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Day: June 30, 2018
Ben Horowitz is coming to Disrupt SF
It’s been more than four years since “The Hard Thing About Hard Things” was published, and it remains — including to minds of many of us at TechCrunch — one of the best, most authentic, most instructive business books ever written. It’s partly for this […]
How France beat Russian meddling (and we could, too)
This is a song people have been singing for a while — that Trump’s completely not-compromised-by-Russia cabinet of crazies has been ignoring the issue and avoiding doing any work on preventing more of what happened 17 months ago. Unless, of course, cyber-warrior John Bolton is […]
One Sentence With 7 Meanings Unlocks a Mystery of Human Speech
Ruth Nall is a talented talker. Always has been. When she was a child, her mother taught her to enunciate her words when she spoke, which she did often and at length. So wordy was she that, in grammar school, her friends nicknamed her “Yakky […]
Amazon’s Echo Dot Kids Edition adds support for Spotify
Amazon is addressing one of the larger issues with its Echo Dot Kids Edition — support for Spotify’s streaming music service, with the option to filter out explicit lyrics. The news was announced on Friday alongside new content from Disney for the Kids Edition device. However, […]
Pensioni, Boeri: «La riduzione degli immigrati è problema serissimo
«Ragionare sul fatto che queste aree di privilegio possano essere ridotte è meritorio», ma per il taglio delle pensioni d'oro «bisogna intervenire sopra … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Turismo Milano, un codice fiscale per le case Airbnb: l’obbligo scatta a settembre
Nuove regole per la case vacanze in Lombardia: a partire dal primo settembre per chi affitta stanze o interi appartamenti su piattaforme come ad esempio Airbnb (trentamila gli annunci pubblicati in regione) scatta l’obbligo di indicare sugli annunci di pubblicità, promozione e commercializzazione il ‘Cir’, […]
‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ movie’s villain could be played by Jim Carrey
The Sonic movie that’s in development from Deadpool director Tim Miller might just have its villain. According to reports from Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline, Jim Carrey is in “final negotiations” to join the cast of this live-action/CGI feature as the mad scientist Dr. […]
YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is live for all US Android users
YouTube has confirmed that picture-in-picture mode — previously a paid-only feature — has now rolled out to all U.S. YouTube users on Android on supported devices. The feature, which works on Android 8.0 (Oreo) or higher, had been slowly rolling out to non-Premium subscribers since […]
Apple Isn’t Giving Up on Maps
Anecdotally, I have seen Apple's mapping vans a handful of times in recent years driving around the Denver area. Much like Google, Apple will also … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit