When we look at the sky at night, every star we see is, in reality, an enormous power plant. For millions of years, the Sun and all the other stars have produced their light thanks to a process called...
Your face is already one of your most used passwords. Your phone’s camera turns on, looks at you for half a second and lets you in: without typing anything, without remembering anything. Facial ...
Some time or other, when you open the maps on your phone and see that little blue dot marking exactly where you are, you’ve surely wondered: how does it know? There are no cables, nobody is trac...
Where are your photos? And that document you saved from work, your contacts, those notes you quickly typed on your phone? Almost certainly they’re not on your hard drive. They live in something ...
A video loads in an instant, your house responds to a gesture from your phone and a car warns of a danger before you even see it. Behind many of these little everyday pieces of magic there’s a t...
You type a sentence, press a key and, within seconds, an image that didn’t exist appears, a text that seems written by a person, or even a video with sound. That is generative artificial intelli...
There are two ways of getting inside a screen and two ways of bringing the screen into the real world. Virtual reality envelops you completely, with goggles that block your field of view to immerse yo...
For decades, humanoid robots were a fairground attraction and a movie dream. Today, with far more capable artificial intelligence systems and more precise motors, more and more companies are taking th...
Imagine ordering a pizza or a medicine and, instead of a delivery driver knocking on the door, you hear a buzz at the window. A small drone drops the order on your terrace and flies away. What a few y...
Can you imagine a computer capable of solving in seconds a problem that would take the world’s most powerful computers years? That is what quantum computing promises, a technology that has been ...
Imagine being able to write a message without moving a finger. Or moving a robotic arm just by thinking about it. For decades, this was the stuff of futuristic movies. But brain-computer interfaces (B...
You carry an ever more powerful phone, but perhaps you have not stopped to think about the network through which your data travels. 5G has been with us for a few years, and now the industry is already...