NFTs stands for “Non-Fungible Token” (in Italian “Non-Fungible Tokens“, literally “uncopyable tokens”). But what does it mean? Let’s start by saying that “non-fungible” it means (more or less) that we are talking about something uniquewhich cannot be replaced with something else. To do theexample of something non-fungible, we can think of one collectible card: if you exchanged it for a ...
Every year, millions of people fall victim to cyber attacks. The success of cybercriminals, very often, is not to be found in their “skill”, but rather in the naivety of users, who adopt reckless behavior in the IT field, to say the least. One of these concerns the use of insecure passwords. According to the annual report conducted by the ...
Credit: Fars Media Corporation There Iranian Morality Police (“Gašt-e Eršâd” in Farsi) is a branch of Iran’s law enforcement agency whose mission is to promote Islamic customs and repress any “deviance” in this regard. This religious police body has been active, under various denominations, since Iranian Revolution of 1979. It has earned a bad reputation over time, having always been ...
The public debt it is the sum of all the money that a State owes to those who have lent it money. It is usually expressed with respect to GDP of that State. When a government spends more than it accumulates (thanks to taxpayers’ taxes and other revenues), it must borrow money to cover the difference; this money is obtained ...
Sarcasm And irony there are two forms of expression (and also two rhetorical figures) that have a certain amount of in common ambiguity and they serve to say something that isn’t exactly what it seemsbut with different styles and purposes. While irony can be a form of expression light and friendlysarcasm often is more critical or even aggressiveaimed at highlighting ...
Cars a fully autonomous driving they could improve it road safety, accessibility to transport and energy efficiency. However, there are still many challenges to be addressed for the large-scale diffusion of vehicles in which human control is negligible or non-existent. One of these is to ensure that their performance meets the company’s expectations in terms of safety And legality. Today, ...
Throughout history the hygiene habits of humanity have changed profoundly, due to new scientific discoveries and inventionsbut above all of cultural context. We don’t know exactly when the man began to wash himself, but it is probable that this happened since Prehistoryin relation to innate sense of hygiene that many mammals (like us) possess. With the transition from a hunter/gatherer ...
How they come classified the ski slopes? This is a question that every novice skier has asked themselves at least once in their life. The answer is quite simple and is based on one three-color classification (blue, red, black) linked to average slope of the slopeboth longitudinal and transversal. Generally, the blue slopes are the easiest, the red ones have ...
The sneezing is an innate reflex which consists of the very rapid expulsion of air from the lungs through the nose and mouth. It is a defense reflex that clears the airways from foreign bodies such as dust and allergens. When we hold it, however, the air that would normally be expelled from the nose can accumulate causing damage. In ...
IBM Simon THE’IBM Simonintroduced to the world in November 1992 at Comdex in Las Vegas and launched on the market in 1994 distributed by BellSouth, is universally regarded the first smartphone in historyeven though this term, “smartphone”, was coined only a few years later (in 1997 to be exact) from Ericsson with his CR 88 (Penelope). Simon will represent a ...