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UK, breakthrough for cancer treatment: home blood tests approved
Liberty's home blood testing device for cancer patients has won approval after trials.
Future notes
Surfing safely: 5 useful tips
The Internet is a wonderful place, the potential it offers is particularly broad and the knowledge it gives is almost unlimited. However, this does not prevent the fact that even when browsing the "light" web, i.e. the one that differs from the darknet, the dark face of the web, there are dangers at every corner. Greater accuracy and understanding of what you are doing is certainly the first advice that is usually given. Even if it is often used in a rather limited way, an engine… Read more
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Artificial intelligence
LunaBot: the AI trained with the eyes of a 21-month-old girl
An innovative project uses videos of little Luna to create LunaBot, an AI trained with the same sensory inputs as a little girl, to study learning.
Mysterious Super Powerful AI Appears and Immediately Disappears: Is this a GPT-5 Test?
An unknown AI called gpt2-chatbot showed abilities superior to GPT-4 and disappeared into thin air. A possible preview of GPT-5?
Medical Research
UK, breakthrough for cancer treatment: home blood tests approved
Liberty's home blood testing device for cancer patients has won approval after trials.
Breakthrough in gene therapy: girl with congenital deafness regains her hearing
A new gene therapy has allowed Opal, a little girl with congenital deafness due to a genetic mutation, to hear and start speaking.
Italy Next
Organizations and people who shape the future.
Your thoughts beyond life: Goodbyememo delivers the digital goodbye
Goodbyememo challenges the fear of dying and leaving things unsaid. Founded by two Italians, the service sends messages after death, giving serenity to those who fear the afterlife.
MEAPLANT: the Italian invention for growing on walls and roofs
The system created by two Italian researchers triumphs in Geneva. Now growing everywhere, even green walls and roofs, will be easier for everyone.
