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Italy's education minister wants to ban phones in classroom
Valditara wants to remove welfare benefit from young people who have not completed schooling. Italy's new right-wing government is set to ban phones in class during lessons to prevent students from getting distracted, education minister Giuseppe Valditara told state broadcaster RAI on Thursday.
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Italy’s Budget Bill Encourages Crypto Investors to Disclose Holdings
Italian lawmakers have proposed in the budget bill to encourage taxpayers to declare their crypto assets as of Jan. 1, 2023, and pay a 14% tax, according to Bloomberg. The move comes as a part of Italy’s plan to tighten digital assets regulation and increase taxes on crypto gains next year.
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LEONARDO is inaugurated: Europe welcomes a new world-leading supercomputer
Today, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and CINECA officially inaugurated LEONARDO, the newest EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputer ranked as the 4th fastest in the world, at the Bologna Technopole in Italy.
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Italian researchers find new recipe to extend life of fresh pasta by a month
Altering packaging process could allow pasta to be kept for 120 days, tackling food waste
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New York returns $19m worth of stolen art to Italy
New York's district attorney has returned $19m (£16m) worth of stolen art to Italy. The 58 pieces include a marble head of the goddess Athena dated 200 BC, worth an estimated $3m alone. The stolen artefacts were sold on to museums and private dealers by convicted looters, said Mr Alvin Bragg.
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Exclusive: Italy, Intel close to $5 billion deal for chip factory
Italy is close to clinching a deal initially worth $5 billion with Intel (INTC.O) to build an advanced semiconductor packaging and assembly plant in the country, two sources briefed on discussions told Reuters on Thursday. Intel's investment in Italy is part of a wider plan announced by the U.S. chipmaker earlier this year to invest $88 billion in building capacity across Europe, which is striving to cut its reliance on Asian chip imports and ease a supply crunch that has curbed output in the region's strategic car sector.
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US soprano, offended by blackface, pulls out of Italy opera
Soprano Angel Blue says she won't perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of another work this summer
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Caesar’s favourite herb was the Viagra of ancient Rome. Until climate change killed it off
Perfume, tonic – even love potion – silphium was prized by the ancient Romans, but in its success lay the seeds of its own downfall
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US Army replaces cake it stole from Italian girl in 1945
The US Army has given a birthday cake to an Italian woman - to replace one that American soldiers stole from her as it cooled by a window 77 years ago. Meri Mion - who turns 90 on Friday - was 13 when her village of San Pietro, near Vicenza, saw fighting between US troops and German soldiers.
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Italian artist sells invisible sculpture for more than $18,000
Though he's received much critique for the sale, Salvatore Garau argues that his work of art isn't "nothing," but is instead a "vacuum."
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Italy to miss World Cup again after loss to North Macedonia
Italy missed out on the World Cup finals again after losing 1-0 at home to North Macedonia in their playoff semi-final on Thursday as Aleksandar Trajkovski's last-gasp strike earned the visitors a fa…
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Wooing Intel, Italy plans $4.6 bln fund to boost chipmaking
Italy plans to set aside more than 4 billion euros ($4.6 billion) until 2030 to boost domestic chip manufacturing as it seeks to attract more investment from tech companies such as Intel, a draft decree seen by Reuters showed on Tuesday. The government is trying to persuade the U.S. group to spend billions of euros on an advanced chipmaking plant in Italy that uses innovative technologies to weave full chips.
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Italy makes protecting environment part of Constitution
The Italian parliament approved a law on Tuesday making protection of the environment part of the Constitution in a vote politicians and activists hailed as significant for the country's future.
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Italian Tech Startup Revives Einstein’s Father’s Power Plant
A husband-wife team of entrepreneurs are using a once-abandoned hydroelectric station to feed the power grid and keep their artificial-intelligence enterprise humming.
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In an historic vote, Italy to ban fur farming and shut down all mink farms within six months
The Budget Committee of the Italian Senate today voted to approve a modified version of an amendment to the budget law which will see the country’s 10 remaining mink fur farms closed within six months and a permanent ban on fur farming throughout Italy.
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How are Rome's monuments still standing?
Nearly 2,000 years on, how are the Colosseum and the Pantheon still standing despite earthquakes, floods and military conflicts?
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Italian man tries to dodge Covid jab using fake arm
The man is so keen to get a vaccine pass he turns up with a plastic arm, but doctors aren't fooled.
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Amazon and Apple handed $225 million in Italian antitrust fines
Italy's antitrust authority has fined U.S. tech giants Amazon.com and Apple Inc a total of more than 200 million euros ($225 million) for alleged anti-competitive cooperation in the sale of Apple and Beats products.
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Italy's unions rally against neo-fascist groups after violent protests
Italy's biggest workers' unions rallied in Rome on Saturday and called on the government to dissolve the neo-fascist groups involved in last weekend's violent protests against the COVID-19 health pass.
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DNA Has Finally Revealed The Mysterious Origins of The Ancient Etruscans
DNA evidence has finally ended the debate about where the ancient Etruscans – an ancient civilization whose remains are found in Italy – came from.
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