(by Fabio Contessa) For some years now, virtual reality has gone from being a topic reserved exclusively for science fiction films and TV series to an increasingly present component in our daily lives. VR finds application in many fields of knowledge and the arrival of the Metaverse is pushing the manufacturers […]
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South Korea's LG group chairman Koo Bon-moo, who managed to turn LG into a global brand, died on Sunday after battling a serious brain disease for a year. An official of the group, who preferred to remain anonymous, reported in a statement that Koo has [...]
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After the job interviews at Ikea and the job as a caregiver, now comes the 'counselor': Nao, one of the first social robots, was very successful in motivating those who wanted to change behaviors and lifestyles. But in addition to helping man in his duties, robots are also increasingly skilled in the game. After […]
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The co-founder of WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned messaging service with over 1 billion daily users, said today he will be leaving the company. Jan Koum's exit plan comes after the clash with the parent company over WhatApp's strategy and Facebook's attempts to use his personal data [...]
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US prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Chinese tech firm Huawei has violated US sanctions in relation to Iran, according to sources who follow the story closely. Since at least 2016, the US authorities have been probing the alleged shipment of products of US origin by Huawei to Iran [...]
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The most famous and widespread social network in the world has activated the option for facial recognition also in Europe, after having withdrawn it in 2012, and at the same time the alerts to users have been launched with the possibility to choose whether to activate this possibility or not. "If you activate this setting, we will use facial recognition technology to understand when [...]
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Dubai confirms itself as an authentic 'hotbed of ideas' or at least the ideal place where avant-garde ambitions can be realized. The latest news from the United Arab Emirates has to do with the world of transport and more specifically with digital car plates that from next May, after the green light granted by the Authority for [...]
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nCore, an HR Tech startup that has developed a proprietary technological platform to manage the entire process of collecting and analyzing a candidate's information through forms, questionnaires, pre-recorded and live video interviews, joins the Digital Magics team, the most important “Made in Italy” digital startup incubator active throughout the Italian territory. On [...]
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On the second day of the hearing at the Energy and Commerce Commission of the American Chamber of Representatives, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, had to address the issue of privacy. The social network does not come out very well. One of the most significant passages of yesterday's hearing appears to be the response provided by the founder and CEO of Facebook, to [...]
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Vodafone Italia accelerates the implementation of Narrowband-IoT (Narrowband - Internet of Things) technology and announces the coverage of 100% of its 4G sites by September 2018, to create a network capable of connecting any type of object, from bicycles to containers , up to the water meters. The Internet of Things, together with the 5G network that will support it [...]
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Apple Siri with which you interface every day on topics related to news, weather, music and new movies could revive your day by reading your private notifications aloud and even when you are in public or in the office. Gizmodo's security analysts claim that the security flaw does not affect notifications from [...]
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According to reports from Bloomberg, Apple Inc is developing and testing new displays for its MicroLED devices, a move that could harm China-made display suppliers. MicroLED is a new display technology that has attracted the attention of several tech companies. Screens using MicroLED are thinner, more [...]
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It's called Beautic, the startup selected to access the 3-month acceleration program of IMPRESSIONlab (www.impressionlab.it), the new platform dedicated to digital startups that promote innovation in the communication and advertising sector. The three partners of the Cariplo Factory project, Digital Magics and IAB Italia have selected Beautic (https://thebeautic.com), the social marketplace where [...]
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By e-mail now we get everything: documentation from public and private bodies, from the tax authorities, from local administrations, from organizations of various kinds. There are several official communications that reach us thanks to e-mail, especially via mobile, and digital fraud is on the agenda. Cyber criminals all over the world have [...]
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The popularity of Bitcoin and the emergence of around 1.500 other digital coins or tokens have drawn more hackers into the cryptocurrency cyber, expanding opportunities for crime and fraud, according to cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows, in a report on Thursday. Cybercriminals follow the evolution of cryptocurrencies in an unregulated world in [...]
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China's first online sharing platform for integrated circuits and microsystems was launched by a state-owned enterprise. The platform, initiated by China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), allows the public to access the CETC intellectual property database, software tools and production line. The platform welcomes other [...]
