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Malicious software that pretends to be human beings

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Do you think you can distinguish between a human and a #robot on the phone? Are you sure? The new malicious #software are very similar to human beings, they can call us at home and ask for personal data, and it would be really difficult to say that you are talking to a robot. A perfect Italian, a question and answer that does not raise doubts. But if they ask us for a credit card, it is almost certainly a scam. #Very sophisticated scams, created by robots, but obviously organized by scammers... Read more

Duoskin, the tattoo that brings electronics to our body

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Not just touch and super-connected clothes: soon we will be able to communicate with the smartphone even through our skin, via a #tattoo called #Duoskin. It's called epidermal electronics and soon we will all be able to find it on ourselves: the design of each tattoo is customizable, the colors are silver and gold and the aesthetics are fabulous. The prototype was created by a student of the MIT Media Lab in collaboration with Microsoft Research, it is made of gold leaf (the conductive material), integrates an electronic component and is transferred ... Read more

The first educational robot is born

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The field of robotics is making giant strides, including educational robots, designed for children aged 3 to eight. In particular, today we present to you "#My robot friend", which speaks, moves, responds to external stimuli but above all increases the cognitive abilities of the little ones. It is an educational playmate created by the Lisciani Group which, one year after the success of Mio Phone® (the first parental control smartphone dedicated to little ones) revolutionizes the world of … Read more

The universe is bigger than we thought

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Many, many galaxies, more than we thought in the past, populate the #universe. To date, we can say that the number of galaxies is ten times greater than previously known. The space telescopes, first and foremost Hubble, say it. Published in the Astrophysical Journal, this discovery is due to the group of Christopher Conselice, from the British University of Nottingham. The universe that until yesterday we were able to observe contained around 200 billion galaxies, but the new data tell us that this is a downward estimate, of ... Read more

The hi-tech suture will tell us how the wound is going

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Technology is now advancing in every field, and especially in medicine it helps us to be increasingly efficient. This is the case of the intelligent #suture, created by researchers from MIT and Tufts University. This special type of suture keeps the #wound under control and signals any ongoing infections. The threads that are used - we read on Microsystems & Nanoengineering - are a mix of cotton and synthetic materials. These are able to absorb body fluids and… Read more

In Amsterdam you sail without a pilot

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After the pilotless metro train, the pilotless plane and the self-driving car, the intelligent boat that can do without a pilot also arrives in Amsterdam. The boat in question will sail in the canals of Amsterdam from 2017; the project, ROBOAT, will last five years and, if successful, could change the mobility of people and goods in the Netherlands. MIT in Boston is also behind the ROBOAT, together with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan … 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

Here is the software that predicts the future

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From a photo to the #future, or to the past. #Dreambit is a curious time machine, a software that cross-references data based on facial recognition, 3D reconstruction and age progression. The program was created by the University of Washington, and could be used in the future to identify unknown or fugitive people. Not just a game, then. Dreambit adapts anyone's face to different eras and looks. All you need is a photo and then you choose: curly and light hair, or long... Read more

The electronic identity card arrives in July

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Goodbye old identity card. Italy renews itself and adopts the new electronic identity card, although only in some Municipalities, starting from July 2016. The so-called Cie will cost 13,76 euros and we will be able to have it starting from July 4th, in a handful of Municipalities, which will be around 200 by September. It will already be available in large municipalities such as Rome (18-22 July), Milan (5-9 September), Naples (25-29 July). A long-awaited innovation: in short, it is a smart card on which… Read more

Facebook will know our financial situation

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It is well known that Facebook had access to our data and could use it for advertising purposes, but the latest approval of a 'special' patent has caused quite a stir and made a good portion of people on the web rebel. As we well know, Facebook is the most powerful social network in the world, a platform that controls, manages and shares the data of billions of people around the world and which is universally used every day to spread targeted advertising. … Read more

Subcutaneous microchips arrive

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Once upon a time we joked about the presence of subcutaneous microchips implanted by the State without the citizens' knowledge, but today all of this (or almost all of it) could become reality. Soon, technical prostheses could outperform natural joints, our senses will be augmented by devices implanted under the skin and artificial intelligence will be able to modify itself spontaneously. The first attempts to achieve this were seen at the TAG in Milan, where some people had a microchip implanted in their hand. Singularity University organized… Read more

AI2 will predict cyber attacks

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Against modern cybercrimes, we need modern artificial super intelligences capable of fighting them. And this is precisely what AI2, a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence, aims to do against cybercrime. Developed by MIT, by a group at CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab), a new type of artificial intelligence, AI2, was born. The acronym stands for Artificial Intelligence Squared, and it is a revolutionary software. According to estimates developed by the team that developed it, AI2 would be able to predict and block approximately 85% of attempts… Read more

Intel buys Italian autonomous car company

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The self-driving car is certainly the future of the automotive sector; Intel also understood this, having recently purchased an Italian company to develop this project. Intel has in fact purchased Yogitech, as the Santa Clara (California) company itself announced on the official blog: “For years, Intel has been producing high-performance IoT systems that allow people and companies to make more informed decisions. Right now the industry is moving away from data automation towards a… Read more

Facebook will "tell" photos to blind people

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Technology can greatly help blind people to orient themselves in such a complex and, at times, even dangerous world. Facebook is making many steps forward to bring technology to those who cannot see, and from today it seems that it will also be able to "tell" photos. The new service is launched today to act as a guide for those who cannot see all the photographs that social networks are flooded with. The system works using artificial intelligence: in short, Facebook's servers are… Read more

The graphene and gold patch for diabetics arrives

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Technology for the medical field is increasingly cutting edge. And for chronic diseases such as diabetes, giant strides are being made: today we present this high-tech patch in graphene and gold, designed specifically for diabetics. As we know, diabetics must monitor their blood glucose levels daily and possibly inject a dose of insulin, and this is an operation that requires a lot of time, energy and money. A team of Korean and American researchers thought… Read more

The new anticancer drug that destroys metastases

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Cancer is no longer as scary as it used to be, because many people recover from this disease and also because research is making giant strides, including Italian research, to try to defeat the pathology with new technologies. In recent news, for example, a new drug composed of nanoparticles capable of directly penetrating the metastases caused by breast cancer in organs such as the lungs and liver has been developed, destroying them completely. For now, the new… Read more

Amazon will make us travel into space in 2018

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Amazon intends to change our lives, and not just when it comes to purchasing products online. No, Jeff Bezos really wants to take us into space, as tourists, and he promises to do it within just two years. Science fiction or very close reality? In fact, it seems that Bezos will begin testing space flights with people on board next year and, if all goes well, tourists in groups of six will be able to experience a short space flight as early as 2018. Bezos himself said it, ... Read more

On Facebook there will soon be more deaths than alive

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Within a few years, Facebook will be a huge virtual cemetery. Sooner or later it had to happen: just as in the history of humanity, the dead will surpass the living. It has been calculated that in 2098 Facebook will transform into the largest 'virtual' cemetery in the world. This is according to the prediction of Hachem Sadikki, a statistics expert from the University of Massachusetts, who developed his theory based on the social network's choice to continue to refuse to automatically delete the accounts of deceased users, and in… Read more

Superlight solar cells arrive

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The future will be made of solar cells, yes, but super light and very small. In fact, MIT researchers announced to the world that they had created the lightest and thinnest solar cell ever, which could easily be placed on any material and surface, such as t-shirts, smartphones and sheets of paper. To always have a clean energy source. To show everyone that the cells are really very light, scientists placed the solar cell on a soap bubble, without ... Read more

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