It happens every June like clockwork: the rainbows come out. (Pun intended.) Suddenly major metropolitan storefronts are filled with multi-colored displays and clothes emblazoned with “Love Is Love” and other slogans of the LGTBQ+ rights movement. It seems as though even your cable provider wants […]
Day: June 21, 2018
Inside Atari’s rise and fall
Jamie Lendino Contributor By the first few months of 1982, it had become more common to see electronics stores, toy stores, and discount variety stops selling 2600 games. This was before Electronics Boutique, Software Etc., and later, GameStop. Mostly you bought games at stores that […]
SFGATE: Hundreds flock NYC airport to greet migrant children
Hundreds flock NYC airport to greet migrant children Published on June 21, 2018 at 01:09PM by Kyle Swenson, The Washington Post As Air Force One shuttled President Donald Trump back to Washington following a boisterous heartland rally, hundreds of people filled the terminals at the […]
New story in Business from Time: States Can Force Online Shoppers to Pay Sales Tax, Supreme Court Rules
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax. The 5-4 ruling Thursday is a win for states, who said they were losing out on billions of dollars annually under two decades-old Supreme Court decisions that impacted online sales […]
Samsung now has an 8TB SSD thanks to 3D memory tech
The new SSD is built with 16 of Samsung’s 512GB NAND packages, each stacked in 16 layers of 256 gigabit 3-bit V-NAND chips (designed with massive SSDs in mind), to achieve the 8TB density. This is expected to triple the system density in existing server […]
Amazon Prime Day 2018 date leaked – 36 hours of deals start midday on July 16th
Amazon Prime Day 2018 will take place on Tuesday July 17th with deals starting at midday the day before – Monday 16th. That’s all according to a Prime Day 2018 banner published on the Amazon UK website – presumably in error – and discovered by […]
Gli «specialisti» delle auto di lusso: sgominata banda di ladri, 29 arresti
La banda dei romeni, tutti un po’ parenti tra di loro, era specializzata in furti aggravati ai danni di concessionarie e rivenditori di autoveicoli, ditte e negozi di telefonia. Non solo: sapevano anche perfettamente come ricettare la refurtiva. Sgominata dai Carabinieri del Comando Provinciale di […]
AT&T launches a low-cost live TV streaming service, WatchTV
AT&T this morning announced the launch of a second TV streaming service, called WatchTV, days after its merger with Time Warner. The lower-cost alternative to AT&T’s DirecTV Now will offer anyone the ability to join WatchTV for only $15 per month, but the service will […]
Pensioni, il governo pensa a quota 100, ma c’è il rischio che l’assegno risulti più basso
Quota 100 e Quota 41 sono più che mai al centro della discussione politica in merito ai provvedimenti che intende prendere, nei prossimi mesi, … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
NASA’s New Plan: Do More Science With Small Satellites
Small satellite makers have promised to do a lot of things: change the way we communicate, change the way we see our planet, change the way we predict the weather. They’re cheaper, faster to develop, and easier to update than their bigger and more sophisticated […]