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.
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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.
Blockchain: IBM and London Stock Exchange Group team up for securities data project
The group's Italian subsidiary will be the first to test the technology for digitising certificate data.
How Microsoft Azure, Kinect are helping kids play TV games to recover from strokes
With millions of children suffering from the impact of perinatal strokes, a group of Italian researchers decided to turn to gaming tech to help provide therapy.
This startup is aiming to bring the cost of microsatellite data services down to earth
With more small satellites filling our skies, Italian startup Leaf Space thinks its network of ground stations can help introduce new, more economic services.
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.
Italy's tech startups: Why these two funding rounds are such a big deal
Tech startups in Italy seem to suffer from an image problem, which is why a pair of recent funding injections could be just the shot in the arm they need.
How doctors are prescribing VR to help patients cope with real life
One Italian hospital is helping break new ground by using immersive virtual reality to help people deal with neurological problems.
Photos: These tiny $17 lenses can turn your smartphone into a microscope
These images show what a smartphone can achieve as a microscope, using the 1.5mm-thick Blips lenses from Italian startup Smart Micro Optics.
How these tiny $17 lenses can turn your smartphone into a microscope
At just 1.5mm thick, the Blips lenses from Italian startup Smart Micro Optics are designed to transform virtually all mobile-device cameras into pocket microscopes.
It's no robot guide dog - but this wearable aims to help blind people safely move
With expertise in tech to help robots detect and avoid obstacles, two Italian engineers have now turned their energies to making a device for the blind.
