Over the course of the last few years, the Holberton School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Engineering has made a name for itself as one of the more comprehensive coding schools. The two-year program trains full-stack engineers with a focus on the basics of engineering and […]
Day: April 10, 2018
Stangata tasse locali, la classifica dell’addizionale Irpef per regioni e comuni
Lo scorso anno gli italiani hanno pagato 47 miliardi di tasse locali, di cui 16,8 solo per le addizionali Irpef, mentre Imu e Tasi si sono mangiate 20,8 miliardi (di cui 3,6 finiti nelle casse dello Stato e il resto in quelle dei Comuni). La […]
Instagram tests its counterpart to Snapchat’s friend codes
Like other experiments, there’s no certainty that this will become widely available. With that said, this seems more likely to ship than most. If Instagram is going to continue usurping Snapchat’s dominance, it needs to capture more of the cultural zeitgeist — and that means […]
NBN Co finally hooking up FTTC connections and re-starting HFC rollout
NBN Co has switched on its latest fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) technology for 1,000 premises in Victoria and New South Wales, the first to have the option of connecting to what’s hoped will be a faster and more stable technology. The promise from the company handling the […]
The New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Looks to the Past, ‘Solo’ Looks to Denny’s
As Solo: A Star Wars Story continues its rapid march to completion—a process director Ron Howard likes to keep fans abreast of—things have remained pretty quiet on the Star Wars front over the last couple of weeks, which is good; it lets everyone watch The […]
Congress should demand Zuckerberg move to ‘one share, one vote’
Mark Zuckerberg is an autocrat, and not hypothetically. Through his special voting rights held in Facebook’s Class B shares, he wields absolute command of the company, while owning just a handful of percentage points of the company’s equity. Like any autocrat, he has taken extraordinary […]
Cambridge Analytica tries to shoot down Facebook data sharing claims
After that, Cambridge Analytica jumped into specifics. The company “did not use” GSR data during the US presidential election or the UK’s Brexit referendum, according to its statement. In the US, it relied on data from the RNC, voter registry, “commercial data brokers” and consensual […]
‘Distasteful’ Call of Duty: WWII competition cancelled by RSL after backlash
Castle Hill RSL in Sydney’s north-west has had to cancel a Call of Duty: World War II tournament after a veteran member complained to NSW Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, David Elliot, that the tournament was “distasteful” and “inappropriate”. The tournament – which was to be […]
Porsche’s 919 Hybrid Evo Wallops F1’s Fastest Cars
In most motorsports, the engineer’s cruelest foe isn’t the rules of physics or the driver’s inability to wring every crumb of power from their vehicle. It’s the rules. Rules laid down by overbearing governing bodies, imposing limits on weight, dimensions, power output, tire choices, aerodynamics, […]
Conserve the Sound is an archive of noises from old tape players, projectors and other dying tech
All of us grew up around tech different from what we have today, and many of us look back on those devices with fondness. But can you recall the exact sound your first Casio keyboard made, or the cadence of a rotary phone’s clicks? Conserve […]