For years, innovation in men’s razors seemed to center on adding more blades. More recently, with the advent of upstarts like Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s, the focus has shifted to affordability. Gillette’s latest product rejects both of these trends. The Heated Razor adds not […]
Day: September 18, 2018
Monza, portata in Pakistan e promessa sposa scrive alla scuola in Italia: «Aiutatemi»
Costretta a lasciare la scuola e a tornare in Pakistan con l’inganno perché il padre non voleva più che studiasse, ma che sposasse un uomo scelto dalla famiglia. Privata dei documenti, una 23enne pakistana si è rivolta con una lettera alla sua vecchia scuola, in […]
Ultimate.ai nabs $1.3M for a customer service AI focused on non-English markets
For customer service, Ultimate.ai‘s thesis is it’s not humans or AI but humans and AI. The Helsinki- and Berlin-based startup has built an AI-powered suggestion engine that, once trained on clients’ data-sets, is able to provide real-time help to (human) staff dealing with customer queries […]
Twitter will soon let you see your timeline in logical, chonological order again
Tired of old tweets appearing in your timeline ‘in case you missed them’? Good news – Twitter will soon allow you to revert back to the old chronological timeline, with no roundups of messages posted while you were offline. The update will roll out over […]
YouTube’s $5-per-month Membership bonuses come to more channels
When YouTube first launched Memberships to give creators another way to earn money on the platform, it only offered the opportunity to channels with 100,000 subscribers. Now, the Google-owned video-sharing website is lowering the barrier of entry, giving channels with 50,000+ subscribers the chance to […]
MISS ITALIA 2018, CLASSIFICA E VINCITRICE/ Trionfo meritato? Il web tra pochi complimenti e tante critiche
Il meglio e il peggio della finale di Miss Italia 2018: la vincitrice effettiva è Carlotta Maggiorana; quella morale, Chiara Bordi. "Nessuna delle due" per i social. 18 settembre 2018 – agg. 18 settembre 2018, 8.58 Rossella Pastore. Carlotta Maggiorana … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit […]
Withings returns from the dead with Steel HR Sport watch
Any time a smaller company is gobbled up by a larger one, you assume the worse. In the case of Nokia buying Withings, that’s more or less what happened. First Nokia launched a handful of products under its own name and ultimately dropped the French […]
Pensioni, se passa quota 100 a 62 anni scatta la grande “fuga”: via 200 mila docenti
Ammonta a 660 mila la quota di dipendenti pubblici che verrebbe collocata in pensione nel volgere di un anno qualora il Governo approvasse quota … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
How Apple Makes the AI Chip Powering the iPhone’s Fancy Tricks
A few years ago—the company won’t say exactly when—some engineers at Apple began to think the iPhone’s camera could be made smarter using newly powerful machine learning algorithms known as neural networks. Before long, they were talking with a lean vice president named Tim Millet. […]
Space tech to aid sustainable development: Italy officials
17 (Xinhua) — Space technology and exploration can aid sustainable development on Earth, officials said at the launch of Italy's new Interministerial … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours