China Builds ‘World’s Biggest Air Purifier’ That Actually Works Published on January 16, 2018 at 11:50PM The South China Morning Post shares an update on the status of an experimental tower in northern China, dubbed the world’s biggest air purifier by its operators. According to […]
Month: January 2018
Picture of the day for January 17, 2018 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 17, 2018: The commuter ferry Emelie arriving in Henriksdalshamnen, Stockholm. In the background, Norra Hammarbyhamnen (Södermalm). http://ift.tt/2EOUfOx
Lyft Says Nearly 250K of Its Passengers Ditched a Personal Car In 2017
Lyft Says Nearly 250K of Its Passengers Ditched a Personal Car In 2017 Published on January 17, 2018 at 12:30AM An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Lyft has a new report out detailing its “economic impact” for 2017, and the document includes a […]
Wikipedia article of the day for January 17, 2018 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
The Wikipedia article of the day for January 17, 2018 is Eastbourne manslaughter. The Eastbourne manslaughter (R v Hopley) was an 1860 legal case in Eastbourne, England, about the death of a teenage pupil at the hands of his teacher, Thomas Hopley. Reginald Cancellor’s parents […]
Google Home and Chromecast Could Be Overloading Your Home Wi-Fi
Google Home and Chromecast Could Be Overloading Your Home Wi-Fi Published on January 17, 2018 at 01:10AM Google Cast products could be to blame for your wonky internet connection. According to TP-Link, “The Cast feature normally sends packets of information at regular intervals to keep […]
Curve’s payment-switching smart card goes live in the UK
The companion mobile app also adds a slight twist to the smart card formula by placing an emphasis on financial management. You should have a better sense of your spending habits, and you can lock cards if need be. Curve is promising that you can […]
Curve, the fintech that connects all your cards to a single card and app, gets full consumer launch
Curve, the London fintech startup that offers a platform that lets you consolidate all your bank cards into a single Curve card and app to make it easier to manage your spending, is finally launching to U.K. consumers. Up until now, the service remained in […]
emasculate: Word of the day for January 17, 2018 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
emasculate , v : (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld. (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. (transitive, botany) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.
Milano, incidente in un’azienda metalmeccanica: tre operai morti intossicati, un altro gravissimo
Gravissimo incidente sul lavoro a Milano, in via Rho (zona Greco), all’interno della Lamina, azienda che si occupa della produzione di acciaio e titanio. Tre operai (uno aveva 57 anni) sono morti poco dopo essere arrivati negli ospedali di Monza e al Sacco di Milano. […]
Milano, incidente sul lavoro in via Rho: due operai morti e due gravissimi alla Lamina Spa
Arrigo Barbieri, 57 anni, responsabile di produzione, è il primo a scendere le scalette. Lo segue Marco Santamaria, 42 anni, elettricista; indossa già i guanti blu da lavoro. Pochi gradini, che portano in un locale sotterraneo, quello profondo due metri che contiene il forno in […]