We’ve all felt it, that slo-mo shock-horror as your precious smartphone takes a tumble out of your hand. The relief when the screen returns to your hand unscathed is palpable, but it’s enough to bring you to tears if you’ve ended up with shattered glass […]
Month: September 2017
Ten years later, ‘Sunshine’ remains one of the bleakest and most beautiful sci-fi movies ever made
The first time I saw Sunshine, it was in a room full of men (in my memory, the audience was at least 90 percent male). Afterwards, my friend and I spent an extra 10 minutes on the floor, trying to find his misplaced glasses. Despite […]
Google reveals its most-searched ‘How To’ tips
The need to to fix windows, walls and doors topped lists everywhere, so the team threw out those results to focus on regional patterns. The results? “North Americans and East Asians need their toilets, people in former Soviet countries are fearless enough to attempt fixing […]
Read how ISP’s show fake speedtest results to attract customers. Includes screenshots. via /r/technology
Read how ISP’s show fake speedtest results to attract customers. Includes screenshots. So, my ISP has blacklisted every website except speedtest.net to get a download speed of more then 6 mbps. I myself am a pretty advanced user, so I know its not my laptop […]
Slashdot: Demise of Yellow Pages Confirmed as Yell Aims For Digital Transformation
Demise of Yellow Pages Confirmed as Yell Aims For Digital Transformation Published on September 04, 2017 at 10:00PM An anonymous reader shares a report: Yell, the parent company of Yellow Pages confirmed the demise of the long published listings directory as it plans to transition […]
Slashdot: Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser
Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser Published on September 04, 2017 at 11:00PM The latest allegation against Google? Jon von Tetzchner, creator of the web browser Opera, says the search giant deliberately undermined his new browser, Vivaldi. Rowland Manthorpe, […]
Slashdot: Fish Are Eating Lots of Plastic
Fish Are Eating Lots of Plastic Published on September 05, 2017 Matthew Savoca, writing for the Washington Post: As you bite down into a delicious piece of fish, you probably don’t think about what the fish itself ate — but perhaps you should. More than […]
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A ripple effect is a situation in which, like ripples expanding across the water when an object is dropped into it, an effect from an initial state can be followed outwards incrementally (source Medium)
Pensioni, Damiamo: subito operativo l’Ape volontario, le novità
Dopo il decreto attuativo per attivare l'Anticipo pensionistico volontario … Naturalmente il prestito finanziario per l'anticipo della pensione "è una … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
Read how ISP’s show fake speedtest results to attract customers. Includes screenshots. via /r/technology
Read how ISP’s show fake speedtest results to attract customers. Includes screenshots. So, my ISP has blacklisted every website except speedtest.net to get a download speed of more then 6 mbps. I myself am a pretty advanced user, so I know its not my laptop […]