Italy

An aerial photograph of the newly-discovered Imperial Cult ruins by Douglas Boin, Ph.D., and his team. Credit: Douglas Boin, Ph.D. Douglas Boin, Ph.D., a professor of history at Saint Louis University, made a major announcement at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, revealing he and his team discovered an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to…

We’ve seen countless leaks for the Samsung Galaxy S24 series and the latest one concerns the pricing for all three upcoming flagships for the Italian market. The details were shared by reliable source Roland Quandt and show that the upcoming devices will be slightly less expensive than their predecessors. The new pricing details also fall in line with previous rumors from last week. Galaxy S24 series renders The baseline 8/128GB Galaxy S24 will start at €899 while the 8/256GB version will…

Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S24 series on January 17, but that isn't stopping people from finding information about those products ahead of the announcement. Over the past few months, the design and specifications of the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra have leaked through multiple sources, leading us to believe that most of the information leaked is accurate. The European pricing of the phones was also leaked a few days ago. Now, the pricing of the devices for the Italian market has also been revealed.…

Updated Jan. 4, 2024 6:16 pm ETOne of the world’s biggest supermarket chains said it would drop several PepsiCo products to protest what it called unacceptable price increases, a rare public standoff between a grocer and food maker after more than two years of rising prices.Carrefour, which operates thousands of stores across more than 30 countries, said it would stop selling Pepsi, Doritos and other products in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. A spokesman for the French company said Thursday that it had decided to add…

Fiat's new 2024 500e (source: Stellantis) Italy has some of the oldest, most polluting cars in Europe clogging up its roads, and the country is lagging behind other European countries in EV adoption. But the government aims to change that, to the tune of a $1 billion investment to encourage people to ditch their gas- or diesel-burning cars for electric ones. Bloomberg reports that the Italian industry ministry is weighing a plan to sink €930 million ($1 billion) into some enticing…

AI Roundup: Several notable developments took place in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) today, January 4. Microsoft launched the Copilot key, a key that can summon Microsoft's AI chatbot at just a press of a button. Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday said that AI will be one of the two key issues for Italy during its one-year presidency of the G7. Nearly 58 pct of the researchers think that AI could have catastrophic effects, according to a new survey. All this, and more in today's AI…

Growing up in Italy, Naomi Stillitano didn’t know a thing about the Rose Parade. Then she moved to Southern California. Seven years old, she was swaddled in her mother’s jacket to ward off the cold of an early January morning. Naomi remembered being dazzled by the flowers and beauty of the Royal Court.“I was like, ‘I want to be a princess,’ ” Naomi, 17, recalled of her first Rose Parade. Now, nearly a decade later, the Arcadia High School senior is the parade’s 105th Rose Queen.The teenager appeared visibly emotional…

The American poet Cynthia Zarin was 19 when she first travelled to Venice. The trip was a summer sojourn of sorts with “a boy I thought I might marry”, and the city turned out to be hot and expensive to room in. Zarin and her boyfriend stayed in a grotty boarding house in Padua and took the train to Venice one morning, planning to meet another friend of Zarin’s, who was also making a day trip from Florence. The couple ate veal sandwiches and idled around the steps of the Santa Maria della Salute, but Zarin soon wearied of…

ROME—Elon Musk and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have formed one of 2023’s more unlikely trans-Atlantic alliances.Behind their budding friendship lie common interests in political issues such as immigration and demographics, as well as in tech-sector regulation and the risks associated with artificial intelligence.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 ROME—Elon Musk and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Melonihave formed one of 2023’s more unlikely…

A note discovered in a 15th-century Hebrew prayer book by Paolo Galli reveals a previously unknown earthquake in Italy’s Marche region, offering vital insights into the country’s seismic history and drawing parallels to a similar event in 1799. Credit: SciTechDaily.comThe chance finding of a note in a 15th-century Hebrew prayer book fills an important gap in the historical Italian earthquake record, offering a brief glimpse of a previously unknown earthquake affecting the Marche region in the central Apennines.Paolo…