The town of Versa after the flooding of the Torre river. Credit: Fire Brigade A wave of bad weather hit the Friuli-Venezia Giulia: to Cormons, in the province of Gorizia, a landslide swept away three houses in the early hours of yesterday 17 November, causing the death of two people. Heavy rainfall dumped on the area approx 300 mm of ...
Bright galleries, wide corridors, shiny floors, the same chain stores and fast food outlets… from Italy to China, passing through the United States and the United Arab Emirates, shopping centers surprisingly share the same look and feel. It is no coincidence: these similarities are the result of the logic – now standardized – that over the last seventy years has ...
Credits: William Caxton, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Even if the history of advertising begins in ancient times (primordial forms of advertising can be traced back to the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations), the first advertising in the modern senseintended as an advertisement for the purpose of sale, was born in England in 1479when the publisher and printer William Caxton distributed ...
Has ChatGPT gotten worse? This is the feeling that many users experienced after the release of the GPT-5 model last August. Shorter answers, various inaccuracies, sensational oversights… signals that did not go unnoticed by users, who expressed their disappointment on social media by publishing negative comments and feedback on the apparent downgrade of the famous OpenAI chatbot. But because we ...
You’re watching The mechanisms of scams Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop How many times do we come across messages or advertisements that promise to make our savings yield exorbitant returns? Promises of easy, fast and risk-free earnings. Often it’s about scams based on a very precise scheme that dates back over 100 years: lo Ponzi schemea scam ...
THE Riace bronzesthe famous pair of Greek bronze statues from the 5th century representing two hoplite warriors found in 1972 and currently exhibited in Reggio Calabria in an excellent state of conservation, could originate from Eastern Sicilyprobably from Brucoliaccording to a recent study published in the journal Italian Journal of Geosciences which proposes a hypothesis according to which they remained ...
WhatsApp is introducing new tools that will allow users to manage the space occupied by chats more easily among other things to free up memory. With the latest beta version of WhatsApp for Android, marked with the number of version 2.25.34.5conversation cleaning becomes much more precise than what is currently feasible in the stable version of the app. Thanks to ...
The last few days have seen a sudden worsening of the relations between China and Japanstarting from a speech given in parliament by the Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichiwith statements that triggered a diplomatic dispute between the two Asian countries. In his speech, Takaichi suggested that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could be push Tokyo into a military response: These ...
In Italy summer time could become permanent: today, Monday 17 November, the proposal for a fact-finding investigation will be presented to the Chamber of Deputies, accompanied by 352 thousand signatures, promoted by Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA), by Consumerismo Non profit and by the deputy Andrea Barabotti (Lega). The final objective is to start the parliamentary process to definitively ...
In the Arctic marine sediments was found cosmic dustremnants of stellar explosions from Space, which it reveals how extensive the sea ice was in this area in the past. Researchers at the University of Washington made the discovery, who published it in a study in the journal Science. Cosmic dust, which regularly falls on Earth, provides this important information because ...