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Luca Mauri is a professional ICT integrator. He is interested in almost everything related to Science and Technology. He is from Italy.

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Computers & Technology > Phone Technologies & Issues Facts and features the new Google phone: 1 of 2

It's been more than a week since the curtain fell on the so-called GPhone and it is time to make a tie all the loose ends about it. It has been rumored for years that Google was about to release the 'GooglePhone': a revolutionary handset that would be free of charges and payed by customized advertising provided by Google. Af...
Computers & Technology > Internet Issues Understanding Web 2.0: 8 of 15

Web 2.0 and the Company Web 2.0 is about using existing technologies developed in the late 90s in a completely new way of thinking. The centerpieces of this new view is the concept of the Internet as a Platform (from the technical point of view) and the concept of Social Network (from the end-used standpoint). A typical appl...
Sciences > Earth Science (Other) 'Nuclear Winter' defined: 2 of 3

First of all we must say that the term 'Nuclear Winter' refers to a situation that is purely theoretical and that cannot be tested on the field entirely. It is a short description for an hypothetical global climate change caused in a very short period of time by a global thermonuclear war or by some analogous phenomenon like...
Sciences > Sciences (Other) Astrology: Is it a science?: 13 of 15

This is one simple answer to this: no, it is not. There are several reason for this, but mainly astrology it is not based on facts and does not accept facts that disproved it. There are a lot of argument about Astrology to talk about, but I just want to point out a couple of them here, the ones I think are the most convincin...
Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Is nuclear power the answer to global warming?: 13 of 14

For starters we have to point out that scientist are not sure exactly what is causing global warming. While the most part of the person would tell that the so-called greenhouse gases are responsible for this, the truth is that we do not know exactly. The production of these kind of gases incremented exponentially in the last...
Sciences > Earth Science (Other) Is human space travel to the planet Mars too dangerous?: 33 of 35

What is 'too' dangerous? What is simply dangerous and what is an acceptable danger? A lot of commenter says that the whole human space exploration is too dangerous for the man who dare it, but this is nonsense. One of the basic principle of the human race is (or should be) that everyone is free do to everything he wants with...