Woodman School is a tiny, whitewashed schoolhouse lodged in a remote clearing in Montana’s Lolo National Forest. It has a total of 35 students, and in January, all of them got the same assignment: Write a letter to local lawmakers explaining why you want internet […]
Day: April 18, 2018
Pensioni, nuova spallata alla Fornero: “Uscita dal lavoro a partire da 62 anni”
In pensione a partire da 62 anni? Secondo la Cgil si può e si deve fare. Secondo il sindacato "occorre superare strutturalmente l'impianto della legge Monti Fornero introducendo i necessari elementi di sostenibilità, in particolare nei confronti dei giovani, delle donne, di chi svolge lavori […]
In Best Buy deal, Amazon acknowledges you sometimes need to touch things to buy
A deal announced Wednesday that Best Buy will exclusively sell Amazon Fire edition smart televisions suggests that it can no longer achieve the scale it wants without access to more brick and mortar. In a rare sit-down meeting with a small group of reporters on […]
Corea del Nord: Incontro Pompeo-Kim, e Xi prepara visita a Pyongyang
Mike Pompeo, direttore della Cia in attesa della conferma in Senato della sua nomina a segretario di Stato, ha incontrato segretamente il leader nordcoreano Kim Jong-un. Lo svela il Washington Post, precisando che la visita di Pompeo a Pyongyang è … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit […]
The world’s largest aircraft may finally take off this summer
According to Space News, Stratolaunch has to reach taxi speeds up to 80 mph and then 138 mph during its next tests — to note, typical jetliners have to go as fast as 150 to 180 mph to take off. Stratolaunch passed its previous tests […]
Facebook, HP, Microsoft and other tech giants vow to fight cyber-attacks
A large number of tech firms – 34 companies in total – have signed a new collaborative agreement to help fight cyber-attacks. The companies in question include the likes of ARM, Facebook, HP, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, and Symantec, and the Cybersecurity Tech Accord pledges to […]
Squarefoot raises $7M to give offices an easier way to find space
While smaller companies are seeing a lot of new options for distributed office space, or can pick up a couple offices in a WeWork, eventually they get big enough and have to find a bigger office — but that can end up as one of […]
Trouble Detected in Infamous Dark Matter Signal
For 20 years, an experiment in Italy known as DAMA has detected an oscillating signal that could be coming from dark matter—the fog of invisible particles that ostensibly fill the cosmos, sculpting everything else with their gravity. Quanta Magazine About Original story reprinted with permission […]
Russia stops at nothing to silence Telegram
That said, even if Telegram was passively enabling some murky business to take place, it appears to have lacked access to a fair hearing. OpenDemocracy explains how the Telegram case was fast-tracked through the courts in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s re-election. The subsequent hearing, […]
Voicera scoops up AI note-taking app Wrappup
Voicera wants to be the company that eliminates the need for human note taking once and for all. Their vision is an AI-driven voice recognition system that not only takes notes, but identifies speakers and summarizes key points and action items. Today, the company announced […]