The next time you feel like complaining about flying, (so, the next time you fly) a report this morning from a pilot landing at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC, should put things into perspective: “Very bump on descent. Pretty much every one on the […]
Day: March 3, 2018
Japan’s cryptocurrency exchanges plan self-regulating committee
News of the regulatory body’s formation started tricking out in late February, with reports that it could be a merger of two existing firms, Japan Cryptocurrency Business Association and Japan Blockchain Association. The plan is to only allow government-approved exchanges, but that rule already seems […]
Maltempo, notte da incubo sullʼAurelia: code per un incidente e per lʼA12 chiusa per ghiaccio
Nella notte automobilisti e camionisti sono rimasti bloccati a lungo sulla statale Aurelia sul passo del Bracco, nello Spezzino, a causa del ghiaccio che si è formato sulla strada, dopo una giornata di nevicate e temperature sotto zero. A complicare la … by Livio Acerbo […]
Facebook Doesn’t Know How Many People Followed Russians on Instagram
For more than a year, Jonathan Albright has served as something of a one-man General Accounting Office for the tech industry. The researcher at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism has dug into the details on how political Twitter trolls manipulate the media, and […]
Google tiff brings an end to Amazon selling Nest products
BI said that once Nest’s current inventory on Amazon is sold out, it’ll no longer replenish its stocks. Nest wants to be able to offer its whole portfolio on the platform. It would rather not sell anything on the website at all if it can’t, […]
MIT study shows how much driving for Uber or Lyft sucks
Ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are delivering pitiful levels of take-home pay to the hundreds of thousands of US independent contractors providing their own vehicles and driving skills to deliver the core service, according to an MIT CEEPR study examining the economics of the two app […]
25 of the best beaches in southern Europe
A place of large family lunches, gnarled old men and brightly coloured fishing boats, it's the kind of village you see in travel brochures, but rarely in real life. And when it's not too busy, this 80-metre-long pebbly beach is one of the best of […]
Apple Continues To Dominate The Smartphone Profit Pool
Investors and analysts tend to be concerned that Apple's iPhone lags Google's Android smartphones substantially in unit market share. While any product needs to sell enough to be viable, the other side of the equation is the device's profitability. It is incumbent on the company […]
Falconara, approvato il bilancio di previsione 2018. Mondaini: «Nessun aumento di tasse e un …
«È stato possibile impostare l'esercizio 2018 assicurando i servizi – ha spiegato l'assessore al Bilancio Raimondo Mondaini durante l'ultima seduta del consiglio – senza aumenti di tasse e tariffe e prestando attenzione ai progetti proposti dagli uffici, mettendo anche a disposizione 1 milione di euro […]
Facebook’s wider Kremlin Brexit ad sweep draws a blank
Facebook has claimed to have found no further evidence of co-ordinated Russian-backed ad purchases on its platform targeting the 2016 Brexit vote in addition to the ad buys it previously reported. In December Facebook reported finding three Brexit-targeted ads and less than $1 spent by […]