The tendency for voice assistants to “deflect, gloss over or give conciliatory responses” when insulted is considered particularly worrying, reinforcing the belief that women are subjected to abuse and harassment.
Here are the 5 transport revolutions that we will see from 2019 to 2024, between vehicles of all sorts and completely redesigned services will change the concept of travel.
Here are 5 predictions on small revolutions that with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will add more worlds to what we live.
No matter how engaging a device is, or how cute it is, it will never return your affection. Story of the little robot that preceded the virtual assistants Google and Alexa, and broke everyone's hearts by announcing its "death".
Researchers at the University of San Francisco have developed a neural interface that allows patients without the use of speech to “speak” through the device.
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
Just thirty years ago the frontier was a school with a computer. Today, the frontier is having students with their own laptop. According to futurologist Thomas Frey, in the next 14 years the frontier will be to have students learning from robot teachers on the internet, and the company that will be able to provide this service will become one of the largest, richest and most important in the world. Frey's prediction is certainly made taking into account the latest macroscopic advances in artificial intelligence research. Robot teachers… Read more
#Yahoo now belongs to the past. Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer will leave the company when the sale of its Internet business to Verizon Communications closes. Yahoo will thus give way to Alibaba Group Holding and Yahoo! Japan, and will change its name to Altaba to reduce its board of directors to five members. Yahoo recently reached an agreement to sell its Web business to Verizon in an operation costing $5 billion, although there was no shortage of problems (see the attacks… Read more
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 long-awaited overtaking has now occurred: smartphones and mobile devices have surpassed desktop and laptop #PCs in the number of connections to the network. Sooner or later it had to happen, and it happened. Even if in Italy we are still behind. For the first time, in October 2016 to be precise, there were more accesses to web pages from mobile devices than from desktops and laptops. Smartphones and tablets (51.26% of accesses) were connected more than… Read more
More than bedbugs or insects, we could soon see real #robots on our #clothes. We have already told you in the past about Google's Project Jacquard, which has begun experimenting with the integration of technology into clothing. Today, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University has gone further, creating small robots that "walk" on our clothes. The project is called Rovables, and aims to create small robots capable of autonomously managing movement and... Read more
The #Pokémon Go #app is not yet available in Italy, but it should be available soon on both iTunes and Google Play. Impossible not to have heard of it; Since the app came out, Nintendo's shares in America have gone from 16 dollars to a peak of almost 28. It's a very simple but captivating game, a simplified version of Pokémon that uses geolocation and augmented reality. We go around the city hunting for the various Pokémon that go first... Read more
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is betting everything on flying cars. Page has in fact invested over 100 million dollars in Zee.Aero, a Californian startup that has designed a flying car. Page has been involved in the project since 2010, but the news only leaked today. The purpose is declared: to build flying cars for personal use. A flying car was already being designed almost 100 years ago, but, needless to say, these were failed attempts. Today, however, there are more suitable materials and more advanced technologies: for example, the use… Read more
Not only "useful" artificial intelligences, but also creative ones, which will be able to paint, have creative flair and, perhaps, replace man in the thing that most distinguishes us, imagination and creativity. Google intends to test whether this is possible with its Magenta project, previewed during the Moogfest underway in Durham, North Carolina. In fact, on this occasion a Google engineer explained that the project will be officially launched in June: the aim is to use ... Read more
The future in which we all have a technological implant in our eyes, which will allow us to send messages and take photos, is not that far away. In fact, today we are talking about nothing other than the new Sony patent, which is based on a sensor that is activated by measuring the pressure of the eyelid and which allows you to take photos thanks to intelligent contact lenses. And thanks to the movement of the eye it will also be possible to adjust the lens aperture and zoom. To check the image quality… Read more
It's called Aipoly and it's an app that allows blind or partially sighted people to "see" what's around them. Aipoly is an artificial intelligence app that allows you to explore the world in a different way, through a technology that communicates what you are framing with a guiding voice, obviously thanks to the use of the smartphone camera. The app currently allows you to identify around 1.000 different objects and 900 colors in real time. Aipoly was presented for the first… Read more
What will it be like to watch the sport of the future? With Hololens, futuristic Black Mirror-style scenarios, with each of us equipped with a microcomputer and recorder in our eyes, is not that far away. If we no longer hear about Google Glass, in fact, Microsoft's HoloLens project is more alive than ever, and shows us today what it will be like to watch the sport of the future. The first models of HoloLens will be given to developers only in March this year (at a cost… Read more
Lifespans could very soon begin to rocket upwards beyond three-digit numbers. According to David Agus and Craig Venter, we are on the eve of an extraordinary medical revolution: Agus, Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California, declared very precisely that the average lifespan will very soon reach around 100 years. Craig Venter, co-founder and head of Human Longevity inc. relaunches by stating that there is no limit to the years we could live, except the capacity... Read more
Mark Zuckerberg responded enthusiastically to the question of whether Facebook is currently working on augmented reality projects. When asked during a convention in San Francisco, the young SEO simply replied "Yes". Facebook's intentions had appeared clear since the purchase of Oculus, the start-up that currently produced one of the best virtual reality devices. And the words used by Michael Abrash, head of the Oculus project, leave no room for doubt: virtual reality is on the home stretch. There is … Read more
Calling it a 'restyling' is humiliating: after extensive renovation work above and under the bonnet, the Hyundai i30 presents itself with a decidedly 'European' and decisive appeal, and gives the readers of Futuroprossimo (and those who write to you first of all) a lot of insights into the innovations that are now part of modern automotive culture. From the multipurpose solutions to the greater possibility of 'customising' the purchase, from the ever greater guaranteed (and perceived) safety to the stylistic innovations, this car convinces from the first glance. Just for … Read more
The concept of 'packaging' has been the cross and delight of all industrial development: on the one hand it has guaranteed better, faster and more widespread distribution and preservation of food, on the other it has contributed to forming a generation (more than one for truth) “disposable” accustomed to not reusing anything and using things quickly and hastily. In any case, the virtue lies in the middle: we need packages and containers, we will need them more and more. Here you are … Read more
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