After a long struggle, Italy has found the secret to getting people to go online
Building new digital services is one thing; getting people to use them is quite another.
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Contact tracing: Italy's open-source app finally lands, taking the Google-Apple model
With half a million downloads and a controversy over its sexist icons, Italy's Immuni is out.
Europe's big weather supercomputer data center is about to leave UK
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is setting up its HPC data center in Bologna, Italy.
Face recognition: Are Italy's police using millions more mugshots than is legal?
Italian law enforcement's SARI facial-recognition system is throwing up civil-rights questions.
Italy's big digital plan: Single smartphone app for its citizens to pay taxes, bills
Beta testing is under way on a smartphone app designed to help make Italy more resident-friendly.
Can blockchain-powered donations restore your trust in charities? Helperbit thinks so
Blockchain startup Helperbit aims to change the way you give money to charities coping with natural disasters.
Would you vote for a tech political party? This new Italian group is banking on it
Voters in Italy's upcoming elections will be able to choose a party with a tech-oriented agenda.
Free, open source: Games that use machine learning to boost autism attention spans
Intensive education is the best way of reducing autism symptoms in children, but it can be costly, which is why Turkish startup Otsimo decided that free, open-source games could really help.
Can AI really run a traditional bank with no staff? This startup thinks so
Italian fintech firm Euklid plans to go beyond bitcoin machine learning to offer the services of a traditional bank, but almost entirely run by AI.
Now the Internet of Things goes Lego, with C++, JavaScript, Python coding
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled SBricks Plus building blocks from Hungarian startup Vengit open up Lego to a far wider range of apps, coded in much more complex languages.