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One of Japan's largest digital currency exchanges reports it has lost around $ 534 million (£ 380 million) of virtual money in a hacking attack on its network. This is Coincheck where deposits and withdrawals have been suspended for all crypto-currencies except Bitcoin as it has evaluated [...]
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Facebook is working on artificial intelligence and virtual reality. The social network has recruited, in this regard, one of the scientists behind the launch of Watson (IBM) and one of the pioneers of virtual reality. Jérôme Pesenti, who joined Ibm following the purchase by that group of the company he co-founded Vivismimo, takes on a new position in [...]
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As reported by the Nova Agency, less than four weeks after the launch of the most significant tax reform of the last 30 years, the Apple company has planned how to make the most of the new rules. The company, reports the newspaper "New York Times", today announced that it wants to contribute to the US economy with 350 billion [...]
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A Harvard team in the United States has designed a new type of miniaturized robot that combines micrometric precision with high speed. The new design, reported in Science Robotics, integrates an origami-inspired microfabrication technique with high-performance composite materials that can incorporate flex joints and folding actuators. On [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Yesterday Warren Buffet, the American guru of finance and investments, spoke of his succession at the top of the trading company he has been managing for a lifetime and criticized cryptocurrencies saying that his company would not put them never in your wallet. "I don't know them and that's why I don't [...]
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An observation-study conducted in the Arnas-Civico Complex Operational Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Palermo, directed by Luigi Alio, found that water birth is able to lower the heart rate of the future mother and highlighted further beneficial effects, such as the reduction of pain and greater comfort for the parturient, of childbirth [...]
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A Californian cybersecurity company has found software that installs a code for the Monero cryptocurrency and sends coins to a server at a North Korean university. If so, it is yet another sign that North Korea could be looking for new ways to revitalize its economy, gripped by the [...]
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Sweden's Yevo Labs has unveiled a series of wireless headphones incorporating metal made from seized illegal guns. The charging case and a headband on the headphones themselves are made from Humanium branded material. It was created by the Humanium Metal Initiative, also based in Sweden, and used by numerous Scandinavian manufacturers. An analyst [...]
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Apple Inc shareholders Jana Partners and the California State Teachers' Retirement System are urging the smartphone maker to take action to address what they say is a growing problem of young people becoming addicted to Apple's iPhones, Jana Charles partner said. Penner. Jana, one of the main activist shareholders, [...]
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The US space company SpaceX yesterday launched a top secret payload into space for the US government, known only by the code name Zuma. The cargo took off at 8 pm on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Northrop Grumman, an American company of [...]
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According to a recent survey conducted by Blockchain Capital and reported by Forbes, 30% of those aged 18 to 34 would prefer to invest $ 1.000 in Bitcoin rather than government bonds or stocks. The same study also indicates that 42% of respondents have heard of Bitcoin, compared to 15% [...]
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Zuckerberg, Facebook at a crossroads: the 2018 will be the year of choices and requires my attention
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that his goal for 2018 is to build the business on a stronger footing. "The world is anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do", Zuckerberg, is one of the richest people in the world and wrote a [...]
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The councilor for the right to health, Stefania Saccardi and the director of the Careggi staff, Andrea Belardinelli, will present tomorrow, during the scheduled press conference, the new function of the "Careggi Smart Hospital" application that will allow you to check the various stages of surgery. This is a new function for the App which, [...]
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Researchers have discovered security gaps stemming from central processing units, better known as chips or microchips, which could allow the hacking of data stored on computers and networks. No data breaches have been reported so far. What are the mistakes? There are two separate security flaws known as Meltdown and Specter. Meltdown [...]
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Apple's offer to replace batteries at a slower rate could pose a barrier to iPhone unit sales in 2018 if many users accept the deal to upgrade to a new device. Barclays analysts write this in a note. Apple customers have not been very satisfied since the company [...]
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(Alessandro Rugolo) One of the businesses of the moment seems to be investing in cryptocurrency. The best known are Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Litecoin and about 700 other types of digital currency, among the latter there is also one called Youbit, owned by Yapian, a South Korean company. In the last year it seems that the South Koreans have discovered [...]
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Faced with a saturated market, many social networks have had to change their strategy and above all make substantial changes to their offer. Twitter has experienced the increase of characters from 140 to 280. Facebook will give the possibility in 2018 to be able to insert advertising videos in the various message boards and has signed a contract with a platform [...]
