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• Privacy alert! Websites and services ask you more personal information that they need.

  

  10 October 2017

  When signing up on digital services and creating accounts, often users are asked more information than it is really needed, putting privacy at risk. An international conference outlined methods and strategies that digital service providers use to get users’ private information, discussing how it could impact on individuals’ privacy.

• Giant Panda shaped power plant harvests energy in China.

  

  09 October 2017

  Everybody loves Panda, so… why not? The innovative idea, meant to attract kids and getting them intrested in green energy, became reality.

• Developing super fast wireless coverage as alternative to Fibre connection.

  

  05 October 2017

  Increasing demand of internet traffic drove researchers towards extra efforts that resulted in the development of ubiquitous wireless data coverage at exceptional speed. The new Horizon 2020 ULTRAWAVE project seeks progress by exploiting the whole millimetre wave spectrum beyond 100 GHz.

• Innovation and Security: measuring hearts to identify and protect users

  

  29 September 2017

  A new computer security system uses heart’s dimension to identify the user, monitoring the use to ensure safety. The new study moves one step forward, taking over retinal scanning and fingerprint identification.

• New Battery-free Phone makes Calls absorbing energy from the ambience.

  

  04 August 2017

  A battery-free phone has been developed by University of Washington’s researchers, challenging the issue of dying phones and the requirement of bringing chargers and cables along. The phone absorbs energy from the environment and turns it into power.

• Pokémon GO to promote exercise and reduce sedentary behaviour

  

  14 July 2017

  One year after the release of Pokémon GO, studies reflect on the impact on human health of such app. The innovative app that drove people to leave home to catch digital creatures, defined as Pokémon (literally Pocket + Monsters), may be helpful in promoting an active lifestyle.

• People change their voice according to whom they speak.

  

  30 June 2017

  When we speak with somebody, the social status of the interlocutor affects our way of talking. Power position or respect towards people can influence the way we relate to them.

• 5 Steps for an Effective Communication

  

  23 June 2017

  Sometimes interacting efficiently with others can be hard because of the difficulties in mutual understanding. Although this is a common problem, it can however be solved, or at least improved, with a simple and easy-to-apply solution.

• When people are phone snubbed by others, they tend to turn to social media and take shelter into smartphones themselves.

  

  16 June 2017

  When people are phone snubbed by others, they tend to turn to social media and take shelter into smartphones themselves. The avoidance circle of face-to-face interactions then begins.

• Among the many opinions, rumours and information on Twitter, sometimes the truth prevails on the conjectures.

  

  26 May 2017

  According to a study from the University of Washington, tweets shared from official accounts, such as the one belonging to media, emergency responders, government agencies and companies caught in viral stories, can actually hinder the spread of fake rumours and not verified sources on Twitter, as well as amend the wrong information the reliability of which is easily taken for granted.