The future of war: first lessons learned from Ukraine
The war between Ukraine and Russia is the first large-scale conventional war of the 21st century. It will shape the way major powers...
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Francois S. Marmion
- Oct 19
- 1 min
Air delivery is becoming prime
Amazon has announced that they will roll out their "Prime Air" drone delivery service in the UK and Italy by the end of 2024, in...
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Francois S. Marmion
- Oct 11, 2022
- 2 min
Singapore: the port of the future
Singapore is the second container port in the world after Shanghai and has just inaugurated the first phase of its New Generation Port...
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Eric Vidal
- Oct 2, 2022
- 2 min
Deepfakes - the future of Hollywood… marketing and our democracies?
Deepfake videos are pretty cool but the implication for potential misinformation are huge. The future of Hollywood, marketing and democracy?
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Eric Vidal
- Aug 4, 2022
- 1 min
How to operate a smooth digital transformation? Just visit Japan!
Buddhist Japan might have better understood than any other country or culture, how to operate a smoother digital transformation. The Zen...
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Francois Marmion
- Jul 29, 2021
- 1 min
Do robots have a future at the Olympics?
During the half-time of the recent Olympic Games match between France and the USA (surprisingly won by France), Cue4, the basketball...
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Colette Barbier
- Jun 23, 2021
- 3 min
Did autonomous drones attack humans for the first time?​​
A UN report recently suggests that military drones may have attacked an individual autonomously in Libya for the first time in history....
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eleonoreroty
- Jun 21, 2021
- 2 min
Refurbished tech for the future
At a time when the planet is calling for more earth- friendly technology, refurbished second-hand devices might just be the answer. The...
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Colette Barbier
- Jun 3, 2021
- 3 min
Elon Musk's Neuralink makes monkeys play video games with their brain
The Neuralink BCI (brain-computer interface) project is moving fast. In his last update in April 2021, Elon Musk released a video...
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Agathe Gellé
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Quand la lumière prend vie
Produire de la lumière sans électricité, c'est le pari fou dans lequel s'est lancée Glowee, une start-up française qui ne manque pas...
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Ines Deselaie
- Apr 29, 2021
- 2 min
A bug in the food chain
Innovations that contribute to reduce food waste and gas emissions multiply in a wide range of sectors. Since 2017, the Bulgarian company...
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Agathe Gellé
- Apr 13, 2021
- 3 min
Mechanical trees: imitating forests to save the planet
Reducing CO2 emissions is a global issue that has encouraged impact startups to find new innovative solutions. Recently, Silicon Kingdom...
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Ines Deselaie
- Mar 19, 2021
- 1 min
Precision food: you can shop with your DNA!
Some innovations enable us to live in a healthier environment by changing our lifestyles. This is what DNA Nudge contributes to do based...
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Francois S. Marmion
- Feb 5, 2021
- 4 min
Will China's massive lead in 5G subscriptions change the world?
At the end of 2020, there were 220 million 5G subscribers in the world, 80% Chinese. This could have huge consequences on who takes the...
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Francois S. Marmion
- Dec 13, 2020
- 1 min
A maritime hydrogen-powered VTOL drone: lots of innovation in one!
The Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands has developed a maritime VTOL drone using a combination of hydrogen and batteries...
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Francois S. Marmion
- Nov 24, 2020
- 1 min
Is GPT-3 the first step towards general artificial intelligence?
Every day we see more examples of the amazing capabilities of Open AI's GPT-3 in doing things that we thought were reserved for human...
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Francois Marmion
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Orange lance son réseau fibre optique du futur Djoliba en Afrique de l'Ouest
Orange a annoncé le 10 Novembre, lors du sommet Africa Tech Festival, le lancement de son réseau backbone fibre optique Djoliba ("Fleuve...
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Francois S. Marmion
- Nov 13, 2020
- 3 min
An army of robots in the 2030s: is it good or bad news for human beings?
During the "Battle of the 300 champions" in antique Greece (546 B.C.), the cities of Sparta and Argos agreed to have only three hundred...
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Francois S. Marmion
- Nov 12, 2020
- 1 min
First ride of the hyperloop with passengers onboard
Virgin has done its first test of the hyperloop in Arizona, near Las Vegas, with actual passengers onboard. A very short trip (500...
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Francois S. Marmion
- Nov 3, 2020
- 1 min
The World Economic Forum's top 100 technology pioneers
The World Economic Forums issues each year a list of 100 technology pioneers. Amongst the 20th cohort this year, "leaders in carbon...
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