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Almost a class action against Apple. 8 complaints have been filed in various US federal courts between California, New York and Illinois, accusing Apple of defrauding iPhone users by slowing down devices without warning them, in order to compensate for the poor battery performance. A move that would have pushed the consumers themselves, convinced that the [...]
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Robots like humans can be afraid and under stress sharpen their wits. The scientific journal Plos One reported an experiment conducted between Great Britain and Italy, at the Federico II University of Naples. By studying how, in the course of evolution, animals have learned to manage fear and to take the right steps [...]
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Three class actions were launched in the United States after Cupertino admitted to deliberately slowing down the performance of older iPhones with updates. "Apple knew that replacing the battery would improve the performance of older devices" reads one of the lawsuits filed in a federal court in Illinois and reported [...]
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Facebook moves quickly on the music business to become a rival of YouTube and take over market shares and users. The most famous social network in the world with more than two billion users has signed a multi-year global license agreement with the Universal Music Group label, controlled by the French Vivendi. Thanks to the agreement, the led colossus [...]
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ABI Lab is carrying out the first experimentation on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) applied to the interbank check, to simplify and standardize this reconciliation process between banks, using the Corda platform created by R3. The objective is to verify the opportunities opened by the use of this innovative technology to evaluate possible further applications to national and international banking processes. [...]
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There is no workplace where artificial intelligence cannot be used, even if this technology will impact the number of jobs. An example, according to an article in the magazine of the Mit Technology Review, is the legal sector. Through artificial intelligence, experts explain, millions of documents, legal notices and reports can be analyzed [...]
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The smartphone market is booming: at the end of the third quarter of 2017, another 373 million devices were placed on the market, with an increase in shipments of 3 percent compared to the previous year. According to what was recorded by IDC, Samsung continues to dominate the scene, with more than 83 million [...]
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ABI - in collaboration with ABI Lab, State Police, CERTFin and Feduf - promotes the responsible use of technology and payment instruments with a guide that illustrates the basic rules for concluding e-commerce transactions without risk, using cards carefully and access the channels safely from a PC or mobile phone [...]
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As reported by Nova, the French government unlocks 100 million euros of vouchers to bring connections at least 8 Mbps by 2020 to 100 percent of homes, to reach ultra-broadband speeds of 30 Mbps in 2022. This is the announcement made today by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, who thus relaunches the national plan [...]
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SmartIsland, an innovative startup from Niscemi (Caltanissetta) that is developing technological products and services for the agri-food industries, joins the team of Digital Magics Palermo: Sicilian headquarters of Digital Magics, business incubator listed on AIM Italia of the Italian Stock Exchange (symbol: DM), in collaboration with the partner company Factory Accademia. Digital Magics Palermo has acquired 10% [...]
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Twitter is trying everything to combat the crisis of users recorded recently and after the doubling of the characters available, a new modification for Twitter, which facilitates the management of threads. In fact, the process of creating a thread has been simplified by adding an extra button in the composition, so that people can [...]
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According to what was published on the TechCrunch website, Apple is about to buy Shazam, the application used to discover songs, videos and lyrics. Citing anonymous sources, the site, which specializes in technology, reports that the iPhone manufacturer could pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for the application; in this case Apple would pay less than Shazam was valued in its last [...]
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The present and the future of the COSMO-SkyMed satellite system, which in ten years since the launch of the first satellite, carried out in 2007, has changed the way we observe the Earth, ensuring fundamental information for our safety and to understand the phenomena that affect the our Planet. This was discussed at the MAXXI in Rome by [...]
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In the stations of the national railway network, it becomes easier to access Wi-Fi and connect to the web. From today, in the 32 stations (9 of which in Lazio) where the Wi-Fi Station service is active, simply enter your telephone number and the four-digit confirmation code received via SMS to enter [...]
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Apple is thinking of introducing three new “X” -style iPhones to the market in 2018. One model could be 'extra-large', with a 6,5-inch display. It would be joined by two other smartphones with dimensions identical to the current ones (5,8 inches). This was stated by an analysis by Nomura, which would confirm a hypothesis already circulated last month by [...]
