I am testing the new Segway i2
Segway i2 For a few days, thanks to the friends at SCM I am testing the newly released Segway i2.…
Writing & Ideas
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Marc Canter at Milan University
Marc Canter at Milan University The Web2.0 meme is seeping into local consciousness on a broader level. After talking in…
Video from Singularity seminar online
The video from my seminar at the University of Milan is online. (of course the video is in Italian…)
Minimalist Pong
Led Pong Table from fabrica.it Pong, the classic videogame, has taken many forms, but this one is probably one of…
Will precedent be set in Italian lawsuit against Google’s YouTube?
As reported by Reuters this morning, and by the Italian news agency Ansa more detailedly this afternoon, the offices of…
Italian post-code database liberated from paywall
The Italian Post Office was privatized recently, and they pulled the freely downloadable database of Italian postcodes, right before introducing…
Google AI achieves medical Expert System status
For the last couple of days, one of the top articles, with more then a hundred of others, in the…
Marvin Minsky speaks at Bergamoscienza
Marvin Minsky and David Orban Bergamoscienza is a wonderful event that for two weeks engulfs the cultural life of Bergamo,…
Daniel Dennett in Venice ruffles some priestly feathers
Daniel Dennett and David Orban I had the fortune of meeting Daniel Dennett in Venice at the Future of Science…