It was 1861 when Alexander Parkes, developing studies on cellulose nitrate, patented the first semi-synthetic plastic material, named parkesine. In 1907 the Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland obtained the first thermosetting resin of synthetic origin by condensation between phenol and formaldehyde, which he patented in 1910 under the name of bakelite. In 1912 a German chemist, […]
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Men are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and intelligent. The combination of the two constitutes an incalculable force. Albert Einstein Einstein’s famous words about computers might almost sound anachronistic in a world governed by the pervasiveness of social networks, the speed of communications and galloping technological progress. Yet there are […]
Man has been endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he can add his own to what has been given to him. Anton Chekhov Technological innovation and sustainability is not always a perfect combination. Today, technology seems to be the link between applied science and the dynamics of society that characterize our […]
“If I was wearing a white dress at a wedding and a muddy balloon came along, I’d stop it without thinking” Diego Armando Maradona On a hot summer afternoon, being a child or little more, meeting in the lobby of the building with friends, wearing the t-shirt of your football idol, kicking a ball. They […]
In 20 years, the Internet has transformed from a place of information exchange to a cyberspace full of hidden folds, ecosystems, microecosystems, and autonomous creatures that traverse it in search of data. A case in point are Bots: structured programs to retrieve information from the web. We are talking about a phenomenon so widespread that, […]
The Serie A championship starts immediately at full speed, DAZN does not. The new streaming platform of sports content debuted in Italy with the first of the Serie A football championship last weekend, and the result was not what was hoped for. Many users have experienced service blockages or slowdowns at different times, in particular […]
Research into bioplastics, a degradable material that is a substitute for common plastic, is making great strides. News of inventions as bizarre as they are ingenious bounce here and there from all over the globe. This time we are going to talk about the latest discovery by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in […]
Here it is summer with the warm sun and holidays that sweep away stress and bad moods. The beaches of Italy are crowded with “homegrown” and foreign tourists who enjoy the beauty of the blue sea. The important thing, however, is to keep our natural heritage clean and tidy. If, on the one hand, there […]
The fight against single-use plastic is rapidly gaining momentum. Straws are now in the crosshairs of multinational corporations, hotel chains, cruise ships, and government agencies. Just imagine: a straw discarded in the environment takes 500 years to completely decompose. In Europe alone, we use 36 billion of them. So, this “source of contention” has been […]
On June 29, Amazon Web Services announced that the Formula 1 Group is moving the majority of its IT infrastructure to AWS, in order to take advantage of the power of machine learning and data analytics from the world’s most powerful cloud provider. Formula 1 will partner with AWS to improve race strategies, data tracking […]