A recent study revealed that the average smartphone user checks the device about 150 times a day. Over time, this translates into a waste of 7 years spent in front …
The robot as a toy
Forget Barbie!!! She may have reproduced mainstream standards for girls, but she’s a 20th-century relic. The future belongs to the “next generation” – and my friend Cayla is a good …
health data
The company Verily Life Sciences emerged from the renaming of Google Life Sciences in late 2015. In addition to its central participation in the Precision Medicine Initiative, Verily is also …
Mapping
Which country the map in the photo below corresponds to is difficult for anyone to guess. It is Bangladesh. So, one would assume it is some kind of meteorological map. …
The “bad eye” and the blessing
Belief in the bad eye, in “counter-magic”, charms and blessings is a hallmark of the primitive mind and of humanity’s earliest, superstitious attempt to “protect” itself from dark forces believed …
Your robotic pet
Kirobo Mini (the humanoid robot in the photo) is the latest achievement… of Toyota! The Japanese company, famous for its cars, has had an industrial robotics research and manufacturing division …
Bring the pain!
Chasing AI (artificial intelligence), the “holy grail” in the field of information technology and robotics, researchers are testing various paths. One of them is breaking the problem into pieces. Thus, …
Transparent world
In the past, all kinds of security services had to “get their hands dirty” in order to achieve a good and reliable rate of filing cases against subjects under surveillance. …
Artificial racism
On the 23rd of last March, Microsoft launched an ambitious experiment on machines’ ability to learn and evolve mentally in real time. The goal of the experiment was to show …
familiarity count
A recent survey of 1,002 adults in England, on topics related to the (and technological) future, yielded answers that are quite interesting. – Although 60% to 72% (depending on the …
social cats
The site iknowwhereyourcatlives.com is an online page – a project by a professor at the University of Florida. It displays a world map with little cats at the spot where …
paper reality
Early November 2015, 1.2 million subscribers of the print edition of the New York Times received, along with their newspaper, the cardboard construction shown in the image. Some of them …