Ecology

blu ray

Sony announces the end of the production of recordable blu-rays and other physical memory media

Sony (more precisely the division Sony Storage Media Solutions) has announced that it will interrupt the production of physical memory supports starting from February 2025. This means that it will no longer produce the discs Blue-Ray Registration (BD-R and BD-RE)i MinidiscThe MD Data and the Mini DV boxes for registration. The decision will not affect the production of films on ...

Immagine

DeepSeek R1, the Chinese AI that makes the US giants tremble and surpasses ChatGPT: what it is

DeepSeek it’s one Chinese startup active in the artificial intelligence sector which is rapidly gaining attention. Founded in May 2023 by Liang Wenfenghedge fund and AI expert, the company stands out for an innovative approach that offers advanced AI models to significantly lower costs than competitors. Thanks to the use of advanced techniques machine learninglike reinforcement learning and MoE architecture, ...

perche si dice non avere voce in capitolo

“Having no say”: what this expression means and where it comes from

What exactly is the “chapter” of the famous Italian expression “have no say in the matter”? The saying indicates theabsence of any authority and relevance in a discussion or when it’s time to make a decision. Its origins date back to Middle Agesand are linked to the monastic practices of the time. In the Middle Ages the “chapter” was the ...

geopolitica del cotone

Geopolitics of cotton, between socio-environmental problems and the support of 1 billion people

The industry of the cotton is one of the chain more ancient in history and today constitutes a multimfaccen business whose induced in the year 2020 guaranteed the sustenance to Ben 1 billion peopleincluded 100 million small farmers owners of small plots of land. In the shade of these numbers, however, other less known but equally important aspects are hidden, ...

neuroestetica

What happens in our brain when faced with a work of art? The answer comes from neuroaesthetics

There neuroaesthetics is the branch of neuroscience, born in 1994 with an article in the magazine Brain of the neurobiologist Semir Zeki and the artist Mathew Lambwhich studies the brain mechanisms underlyingaestheticsthe discipline that investigates what makes something “beautiful” and how we respond to beauty. Because, for example, let’s try an intense emotion in front of a work of art ...

domini internet

What is an Internet domain and what is the name of a website for: the explanation

When you browse the Internet, each website you visit has a unique address called “domain name”. It’s one text string that identifies a specific server and makes it accessible to users without having to remember complex numerical addresses (so-called IP addresses). For example, “geopop.it” is a second-level domain name that allows you to easily reach our online magazine without having ...

giorno della memoria

Remembrance Day falls on January 27th: what is its meaning

Remembrance Day commemorates the Holocaust, that is, the massacre of six million Jews and several million other people, perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its allies during the Second World War. The term Holocaust can be understood in two different ways: for some authors it refers only to the extermination of the Jewish people (with this meaning the term Holocaust), for ...

app crash

Why are applications crash? 4 tips to solve on Android and iPhone?

It will have happened to you at least once to open an app on the smartphone and suddenly find yourself with a crash: the app ends for no apparent reason, leaving you in front of the initial screen. It is a common situation, which affects both Android smartphones and iPhones indiscriminately. Because the apps crash and how to solve The ...

opere arte scambiate per oggetti comuni

When the works of art are exchanged for common objects: from Duchamp’s to Lavet’s “beer”

In the history ofart of the twentieth century There have been several interesting cases of works of art exchanged for common objectswho were brought home or even thrown, exchanged for garbage. This happened also in large museums and during important events. At the 1968 Venice Biennale, for example, a famous “door” of Marcel Duchamp (who opened and closed simultaneously): a ...