Ecology

We asked eight AIs to predict who will win the 2026 World Cup: the results compared

We asked eight AIs to predict who will win the 2026 World Cup: the results compared

Generated with AI The great experts in the sector indicate France, Spain and Brazil as the national teams to beat at the 2026 World Cup. But what happens if it’s not commentators or fans who predict the winner, but rather women artificial intelligences? We posed the same question to eight of the best-known AI systems — Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, ...

Why we say goodbye in the mountains: a question of solidarity, but also of safety

Why we say goodbye in the mountains: a question of solidarity, but also of safety

It may have happened to you when you go for amountain hiketo meet other walkers and receive a greeting – which, out of good manners, you will certainly have reciprocated. It is awidespread custom which has different cultural and social meanings and functions that we might not expect, but which prove important in cases of emergency. In fact, it is ...

The passport arrives on Android smartphones by the end of summer: how ID pass works on Google Wallet

The passport arrives on Android smartphones by the end of summer: how ID pass works on Google Wallet

Passport is coming to Android smartphones. By the end of this summer, the European digital ecosystem will welcome an important innovation: the debut of the ID Pass on Google Wallet, also in Italy. This is a feature designed to securely integrate the passport inside the Android devicesofficially presented during the summit Money 20/20 Europe. The objective of this initiative is ...

The true story of Wojtek, the Polish bear soldier who fought in the Second World War

The true story of Wojtek, the Polish bear soldier who fought in the Second World War

Wojtek the bear, born in 1942 near Hamadan, Persiais an ursid famous for having “fought” during the Second World War. Less than a year after his birth he came into contact with the Polish soldiers ofAnders Armya unit formed in the Soviet Union and later attached to the British Army. The soldiers “adopted” the bear, who in 1944, after having ...

Apple introduces Siri AI: the voice assistant powered by Apple Intelligence on iOS 27

Apple introduces Siri AI: the voice assistant powered by Apple Intelligence on iOS 27

Animation of Siri AI in the iPhone’s Dynamic Island. Credit: Apple. Apple’s new assistant, renamed Siri AIis not a simple update of the old Cupertino voice assistant, but a completely “revised and corrected” system, built on the Apple Intelligence platform, capable of understanding the user’s personal context, reading what appears on the screen and drawing on the Web in real ...

Who is Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect who shaped Barcelona who died 100 years ago: history and works

Who is Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect who shaped Barcelona who died 100 years ago: history and works

Antoni Gaudí y Cornet, via Wikipedia Commons. Walking to Barcelonacapital of the Spanish region of Catalonia, features a series of extraordinary palaces and constructions from unique, colorful and organic style (architectural approach based on man-nature harmony). These works all bear the name of Antoni Gaudí and Cornetknown simply as Antoni Gaudí. The architect, born on 25 June 1852 and died ...

Luca Parmitano will be the pilot of Artemis III: NASA presents the mission crew

Luca Parmitano will be the pilot of Artemis III: NASA presents the mission crew

The crew of the Artemis III mission. From left Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio. Credit: ESA There NASA officially presented the crew of the lunar mission Artemis IIIscheduled for the second half of 2027: Italian Luca Parmitano (the only astronaut of the European Space Agency) will be the pilot of the mission, accompanied by US astronauts ...

In Trieste to see underwater drones in action on the seabed: how they work live

In Trieste to see underwater drones in action on the seabed: how they work live

Imagine a robot working continuously for months, alone, in total darkness at a depth of 3,000 metres, where the water pressure is equivalent to having 100 cars above your head. It’s not science fiction: we went to Trieste, to the Saipem base, to see it live. It is called Flatfish and is an underwater drone approximately 4 meters long, designed ...

AI and Bots take 57% of the Internet: surpassing human-generated traffic for the first time

AI and Bots take 57% of the Internet: surpassing human-generated traffic for the first time

For the first time in the history of the Web, Traffic generated by automated software has surpassed that generated by humans: almost 6 out of 10 connections are generated by machines. This is shown by the latest data from Cloudflare Radar, according to which bots, crawlers and AI agents now represent the 57.4% of web requestsversus 42.6% attributable to human ...