Month: August 2018

Miriam Adelson is an accomplished physician who has published around a hundred research papers on the physiology and treatment of addiction. She also runs a high-profile substance-abuse clinic in Las Vegas. Oh, and she’s the publisher of Israel’s largest newspaper and, with her billionaire husband […]

Amazon Go is a beautiful sight to behold. It is a veritable Seventh Wonder of the retail world. Last month, I even went on record saying that Amazon Go … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

A Y Combinator-backed startup, JetLenses, is taking on the major contact lens e-commerce sites, like 1-800-Contacts, Lens.com, and other online ordering systems offered by major retailers, such as Walmart. The startup’s goal is to bring down the cost of prescription products by automating the overhead […]

Cartoon Network and Outright Games will release a boxed set bundling both Steven Universe: Save the Light and OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for $40 on October 30th. Currently available as digital downloads on the latter […]

For the last few years, the Razer Blade has enjoyed an enviable position among the best gaming laptops. Thin and portable without sacrificing power, it represents what some may say is the ideal when it comes to gaming laptops.  Unfortunately, Razer is no longer alone […]

American medicine has known for a while that it has an antibiotics-prescribing problem. It’s routine for the precious drugs to be given in the wrong doses, for the wrong period of time, and for the wrong conditions. All of that adds up to burgeoning antibiotic […]

Sometimes smart contracts can be pretty dumb. All of the benefits of a cryptographically secured, publicly verified, anonymized transaction system can be erased by errant code, malicious actors or poorly defined parameters of an executable agreement. Hoping to beat back the tide of bad contracts, […]

The team accomplished this by creating a lung scaffold from the organ of another animal using both detergent and sugar to wipe out all the cells and blood — only the proteins were left. After that, they immersed the scaffold in a tank filled with […]

One of the hallmarks of human intelligence is to be able to incorporate learning, and to get smarter over time as new data gets integrated into your brain’s knowledgebase. Traditionally, computers are not considered intelligent, as while they have spectacular computational abilities, they must be […]

Il primo weekend d'agosto ci consentirà di trattare scenari meteo un po' differenti. In realtà saranno scenari meteo osservati più e più volte durante quest'estate, ma vista la persistenza del calore africano si cambia musica. Come ben sappiamo l'Alta … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews