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The worst downsides of 2024: the top 10 of the most serious IT outages that occurred during the year

Our society’s growing dependence on technology has, in one way or another, made us extremely vulnerable to digital disruptions. In the 2024 There have been numerous episodes of global disruptions that have highlighted how central online services are to our daily lives. Facebook, WhatsApp, telecommunications providers and key platforms, such as CrowdStrikehave experienced failures affecting millions of people, causing chaos ...

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Does drinking alcohol help keep us warm? No, alcohol makes us cool down faster

TO New Year’scity squares are often filled with people. It is in this context that a false myth: the idea that drink alcohol can heat the body, so as to counteract the cold of the last day of the year. In reality, this perception of heat is just aillusion momentary caused by vasodilation. Let’s see why alcohol doesn’t really warm ...

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Here are the scientific frontiers to keep an eye on in 2025

New Year means news and many expectations, and this also applies when it comes to science: for 2025 the expectations in the scientific field are very highwith potential significant impacts for society and technological innovation. Among the areas from which great innovations and satisfactions are expected are above all the space sector, but also that of fusion energy and neuroscience. ...

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Muan catastrophe: technical analysis of the Boeing 737-800 crash in South Korea

The December 29, 2024a Boeing 737-800 of the company Jeju Air (markings HL8088), in service on flight 7C-2216 from Bangkok (Thailand) a Muan (South Korea), suffered a serious accident during landing on runway 19 of Muan airport at 09:03 local. With 175 passengers And 6 crew members on boardthe plane landed with the retracted trolley, sliding on the fuselage and ...

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Why Donald Trump asks to lift the ban on TikTok in the United States

Trump photo credits: Gage Skidmore The new President-elect of the United States of America, Donald Trumpin an unexpected move, asked the Supreme Court to stay a law that threatens to impose a total ban on TikTok on American soil. This request relates directly to the debate on ByteDancethe Chinese company that owns the social network, and to legislative pressure to ...

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A new 7 euro coin from 1 January 2025? All a photomontage

You may also have seen an image of one on social media 7 euro coin which “should enter into circulation in the European Union from January 1, 2024″. As intrigued as some were by the news, this is nothing more than one of many fake news that circulate on the web: the ECB in fact never had any plans to ...

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Possible Northern Lights on New Year’s Eve: the NOAA bulletin on geomagnetic storms

In the night between 31 December and 1 January 2025 a strong geomagnetic storm caused by two is expected coronal mass emissions – that is, of charged particles coming from the Sun. As also confirmed by Space Weather Prediction Center of NOAA these particles will reach Earth during New Year’s Eve, potentially giving rise to aurora borealis in mid-latitudes, including ...

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Hacker attack on InfoCert, a well-known SPID provider: millions of stolen data for sale on the dark web

Last December 27th the company InfoCertwhich among other things is one of the main Italian identity providers SPID (Public Digital Identity System), was the victim of a serious cyber attack that called into question the security of its systems. The hackers stole and in part published online personal data belonging to millions of usersincluding phone numbers, email addresses and other ...

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Why are phones bad at midnight on New Year’s Eve? The saturation of telephone cells

There midnight Of New Year’s it’s one of those moments in which everyone – or almost everyone – picks up the phone to write a message of good wishes to loved ones, friends and relatives. And it is precisely at that moment that ours can happen cell phone performance will worsenpreventing us from texting or calling. But why does it ...