Boston and its surrounding universities are jam-packed with big ideas, but the problem is that many of them never get out of the lab. MIT president Rafael Reif recognized this and decided the city needed an engine to push those ideas and The Engine — […]
Day: October 16, 2017
Tesla’s Latest Bad News…Oh, Never Mind
A few developments that would have knocked most stocks off course are barely registering among Tesla’s bullish crowd. Late Friday, it was reported that Tesla had fired hundreds of workers. Though the company maintained that the firings were related to annual performance reviews and mostly […]
A 747 ‘Supertanker’ rains retardant on California’s wildfires
The 747, dubbed “The Spirit of John Muir,” was converted to a tanker in 2012 by the previous owner, Evergreen airlines, before being purchased by Global Supertanker. Because it once served as a passenger craft, it has outstanding high and low-speed performance, flying at up […]
Iraq: forze di sicurezza irachene avanzano su Kirkuk
Baghdad, 16 ott 08:24 – (Agenzia Nova) – Le forze di sicurezza irachene, coadiuvate dalle coadiuvate dalle milizie a maggioranza sciita (Pmu), sono entrate oggi nella città di Kirkuk, capoluogo dell'omonima provincia, nel quadro di un'operazione … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
The HOLD 10 Index is a passively managed fund of the top 10 cryptocurrencies
This year the market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies has grown from about $13 billion to well over $150 billion, fueled by infusions of capital from all different types of investors. But irregardless of this extreme growth, it’s still very complicated for most people to invest in […]
No, Huawei, it’s unacceptable to make pink phones ‘for the ladies’
Right – I don’t usually get that bothered by anything a brand says on stage when they’re unveiling a new product. It’s usually an exercise in hyperbole. But what Huawei has just done (again) is unacceptable. I’ll just leave the exact quote from Richard Yu, […]
Neutron Stars Collide, and the Gravitational Wave Sends Ripples Through Astrophysics
Some 130 million years ago, two extremely dense balls of matter collided into each other. These two neutron stars, the city-sized cores of deceased giant stars, spiraled inward and merged to become a giant fireball. In the collision, they generated a sonorous ripple in spacetime […]
Cryptocurrency Mining Websites Attract 500 Million Monthly Visitors, According to Report
Cryptocurrency Mining Websites Attract 500 Million Monthly Visitors, … According to Bitcoin, the makers of Coinhive publicly asked those using its … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
Supreme Court will hear challenge to Microsoft’s data privacy case
A New York district court and the DOJ contend that companies, not users, own data stored abroad — in this case, email held in an Irish data center. As such, any warrant targeting an American company would be considered a domestic request and wouldn’t have […]
Terminal makes it easy for companies to open international offices
Born out of a frustration with recruiting within the peninsula-trapped City of San Francisco, Terminal is a platform allowing companies to tap into talent abroad. Starting with campuses in Kitchener-Waterloo, Montreal and Vancouver, the startup aims to plant physical flags in as many of the world’s global […]