MILANO – Gli Stati Uniti hanno imposto dazi per 34 miliardi di dollari sull'import cinese con una mossa da "bullismo commerciale" che ha dato il via alla più grande guerra degli scambi nella storia economica. Non ha usato mezze parole il Ministero del … by Livio […]
Month: July 2018
I’m giving ‘Pokémon Go’ another try
There were a solid few months where it seemed like Pokémon Go players were everywhere. I’d see them in the mall, at the playground, walking the various bike and footpaths here in town. People I only knew from Facebook would suddenly appear in real life, […]
Sonos files to raise up to $100M in IPO
Smart speaker maker Sonos has filed to go public. In the filing, the company says it’s aiming to raise up to $100 million in the IPO. However, that number may simply be a placeholder, or it could change as the IPO approaches. Sonos says that […]
France deploy UNDERCOVER terror police to patrol trains amid attack fears
“[The train marshals] will be travelling every single day, and board passenger trains operating nationwide. They will change their travel itinerary … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Netflix is ditching user reviews
Once a mainstay of the service, Netflix’s user reviews are going away. The movie streaming giant has shifted away from the feature over the last few years, and by the end of the summer, they’ll be gone from the site altogether. If you still got […]
UK politicians push for FOSTA SESTA-style sex censorship
A self-appointed group of MPs (the “All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade”) fronted by Ms. Champion made a call to ban “prostitution websites” during a Wednesday House of Commons debate. Conflating sex work with trafficking just like their American counterparts, they […]
Pensioni notizie oggi: Quota 100 e Quota 41, Furlan contro i 64 anni
Sempre più acceso il dibattito intorno al tema delle pensioni. Si parla con insistenza di 'Quota 100' e 'Quota 41'. Ovvero dei meccanismi di accesso al … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Gigapixel timelapse captures a day in the life of London
The camera and lens are off-the-shelf parts: a Nikon D850 (whose 45-megapixel stills no helped with detail) and an AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/2.8 lens. It’s the machinery around the camera that matters the most. The team used robotic motion control of the sort movie studios […]
Jina Choi, SF Regional Director of the SEC, is coming to Disrupt to talk ICOs and more
The Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency responsible for protecting investors and maintaining fair and orderly functioning of our securities markets, has 11 regional offices, including in Miami, New York, Boston and Chicago. None has quite the workload as the SEC’s San Francisco regional […]
This startup streamlines the pro bono work of lawyers, including those fighting for immigrants at the border
Felicity Conrad and Kristen Sonday were on very different paths until three years ago. Conrad was an associate at the powerhouse law firm Skadden Arps. Meanwhile, Sonday, a Princeton grad and the first person in her family to go to college, was reflecting on the several […]