A Blog about Machine Learning, Data Privacy and what it takes to make sense of the digital words in the rise of the digital millennium.
Have you seen this article? It’s about the project Soli from the Google’s Advanced Technologies and Projects (ATAP) group. They have implemented a new way to comunicate with a computer: through radar. The radar captures the slight movements of the hand like in this picture, where just moving your fingers in the air makes you Read More …
Mid-February, Francesca Bria from Nesta presented the final study report on Digital Social Innovation (#DigitalSI) As NESTA puts it: This report coordinated by Nesta and commissioned by the European Commission, DG CONNECT is the first systematic network analysis of the emerging digital social innovation (DSI) ecosystem in Europe The study began 18 months ago with Read More …
Innovation is creating new materials, new sensors each time smaller, cheaper, more flexible, more powerful and at the same time less power-consuming. It allows to put them everywhere: we are surrounded with devices crowded with those sensors as our phones with cameras, gyroscopes and gps. And all those measurements captured by the sensors are being Read More …
It (or he/she?) doesn’t need to, there is now a platform to connect to others. I wouldn’t call it the Facebook for Robots, it’s more like a giant Academia 🙂 but RoboEarth enable robots to share their experiences, their learnings. It is a Cloud environment that allows them also to use external storage and computation Read More …
This 2011 Wired post from Thomas Goetz about Feedback Loops is about how we can change (or improve) our behaviour just by measuring it. I would add another factor that I think is as important to make us change, that is when we put our behavior on display. As example, if you have been on a Read More …