Around the time Leonardo Da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa, he was also writing his Codex on the Flight of Birds, a roughly 35,000-word exploration of the ways in which man might take to the air. His illustrations included diagrams positing pre-Newtonian theories of […]
Day: May 31, 2018
New story in Technology from Time: Drones Are Easy to Fly. But These Videos Prove They’re Also Easy to Crash
Today’s store-bought drones are remarkably easy to fly, thanks to features like self-stabilization technology, obstacle avoidance sensors and so on. You could walk out of a shop, charge up your batteries and be airborne for the first time all within a single afternoon. But as […]
New story in Technology from Time: Experts Say Drones Pose a National Security Threat — and We Aren’t Ready
Last fourth of July, as fireworks burst across the night sky near the Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville, S.C., convicted kidnapper Jimmy Causey tucked a lifelike dummy into his bed, sneaked out of his prison cell and completed a daring escape. It wasn’t until three […]
New story in Technology from Time: How Drones Are Helping Scientists Study and Protect Endangered Whales
The above video was provided by Intel. If you’re a six-foot human standing on a paddleboard, it’s just as well you don’t know that a 60-foot, 40-ton humpback whale with 16-foot flippers is surfacing directly beneath you. The only thing more unsettling would be if […]
Sharda Ugra on how Real Kashmir, a club formed after the 2014 floods, became first team from J&K to enter I-League (ESPN): livio acerbo on lacer2k and greengroundit
May 31, 2018 at 11:56AM from ESPN via http://espn.go.com/
Google Chrome 67 Will Allow Password-Free Sign-Ins for Most Websites
Google is making it easier to sign into websites without the hassle of entering passwords. The tech giant this week said it would release an updated … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Apple releases yet another High Sierra beta, while we still wait for macOS 10.13.5
Apple has released yet another beta update for macOS High Sierra, which will have the version number 10.13.6. This is the fourth beta that Apple has released for High Sierra in May alone, which shows that the company is working hard on getting the new […]
How a Former US Spy Chief Became Trump’s Fiercest Critic
James Clapper was eating lunch in Muscat, Oman, on November 9, 2016, when at 2:31 am EST Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election. Clapper was on one of his final trips abroad at the end of a 54-year-long career in the […]
The BBC will stream the World Cup in 4K and VR, but not to all
There’s a catch, though. The broadcast will technically count as a trial, and while all 29 of BBC One’s World Cup matches will be shown live via BBC iPlayer, there will only be a limited number of spaces available for each game. It’s not clear […]
Milano, il trapiantato che ha ricevuto il rene dal donatore anonimo: «Vorrei incontrarlo, gli devo il futuro»
«La dottoressa mi ha chiamato al cellulare. Ho pensato subito al futuro e l’ho immaginato migliore, per me e per i bambini». Si aspettava un «samaritano», uno sconosciuto che le facesse questo regalo?«No, mi ha sorpreso. Eravamo in lista d’attesa per il cross over, l’incrocio […]