Well, it’s 11/11 on the other side of the globe which means Alibaba is already raking in loads of cash from Singles Day, otherwise known as the biggest day for global online shopping of the year. The company has a running sales counter on its […]
Day: November 11, 2017
The guy who built his own Iron Man suit now has a Guinness record
When we first heard about Browning and his wild suit back in March, he said the suit cost him around $50,000 to build, though a couple of partnerships offset some of that cost. Since then, Browning and his company Gravity have garnered quite a bit […]
Meet Tug, the Helpful Robot Rolling Its Way Into Hospitals and Hotels Around the World
Robots seem so far away. We’re so many years from Jetsons-esque machines that live among us and wash our dishes and fold our clothes. But the reality is the robots have arrived—you’re just not noticing them. Take a robot called Tug, for instance. No, Tug […]
IBM makes 20 qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service
IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers. Today, the company announced that it’s releasing 20-qubit quantum computers, quite a leap in just 18 months. A qubit […]
Tasse e Contributi
TASSE E CONTRIBUTI Per l'anno accademico 2017-2018, l'importo complessivo delle tasse, da versare mediante l'apposito bollettino di c/c postale, … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
Family travel to France as young teacher goes missing
A search operation is underway for a young Irish woman who has been reported missing from the south-east of France. Eimear Noonan, from Co … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours from
Disney CEO says their streaming service will be cheaper than Netflix
“I can say that our plan on the Disney side is to price this substantially below where Netflix is. That is in part reflective of the fact that it will have substantially less volume,” Robert A. Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company […]
The OpenStack Foundation starts to look at projects beyond OpenStack
Over the last few years, we’ve seen the launch of a number of open source foundations like the Cloud Native Compute Foundation, the Cloud Foundry Foundation and others. Most of these run under the Linux Foundation, but one of the largest open source foundation outside […]
Waymo Drops the Driver, Congress Attacks Electric Vehicles, and More This Week in the Future of Cars
No one said it would be easy. As automakers, developers, and tech companies pump funds into self-driving, electric, and yes, flying cars, there were bound to be some mistakes along the way. This week, we got a look at a few. A few hours into […]
UPS is converting diesel trucks to electric for NYC deliveries
With a $500,000 grant provided by NYSERDA, UPS will collaborate with energy transportation company Unique Electric Solutions to innovate methods to switch its vehicles over to electric. Producing a conversion kit is the first milestone, which involves switching out the UPS trucks’ chassis for 225kw […]