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Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales 67 per cent and Leonardo 33 per cent, has won the Better Satellite World Awards 2017 for the Meolut Next solution. The prize was awarded in the prestigious One Whitehall Place in London, by Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI), and is aimed at established companies and companies [...]
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The digital economy alone generates nearly a third of China's gross domestic product. This is supported by a report presented by Beijing at the annual Chinese conference on cyberspace. The report presented yesterday in Wuzhen by the Chinese State Academy for Cyberspace Studies claims that last year China's digital economy generated a [...]
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With the highly anticipated ruling published last November 29, concerning the lawsuit brought by VCAST Limited (Vcast) against Reti Televisive Italiane spa ("RTI" - a company of the Mediaset Group), the EU Court of Justice (Case C-265 / 16), clarified that cloud video recording cannot be considered lawful if carried out through the “active” intervention of third parties. Such as […]
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The "Digital X Factory", the Call for Innovation launched by Ansaldo Energia, in collaboration with Digital Magics EnergyTech, aimed at all Italian innovative startups and SMEs of Industry 4.0, able to design and implement advanced and applicable technological solutions, has ended to its production processes To accompany Ansaldo Energia in the construction of the Lighhouse Plant [...]
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Music lovers will certainly have an audio streaming service among the apps installed, to listen to songs through the data connection, even on the move thanks to the increasingly numerous mobile Internet rates on the market: one of the most used is definitely Spotify, which includes a catalog of tens of millions of songs and that [...]
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(by Giovanni Calcerano) In our technological world, batteries are everywhere: telephones, laptops, appliances but also portable devices, toys and industrial applications. And to meet the expectations of today's consumers, these batteries need to be lighter, more powerful and designed to last longer. Currently the most modern technology in this [...]
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Rolls-Royce and the European Space Agency have signed a futuristic collaboration agreement to apply activities in space to support autonomous and remote-controlled maritime navigation, as well as to promote innovation in digital logistics. The collaboration, underlines Rolls-Royce, will involve the creation of a joint structure in the Ship Intelligence division of the British Group to develop and [...]
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Who said social media are useless? Facebook is integrating its services with new initiatives in favor of the third sector and public aid. New tools for the safety of its users and greater attention to the third sector during the second Social Good Forum in New York. Among the news [...]
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Ericsson, a manufacturer and provider of technologies and services for telecom operators, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report published today, sees the number of 5G subscriptions almost doubled in 2023, where users will sign up to 1 billion 5G subscriptions to secure the access to better mobile broadband coverage. 5G, whose implementation [...]
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Deputy Head of the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation Alexei Volin intervened on rumors of Google that it is about to degrade the English-language content of Russian RT or Sputnik agencies. "If that were the case, the senior Russian official points out, it would cause a lot of questions from the Russian Federation for inappropriate content, [...]
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Rockets to 'seed' the clouds and cause rains "on demand". A group of French university students, through a start-up, is trying to contribute to the fight against malnutrition and hunger caused by water shortages. The initiative is carried out by students of the faculty of engineering of IPSA-Institut polytechnique des sciences avance'es, and by students of biotechnology [...]
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An old-time machine, a latest generation tablet, an electronic board are the elements to build a “vintage” wireless laptop. The idea is from a Piedmontese computer scientist, who will exhibit the unusual PC at maker Faire, from 1 to 3 December in Rome. Giuseppe Portelli, Ph.D. in computer engineering graduated from the Turin Polytechnic, left [...]
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The proposal by Ajit Pai, president of the FCC (Federal communciation commission), to dismantle net neutrality has aroused strong protests from US-made web companies, starting with Google and Facebook, but also from startups. The BBC writes it. The principle of net neutrality in the US was sanctioned by law in 2015 [...]
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Jean-Claude Juncker, in his State of the Union Address, stated in 2016 that by 2020, “every city and town in Europe will be equipped with free wireless internet access in the main public meeting points in the area. He spoke of WiFi and the WiFI4EU project, which with a budget of 120 million euros [...]
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(by Giovanni Calcerano) The Food and Drug Administration, the US government body that deals with the regulation of food and pharmaceutical products, recently approved the use of the first digital pill that records whether or not patients have taken their medicines. The pill, called Abilify MyCite, is equipped with a small ingestible sensor that communicates [...]
