What I have written
Interviews, reports and features I have written since 2015.
Each card opens the article’s opening, translated from the Portuguese, with a link to the full original, which is in Portuguese.
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Every article I have published at ECO and Observador, searchable by headline and by subject. The links take you to the original page, in Portuguese.
77 articles, in a different order on every visit.
- Robots already write news in Portugal too. They are interning at Lusa
- How SIRESP (didn’t) work in Pedrógão Grande
- We bought virtual currencies. We lost money on bitcoin
- “I’ll open a bottle of champagne the day nobody asks me about the sale of Meo”
- “There is an excess of zeal” in Anacom’s current board, says the regulator’s future chair
- We filed our income tax return with help from the tax authority’s “Siri”
- From radio waves to bits on the internet. An X-ray of Portugal’s podcasts
- The rise and fall of a “unicorn”. WeWork’s hell
- EDP has “more than 500 AI agents”, but lacks the “confidence” to give them full autonomy
- The taxi driver’s son who drives for Uber
- What are they and who pays for them? A guide to AI Gigafactories
- How the ‘blackout’ practically switched off communications
- PlayStation 5 arrives on 19 November, with prices starting at 399 euros
- Uber, Cabify or myTaxi? We tried all three
- We shared an Uber with… Uber’s director
- We went to buy Sporting bonds. And these were the banks’ answers to the mystery shopper
- We tried 5G. The fifth generation is fast, but still tastes green
- “You don’t implement artificial intelligence. You educate artificial intelligence”
- How artificial intelligence leapt to the forefront of technology with ChatGPT
- Unbabel’s new technology looks like telepathy. “And that is increasingly what it will be, in fact”
- After “a lot of reflection”, what to expect from artificial intelligence in 2025?
- What Pope Leo says in his new encyclical on artificial intelligence
- “Portugal woke up to ‘data centres’ with Operation Influencer”
- Palha da Silva: “Oi lost value too suddenly for it to be a normal situation”
- João Epifânio, of Altice Portugal: “It is in our interest for the Media Capital deal to be settled as quickly as possible”
- Giants flee from Huawei. But what is so frightening about the Chinese company?
- The farewell of the Cadete who became Anacom’s general
- Alexandre Fonseca, the child of the Revolution who changed Altice
- Drahi is thinking of selling Altice Portugal. What assets does it have in the country?
- 5G is in the air. It is about to land at Rock in Rio
- This Portuguese man made 50,000 on bitcoin. There are more like him
- Bitcoin’s rise makes fortunes in Portugal: “I have enough wealth for ten lifetimes”
- Cryptos face a decisive year in which scrutiny “will only increase”
- Uber drivers make “rivers of money” in the Algarve
- No tills but lots of cameras. This is the supermarket of the future
- Porsche’s machines are made in this factory in Braga
- GDPR: The new era of data protection in Europe has begun. Find out what has changed
- “Contact tracing” apps reach the EU and Portugal is on the radar. They are here to stay
- Data is the new oil. Is the well running dry?
- There is a ratings war. But who watches, and what are mornings on Portuguese TV worth?
- Flipboard: How do you save digital journalism? By making it more like print
- Everyone wants TVI’s owner, but what does Media Capital have?
- “Now that TVI is no longer the leader, we can take risks”
- Delay in 5G was a “missed opportunity” for the Portuguese, says Jorge Graça, a board member at Nos
- “We are profitable on every trip in Portugal”, says Bolt’s founder
- StayAway cost “close to 400,000 euros”. App aims to trace 6.5 million Portuguese
- Francisco de Lacerda: “People will remain the most important capital of every company”
- Sofia Tenreiro: “We block 20 billion” cyberattacks a day
- A hoe, a chainsaw and 20 litres of water. This is how the elite troops fight fires
- When fire gains the strength of a giant
- “If the funicular hadn’t hit the wall, we would all have died here”
- The ‘foreign fish’ that is winning over Portuguese tables
- The best way to deal with robots? Accept them
- What was this Web Summit made of? Artificial intelligence
- Slowing artificial intelligence down: the alarm, the proposals and the commitments
- Inês Lynce, the AI researcher who wants Portuguese science to run as a team
- From last to winner: how a company won an ARTE tender with a rival’s certificate
- Portugal fishing for an AI Gigafactory
- The Portuguese State with no direct stake in the future AI Gigafactory
- “Today telecoms operators are simply burning money”
- João Bento: “I am open to considering an international non-executive position”
- “Kids can start doing their homework with ChatGPT”
- Portuguese companies have tried artificial intelligence. And liked it
- “AI is perfectly within reach of SMEs. It costs less than a BMW”
- “The conditions are in place to set up AI factories in the country”
- The fate of Amália
- Beyond the obvious (and ChatGPT), Portuguese companies are already applying AI to their operations
- “Mid-sized companies have an enormous lack of knowledge about what to do with AI”
- Agents and humanoid robots promise to ‘dominate’ in 2026
- Pressure to adopt AI “may give rise to some kind of shortcuts”
- I tried PlayStation’s virtual reality. Is it worth it?
- Portugal without the internet for a day? It would be "a disaster" (more or less)
- These three Portuguese received 16,000 euros from Uber. And they want more
- Facebook: 12 years on, what are you worth?
- There is a voice in Portugal called Youtube
- Technology trends for 2016. The future we are building
- Lisbon. IBM shows off a robot powered by Watson