A throbbing beat is pounding through my skull while half-heard emo lyrics play somewhere in an abandoned viewing screen of my brain. My hands are numb. I feel jittery, a little hungover, and completely thrilled. Lumines Remastered will do that to you. A classic puzzle […]
Month: July 2018
Netflix tests ‘Ultra’ tier that could add a higher price option
A Netflix spokesperson confirmed the tests to CNET, and said that “In this case, we are testing slightly different price points and features to better understand how consumers value Netflix.” CordCutting.com found the changes applied in other European countries as well, including Germany, and noted […]
UK job ad indicates Amazon wants to bring TV advertising and free TV channels to Prime
People have long wondered if one of Amazon’s goals in video and advertising — two key areas in Amazon’s media strategy — ultimately would be to bring the two together, with Amazon-powered ads running in video streams also served by Amazon. A job ad in […]
Research shows Facebook (probably) isn’t listening through your phone
As reported by Gizmodo, researchers Elleen Pan, Jingjing Ren, Martina Lindorfer, Christo Wilson, and David Choffnes studied more than 17,000 apps, including ones from Facebook and those that send information to Facebook, to see if any of them were capturing audio via Android phone microphones. […]
Baidu just made its 100th autonomous bus ahead of commercial launch in China
Baidu is preparing to launch a driverless service in China — and elsewhere — with another update to its Apollo autonomous driving platform and the mass production of Apolong, an autonomous mini bus that seats up to 14 people. Baidu made the announcements at Baidu […]
The Complexity of Simply Searching For Medical Advice
In the first few hours of a newborn’s life, doctors administer a vitamin K shot. This is because infants are born without enough of the vitamin, and the baby needs a boost to prevent any potential bleeding. This is a routine practice—ask your pediatrician, your […]
Samsung’s alleged Android Go phone spotted in leaked photos
With last week’s hardware specification leak offering our first significant piece of evidence surrounding the existence of a low-cost Android Go phone from Samsung, new images have leaked online (via SamMobile) which are believed to be of the device in question. Unlike most of the […]
Di Maio su pensioni d’oro, dl dignità e migranti
«Ho preso un altro impegno con gli italiani: ora tagliamo le pensioni d'oro. Incardiniamo un disegno di legge al Senato e spero di approvarlo entro l'estate». Così il vice-premier Luigi Di Maio parlando ad Agorà su Rai Tre. DI MAIO: «RIDURREMO COSTO … by Livio Acerbo […]
Milano, in arrivo una perturbazione con temporali: scatta l’allerta meteo
Allerta meteo a Milano per il passaggio di una perturbazione che prevede anche violenti temporali. Il centro meteo regionale ha emanato un’allerta in codice giallo (rischio moderato). Il Comune ha pertanto disposto l’attivazione del Coc, il Centro Operativo Comunale, presso il centro di via Drago […]
Google Cloud’s COO departs after 7 months
At the end of last November, Google announced that Diane Bryant, who at the time was on a leave of absence from her position as the head of Intel’s data center group, would become Google Cloud’s new COO. This was a major coup for Google, […]