How the Internet travels inside very thin underwater glass threads: the history of optical fiber
Much of the Internet travels inside very thin threads of glass. Every message sent on WhatsApp, every TV series watched ...
Moser broke the hour record with a 9.6 kg bicycle: when technology defied the rules
Miguel Indurain’s Pinarello Espada. Credits: pinarello.com On January 19, 1984, at the velodrome in Mexico City, Francesco Moser set out ...
Why a photo can weigh 300 KB or 30 MB: the differences between JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIF and RAW
Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. A digital photograph can occupy a few hundred KB, while another, apparently ...
The yellow post-it was born from a mistake: how a “wrong” glue revolutionized the world
Image generated with AI. In 1968, chemist Spencer Silver, a researcher at 3M in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was trying to ...
Do video games change the brain? What studies say about attention, memory and reward
“Video games train the brain”, a cliché, but also a question that neuroscientists have been asking for years: can a ...
WhatsApp could replace the PIN with a password: the new 2-step verification system
Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI The 6-digit two-step verification PIN currently used on WhatsApp may be replaced. ...
Jennifer Lopez and the Jungle Dress: how a 2000s dress contributed to the birth of Google Images
Today, you just need to type a few words into Google Images to immediately find photographs, illustrations and other visual ...
When AI escapes human control: the OpenAI case explained by a cybersecurity expert
Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented speed, but do we have the right “brakes” to handle it? A recent ...
Decoy Font, the font that tricks AI by showing different messages to humans: how to use it
Example of a hidden word using the Decoy Font. Close up it reads “PAY BILLS” (pay your taxes), moving away ...
The overtaking meter detects overtaking with sensors in the asphalt and cameras: where it is and what is at risk
On the Italian road network there is a device which, in the event of risky overtaking, is capable of fining ...