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For over twenty years, Alfa Group has been operating in the ICT sector, in consulting, system integration and software development. The Group recorded a turnover of over 2016 million euros in 18. With over 150 employees and collaborators, Alfa Group has five operational offices between Italy and the Netherlands: Rome, Milan, Bologna, Fermo [...]
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Did you know that there are 200-ton magnets that can open the door to the energy of the future? On Monday afternoon, the largest magnet ever built in the world in the shape of a D and weighing 200 tons will leave the La Spezia plant where it was built, that of Asg Superconductors, a company of the Malacalza family. [...]
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In the weeks in which the iPhone X is actually available for purchase (from the stores to the rates with the iPhone including telephone operators), there is no shortage of criticisms that, as usual, accompany the release of every new smartphone from Apple: the new borderless device, despite the renewal in terms of design and functionality, is not immune from [...]
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The Big [smart] Hack 25 will take place on 26 and 4.0 November at the Tempio di Adriano: an entire weekend of programming dedicated to the themes of Smart City, Energy efficiency, Big data, IoT technology and, in general, innovative technologies. The event - organized by Maker Faire Rome 2017 (1-3 December, Fiera di Roma) in collaboration with [...]
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67 percent of sites and apps do not disclose to users where their personal data is stored, and 51 percent do not clarify if and with whom the information is shared. Generic policies, inaccurate and lacking in details, and in 44 percent of cases users are not even communicated [...]
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Leonardo and MVP Tech announced at the Dubai Air Show (12-16 November) the start of a collaboration to provide integrated cyber security solutions in the United Arab Emirates. The two companies will offer government organizations and businesses customized cybersecurity services including intelligence, risk management, analysis, design, development and system certification. Founded [...]
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As reported by the ANSA Agency, Instagram aims to offer new tools to its users to have increasingly relevant content on the platform, even from accounts not yet known. The social media of images, as reported by The Next Web site, would be testing a function that allows you to follow not only the profiles of the members but [...]
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Since January 2018, Google has been gearing up to provide its users with new tools of protection and persuasion when they are redirected to unwanted or fictitious content. Google will do this through Chrome, also giving site owners the ability to check for breaches on their platforms. The violations of the sites occur [...]
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To post photos of minors on Facebook, Instagram and other social networks, the consent of both parents is required. This was established by the court of Mantua in a sentence in favor of a separated father who had asked the former partner to remove and publish the photographs of the minor children on Fb. [...]
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The privacy of people whose telephone, telematic and environmental wiretapping are not relevant to the investigations is safeguarded. This is the cardinal principle of the legislative decree, approved by the Council of Ministers, which intervenes on the provisions regarding the interception of conversations or communications. "The abuse is put to an end" said Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni. In fact, the text [...]
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A startup of young Neapolitan boys has invented an application that could solve the problem that has always plagued the city. It looks like a hoax but it is not: Moveng was born in Naples, which for those unfamiliar with the Neapolitan dialect means "I will arrive immediately". As explained in the online presentation, this is the "first Neapolitan-style app [...]
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In my last article: "Artificial Intelligence: opportunity or risk?", I tried to highlight some aspects of what is happening in the field of Artificial Intelligence in the world; this is because, like all news, it has positive aspects but also potentially dangerous aspects AND THEREFORE YOU SHOULD KNOW AND KEEP IN MIND FOR THE FUTURE! Now, for [...]
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The 5G network is essential for new technology, when it comes to virtual reality and augmented reality that will change our daily life in at least six vital sectors: media, school, work, social interactions, tourism and retail. But for this to happen, the response times of the networks must be improved. It is the result of the 'Merged Reality' study, [...]
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Despite quarterly revenues above $ 10 billion, Facebook lost share yesterday after the market, reversing course from an initial rally fueled by profits soaring 79% and revenue increased by 47% annually. Investors have punished the title of the social network which, first through its CEO Mark Zuckerberg [...]
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According to reports from Nova, it is now increasingly difficult to distinguish the boundaries between online and offline and TV series and reality. Just as you attribute a 'Like' on social networks or stars on review sites to evaluate a hotel or restaurant, so soon you will assign scores to citizens based on the [...]
