All business eyes have, as usual, been on Philip Hammond’s budget. Of course, all companies are concerned about aspects of the budget – the tax levels, any new elements of red tape that are being introduced – but high-tech companies are especially interested this year. […]
Day: November 22, 2017
Americans traveling in Europe during the holidays should be cautious, State Department alert says
The renewed alert cites past incidents in France, Russia, Sweden, the United … The State Department issues travel alerts for ”short-term events” that … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours from
Kids judge R2-D2 droids built by Facebook, Google and Fitbit
Instead of kids, the competitors were engineers from various Bay Area tech companies — Facebook, Instagram, Fitbit, Google, and two of LucasFilm’s own: Industrial Light & Magic as well as ILMxLAB — the studio’s immersive technologies arm. From the aforementioned Droid Inventor Kit, the engineers […]
Net Neutrality advocates plan protests for December 7 at Verizon stores
On December 14, the FCC will vote on whether or not to roll back Obama-era policies protecting a free and open internet. In fact, during yesterday’s announcement of the upcoming vote, the FCC neglected to mention the historic 22 million comments on the issue, the […]
Surprise: This $20 home monitoring camera actually doesn’t suck
At first glance, the WyzeCam doesn’t look like much. It’s a tiny white cube with a big black eye that swivels on a base, and the whole thing is so light you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a you. The WyzeCam might look a […]
The best Usenet providers of 2017
You might think, given that most ISPs no longer provide direct access to it and the majority of the free providers online have disappeared, that the venerable Usenet service has died a death. But that’s not entirely true; there are still many active discussion areas […]
A Conversation About Race and Gender in Andy Weir’s *Artemis*
For his first novel, the 2011 blog-turned-book-turned-movie The Martian, Andy Weir chose a main character who was pretty similar to himself: a white guy who loves science. For his follow-up, which came out on November 14, Weir wanted to try something different: Artemis follows Jazz […]
Snips lets you build your own voice assistant to embed into your devices
French startup Snips is now helping you build a custom voice assistant for your device. Snips doesn’t use Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service or Google Assistant SDK — the company is building its own voice assistant so that you can embed it on your devices. And […]
Tira calci e un televisore alla ex fidanzata A giudizio per stalking e violenza sessuale
SENIGALLIA – Sputi in faccia, calci, minacce e insulti. È un turbinio di violenza quello di cui si sarebbe reso protagonista un 51enne senigalliese che per tre mesi avrebbe reso la vita impossibile alla sua ormai ex fidanzata, un'infermiera di 39 anni … by Livio […]
CGIL Regionale Toscana – Pensioni, il 2 dicembre manifestazioni Cgil in cinque piazze. La …
Roma, Torino, Bari, Palermo e Cagliari. Alle 12.30 interviene Camusso nella capitale, in piazza del Popolo. Le rivendicazioni del sindacato sulle pensioni: "Partecipare per ottenere risposte concrete, ridare speranza e fiducia al nostro Paese" “Per cambiare il sistema previdenziale, per sostenere … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit […]