Presented with number 0 at the Lucca Comics and Games 2019 festival, X-Planet was born as an idea of ​​sharing a personal dream experience, which however veers strongly towards the themes of "realistic" sci-fi, or in any case with a serious scientific imprint. The entire X-Planet project, by the well-known artist Piero Celli, is also increasingly taking on the contours of a cross-media study. Of course, the title of the publication is not accidental: it refers to astronomical theories on the existence of the elusive planet x (or tenth planet, a name now less used than in the past, especially after the ninth planet, Pluto, was downgraded to the status of "dwarf planet"), and to those a little more improbable and less known - but more intriguing from a purely narrative point of view - of paleo-astronautical mold, bringing up Peter Kolosimo, Zecharia Sitchin and the Sumerian-Babylonian epic, with references to Nibiru, the native world of the ancient gods of Babylon, and to those same divinities, the mysterious as imposing (even literally in size) anunnaki. This is the direct link to my review, in italian language: - https://www.sentieriselvaggi.it/iniziopartita-x-planet-games-literature-la-recensione/ Hope you will like the reading...

Astronomers detected the explosion of the supernova the 23rd February 1987, after the explosion it was not possible to detect the neutron star or even a blackhole it is formed. Today ALMA radio telescope detected signs of an hot star where it should be a neutron star if it has been kicked out at the supernova explosion event. If further observations will confirm it, it will be the youngest neutron star ever observed from Earth. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-alma-neutron-star-supernova-1987a.html

Apophis will be 30.000km close to Earth, Earth-Moon distance is 380.000km, in April 2029. It is probable it will collide with Earth in 2036. A huge effort is needed by all the world to study and plan a strategy to change the orbit of the asteroid to avoid the collision. https://www.space.com/asteroid-apophis-2029-flyby-planetary-defense.html

In 2017 a japanese team used cosmic rays called muons to 3D scan the great pyramid finding an unknown void. Egyptian archeologysts have been skeptics about this discovery, so a new campain of measures have been organized in order to check if the void is really there with a new muon detector inside the pyramid and a drone outside. http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ202001110001.html

They published a review by me of this Android app; the basic idea of ​​this service is quite innovative: do you have to send a package? Well ... SiWeGo allows you to contact someone willing to transport it for you to the recipient, without resorting to post offices, couriers, etc ... In summary, it is a digital suite (website plus multiple applications for Android or iOS) which, as happens for example for BlaBlaCar, interfaces with each other its users, that is, in practice, who has to send something with who can carry it, because maybe he's going to move to that same destination. From official statistics, it appears that, every day, one in four hauliers makes an empty journey: using SiWeGO, and hoping that the app will spread a lot, road traffic could get theoretically reduced by more than 25% (i.e. due to road freight transport), making this application a bulwark of the new green economy. You can find the text of this review, written in italian, on this URL: https://www.sentieriselvaggi.it/iniziopartita-siwego-smart-eco-transport-android-la-recensione/ . Have a good reading!

China-Italy collaboration PolarLight measure the polarization of X-rays from Crab nebula pulsar. It happened during the glipse of the pulsar, where the magnetic field is modified by the core contraction of the neutron star, it also changes the angle of high energy particle emission. This experimental results have been achieved with an high precision X-ray detector developed by italian nuclear research institute (INFN) and mounted on a nano-satellite like Asgardia-1 by Tsinghua University of Beijing. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1088-1

In this game the clashes are frantic and furious; the two teams of virtual fighters collide, six against six, in vast thematic game-maps. When a robot is shot down, the player can decide to replace it with any of the others owned; this means that, at the end of the game, dozens of devastated mech carcasses can be counted on the battlefield. Robotic raids will be fun even when, inevitably, you end up losing a few games. For example, alone and with six hunters on your heels, it is difficult to get away with it, especially at the controls of a very light, ridiculous mech; I assure you, however, that, despite the obvious end, it will be really fun to give your opponents a lot of trouble, forcing them to chase you frantically, taking advantage of greater speed and agility ( ...maybe even poking them). And then, even if knocked down, you can immediately start again with enthusiasm and joy for the next game. Am I, therefore, only reporting the plethora of strengths inherent in the gameplay? No. There are also several things wrong. First of all, the graphics engine that performs the 3D visual rendering seems to be heavy to digest even for the latest generation of smartphone processors, and manages to put them clearly under stress, so much so that after ten minutes of play your mobile phone will begin to "boil" (we tested it on a decent Samsung A71, and I assure you that the increase in temperature was sensitive and easily noticeable). Anyway it is a very funny game; this is the complete review, as usual, written in italian: - https://www.sentieriselvaggi.it/iniziopartita-war-robots-android-la-recensione/ Have a nice reading.

Healthy women have less probability to get deep vein thrombosis (DVT), contraceptive pill seems has no effects on the probability to get DVT too in space. Further test will be necessary because they have been made more on male astronauts and less on female astronauts in the past. https://www.globalscience.it/19094/donne-salute-piu-a-rischio-nello-spazio/

Deloitte's State of AI in the Enterprise shows 79% of companies says AI empower people to make better decisions, but 63% want to cut cost by automating as many jobs as possible. This is the lask of wisdom of business managers who consider employee not as colleagues with the same purpose of gain value for their products, but as a gear to pull out as soon as possible. Technology is a tool to expand human abilities and development, without humanity there is no progress. Asgardia should be based on this purpose: science, technology and businesses must empower humanity. Making a Space Nursery for safely born in space has this purpose, empower women to give life to humanity in space. https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/4780_State-of-AI-in-the-enterprise/AICognitiveSurvey2018_Infographic.pdf

Pacific Rim - Breach Wars is an excellent combination of puzzles and progression-style elements, which offers an exciting setting (that of the movies Pacific Rim & Pacific Rim - Uprising) and has an extraordinary graphic section (Jaegers and Kaijus are reproduced with faithfulness and statuesque beauty). In the game, in addition, we will find a large number of known Kaiju and Jaeger, which we will be able to unlock gradually (or through in-app purchases ... it is still a free-to-play). Here you can find my review of the game (as usual written in italian language): - https://www.sentieriselvaggi.it/iniziopartita-pacific-rim-breach-wars-android-la-recensione/ Hope you find the reading interesting.

In order to manage complex systems, businesses needs a platforms that includes big data + AI + visualization oriented to operations management. Several companies starting offer such services like splunk.com, ibm, etc. I am self-studing AI, containers platforms, open-source virtualization etc... is anyone there interested in such subjects with business oriented approach?

Today in the online magazine of Sentieri Selvaggi, and more specifically in the heading inizioPartita, they published my review of STAR TREK Fleet Command (a video game for Android platforms). Regardless of whether a player likes or dislikes the Star Trek saga, it is the RPG and management components that provide STAR TREK Fleet Command with the most engaging features. Taking full graphic and visual cues from the recent cinematic re-boot, crew members of the caliber of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, etc. can be gathered and updated, equipping them to upgrade player's space-ships. In this way, while waiting for the completion of the construction or improvement of its buildings and for the achievement of the results of the research activities, player can also fly around the galaxy, completing various missions and collecting improvements to level-up his favorite characters or to build new space vessels. He can also interact with three of the main factions of the well-known saga (the Federation, the Klingons and the Romulans), but there are missions also connected to other famous races (Ferengi, Vulcans, Andorians, Orions, Borgs, etc...). You can find the review at this link: https://www.sentieriselvaggi.it/iniziopartita-star-trek-fleet-command-android-la-recensione/. As usual, it is written in italian. Have a good reading :)