The market for traditional handheld game consoles may have diminished when compared to the glory days of the Nintendo DS, but it’s impossible to deny the intrinsic appeal of portable play. From the chunky monochrome Game Boy to the sleek-yet-pocketable Sony PSP, gaming on a […]
Month: July 2018
Is a Meme Born in a Private Account Still a Meme?
I write a lot about memes—the phenomenon, writ large. So it caught me off guard last week when, scrolling through Instagram, I found myself barred from the very thing I was reporting on. Major meme accounts were suddenly private, and left my follow requests dangling—for […]
Stipendi e Tasse, buste paghe a confronto
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The US Army’s ‘Street Fighter V’ tournament starts Saturday
“The competition will develop soldiers’ outlook and overall fitness using current technology,” the Army writes. “Soldiers train for the competition by improving hand-eye coordination, mental focus and reaction time. These skills help improve a soldier’s overall readiness to help with normal job duties.” Sounds like […]
Milano, piazza del Duomo, il caso è aperto: «Riscopriamo il bosco di Renzo Piano»
Dopo piazza del Liberty, adesso tocca a piazza del Duomo. La proposta è stata rilanciata venerdì sulle pagine del Corriere della Sera dall’architetto Carlo Ratti: «È fondamentale non temere di andare a toccare i luoghi iconici», ha ammonito. Facile a dirsi: a ridisegnare piazza Duomo […]
The cloud continues to grow in leaps and bounds, but it’s still AWS’s world
With the big cloud companies reporting recently, we can be sure of a couple of things: the market continues to expand rapidly and AWS is going to be hard to catch. Depending on whose numbers you look at, the market grew around 50 percent as […]
Messico, assalto nel ristorante dei turisti: 5 morti a Cancun
Almeno cinque persone, fra cui due agenti di polizia, sono morte, e molte altre sono rimaste ferite, ieri nella città messicana di Cancun in un attacco di un consistente commando armato ad un ristorante cittadino. Lo scrive il quotidiano La Jornada di … by Livio […]
The Office-Messaging Wars Are Over. Slack Has Won.
Last September, the software company Atlassian launched a new workplace chat app called Stride, aimed squarely at taking on the similar app Slack. “We’ve been thrilled by the excitement we’ve seen from the tens of thousands of teams who have adopted it as their communication […]
Discovery may launch its own streaming service, too
Following Discovery Communications $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive in March, the company is now toying with the idea of launching its own direct-to-consumer service. According to remarks made by Discovery CEO David Zaslav at an industry event, AdWeek reports [paywalled], the company is considering […]
Google Home can now schedule routines
The company told Engadget that the feature is currently available only to smart speaker users in the US, all of whom should have access within a week. This won’t be of much help if you’re only using Assistant on your phone. All the same, this […]