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In the first half of 2025, she racked up over 55 million views on TikTok and 4 million likes, mostly from tweens glued to their cellphones. Not bad for an AI-generated cartoon ballerina with a cappuccino teacup for a head. Her name is Ballerina Cappuccina. Her smiling, girlish face is accompanied by a deep, computer-generated male voice singing in...

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I’m from the South, and if there’s one thing we know how to do, it’s make fried chicken that’ll make you weak in the knees. Golden, crispy, juicy—it’s a point of pride, passed down like family heirlooms and guarded like state secrets. I’ve been frying chicken the same way for years, convinced nothing could top it, but then I stumbled across Chef Ga...

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  Culture drives Italy’s post-pandemic tourism boom A box from home: how southern Italian families keep their students fed - and loved - from afar Italian Anti-Mafia Commission and TikTok sign groundbreaking agreement to promote digital legality A high-tech Italian solution targets Europe’s illegal waste trade University enrollment on the rise in I...

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The Italy we all know is made of icons: the Tower of Pisa, the Colosseum, the Grand Canal. They are symbols that tell millennial stories, which fascinate millions of travellers every year. But there is another Italy, far more vast and surprising, just waiting to be discovered. An authentic Italy, made up of villages asleep in the hills, paths hidde...

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Italy’s Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission and TikTok Italy signed a memorandum of understanding today to strengthen their joint commitment to promoting a culture of legality and combating content that glorifies or supports organized crime on digital platforms. This agreement marks an unprecedented collaboration between a national institution and...

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  Social egg freezing in Puglia: a new path to reproductive freedom Cutting through the red tape: Italy’s push to simplify bureaucracy The summer lotus bloom of Mantua in Lombardy Digital habits and media literacy in Italy Italy relaunches mining with new national exploration program Turin named European Capital of Smart Tourism 2025 Made in Carcer...

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  Italy and the heat: fifty years of rising temperatures The financial wealth of Italian households surpasses €6 trillion in 2024 Rome’s public transit offers free digital library with books, audiobooks, and music Even robots will fly: actually they're already doing it, in Italy Taranto and its black gold: the story of the cozza tarantina Wishew, t...

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In today’s world, social media is the place where most people—especially younger generations—form relationships and interact with others. At the same time, advances in technology have not only introduced new digital payment tools but also reshaped user behavior and business models. Within this landscape, crowdfunding has emerged as a powerful way t...

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Everyone says their grandmother’s cooking is the best. But what will grandmothers be cooking twenty years from now?”  It was this simple yet profound question that, over a decade ago, inspired British producer Vicky Bennison to create Pasta Grannies, a project dedicated to the art of handmade pasta, Italian home cooking, and most of all, the women...

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Any day now, the new sandwich shop Casa Cugine will open in Brooklyn. “We’re just waiting on the last permits,” says the shop’s namesake, Cugine, the Staten Island–born influencer known for videos of cooking massive slabs of meat or complaining about being “down horrendously” after a long night out. He’s finalizing a short menu that — for now — inc...

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