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Trento is the real smart city

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#Trento is the real #smart city of the future. Any examples? In Trento you can find benches that, in addition to charging your smartphone, measure the weather and pollution levels, medical reports that can be consulted with an app and a monitoring system for children going to school. The Trentino capital is the only European city and one of five worldwide recognized by the IEEE (Institute of electrical and electronics engineers) as a Smart City. The project to transform Trento is… Read more

iPhone 7 and the new wireless smartphones

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The future is without jacks for headphones and earphones, at least according to #Apple, which yesterday presented its new #iPhone 7. With #wireless earphones. Yesterday, on the stage at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Tim Cook presented Apple's latest innovations, including the iPhone 7. The main innovations include a farewell to the audio jack, two cameras, water resistance and a battery which lasts longer. “The iPhone 7 is the most advanced smartphone ever made,” says Cook. To the new iPhone… Read more

Will robots replace us in everything?

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Not just low labor. The new #robots can do practically anything, even replace a hundred lawyers at almost zero cost, and they are already doing so. An example is Amelia, a virtual assistant perfect for business services, practically able to replace customer care and call centers. She learns everything on her own, never gets sick, has no drops in productivity, works twenty-four hours a day and receives no salary. And obviously she doesn't get pregnant – in spite of fertility day… Amelia is… Read more

Amazon versus Netflix?

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By the end of the year, probably November, Amazon will also bring its #streaming service, #Amazon Prime Video, to Italy, in direct competition with #Netflix. Here's what could happen. Amazon has not confirmed yet, but several sources have reported that everything is now ready. Already available in several European countries, Germany, Austria and England, Amazon Prime Video provides, like Netflix, a monthly subscription, without a contract and with a fixed fee, to watch unlimited content, films, documentaries and... on a practically infinite number of devices. Read more

Apple focuses on health and buys Gliimpse

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#Apple continues to make purchases: first machine learning and then artificial intelligence, now #Gliimpse, a startup launched in the #health and wellness sector. In short, healthcare seems to be in Apple's next plans. Just as Tim Cook celebrates his 5 years at the helm of Apple, the acquisition of Gliimpse, a startup specialized in the management and sharing of personal medical data of American patients, takes place. No comment from Apple, however, on the matter. Gliimpse allows you to save data on… Read more

Intel's smart drone arrives at the end of 2016

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Soon we will all be able to have our own homemade #drone. At the price of just $400, and branded #Intel. Intel, after having acquired the German Asctec, having invested in e-volo, Yuneec, PrecisionHawk and Airware, has finally announced the Aero drone and the Aero Compute Board flying motherboard. Aero is a small quadcopter governed by the Aero Compute Board flight control. It is equipped with RealSense obstacle recognition and avoidance technology and works with the open source PX4 Dronecode software. … Read more

Chemtrail researchers: “No conspiracy”

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It's the biggest hoax of our century. We are talking about #chemtrails, which have always been at the center of great conspiracy theories, often very imaginative. The truth was established by the first scientific study conducted by the University of California Irvine, the results of which were published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. According to the researchers, the trails are just simple, explainable chemical and physical phenomena. However, it seems that 17% of the world population believes that the trails are the sign of some ... Read more

How hi-tech rehabilitation works

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#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

No more smartphone incidents

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#Walking down the street staring at the display of your #smartphone, with your eyes pointed downwards, is extremely dangerous, yet more and more people do it. And there is no shortage of accidents, even fatal ones, in Italy either. Whether it is to send a message on WhatsApp, to interact with Facebook friends or to look for creatures to catch, we pay less and less attention to where we put our feet. The designer Büro North thought about solving the problem, with an idea that could save pedestrians' lives... Read more

