This past August, in a 14th century Venetian fortress in Grožnjan, Croatia, two Westminster students performed Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Margaret Woods, a current Westminster second-year graduate student, and Katie Elliott, a Westminster alumna, joined by Jake Stamatis, an alumnus of … social experiment by […]
Day: December 8, 2017
Videogames Are Award-Worthy—But They Don’t Need Award Shows
Last night, The Game Awards, hosted by journalist and television producer Geoff Keighley, aired on … well, on the internet, streaming on Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, and just about every other platform imaginable. The successor to Spike TV’s Spike Video Game Awards, the extravagant video event […]
Apple’s widened ban on templated apps is wiping small businesses from the App Store
F ollowing its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple released updated App Store guidelines that included a new rule allowing it to ban apps created by a “commercialized template or app generation service.” The understanding at the time was this was part of Apple’s larger App Store […]
Scioperano i vigili del fuoco del Conapo: “Retribuzioni e pensioni uguali a quelle delle forze di …
Ci saranno anche i vigili del fuoco di Trapani tra coloro che, domani, parteciperanno alle quattro ore di sciopero indette dalle 9 alle 13 in tutta Italia. L'iniziativa è del Conapo, il sindacato autonomo di categoria che, da tempo, si batte perchè le retribuzioni e […]
Freddo e neve sul Ponte
Gelo e neve sul Ponte dell'Immacolata. Oggi una perturbazione atlantica farà da apripista all'ingresso di venti freddi settentrionali che causeranno un brusco calo termico su tutta Italia. La neve cadrà a bassa quota, anche in pianura. La redazione web … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews […]
This giant e-reader doubles as an E Ink monitor
This year has seen a wealth of innovative E Ink e-readers, with Amazon all-but perfecting the Kindle with the new Kindle Oasis, the stylus-enabled ReMarkable tablet allowing you to get arty, and now there’s this: the Onyx Boox Max 2 Professional. Its unique selling point? […]
Plex on Android now works more like a ‘real’ DVR
Plex recently turned your devices into virtual DVRs through its live TV update, but there have been limitations: you couldn’t timeshift to replay an important moment, and watching a show while it recorded required a second TV tuner. Not much of a replacement for a […]
Following controversies over kids’ content, YouTube makes several YouTube Red family shows free
Amid controversies over how YouTube has been handling content aimed at children on its network, YouTube is making a number of its previously subscription-only YouTube Red shows available on its YouTube Kids application for the first time as part of a new promotion. The shows […]
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Building Its Own Chip for Autopilot
Rockets, electric cars, solar panels, batteries—whirlwind industrialist Elon Musk has set about reinventing one after another. Thursday, he added another ambitious project to the list: Future Tesla vehicles will run their self-driving AI software on a chip designed by the automaker itself. “We are developing […]
Small cell networks threaten MNO business
Mobile operators are under increasing threat from shared spectrum and the rising popularity of enterprise small cells. That’s according to RAN Research, the wireless forecasting division of Rethink Technology, which predicts that protocols such as LAA and MulteFire are going to be major threats to […]