Video from Singularity seminar online
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006The video from my seminar at the University of Milan is online. (of course the video is in Italian...)
Archive for November, 2006
The video from my seminar at the University of Milan is online. (of course the video is in Italian...)
Minimalist Pong
Monday, November 27th, 2006Led Pong Table from fabrica.it Pong, the classic videogame, has taken many forms, but this one is probably one of the most subtle and elegant. The integration of led technology, and touchpads enrich this object without encumbering it with additional design elements. Both leds, for information display and illumination, and ...
Will precedent be set in Italian lawsuit against Google’s YouTube?
Friday, November 24th, 2006As reported by Reuters this morning, and by the Italian news agency Ansa more detailedly this afternoon, the offices of Google Italy have been raided today by the Guardia di Finanza police force, and its American legal representatives have been notified of accusations against them of defamation, and omitted control ...
Italian post-code database liberated from paywall
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006The Italian Post Office was privatized recently, and they pulled the freely downloadable database of Italian postcodes, right before introducing a new series of postcodes, extensive changes to existing ones, and a new rule by which they would refuse the delivery of any letter with an imprecise postcode on it. ...
Google AI achieves medical Expert System status
Saturday, November 11th, 2006For the last couple of days, one of the top articles, with more then a hundred of others, in the health section of Google News was from The Times Online talking about the proficency of the search engine with diagnosing medical conditions. None of the articles, or even the blog ...
Speaking about the Singularity
Thursday, November 9th, 2006I will be speaking about the Technological Singularity at the University of Milan in Crema on November 22 at 4PM. The talk entitled "La prossima singolarità tecnologica: realtà o miraggio?" will be followed by a roundtable discussion, and should be fun! It will also be recorded, and I will be ...
