The FTC has announced that they’ve issued temporary restraining orders and frozen the assets of a team of three defendants who pitched investment advice as the Bitcoin Funding Team and My7Network. The FTC claims that the defendants “promised big rewards for a small payment of […]
Day: March 17, 2018
The Uneven Gains of Energy Efficiency
This story originally appeared on CityLab and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a rainy day in New Orleans, people file into a beige one-story building on Jefferson Davis Parkway to sign up for the Low-Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), a federal grant that helps […]
NASA wants your pictures of clouds to verify its satellites’ data
NASA’s looking for people to take pictures of clouds in the sky and share them through an app. If you time your photos to coincide with CERES satellites passing overhead, NASA can then compare the images taken from the instruments with the images taken from […]
The Third Age of credit
Society is beginning to wake up to a tremendous shift in one of the most fundamental underpinnings to how we live our lives: the credit system. Even though it’s not commonly known, credit infrastructure has existed about as long as civilization itself. In one way […]
Regione Lazio, prove di dialogo tra M5S e il centrosinistra
Pirozzi invita alle dimissioni di massa: solo la Lega dice sì. Roberta Lombardi (M5S) esprime apprezzamento per la convergenza Raggi-Zingaretti sul tema dei rifiuti e indica nel consiglio regionale l'organo deputato a votare l'eventuale mozione di … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews
The Engineering Behind the Horrible Florida Bridge Collapse
The people of Sweetwater, Florida were supposed to wait until early 2019 for the Florida International University-Sweetwater University City Bridge to open. Instead, they will wait about that long for an official assessment from the National Transportation Safety Board of why it collapsed just five […]
‘ARK: Survival Evolved’ brings dinosaurs to your phone this Spring
[embedded content] ARK: Survival Evolved sets you naked, cold and hungry on the beach of an island filled with dinosaurs and potentially hostile other players. You’ve got to gather resources, build tools, grow crops and hunt for food. You can tame the dinos as you […]
How to travel with a child. – Italy Forum
Answer 1 of 2: How do you get around by taxi or bus with a child (2 year old)? I'm doing a Mediterranean cruise and was wondering if you have to carry a car seat around everywhere? Thanks:) social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel […]
Tinder owner Match is suing Bumble over patents
Drama is heating up between the dating apps. Tinder, which is owned by Match Group, is suing rival Bumble, alleging patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. The suit alleges that Bumble “copied Tinder’s world-changing, card-swipe-based, mutual opt-in premise.” It’s complicated because Bumble was founded by […]
Passa il bilancio dei tagli ma le tasse non crescono
GUARDIAGRELE. Approvato dal consiglio comunale il bilancio di previsione 2018 con le tasse invariate. «La manovra», spiega il sindaco Simone Dal Pozzo, «non produce nessun aumento di tariffe, sia pure a fronte di fatti decisamente rilevanti, come il taglio di trasferimenti per poco più di […]