Euronews

Italy tap water not guaranteed: rules for restaurants, bars and hotels across Europe

A Supreme Court ruling has found that Italian businesses are not required to provide drinking water from the tap, unlike in much of Europe. Here is an overview of the different national rules. As an ...
CNN

Hotel’s refusal to serve guest tap water at restaurant is lawful, top Italian court rules

A five-star hotel in Italy that repeatedly refused to serve a guest tap water at its restaurant did not break any laws, the country’s top court has ruled. The woman filed a lawsuit after hotel staff ...
Metro

Where you’re legally entitled to free tap water in Europe (and where you’re not)

Italy’s Supreme Court has ruled that being served tap water is not a consumer right (Picture: Getty Images) A tourist’s simple request for a glass of tap water at a hotel in the Dolomites has led to a ...
Miami Herald

45% of the nation’s tap water contains chemicals that may be harmful to humans, experts warn

Illustration of a tap water open in Lyon France on January 9 2025. ELSA BIYICK Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images The numbers keep climbing. In 2023, a U.S. Geological Survey study found at least 45% of ...
Reuters

Hotels can refuse to serve tap water, Italy's top court rules

MILAN, May 27 (Reuters) - Italian hotels can refuse to serve their guests tap water, Italy's highest court ruled in response to a tourist's complaint against a ‌luxury hotel in a ski resort in the ...
The Daily Telegraph

Tourists not entitled to free tap water, Italian court rules

Decision ends saga that began when customer asked for tap water during stay at five-star hotel in 2019 Nick Squires is The Telegraph’s Rome correspondent, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and the ...
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...
Hackaday

Automatic Tutorial Generator Is Perhaps The Best-Case For Vibe Coding

Quick question: how did you learn to code? It probably wasn’t bribing someone a year or two ahead of you in CS to finish all ...
BBC

Hotel that refused to give tourist tap water acted lawfully, Italian court rules

Italy's highest court has ruled a five-star Dolomites hotel was acting lawfully when it refused to provide tap water to a tourist. The woman from Rome unsuccessfully argued that "water is a natural ...
Reuters

NBA to use AI for automatic out-of-bounds calls, Silver says

May 27 (Reuters) - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league will use AI to automate a category of calls such as out-of-bounds decisions to speed up games and ‌reduce disputes over possession.
Android Police

I ignored my Pixel's Quick Tap feature for years until I enabled this incredibly boring setting

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