Last June, Samsung and Acer started to produce the first commercial Chromebooks. What’s this new oddity “made by Google?” The devices comprise a distinct class of personal computer falling between a pure cloud client and [...]

Are you looking forward to the Christmas holidays? Actually there isn’t too much time left: from last Sunday we are already in the Advent season. Advent (from the Latin word adventus meaning “coming”) is a [...]

The small world experiment was comprised of several experiments conducted in the ’60s by the social psychologist Stanley Milgram and other researchers. The project examined the average path length for social networks of people in [...]