There’s only one way to properly convey the insanity that is the Bugatti Chiron, and that’s rattling off ludicrous facts. Let’s start with just a few. The hypercar (for $3 million you get a term less pedestrian than “supercar”) is the among the fastest production […]
Day: October 27, 2017
New story in Technology from Time: Forget the iPhone X, Apple’s Best Product Is Something You Can’t Buy
There’s this photo of my kids in the bath that, well, I’d rather not tell you about. I mean, it’s incredibly cute and I’d love to show it to you, but I’m also a private person, so it wouldn’t be right to go into details. […]
New story in Technology from Time: Forget the iPhone X, Apple’s Best Product Is Something You Can’t Buy
There’s this photo of my kids in the bath that, well, I’d rather not tell you about. I mean, it’s incredibly cute and I’d love to show it to you, but I’m also a private person, so it wouldn’t be right to go into details. […]
Blue Canoe takes on language learning with a focus on pronunciation
If you want to pick up a new language, there’s no shortage of options, and free ones, at that. But one aspect of the process that has been neglected is pronunciation, which is an especially important part of it for professionals. Online, learning pronunciation is […]
New story in Technology from Time: Forget the iPhone X, Apple’s Best Product Is Something You Can’t Buy
There’s this photo of my kids in the bath that, well, I’d rather not tell you about. I mean, it’s incredibly cute and I’d love to show it to you, but I’m also a private person, so it wouldn’t be right to go into details. […]
Amazon has drug distribution licenses for at least 12 states
Boston-based Leerink Partners analyst Ana Gupte told St. Louis Post that the discovery “strengthens [their] conviction on the likely entry into the drug supply chain.” A lot of people must have thought the same, because the stock prices of some of the biggest names in […]
India overtakes the US to become the world’s second largest smartphone market
Move over America, India is now the world’s second largest smartphone market. That’s according to a new report from Canalys which claims smartphone shipments in India crossed the 40 million mark for the first time in Q3 2017 courtesy of 23 percent annual growth. That […]
Pm10 in calo, revocati i blocchi ma in nove quartieri c’è allarme per lo smog
Negli ultimi tre giorni lo smog è tornato sotto i livelli di guardia e da venerdì non è più in vigore l'ordinanza sindacale che fermava anche i veicoli diesel Euro 3 e 4 (anche se da giovedì l'aria è tornata ad ammalarsi). Ma il filotto […]
Siamo ossessionati dalle pensioni perché non crediamo più nel nostro futuro
Siamo un Paese ossessionato dalle pensioni. … quanto prevede la legge, banalmente – si andrà in pensione più tardi, non è che l'ultimo capitolo di … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
Facebook’s Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation
In 2010, Foursquare cofounder Naveen Selvadurai believed that his company, and several other social-media upstarts—Twitter, Tumblr, Path—could carve out successful niches against Facebook. But Facebook had other plans. That year the company introduced a feature that allowed users to “check in” at any location, a […]