Samsung features iris scanning

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The highly anticipated #Samsung Galaxy Note7 shows itself to the world. This is the first smartphone with an iris scanner, as has now been revealed by DJ Koh, president of Samsung's mobile division. It seems that Samsung's goal is to bring this technology to future mid-range phones as well, as soon as the costs of implementing the sensor drop. To have the iris scanning technology also on mid-range phones (300-500 euros), Samsung will in fact have to reduce the costs for the production of the sensor, which for… Read more

New floating tunnels in Norway

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#Norway's new floating tunnels are truly impressive. This is a rather ambitious project: to innovate the mobility of the Northern European country. In fact, to ease ferry traffic, the authorities intend to build a series of underwater tunnels; the aim is to allow cars to move without having to deal with long and uncomfortable embarkation and disembarkation operations. They are simple tubes with a very large diameter, kept in suspension at about 30 meters deep by special floating structures anchored... Read more

First parcels delivered by drones in Great Britain

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#Amazon promised us, and here the first tests start in #Great Britain. It's only a matter of time before we say goodbye to our dear old delivery man, and welcome the new latest generation #drones, which deliver your purchase directly to your front door. In China JD has already officially launched the drone delivery service, and Amazon responds with the first tests in Great Britain on delivery drones. Drones, however, don't just steal jobs: ... Read more

Free Wi-Fi on the highway soon

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Those who travel often know this well: the need to have a free Wi-Fi hotspot everywhere is increasingly urgent, and one's GB subscription is never enough. It would therefore be a good step forward to have free Wi-Fi in all Italian Autogrills, scattered along the motorways of our country. And it seems that TIM is thinking about it. TIM and Autogrill have in fact announced an important collaboration agreement which will allow users who visit the refreshment areas of the motorway network… Read more

R1, the first home robot

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Everyone talks about nothing other than #R1, the first "family" robot produced by the Italian Institute of Technology (Iit) in Genoa. R1's "father", Giorgio Metta, is convinced of the great potential of his little robot: "The commercial prospects are immense". “R1 Your Personal Humanoid” was created starting from the experience gained from the creation of iCub, the most widespread humanoid research robot in the world. R1 has an Italian design, weighs approximately 50 kilos, has a height varying from 1 meter and 25 to 1 … Read more

DARPA invests 7.5 million for the micro implant of "super soldiers"

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Profusa, a company that develops biotechnology in San Francisco, has obtained funding of 7.5 million dollars from #DARPA for the development of its proprietary technology relating to a tiny implantable biosensor: it is another plus for the constantly developing Super Soldiers . Funders are aiming to develop technologies that can provide real-time monitoring. About what? Of the vital parameters of the soldiers, in order to improve the efficiency of the missions. The sensors, developed with a… Read more

Alzheimer's, soon the vaccine

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The Alzheimer's vaccine will be ready within 5 years. A good result, for a disease that scares many people. The development of a vaccine against Alzheimer's could be a matter of years now, as emerges from a study by Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, published in the journal Nature. The first tests on humans will be carried out by 2018. And it doesn't end here. In the future, Alzheimer's disease could be diagnosed early, with ad hoc tests, perhaps a blood test... Read more

Here is the robot that irones and folds clothes

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Those who do housework know it well: ironing and folding clothes is often the most onerous task. Fortunately, today technology gives us a hand. It's called FoldiMate, the robot capable of folding and ironing clothes perfectly for us. Thanks to a series of supports, robotic arms and sensors, FoldiMate can fold, iron and even perfume clothes. A dream come true? The idea was born from an Israeli startup and takes inspiration from the machinery they use… Read more

Solar Impulse arrives in Egypt

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We have already told you in the past about Solar Impulse, the first solar-powered aircraft. The plane is currently traveling on its penultimate leg, from Seville in Egypt, towards Cairo. The Solar Impulse solar-powered aircraft took off two days ago from Seville, in southern Spain, towards Cairo. The plane is piloted by the Swiss André Borschberg, at the control for the last time in this adventure. For approximately 50 hours the plane will fly over the Mediterranean and pass through the skies of Algeria, Tunisia, ... Read more

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