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Deleting a message sent via whatsapp was one of the specifics that many users wanted. Often a message, a photograph, or a video already sent has created embarrassment and real incidents of "opportunity". An "I love you" to the wrong person, or the sending of a compromising video were the cause of court meetings in front of [...]
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It seems to be a sector in constant growth and as the experts say, with exponential growth margins, that of sex with robots, increasingly evolved and sophisticated to resemble the human body as much as possible. We are talking about the realistic dolls originally conceived and designed in Japan and then practically exported to [...]
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Saudi Arabia will invest US $ 1 billion in space tourism in the company of British billionaire Richard Branson. The Saudi Public Investment Fund has announced that it will invest a billion dollars in Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company of British billionaire Richard Branson. "This investment will allow us to develop the next generation of launches [...]
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Google and Facebook are leaders on internet connections at the end of the first half of 2017, both registering an increase of over 2016 million users compared to June 2. This is what emerges from the Communications Observatory released today by Agcom, which specifies that on average browsing on Facebook and Whatsapp is slightly less than [...]
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The United States is considering India's demand for armed drones. This was reported by the Indian news agency "PTI" on the basis of a US government source. The New Delhi government aims to strengthen the Air Force with the purchase of approximately 80-100 remotely piloted General Atomics Avenger aircraft (also known as Predator C), of the total cost [...]
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It cannot be said that the ADSL and fiber offers market is immobile and marshy, as it was a few years ago when there were few operators and the competition was certainly not as fierce as it is now. These days the news, now daily, on the clash between Agcom and the telephone companies regarding the tariff at 28 [...]
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There are production companies in Italy that are able to convey to the world an image of high responsibility and professionalism. Surely one of this reality is represented by DGS Group. DGS is a private group founded in 1997, which operates in the ICT sector providing high-tech professional solutions of value, through the combination of a [...]
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The presentation of the iPhone X in many countries around the world, including Italy, caused quite a few reactions. The controversy over the high cost has arisen: for the first time for a smartphone the 'psychological threshold' of one thousand euros is exceeded. Few have worried about the possible risks related to the privacy and security of biometric data with [...]
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a completely new Trojan of its kind on the banking market. The trojan uses authentic VMware binary to trick security tools into accepting errant activity. Cisco Talos said researchers recently looked at the new malware campaign in Brazil. The operation is aimed at the sector [...]
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You don't need to be an IT expert to understand the basics of cybersecurity. Even small steps can make a difference in keeping your device and your data safe. All this because cyber crimes, understood as fraud, scams, identity theft and network violations continue to increase, day by day [...]
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Defense: China and the US together for cybersecurity The first cycle of Sino-US dialogues on cybersecurity has opened in Washington. "A step forward between the two countries in the application of a law on virtual security but also a reason for the growth of bilateral cooperation and adequate management of the differences between the two parties", [...]
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A poll last year showed that more than half of American companies said they had suffered a hacker attack. The investigation carried out by Zogby Associates, on behalf of the insurance company HSB, which offers cyber insurance, showed that following the attacks these companies had to spend large sums of money to repair [...]
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The Russian defense industry reported having invented the Alabuga, a new electromagnetic missile that manages to disable all enemy electronics within a range of 2,3 miles. This is the novelty that demonstrates the technological ferment of the armies of modern superpowers. Apparently the Russians are studying new powerful weapons that could prove to be more effective [...]
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Mathematics in everyday life: the satellite navigator The satellite navigator is certainly a very common tool, and it is often assumed that its operation is simply to receive information from satellites that "show the way". In reality, his ability to establish the path to reach any destination is the result [...]
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WhatsApp uses part of a security protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems, a company that has its own “app” signal for completely secure messaging. Now that WhatsApp has end-to-end encryption, no party - government, police, hackers, other users - can intercept and read messages anymore. WhatsApp advertises this news, that is [...]
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Twitter reported in a statement that it would begin a trial with a random sample of users that allowed them to send tweets of up to 280 characters, doubling the existing limit, in most languages around the world. The San Francisco-based company presented itself with its short messages [...]
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US Navy Laser Weapons Video The Pentagon is testing new technologies, such as laser weapons and large high-tech networks, to combat drones used with increasing frequency and effectiveness by terrorists. The NYT writes, revealing that the defense department has launched a $ 700 million program, overseen by [...]
