Equifax, which yesterday announced a truly enormous breach, will not require affected consumers to forfeit their right to join a class action lawsuit against the company in order to receive credit protection. The company clarified the forced arbitration clause in its terms of service after […]
Month: September 2017
How Chicago can win Amazon’s 50000 jobs
How Chicago can win Amazon's 50,000 jobs … Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, is also … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead…
What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead… A case in Baltimore — in which two men were convicted of the same murder and cleared by DNA 20 years later — shows how far prosecutors will go to preserve a conviction. […]
The first ‘Destiny 2’ expansion will reintroduce players to Osiris
If you’ve already finished Destiny 2‘s campaign and are grinding through the endgame, here’s some news you might be interested in. The first expansion for developer Bungie’s shared-world shooter is dubbed “Curse of Osiris,” named for the infamous multiplayer mode from its prequel. This time […]
The Nasty New ‘It’ Doesn’t Clown Around
For a while there, It floats along nicely. Adapted from Stephen King‘s famously elephantine blockbuster, which pits a group of awkward Maine teens against a shape-shifting monster, the first stretch of this town-and-clown horror thriller makes for appropriately goony fun. That’s partly because, for viewers […]
Seriously, Equifax? Why the Credit Agency’s Breach Means Regulation Is Needed by FARHAD MANJOO
By FARHAD MANJOO Equifax’s main job is to collect and maintain data. Now the hacking at the credit agency uncovers a gaping flaw in regulation over data storage. Published: September 8, 2017 at 02:00AM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/2gPjR3z via IFTTT
YouTube HDR arrives for Galaxy Note 8, LG V30 and more
HDR, also known as high dynamic range, is an awesome feature that too few get to experience. It adds a deeper level of contrast and far richer colors than you’re probably used to seeing outside of a movie theater. Thankfully, Google is now looping Google […]
Which is the fastest growing programming language? Hint, it’s not JavaScript
Python is the fastest-growing programming language, and by 2019 will significantly outstrip other languages in terms of active developers. That’s the prediction of programming Q&A hub Stack Overflow, based on the ballooning number of developers viewing questions about Python on its site. The extrapolation is […]
Elon Musk shares first full-body photo of SpaceX’s spacesuit
Elon Musk has shared a photo of the SpaceX spacesuit the company has designed in-house. This is the second photo shared by Musk of the new spacesuit design created by the company, and the first to feature the suit’s full-body look. The first photo focused […]
Messico, terremoto di magnitudo 8: almeno sei morti. Allerta tsunami in Centro America
Un sisma di magnitudo superiore a 8 al largo delle coste del Messico: emessa allerta tsunami per i paesi del centro America. Si tratta del terremoto più forte registrato da quello devastante del 1985. Almeno cinque morti in Messico, uno in Guatemala … by Livio Acerbo […]