The idea behind Active Media is that you’ll only listen to or watch the ads you’re actually interested in, Spotify told Ad Age. That way, the service should learn more about your preferences and deliver fewer ads you don’t care about. Advertisers don’t pay for […]
Day: August 11, 2018
The ‘Halo’ arcade game is playable at every Dave & Buster’s
If you’re not familiar with Raw Thrills by name, you’ve definitely seen its games at your local movie theater or Dave & Busters prior. Headed by gaming industry legend Eugene Jarvis who worked at Williams on pinball machines before transitioning to Atari and Midway, Jarvis’ […]
Usa, obbligata a maxi risarcimento per un pesticida: Monsanto annuncia appello
Il portavoce della Monsanto, Scott Partridge, ha annunciato che l'azienda ricorrerà in appello in seguito alla decisione di un giudice di San Francisco che la obbliga a un risarcimento pari a 289 milioni di dollari a favore di un malato terminale di … by Livio […]
Crestron Touchscreens Could Spy on Hotel Rooms and Meetings
The connected devices you think about the least are sometimes the most insecure. That’s the takeaway from new research to be presented at the DefCon hacking conference Friday by Ricky Lawshae, an offensive security researcher at Trend Micro. Lawshae discovered over two dozen vulnerabilities in […]
Oh, that ‘water carbon cooling system’ in the Note 9 may not actually make it any cooler
The Note 9 has a novel-sounding water carbon cooling system, but it may not be as meaningful as Samsung claimed at Thursday’s launch, according to new tests today. In fact, there was no noticeable difference between Note 8 and Note 9 temperatures in a series […]
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches tonight to ‘touch the sun’
NASA’s ambitious mission to go closer to the Sun than ever before is set to launch in the small hours between Friday and Saturday — at 3:33 AM Eastern from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to be precise. The Parker Solar Probe, after a handful […]
Writers stranieri in azione a Milano, identificata la “banda degli spagnoli”
Dopo una serie di denunce nei confronti di un gruppo di writers spagnoli “pizzicati” a Milano, sono scattate indagini che hanno portato oggi all’identificazione di una vera e propria “banda”. Si tratta di 11 giovani che avrebbe colpito quattro volte nel capoluogo lombardo tra il […]
Elon Musk and Tesla sued over ‘funding secured’ tweet
Tesla and Elon Musk were sued twice on Friday by investors who say they fraudulently engineered a scheme to squeeze short-sellers, including … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Twitter admits Infowars tweets broke rules, but the account stays up
After a CNN inquiry found ten tweets from Alex Jones’ accounts that it felt should’ve qualified as breaking Twitter’s rules, the service admitted late Friday that it agreed on seven of them. The tweets have been deleted, and CNN reports that on his Infowars show, […]
Facebook is the recruiting tool of choice for far-right group the Proud Boys
Twitter may have suspended the Proud Boys and their controversial leader Gavin McInnes, but it was never their platform of choice. The Proud Boys, a self described “Western chauvinist” organization that often flirts with more hard-line groups of the far right, runs an elaborate network […]