Thanks to data from the Event Horizon Telescope, the first image of a black hole, M87, is shown.

NASA announces the discovery of Kepler-452 b, the most Earth-like planet ever spotted, thanks to the Kepler space telescope.

Mark Zuckerberg announces that he has reached a definitive agreement to purchase Whatsapp, the instant messaging application for smartphones, at a price of 19 billion dollars.

Despite the crisis, some are still moving forward!
The astronaut Luca Parmitano is the first Italian to travel in the space bound to the International Station

Vision changes dimension!
Google Glass is launched - giving an increased reality experience. It is interactive and able to interact with other devices

The Windows Server operating system 2012 is released

Barack Obama is re-elected President of the United States. The U.S. reiterates its commitment to democracy, entrepreneurship and innovation

China is the second economic power in the world, surpassing Japan and Germany. Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranks among the top 200 best universities in the world

AMD introduces the first 16-core processing unit, with 84% better performance than previous systems

IT investments worldwide grow by more than 5%, with a value of over 3400 billion dollars

The touch era begins with the advent of advanced tablets that are always connected

Ubuntu / Linux is announced the operating system of the year

Apple Introduces MacBook Air: the thinnest notebook in the world

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The first digital photo-video camera with Quad Full High Definition format achieves double the definition of the HD standard

Google buys Android and develops its own Linux-based operating system

Google China is launched

The advent of Web 2.0: Internet users become the new protagonists in terms of content creation

Nokia, Philips and Sony set up the Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum, the technology that permits wireless connectivity

Facebook is launched!