Day: August 8, 2018

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds—or PUBG, as fans know it—has fundamentally overhauled the gaming landscape since its release less than a year and a half ago. By popularizing battle-royale gameplay, it gave rise to Fortnite and an entire generation of similar titles, selling more than 50 million copies […]

It’s not infrequent these days if you’re a big tech company to receive a brusquely worded letter from a group of Senators or Representatives asking you to explain yourself on some topic or another. One recent such letter sent to Apple and Alphabet asks specifically […]

La riforma della legge Fornero sarà uno dei capitoli della prossima manovra. Secondo quanto si apprende in ambienti di maggioranza, è allo studio … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 8, 2018: An Airbus Helicopters AS355F1 Twin Squirrel helicopter in Scotland, with Buachaille Etive Mòr in the background. https://ift.tt/2OgEaG3

When Gmail first launched, the default arrangement for emails was having all replies to an email bunched together with that original, making what’s known as a ‘threaded’ group or ‘conversation’ – an arrangement many people weren’t (and still aren’t) too happy about. Although Google allowed […]

pack journalism , n : (journalism, derogatory) A tendency of reporting to become homogeneous due to the reporters’ habit of relying on one another for news tips, or being dependent on a single source for information.

The Wikipedia article of the day for August 8, 2018 is Comus (Milton). The Dawn of Love is an oil painting by English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1828. Loosely based on a passage from John Milton’s 1634 Comus, it shows Venus leaning across […]