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Perhaps artificial intelligence really is trying to kill us - perhaps not in general, but this peculiar chatbot added by Meta within a Facebook group dedicated to mushroom picking almost certainly desires human suffering. Let's leave light-hearted jokes aside, however, as the consumption of dangerous mushrooms often ha...

The winter holidays are approaching and, with them, comes the long-awaited commercial from the giant Coca-Cola company. Every year, the world huddles around the TV set as winter rages outside, hoping to feel some of the familiar warmth that characterises the company's Christmas commercials - heart-warming stories that ...

One of the giants of the gaming industry has recently come under the spotlight due to a peculiar incident. The Japanese company Nintendo is notorious within the industry for being rather punitive when it comes to the illicit dissemination of products not yet officially released - many content creators specialising in g...

Some people, unfortunately, cannot find rest even in death. This is the case of Brianna Ghey, a young transgender girl victim of a hate crime in September 2023, and Molly Russell, a 14-year-old victim of the dangerous influence of social media on the psyche of young people. Both have returned to the centre of media att...

Recently, more and more companies have become victims of cyber attacks and internal security breaches, leading to a subdued, yet justified, general panic. Malicious attackers with access to the right tools and possessing the necessary knowledge to breach the protections of large companies are not exactly new - attacks ...

During the autumn of 2023, the giant company Meta introduced a substantial change within its platforms: if users wanted to continue using Meta's products without customised advertisements, then they would have to start paying a monthly subscription fee of EUR 13. Those against had to agree to Meta's highly targeted adv...

Twitter's golden years are long over - the social network's heyday is now ancient history. Following the takeover of the platform by the famous entrepreneur Elon Musk, even the veterans of the little blue bird began to lose patience and, above all, hope in the future of the social network. X, within a few years, has b...

Art seems to be a fast and infallible way to earn money for everyone except the artists themselves. During the first week of November, the Carabinieri's paramilitary squad and Pisa's public prosecutor uncovered a European criminal network specialised in the counterfeiting and distribution of works of art. The group ope...

Nowadays, the implementation of artificial intelligence within the workplace is not exactly a novelty. More and more companies are approaching this technology by introducing it into the workflow of their employees, testing the capabilities of this resource. Opinions on this, however, are mixed - those with high decisio...

During August, the Federal Trade Commission announced a long-awaited rule. The US government agency plays a key role in the US economy by promoting consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anti-competitive business practices. With the spread of online commerce, the landscape of the vast Internet world...

It is not surprising that artificial intelligence is being used more and more within the most developed professional sectors; this technology has been able to establish itself as a valuable resource in various research areas, especially in the medical-scientific field. Within Northwell Health, for example, the recent ...

The vast world of the Internet is, unfortunately, filled with users accustomed to expressing their unethical and often extremely toxic thoughts without considering the impact of their words. Today's social networks have become a minefield of conflicting opinions, often communicated in an arrogant and presumptuous manne...

Artificial intelligence is a topic that has caused a fair amount of fear and anxiety in recent years, especially to all those creatively involved professionally. In the Halloween period, however, it might be interesting to identify what scares an artificial intelligence. Recently, the research institute ‘Max Planck ...

The end of an era - the days without McFlurry are hopefully over. For years, customers of McDonald's, the famous US fast food chain, have received negative responses when asked to order the company's signature ice cream, due to the unfortunately malfunctioning ice cream machine. With the passage of time, it was discov...

Bungie, the US company that owns famous video game series such as Destiny and Halo, was recently sued for copyright infringement. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on 2 October 2024 by Kelsey Martineau, a writer from the state. According to the indictment...

Over time, the vast world of the Internet has gradually become a repository of knowledge, information and content of any kind - and in any format. The need has therefore arisen to collect these resources in special sections, true digital archives. When it comes to 3D models, the subject of today's reference article, Sk...