Imagine a car that drives itself. Without anyone touching the wheel, the vehicle decides when to brake, when to turn and how to dodge a pedestrian crossing unexpectedly. This is no longer science fict...
For years, the password was the master key to our digital life. A set of letters, numbers and symbols that we had to memorize and change every few months. Today, more and more devices ask us for somet...
Blockchain: the chain of blocks that is changing how we trust the internet When we hear the word “blockchain”, most of us think of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. But this technology is ...
We all have a drawer at home full of devices we no longer use: a phone that ran out of battery, an orphan charger, a computer that no longer starts. Those objects are not just any rubbish: they are pa...
Do you remember that film where the protagonist puts on some glasses and suddenly sees information floating over the real world? Well, that scene is no longer science fiction. It is called augmented r...
Do you remember that film where the protagonist puts on some glasses and suddenly sees information floating over the real world? Well, that scene is no longer science fiction. It is called augmented r...
Do you remember the last time you paid for something? You probably took out your phone, held it near the card terminal and, in a second, done. No cash, no card, no signature. That very quick gesture h...
We live surrounded by objects that connect to the internet. The watch that counts your steps, the thermostat that adjusts the heating, the light bulb that turns on with your voice or the fridge that w...
Robots are no longer just a thing of science fiction movies. They are increasingly present in factories, hospitals, warehouses and even in our homes. But how do they really work? What makes them capab...
The steering wheel turns on its own. The driver’s hands — if they can be called that — rest on their lap while the car brakes at a traffic light, waits for a pedestrian and resumes driving witho...
Every time you send a message, watch a video or make a video call, your data does not travel through the air or by satellite. It travels along the seabed. Behind almost all the internet you use there ...
Just a decade ago, monitoring a crop field meant walking it on foot, covering kilometres of land under the sun to check whether a plant was sick, whether water was short or whether a pest was spreadin...