Day: July 19, 2018

‘Underwater Pokéball’ snatches up soft-bodied deep dwellers

Creatures that live in the depths of the oceans are often extremely fragile, making their collection a difficult affair. A new polyhedral sample-collection mechanism acts like an “underwater Pokéball,” allowing scientists to catch ’em all without destroying their soft, squishy bodies in the process. The […]

Milano, anziana sbaglia manovra nel cortile condominiale: cinque feriti, grave una donna

MILANO – Una persona è stata investita da un’auto in via Privata Bisceglie, a Milano, in un’area privata che si trova nei pressi di un circolo culturale cattolico. Una donna è in condizioni molto gravi. È stata trasportata al Policlinico, i medici non si sbilanciano […]

Google faces record $5 billion fine in EU, ordered to remove Chrome from Android

The impending decision from the EU watchdog has come to pass: Google has been fined a record €4.3 billion ($5.1 billion) for abusing the Android operating system’s dominance in the smartphone market, the largest fine imposed on a company in EU history. Google was previously […]

Midwest rising

Emerging venture capital firms in smaller American cities from Indianapolis to Princeton, NJ are attracting increasingly larger funding as investors see opportunities for returns beyond the coastal confines of the nation’s largest cities and the innovation epicenter of Silicon Valley. For the last four years, […]

Gorilla Glass 6 gives phones a better shot at surviving multiple drops

Version 6 is also supposed to withstand drops from “higher heights.” Corning hasn’t talked about improvements to scratch resistance, though, so you shouldn’t expect your phone to look as pristine as it did before the fall. The glass is already in production and under study […]