We provide news on the future of technology, science and society: if there is one thing that is about to arrive, it has already arrived here.
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Spam, the AI tsunami already infests all our message boards. What's now?
Social media is flooded with AI-generated posts, often spam or scams. Algorithms promote them by creating a vicious circle. Which must be broken.
Future notes
GPT-4o, OpenAI shock: ChatGPT now has eyes, sees and understands in real time
OpenAI amazes again with GPT-4o, an evolution of ChatGPT that combines vision, audio and text. AI can see what you shoot with the camera and help you instantly.
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Artificial intelligence
Spam, the AI tsunami already infests all our message boards. What's now?
Social media is flooded with AI-generated posts, often spam or scams. Algorithms promote them by creating a vicious circle. Which must be broken.
GPT-4o, OpenAI shock: ChatGPT now has eyes, sees and understands in real time
OpenAI amazes again with GPT-4o, an evolution of ChatGPT that combines vision, audio and text. AI can see what you shoot with the camera and help you instantly.
Medical Research
The wasps that turn viruses into weapons will help us turn them into cures
Parasitic wasps have domesticated lethal viruses into biological weapons to defend their larvae. An extraordinary example of coevolution.
Artha changes the lives of the blind with lenses that transform sight into touch
Goodbye stick, Artha lenses are here: they transform the input of a mini camera into tactile sensations on the back. A new view.
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.