More than 230 years after an incredible game played in Paris, Amazon is using the name mTurk for its new artificial “artificial intelligence” project. No, that's not a typo. Here's the whole story.
Smile! There are not only technologies that can have a negative impact. There are also scary ones that can have a lethal relapse.
A great step forward towards total freedom, which one day not far away will allow diabetics to monitor glucose in real time with small implanted devices capable of reading body data by themselves.
It takes a minute to finish, a long time for a machine that cost almost 1 million euros to develop, but Robocrop will be the future of fruit harvesting.
According to futurologist and Google chief engineer Ray Kurzweil, the singularity is approaching by leaps and bounds. “By 2029, computers will have the same level of intelligence as humans.” This is the statement made in a recent interview at the SXSW Conference. What is the singularity? (It is always good to remember this) It is a process-event that will bring the intelligence of computers to a higher level than that of human beings. And according to leading experts on the subject it seems to be getting closer over time. Even the theoretical physicist Stephen… Read more
#technology increasingly helps those with temporary or permanent disabilities. The latest news was from a few days ago: people with complete paralysis were able to partially recover some functions (sense of touch, sensation of pain, bladder control and some movements) thanks to just one year of 'hi-tech' #rehabilitation with man-machine interfaces, virtual reality and avatars. The research, the results of which were published in the journal Scientific Reports, was conducted on eight patients with severe paralysis: the few nerves that remained intact after the accident managed to… Read more
Femtophotography is a field of research that deals with capturing images at very high speed. What is it for? And who knows. To many things. First of all to 'photograph' the light, to study its behaviour. But it can also be used to do amazing things, currently out of reach, such as photographing an image of an object hidden around a corner by reflecting photons off an intermediate surface, onto the object itself, and then back onto the intermediate surface. 'photographic lens. Three years … Read more
The list of technologies under study is very long and is constantly updated: one of the latest lists of future developments that could change the world forever comes from the Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a research center founded in 2004 by a philosopher, Nick Bostrom, and a bioethicist, James Huges. The list, drawn up with the consultancy of futurologist Gray Scott, presents really interesting elements: here are the "magnificent" 6 technologies that could arrive in the near future. Age reversal… Read more
An innovative interface transforms the gearbox from manual to automatic, adapting to the driver for personalized driving experiences.
Have you always dreamed of having a beautiful pair of blue eyes, but were you born with dark eyes? A Californian doctor has patented and developed a method capable of changing dark eyes to blue (forever) in just 20 seconds. How does Lumineyes work? Dr. Gregg Homer is an optical specialist at the Stroma Medical Institute in California. He has patented and uses a technique called Lumineyes to remove the brown pigment (melanin) from the top layer of the iris using a unique laser. … Read more
Death is the end of everything. Our brain, which has functioned well for many decades, at the moment of our departure from the world, in the space of just twenty minutes undergoes anoxia and neurons and synapses fall apart. No machine, after such damage, will be able to revive us; it will be able to reactivate cardiac functions and circulation but our brain will be gone forever. And to say that the brain has "gone" for philosophy... Read more
The Christmas holidays are coming and as always the world is divided: I'm not talking about wars and physical or ideological conflicts, I'm referring to the division between those who spend this period looking for more time to spend with their loved ones, and those who take the opportunity to do shopping and grabbing any object, once again, seamlessly. What do we really need? Time passes quickly: a century ago Christmas was completely different (even Santa Claus, ... Read more
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