Ecology

Google uses searches, photos and user data to train AI: what changes and how to disable it

Google uses searches, photos and user data to train AI: what changes and how to disable it

Credit: Pixabay Google has updated some settings related to the history of its search services and the news also affects the use of the information collected to improve search-based functionsartificial intelligence. We are not only talking about the searches written in the engine bar, but also about some materials uploaded or used during interaction with the company’s platforms, such as ...

Conjunction between Moon, Mars and Pleiades on July 11th: how and at what time to observe it in the sky in Italy

Conjunction between Moon, Mars and Pleiades on July 11th: how and at what time to observe it in the sky in Italy

The Moon–Mars–Pleades conjunction. Credit: UAI In the early hours of July 11, 2026, heaven will give us one astronomical spectacle: just before dawn, watching towards the eastit will be possible to admire a conjunction between a thin crescent of Moon waning and the star cluster from the Pleiades (the so-called “Seven Sisters”), followed by the planet Mars and from the ...

The window of a Ryanair flight from Greece breaks, passenger held by his wife: the dynamics

The window of a Ryanair flight from Greece breaks, passenger held by his wife: the dynamics

The broken window on the Ryanair flight. The photo is a fragment taken from the Radio Thessaloniki video. A Ryanair Boeing 737who was operating the flight FR1879 from Thessaloniki (Greece) a Memmingen (Germany), was forced into a emergency landing after that a cabin window it broke up in flight – as seen in the video below – causing a rapid ...

The oldest quasars ever seen have been discovered with Euclid: they shone when the Universe was only 670 million years old

The oldest quasars ever seen have been discovered with Euclid: they shone when the Universe was only 670 million years old

Artist’s impression of a quasar, a brief phase in the life of a galaxy during which large amounts of matter spiral toward its central supermassive black hole, shining with a brightness equal to 1 trillion Suns. Credits: ESA, CC BY–SA 3.0 IGO. The space telescope Euclid of the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered 31 new quasars, the oldest never observed ...

How much oil is there really under the ground? How reserves are estimated (and why so many numbers don't add up)

How much oil is there really under the ground? How reserves are estimated (and why so many numbers don’t add up)

How are a country’s oil reserves calculated? When it comes to reserves of petrolium we tend to imagine a number carved in stone, objective, certified. In reality the estimates of oil reserves are the result of a mix complex between geology, engineering, mathematics, economy and, surprisingly, geopolitics. The country with the most declared reserves in the world today is not ...

Lightening marine clouds to cool Earth can alter El Niño: solar geoengineering study

Lightening marine clouds to cool Earth can alter El Niño: solar geoengineering study

Image created with AI for illustrative purposes only. There is a technique called Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB)which in Italian we could translate as the “clearing of the marine clouds”, with which the human being is thinking of “cure” global warming by artificially modifying the Earth’s atmosphere: a new solar geoengineering study states that this technique, designed to cool the Earth, ...

Two Italian physicists have solved a physics problem that has been open for 10 years thanks to the use of Claude

Two Italian physicists have solved a physics problem that has been open for 10 years thanks to the use of Claude

The Nobel Prize winner for physics Giorgio Parisi. Image created for illustrative purposes only. The Nobel Prize for Physics Giorgio Parisi and his colleague Francesco Zamponi they managed to solve a problem remained open for more than 10 years thanks to the support of Claude, the AI ​​developed by Anthropic. The result, published in “Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and ...