption of the smartphone and …