When Rebecca Goldin spoke to a recent class of incoming freshmen at George Mason University, she relayed a disheartening statistic: According to a recent study, 36 percent of college students don’t significantly improve in critical thinking during their four-year tenure. “These students had trouble distinguishing […]
Day: September 16, 2017
Download of the day – Corpse Box Racers
“What if, when people die, they do go to heaven… only they’re still dead and their bodies are now used as competitors in challenges?” That’s the question posed by Kabi Jedhagen, the developer of distinctly strange indie racing/platform game Corpse Box Racers. You control a […]
Twitter says a now-fixed bug allowed ad campaigns to target users with derogatory terms
Add Twitter to the list of companies that have had to respond to questions around the ability to target ad campaigns against derogatory keywords in their advertising platform, though Twitter says this was a result of a bug. “We determined these few campaigns were able […]
A Chinese tech giant tried to buy Spotify
Neither Spotify nor Tencent is commenting on the apparent leak, to no one’s surprise, so there won’t be any official clarification as to what took place. If talks happened in first place, though, they’re still notable. They show that larger Chinese tech firms can feel […]
Pensioni, ultimissime novità ad oggi 16/9 su APE, vitalizi e Manovra Fornero
Le ultime novità sulle #Pensioni ad oggi 16 settembre vedono riaccendersi lo scontro politico sulla legge Fornero. È in particolare l'On Rizzetto ad … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
A brief recent history of Apple’s product swerves
The perennial refrain of Android fans is that Apple is just adding stuff to iOS that they’ve had for years already in their mobile ecosystem. And it’s certainly true that Cupertino makes a point of waiting until it believes a technology is properly baked and […]
Mazara, peschereccio sequestrato dai tunisini
mentre si trovava in acque internazionali, a sud di Lampedusa. A bordo dell'imbarcazione sono saliti cinque militari tunisini armati che hanno rinchiuso in una cabina il comandante, Giacomo Giacalone, hanno assunto il comando e invertendo la rotta si … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
NPR’s biggest podcasts are available on the iHeartRadio app
There’s a new place to listen to your favorite NPR podcasts: the iHeartRadio app. A press release says that Fresh Air, How I Built This, Invisibilia, Planet Money and Up First will be available via the app, among some 30 others. So, wherever the iHeartRadio […]
Space Photos of the Week: So Long, Cassini. Thanks for All the Pics
This week, all eyes are on Saturn and, more specifically, the Cassini spacecraft which circled the planet one last time before crashing into its murky surface on Friday. It left behind thousands of images, including some final shots like the photo of Saturn’s clouds near […]
Users Guide to Disrupt SF 2017
Disrupt SF approaches with just a couple days until we kick things off. Here are all the deets you need to make for a stellar conference experience. Checking-InDoors open to attendees at 7:00am on Monday and Tuesday and 7:30am on Wednesday. Programming begins at 9am […]