America doesn’t have good data on guns. Blame the Dickey amendment. First introduced in 1996, the legislation didn’t ban gun investigations explicitly (it forbade the use of federal dollars in the advocacy or promotion of gun control), but Congress that year also cut the budget […]
Day: March 8, 2018
Elezioni Lombardia, il flop delle liste civiche cannibalizzate dai partiti. «Non danno garanzie»
Nel trionfo di Attilio Fontana c'è un numero che stona. La «civica» del neopresidente ha raccolto solo l'1,5 per cento. Settantaseimila voti: briciole davanti al banchetto apparecchiato dai partiti del centrodestra e a quel trenta per cento centrato … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews
California lawmaker introduces ‘right to repair’ bill
The Act would require tech titans to release repair guides and make official repair parts available to consumers and third-party repair professionals. It would also put diagnostic info and tools into your hands or to the hands of independents repair shops. Doing so has quite […]
Begin, a new app from Ryan Block, uses natural language to generate tasks from your Slack
Over two years after leaving Aol (now known as Oath) back in September 2015 to build a new startup, serial entrepreneur Ryan Block, with co-founder Brian LeRoux, is finally taking the wraps off the new venture: Begin, an intelligent app designed to help you keep […]
Five reasons why the AI-powered Honor View10 is one of the best gaming phones
If you’re a mobile gamer, 2017/18 undoubtedly marked something of a turning point for you, with the smartphone market really starting to provide the goods. There are a number of different options available for you, but here we’re going to give you five good reasons […]
An interior designer’s guide to Capri, Italy
Like a set from a movie, Capri draws you in with its beauty, panache and style: think rocky cliffs, olive and lemon trees, whitewashed villas and impossibly blue seas. I have great friends who have also fallen under the Capri spell, who I meet there […]
Migranti spacciano pur di pagarci le pensioni
Sannazzaro de Burgondi (Pavia), 7 marzo 2018 – Smantellata una banda dedita a furti, spaccio e falsificazione di documenti. I carabinieri di Voghera hanno oggi condotto l'operazione Te kinezi, che in albanese significa “dai cinesi”: il riferimento è al locale dove i malviventi erano soliti […]
Publishers Could Get a New Weapon Against Facebook and Google
On stage at the Code Media conference last month, Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of news partnerships, fired a warning shot to publishers who think they get a raw deal from Facebook. ”My job is to make sure there is quality news on Facebook and that […]
Yes, Amazon’s Alexa Is Laughing At You
When PJ Vogt, the host and editorial director of tech podcast Reply All, put out a call for anecdotes in which consumers became convinced that Facebook was using microphones in their electronic devices to spy on them, he received an unexpected response. “We don't—and have […]
GOP tries to block state net neutrality laws and allow paid prioritization via /r/technology
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