Ecology

SpaceX's plan: bring up to 1 million data centers into space to train AI

SpaceX’s plan: bring up to 1 million data centers into space to train AI

Image created with AI for illustrative purposes only. SpaceX has recently unveiled plans to put 1 million satellites into orbit as data centers dedicated to the training and use of AI. It would be a real one satellite megaconstellation which would dwarf the other currently operational constellations (SpaceX’s Starlink has around 10 thousand active satellites). A few months ago the ...

With a friend nearby the climb may seem less steep: studies on perception

With a friend nearby the climb may seem less steep: studies on perception

A climb, a staircase, a sloping road can seem like an insurmountable wall at certain moments, and an almost pleasant path at others. For years the psychology of perception has studied why this happens on a physiological level – weight to carry, age, tiredness – but a study published in 2008 on Journal of Experimental Social Psychology tried to answer ...

How sailing became a global hi-tech sport: the journey from wooden boats to those that “fly”

How sailing became a global hi-tech sport: the journey from wooden boats to those that “fly”

The windfilling the sails of ancient vessels, has been the invisible engine of civilization making possible i tradesdeciding the outcome of the wars and allowing theexploration of new worlds. The technique of the first great navigators – from the Egyptians to the Romans, from the Phoenicians to the Austronesians – evolved slowly, remaining for centuries based on just two primordial ...

Fire in a resort in the Dominican Republic: 1,700 tourists evacuated, one Italian victim

Fire in a resort in the Dominican Republic: 1,700 tourists evacuated, one Italian victim

The resort burned down in the Dominican Republic. Credit: TaraBull, via A major fire has struck the Long live Wyndham Dominicus Beacha seaside resort in the area of Bayahibein Dominican Republic. Flames engulfed much of the structure, with videos released by local media showing thick clouds of dark smoke rising above the Caribbean coast. The local authorities, through the DAEH ...

Because Friulian is a Romance language in all respects and not a dialect

Because Friulian is a Romance language in all respects and not a dialect

Image created with AI. Friulian is one Romance language spoken mainly in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (in the provinces of Udine, Pordenone and Gorizia), it is used regularly by more than half of its population (to which is also added a large number of inhabitants who include it) and in some municipalities in the Veneto. Some people mistakenly define ...