Day: October 5, 2017

At this year’s Comic Con in New York, toymaker Sphero has announced that it’s adding a brand new app-enabled droid to its Star Wars line which already includes R2-D2, BB-8 and BB-9E. Called R2-Q5, this droid is basically R2-D2 Imperial Edition, which first appeared in […]

From runway to doorway in 60 minutes. Amazon has partnered with the designer Nicola Formichetti to get London Fashion Week’s styles to Londoners’ doorsteps within an hour. The partnership is the latest iteration of the “see now, buy now” strategy, which designers have been experimenting […]

If you’ve got a resource-hungry app, Google Compute Engine’s latest offering has you covered. It lets you dial up to 96 CPUs and an other-worldly 624 GB of memory. Remember Bill Gates asking who would ever need more than 64K of memory. He obviously didn’t […]

A fine settembre il governo turco aveva annunciato un nuovo programma fiscale che prevede, tra le altre cose, un aumento delle tasse del 40 per … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from

Una bolla di sapone. La storia dell'estate, tutta da leggere sotto l'ombrellone, che tanto ha fatto discutere nel luglio scorso, finisce con la richiesta di archiviazione per «nessuna apologia di fascismo». La Procura di Venezia ha infatti chiesto il … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from

Things released by Magic Leap, a company which has raised $1.4B from investors, to date: Magic Leap has been very, very willing to talk endlessly about its unreleased product without actually saying anything. We eagerly await the payoff for the above list. [embedded content] social experiment […]

YouTube rolled out the changes on Wednesday night, accelerating its existing plans to tweak the search engine. The update targets search results about major news events — including the NFL protests — and is designed to keep inaccurate videos at bay. The company didn’t provide […]

Netflix’s subscriber numbers are on the rise, but unfortunately subscription fees are rising with them. A new report from Mashable claims current US subscribers of two of Netflix’s three plans will see fees increase sometime next month, with the standard and most common plan jumping […]

When you think about it, touch is a bizarre sense. Unlike sound or light, tactile properties can be difficult to quantify. You can measure decibels or lumens, but touch is a subjective sense with subjective descriptions, like rough or squishy or cold. Subjective until now, […]

Google will release a smaller version of its Home smart speaker, the company revealed during an event on Wednesday. The device, called the Google Home Mini, will cost $49 and launches on October 19. Like the larger Google Home, the Mini is partially made of […]