In a race to get the long-awaited Model 3 production running as planned, Tesla quietly concealed the true number of workplace injuries at its Fremont, California assembly plant, according to a new report. This offsets reports the company made about a sharp drop in injuries […]
Day: April 16, 2018
Someone made a game where you ride the rapidly changing prices of cryptocurrencies
The cryptocurrency world is a strange one, but at least it has a sense of humor. A new game has you riding a little crypto-car along the wildly fluctuating prices of major and minor currencies. It’s quite ridiculous, and it isn’t even a bad game! […]
E-commerce, tasse statali sulle vendite online. Protezionismo negli Usa
Se vendo le mie penne on line in North Carolina, io produttore non dovrò pagare anche tasse in quello Stato. Continuerò a pagarle a Washington. E invece no, la questione sembra essere stata messa in discussione. Un'analisi del governo centrale ha mostrato che se i […]
‘Rampage’: 14 Unanswered Questions About the Rock’s New Movie
Did you guys see? The Rock has a new movie out. It’s called Rampage. It’s based on an mid-’80s arcade game—though you’d never know that—and, like most Dwayne Johnson movies, it involves The Rock wearing an impossibly tight T-shirt over his muscle-wall frame. Things blow […]
British Tourists Scammed Spanish Hotels Out of $74 Million by Claiming to Have Food Poisoning
The British government is closing a loophole that allowed tourists to scam Spanish hotels and tour operators out of more than $74 million in one year by claiming they had contracted food poisoning while on vacation. The loophole allowed claims management firms to request unlimited […]
Google launches digital skills training for Arabic speakers
According to the World Economic Forum, digital skills aren’t widely available in Arab-speaking countries, yet one in five jobs will require them by the year 2020. Google is hoping to close that gap with this latest initiative, especially because many young women in the region […]
Google initiative looks to preserve walkable copies of Earth’s historical sites on the web
Indiana Jones’ exclamation of, “It belongs in a museum!” is taking a trip into the digital age with a Google initiative that will save archaeological sites to the cloud. Google’s non-profit Arts and Culture arm is partnering with another non-profit, Oakland-based CyArk, which flies drones and […]
La febbre sale, ma non a Wall Street
Se la tensione tra USA e Russia aumenta sul campo di battaglia siriano, il mercato racconta una storia diversa, fatta di indicatori che puntano a un possibile esaurimento della turbolenza. È cominciata a colpi di bluff la partita doppia di Trump sui … by Livio […]
A win on Capitol Hill
A win on Capitol Hill <img width=”660″ height=”495″ alt=”” src=”https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/photos/15509/images/simple_style_full/shutterstock_57752806.jpg?1523907462″ />As WWF’s lead advocate on Capitol Hill, I spend much of my time with Members of Congress and their staff advocating for the organization’s top conservation priorities. Over the past year, friends and acquaintances often […]
TED 2018: Thought-Reading Machines and the Death of Love
Ludwig Wittgenstein once imagined that everyone had a box with something in it called a “beetle.” Denying the possibility of private language, the philosopher wrote, “No one can look into anyone else’s box, and everyone says he knows what a beetle is only by looking […]