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Russia active to interfere with elections in Germany: German intelligence at work to prevent hybrid attacks The Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LFV) warns that in the elections in 2017 (parliamentary elections of 24 September 2017) and 2018 (election state in Bavaria in autumn 2018) strengthened the websites of [...]
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Orders for the new iPhone 8 that are taking a long time to take off and the connection problems of the brand new AppleWatch are causing negative effects on the Apple stock. The stock in fact lost 2,30% to $ 155,06, losing points on the Nasdaq. The brand new AppleWatch Series 3, unveiled by Apple last week, should be […]
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Rome, 20 September 2017 - Digital Magics Rome, the fourth office opened by the business incubator listed on the AIM Italia market of the Italian Stock Exchange (symbol: DM), launches two new innovative startups: Centy and Eggup. CENTY (www.centy.it) has devised an intelligent coin counter managed totally remotely via an app, to solve the problem of [...]
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Born on September 17, 1857 in the village of Izhevskoye, the fifth of 18 siblings, Tsiolkovsky was the son of a Polish immigrant. At 10 he was deaf from scarlet fever and at 14 he was forced to leave school. He continued his education at home, and from 1873 to 1876 he lived in Moscow, where he studied [...]
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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton decided to leave Facebook three years after Mark Zuckerberg's company bought the hugely popular instant messaging app for $ 22 billion. "After 8 years on WhatsApp - Acton writes in his post - I decided to move and start a new chapter of [...]
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The new iPhone 8 and 8Plus arrive at Apple with a new chip: A11 Bionic, six cores, two high performance and four high efficiency. This was explained by Apple CEO Tim Cook at the launch event of new products in the theater dedicated to Steve Jobs, built inside the new Apple headquarters. [...]
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The Cassini probe has never been so close to 'its' planet: it reached Saturn 13 years ago and is now ready to dive into the yellowish atmosphere of the planet of the rings. It will be a very rapid descent, whose start is expected just before 14,00 Italian on September 15th. Everything will last a few minutes, but [...]
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In an era where the processes of change on a global level seem unstoppable and ungovernable, even the social scenarios appear increasingly complex; with inextricable interweaving not only between local politics, geopolitics, information, globalization, ecology, finance and economy, but also between all this and the parallel exponential development of a technology that is increasingly interconnected with [...]
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The newly released Galaxy Note 8 has received very positive reviews, which have made us forget the mess of the Note 7, at the root of one of the toughest crises ever for Samsung. However, there is a problem: facial recognition, which is much less sophisticated than it is reasonable to think. Whether it's a fingerprint or a face, [...]
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In recent days, apparently extraordinary news has been bouncing around in newspapers and websites around the world: radio signals from space have been detected with characteristics never seen before. These emissions were identified as part of the "Breakthrough Listen Project", an initiative born in January 2016, aimed at finding evidence of life [...]
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Cupertino takes sides against the administration's proposal to downsize and abolish the Obama-era net neutrality rules. “Paying for faster routes would replace the neutral transmission of internet traffic content, with a differentiated treatment of the content based on the provider's ability or willingness to pay. Artificial barriers would be created [...]
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He had set foot on Facebook with an internship at the age of 17. When he was 21, the social network offered him a full-time job in the engineering field. Now that he is XNUMX he has decided to leave by switching to Google. This is the prodigy Michael Sayman, who had helped the group understand how [...]
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The Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, pilot officer of the Italian Air Force, the first Italian to inhabit the ISS, beating the European record of 199 days in space, joined 16 Chinese 'taikonauts' for training nine-day survival at sea off the coastal city of Yantai, China. [...]
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The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) is a gigantic archive, library and research center on music, born in New York in 1985 and not for profit. The ARC currently contains over three million sound recordings and its ambitious goal is to keep copies of each version of each recording, in [...]
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Facebook tries to get around the restrictions imposed by Beijing and launches an app in China without its name. For Mark Zuckerberg this is an unprecedented move after having tried for years the path of 'diplomacy', through meetings with Chinese politicians, the study of Mandarin and interventions in public. Attempts that have not [...]
