"The fact that refugees are using the same route to go to Turkey which they originally used to get to Germany is a paradox,” Dominik Bartsch, the German ambassador to the UN Refugee Commission, told Panorama. Refugees with a German residence permit can legally travel […]
Day: April 12, 2018
Airtel announces new Rs 249 and Rs 349 plans to take on Reliance Jio
Airtel has announced two new unlimited data plans for its users offering high-speed 4G data up to 3GB per day. The new unlimited data offerings are the latest in the price wars between Reliance Jio and the incumbent telecom operators like Airtel, leading to competitive […]
NASA to Discuss Deep Space Exploration Progress at Johnson Space Center
Media are invited to see how engineers and scientists are helping make NASA’s deep space human exploration plans a reality at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, April 26. from NASA https://ift.tt/2qucLWG via IFTTT
Facebook stops fighting proposed California privacy law
It’s obviously a bad look for Facebook, especially with its CEO being hauled in front of Congress for two days. Even if the questions he faced were pretty soft, images of Mark Zuckerberg looking somber in a suit defending Facebook’s rapacious consumption of data isn’t […]
HelpSelf uses simple AI to help those in legal trouble
HelpSelf is a AI-assisted legal app that helps you deal with simple issues. Need protection against debt collectors? Need an expungement? Want to deal with domestic violence? This robot can help. The project is an “automated legal technology company” that automates simple legal procedures. They […]
Space Oddities: We need a plan to stop polluting space before it’s too late
There is a lot of junk floating out in space, and it’s a problem we’ve been talking about, in fits and spurts, since the 1960s. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Amy Webb (@amywebb) is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and is the chief […]
Tesla blames driver in last month’s fatal crash with Autopilot engaged
Tesla on Tuesday escalated its media battle with the family of Apple engineer Walter Huang. Huang died in Silicon Valley last month when his Model X vehicle crashed into a concrete lane divider at high speed. Tesla's Autopilot driver assistance system was engaged at the […]
Covering “Virtual Insanity” in virtual reality
[embedded content] A musician from Raleigh, North Carolina named Chase Holfelder, recorded a cover of Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity,” a stonerific acid jazz anthem that should be familiar to ’90s kids. This version, however, is recorded entirely inside a virtual reality rig with the help of […]
Tangenti sanità, interrogatori al via: ascoltato l’imprenditore al centro dello scandalo
Primi interrogatori di garanzia, a Milano, nell’ambito dell’inchiesta sulle presunte tangenti pagate nel mondo della sanita’ milanese. Ad essere ascoltato, a San Vittore, è l’imprenditore Tommaso Brenicci, l’unico ad essere finito in carcere, assistito dall’avvocato Paolo Tosoni. Sarebbe lui, secondo la Procura, il personaggio chiave […]
ESPN+ offers a first look at Disney’s big plans for streaming
That division, which was created last month as part of a business restructure, is now in charge of leading the company’s digital efforts. And, you guessed it, that includes Disney’s own streaming service, which doesn’t have a name yet. “I can say that our plan […]