After premiering their first episode at Sundance, which is focused on melting glaciers in Greenland, Dennis and Strauss are bringing the rest of the series to the Tribeca Film Festival. They each center on a different issue: One gives you a birds-eye view of the […]
Day: April 22, 2018
A Syrian dancer’s journey from hell to the Paris stage
These days she is busy preparing for her audition to study choreography at France's National Centre for Contemporary Dance in the western city of Angers. She's dreaming of one day working with her idol, the Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman. But she'd also like to travel […]
Nicaragua, 20 morti per manifestazioni contro riforma pensioni. Cronista ucciso in diretta Facebook
È salito così a oltre 20 morti in Nicaragua il bilancio delle violente manifestazioni contro la riforma delle pensioni proposta dal presidente Daniel Ortega. Lo riferisce la ong Centro Nicaraguese de los Derechos Humanos (Cenidh). Le proteste sono cominciate mercoledì, ma si sono inasprite venerdì, […]
Salone del Mobile: la polizia contro furti e scippi a Rho e nelle notti della movida
Nei giorni del Salone del Mobile, la polizia di Stato ha intensificato i controlli contro ladri e scippatori, che approfittando della calca hanno derubato o cercato di derubare i visitatori dell’esposizione e degli eventi diffusi in città. Fra Brera, parco Nord, Lambrate e Porta Genova, […]
Where have all the pilots gone?
You’d think everybody would want to fly. It’s been a universal human dream since the first cave person saw the first pterodactyl¹. You’d think better technology, greater demand, economic growth, and population growth would mean more and more pilots. But the surprising, counterintuitive fact is […]
After Math: Number stations
100 locations: AT&T is setting the stage for its new 5G network, which is slated to roll out to a dozen American cities by the end of the year. Ahead of that switch flippage, the company announced this week that it will be debuting a […]
Smart glasses could kill smartphones in the next five years
I realize the irony of publishing this in the week that Intel announced it was pulling the plug on its smart glasses project Vaunt (pictured) but I think that the smartphone’s days are numbered, and smart glasses are going to be the thing that kills […]
Milano, la stangata Atm sui «furbetti». Settantamila multe in tre mesi
Ventiduemila multe a gennaio, altre 22 mila a febbraio, 26 mila a marzo. In tutto, fanno 70 mila contravvenzioni nel primo trimestre del 2018: 12 mila in più rispetto allo stesso periodo dell’anno scorso. Quasi 800 al giorno. È il risultato delle nuove politiche di […]
After Uber’s Fatal Crash, Self-Driving Cars Should Aim Lower
More than a month after a self-driving Uber struck and killed a pedestrian crossing the street in Arizona, it’s still not clear what sort of failure might explain the crash—or how to prevent it happening again. While the National Transportation Safety Board investigates, Uber’s engineers […]
Original Content podcast: Netflix successfully reinvents ‘Lost in Space’
Lost in Space started out as a ’60s TV series, got rebooted in the 1990s as a feature film and has now been brought up-to-date by Netflix. On the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, we review the first season of the new show, […]