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About a month after the launch of the new iPhone, that of the ten-year anniversary, the rumors follow each other on a daily basis. One of the latest concerns the facial recognition technology (Face ID) which will almost certainly serve to unlock the device, without resorting to passwords or fingerprints. A developer has discovered references to a feature that would even allow [...]
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In recent years, ransomware - viruses that are used to extort money from victims after encrypting their data and locking their computers - have become a growing concern for companies operating in any sector. Their destructive potential is enormous: in the first half of 2017, two major [...]
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According to a study by some Montreal researchers, the massive use of subjective "shooter" video games would cause brain damage to younger subjects and increase the risk of incurring diseases such as senile dementia in old age. The study, conducted by Gregory West, associate professor of psychology at the Université de Montréal, and Véronique Bohbot, associate professor of [...]
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Social networks make the leap in quality and want to focus on videos. The possibility of making short videos in installments. Face Book launches a new platform. Facebook challenges big TV corporations and big web rivals with Watch, a new platform on its social network, the largest in the world, [...]
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The OPTSAT-3.58 satellite of the Italian Ministry of Defense was successfully launched at 3000 am Italian time. The launch was carried out by Arianespace from the European spaceport of Kourou, in French Guiana, with the European launcher VEGA, built by AVIO. The satellite separated from the rocket 42 minutes after launch and the first signal of [...]
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No more queues at check-in thanks to 'Kate', the robot created by Sita Lab, the research and development department of Sita. 'Kate'. Intelligent for check-in, which moves on its own to the busiest areas of the airport, thus reducing the queues of passengers waiting at check-in. Crossing different data sources - [...]
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Leonardo announces that the OPTSAT-3000 satellite of the Italian Ministry of Defense is ready for launch, scheduled for Wednesday 2 August at 3.58 Italian time from the European spaceport of Kourou, in French Guiana. Consisting of a heliosynchronous satellite in orbit LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and an earth segment for in-orbit control, acquisition and processing [...]
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The PNI - National Innovation Award 28 will be presented on Friday 2017 July 11.30, at 2017 am. The meeting will be held in the Board of Directors Room of the Rectorate of the Federico II University of Naples, in corso Umberto I, 40. Speakers Gaetano Manfredi, Rector of Federico II, Giovanni Perrone, PNICube President, Mario Raffa, PNICube Board of Directors, Valeria Fascione, Councilor for Innovation, Internationalization and Startup of the Campania Region, and Ambrogio Prezioso, [...]
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The competition dedicated to young innovators starts again. Students, recent graduates and PhD students of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) faculties of all Italian universities can participate in the Leonardo Innovations Award. This initiative aims to support the creativity and innovation of the new generations who want to transform the ideas of the present into [...]
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The dependence that a smartphone creates is, of course, proportional to the daily use that is made of this tool. It is undeniable that a smartphone makes life easier, both because it allows navigation and consultation online wherever you are, and because, with its apps, it allows us, for example, to use the satellite navigator [...]
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Gravitational Waves from the Quantum Revolution, revealed the presence of new Black Holes in the third best direct observation, which took place on January 4, 2017, performed by the two American LIGO detectors. We live in a Universe of 58 elementary "Fields", which correspond to 118 degrees of freedom according to the Standard Model. And ESO's ALMA telescope finds one of [...]
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Avio Aero is a GE Aviation business that operates in the design, production and maintenance of components and systems for civil and military aeronautics. Today the company offers its customers innovative technological solutions to respond quickly to the continuous changes required by the market: additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping and cells dedicated to lean manufacturing of [...]
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Open data, or “opendata”, is data that can be freely downloaded, reused and redistributed by anyone, anywhere and for any purpose. This simple definition, which apparently may perhaps even seem trivial, actually contains a strong innovative impact, which distorts what has so far been the consolidated habit, especially regarding the publication of documents and information [...]
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For those with disabilities, daily life can be a challenge, to which technology can in part make a contribution by developing aids that reduce discomfort or enhance residual capacities. The researchers of the University of Melbourne, aware of this, have dedicated themselves to the development of a new device [...]
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The monitoring of personal devices (smartphones, tablets, PCs), and the use made of them, is a serious threat to privacy, as it allows potential attackers to monitor the activities of each of us and to obtain information that they can then be used in an unethical or, worse, fraudulent way. Particularly insidious and [...]
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