The boom in the Internet of Things (IoT) offers a key opportunity to radically change business models and the way we consume goods and services, but there is one hurdle that is not usually addressed in the debates around the IoT.

This expanding sector, specialized in health and safety, has a 22% share of the Spanish textiles industry and offers new competitive business opportunities.

Gaucher's disease is a rare pathology affecting one out of every 50,000 live births in its least aggressive form, and one out of every 100,000 births in its more serious variant. Andrés Klein, a cell and molecular biologist and researcher at the Weizmann Institute (Israel), found it interesting that a single mutated gene could provoke several forms of the disease, some of which are fatal and others chronic. So he embarked on research to find a way of predicting how each patient would be affected, and thus achieve early diagnosis and more individualized treatment. This is one of the reasons he was selected as one of the MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35, in its Chilean edition in 2013.

The traditional methods used to define and develop desktop applications will not work with mobile application development At least that's the conclusion Gartner reached after finding that the increasing pressure on IT organizations to deliver large numbers of mobile applications has led to new development techniques being used.

Social bots are sending a significant amount of information through the Twittersphere. Now there’s a tool to help identify them.

Although smart watches and fitness bands are proliferating on wrists, there could be an even better spot on the body for wearable tech.

The interest in artificial intelligence seems ultimately to approximate the search for self-aware systems that can act in a "human" way (known as a 'Singularity').

The interest in artificial intelligence seems ultimately to approximate the search for self-aware systems that can act in a "human" way (known as a 'Singularity').

Inspired by automobile manufacturing processes, this new bike can be packed into just 30 liters, shaking up a sector that traditionally is not very innovative.

Los robots trabajan juntos para alcanzar un objetivo común. El secreto: organizarse mediante una "mentalidad de colmena": es decir, un enjambre en el que ningún individuo está a cargo.