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Many may not have heard of Generation a few months back. But that's rapidly changing as the world's biggest up-skilling company by volume, quickly rolled out an e-learning program to retrain Italian nurses dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic that killed nearly 27,000 people in the country. Within just a few weeks, six per cent of Italy’s nurses were...

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Guglielmo Marconi's wireless technology is the technology that has shaped the modern world. At the start, the major purpose for wireless was meant for sending individual messages in Morse code, with much greater flexibility than the established telegraph system, which relied on connections by wires. Wire-less, on the other hand, would have military...

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For more than a month, Italy is experiencing an unprecedented situation: stores are closed, productivity has stopped, restaurants and aperitivi are distant memories that seem to belong to a different lifetime. The whole country has been put under forced quarantine since March 10 to stop the surge in coronavirus cases that is threatening the nationa...

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Un Grand Tour a 360° tra chiese, musei e monumenti storici d’Italia. È questo lo scopo di ItalyArt, che in questo momento storico particolare, legato alle misure restrittive per cercare di limitare la diffusione del coronavirus, ha deciso di mettere a disposizione di tutti gli amanti dell’arte e della cultura italiana nel mondo il suo archivio di t...

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Italy plans to use a smartphone app developed by tech start-up Bending Spoons to track people who test positive for the new coronavirus as part of efforts to lift its nationwide lockdown. The original epicentre of the virus outbreak in Europe, Italy has the world's highest coronavirus death toll with more than 22,000 fatalities, second only to the...

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The 2020 edition of Italian Research Day in the World, celebrated on April 15, the anniversary of the birth of Leonardo Da Vinci, falls at a crucial historical moment, when Italy and the whole world are confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic. The Italian Research Day in the World allows reflecting on the importance of scientific collaboration in the...

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With Cannes and Venice both up in the air due to the coronavirus pandemic, Italy’s film promotion org. Filmitalia has teamed up with festival streaming platform Festival Scope Pro to launch its annual Italian Screenings market online in July. Filmitalia, a unit of Italian national film entity Luce-Cinecittà, “is the first of Europe’s roughly 30 fil...

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The Barilla family, which owns the pasta maker of the same name, has donated $500,000 to U.S. non-profit association "The Cure Alliance" to fund research on a COVID-19 therapy based on stem cells, the group said on Monday. The clinical trial for the cure, which is being developed by a group of international scientists led by Italian professor Camil...

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There are many paths to TikTok fame during coronavirus lock down: reunited families, at-home haircuts, a naked spouse surprising another. Luca Petrogalli has taken a very different route to virality. Petrogalli, 19, is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. These days he has become the big man on campus. In fact, he may be the only...

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Quasi 1500 partecipanti, 130 mentor, 55 progetti e altrettanti team per affrontare insieme la sfida contro il COVID-19. Si è svolto dal 27 al 29 marzo Hack for Italy, hackathon internazionale online nato grazie all’input del movimento globale Hack the Crisis, avviato dall’acceleratore estone Garage48. Tra i 15 finalisti, sono stati tre i progetti s...

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