The first investigation began when fifteen cases of children were recorded who were born either without palms (in one or both hands) or with severe deformities in their arms. The …
Ali Baba alone
Amazon’s well-known chinese competitor, alibaba, introduced its marketable cloud, primarily for use within china, in 2009. In the middle of last year it started offering cloud services for commercial use …
engineering of everything: the atmosphere…
The American president may be mocked, asking for the return of “global warming” on the days (at the end of last January) when polar (literally) temperatures hit the northern and …
Shrewd cities
It is not easy to come up against 500,000 cameras and sensors in all public places; even if one wanted to. If the gift of this giga-panopticon is absolute security …
do electric whales dream of death?
The “blue whale”, if we believe the etymology of the moral panic it caused, was an online challenge game for teenagers, in which the goal for the “players” was to …
Collaboration above all…
The announcement itself is undeniably dystopian. Last November, the American DARPA (who else?) announced that it had successfully conducted a live-fire exercise of collaborative robotic weapons—airborne, ground and maritime—without real-time …
the worker and the queen: epigenetics on dna determinism
… The fundamental belief called genetic determinism essentially means that our lives, which are defined as the physical, biological and emotional characteristics of our behavior, are fully controlled by our …
The Invisible Campaign
In our territories, these are completely indifferent matters; what are serious are the political buffooneries and the everyday trivialities. In other societies they have begun to understand the seriousness of …
blockchain: the protocol of the gods
If we had to name a key and critical characteristic of human relationships, it would certainly be trust. And surely no introduction is needed regarding its importance and criticality. However, …
Falling onto the tracks doesn’t stop the train
Washington is trying to brake the global expansion of Chinese-origin 5G communications technology, codenamed Huawei. Right now Huawei is far ahead of every competitor worldwide: not just in research but …
the archaeology of cyberspace: the cry of Pandora
The cyberspace did not leap fully armed from the head of the informatics Leviathan. It was constructed, developed, and infiltrated every field of human activity in a methodical and by …
Social responsibility
Who would disagree? If you have a pet and you don’t take care of it, you’re an unworthy “owner”. In distant e-China this is not idle talk. Every dog owner …