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Microsoft Wants to Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant to Power AI

Microsoft recently announced an agreement with Constellation Energy to be able to Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plantin Pennsylvania, famous for being the seat of the worst nuclear accident in the USwhich occurred on March 28, 1979, due to the partial meltdown of a reactor core. The aim of the agreement signed by the Redmond giant is to meet ...

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Italy’s Oldest Genome Sequenced: A 17,000-Year-Old Boy With Black Hair and Light Eyes

The skeleton found in Grotta delle Mura in Puglia. Credit: Mauro Calattini The skeleton of a child who died approximately 17,000 years ago in the Upper Paleolithic at the age of just 16 months, found in the Cave of the Walls near Monopoli in Puglia by archaeologists from the University of Siena led by Mauro Calattiniled to the sequencing of ...

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The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs: The Absurd Story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi

As incredible as it may seem, there is a person who is survived not to one but to two atomic bombs: that of Hiroshima and that of Nagasakidropped by the US Air Force in August 1945 at the end of World War II. We are talking about Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916-2010), a Japanese engineer who at the age of 29 was ...

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The scam with the prefix +33 comes from France with the same methods as the Netherlands: how to defend yourself

If you were to receive calls and messages from numbers with prefix +33be very careful because you could be the subject of the so-called “French prefix scam”. Like other similar scams – including the Portuguese prefix scam and the Dutch prefix scam – this one also aims to steal users’ confidential information for advertising purposes or even scamThe techniques used ...

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The tragicomic story of the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon, involving poisons, chases and peach thefts

Marathon participants. Credits: Missouri History Museum From marathons There are many who have made history, but there is one, that of the Olympic Games of August 30, 1904 in St. Louiswhich is remembered as the most absurd and chaotic of the athletics-related sporting competitions. This event, which was linked to the Universal Exhibition of that year, was somewhat overshadowed by ...

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Why Are Planes “Always” Late? How Air Traffic Works

Who has this summer? traveled by plane, most likely had delay on the outbound or return flight. The data of Eurocontrol – an intergovernmental organization that deals with air traffic control – show us that in Europe between June and August 2024 40% of flights were delayed, while about 50% left after the scheduled time. But how is this possible?the ...

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How much does AI pollute and why? The environmental impact on water, energy and CO2 consumption

Alongside the advantages and possibilities created by large artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT, there are several concerns regarding the origin of primary sources, copyright infringements and user privacy, but an often overlooked problem is related to energy costs of the development and use of these online models: dedicated servers in fact perform complex calculations even to generate a simple ...

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How the “Sarco” assisted suicide capsule used for the first time in Switzerland works

Credit: Sarco. Tuesday, September 24, 2024, In Switzerland, a 64-year-old American woman, suffering from severe immune compromise, used the system Sarco to carry out euthanasia, taking his own life. Following his death, the Swiss government arrested “several people involved”, not specifying at the moment either their identity or their role in the affair. In addition to the news story, it ...

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New specific IT-Alert tests from September 26th to October 7th: who will receive the message and where will it ring?

Credit: Civil Protection Tests of the public warning system restart after the summer break IT-Alert developed by the Civil Protection. The first tests of the new round were held on September 18, 2024 in Calabria and Friuli-Venezia Giulia to simulate the scenario of major industrial accident; the subsequent ones were supposed to be held today September 25, 2024 in Emilia-Romagna, ...