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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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Federico Faggin is not an ordinary Silicon Valley entrepreneur, nor an ordinary physicist nor “ordinary inventor”. Everything about Federico is extra-ordinary. He is by far the most awarded inventor we had in our #MindtheChat: scroll his Wikipedia  page to go through his countless material achievements in physics, electronics and, generally speakin...

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Il mondo tech a raccolta contro il Covid-19: da oggi al 29 marzo la comunità italiana di innovatori si unisce per trovare idee, progetti e soluzioni tecnologiche per affrontare la crisi provocata dalla pandemia. Prendendo spunto da iniziative precedenti in altri Paesi europei e dall’iniziativa lanciata su scala globale dall’Oms, l’edizione italiana...

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In this time of uncertainty the IACCSE’s effort is focused on offering its Members a new set of services to continue its initiatives and the promotion of their businesses by leveraging reliable online technologies. As the current emergency has compromised face-to-face interactions and meetings, the IACCSE is offering a new WEBINAR service, an onlin...

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«Non sprecate mai le opportunità offerte da una crisi. Questa è l’occasione per reinventarsi». Carlo Ratti, 49 anni, architetto e ingegnere torinese, è rimasto a terra. Bloccato a Boston. In attesa, suo malgrado, di uno tsunami che negli Usa «avrà conseguenze drammatiche». L’ultimo aereo disponibile per l’Europa, dopo lo stop ai collegamenti impost...

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It’s been only a few days since the world learned about the life-saving effort by a young team of engineers to design and 3D print venturi valves in order to save COVID-19 patients’ lives at an Italian Hospital. As further recognition to the potential for 3D printing to deliver fast solutions in emergency situations, the Isinnova team now developed...

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Every single museum and cultural site in Italy has been closed since March 8th. Since then, the restrictions on movements within Italy have become much stricter. At the same time, the restrictions on coming into Italy also keep growing, with travel bans, flight cancellations, and airport closures. In Italy, we are all stuck inside and required to s...

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