Everyone should probably know that I’m obsessed with both physics and smart phones. If I can use my phone for a physics experiment, I’m good to go. That’s exactly what I am going to do right now—use some physics to find the location of the […]
Month: September 2018
Why the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI deal has cloud companies going nuts
By now you’ve probably heard of the Defense Department’s massive winner-take-all $10 billion cloud contract dubbed the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI for short).Star Wars references aside, this contract is huge, even by government standards.The Pentagon would like a single cloud vendor to build […]
Apple has fallen silent on the wireless charger it announced a year ago, and there’s now a big risk …
Apple may imagine a world without cords and plugs, but it's having trouble making that vision a reality. A year after announcing AirPower, Apple's … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
A third-party app can use Grindr to expose your exact location
The free third party app is built on top of Grindr’s private API, giving it access to the gay dating app’s database. It uses a technique called “trilateration” to find users, allowing anyone with access to it a way to follow people around as they […]
These could be the colors of the Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL
Going to be in the market for a new Pixel 3 or Pixel 3 XL from Google next month? An official teaser site from Google in Japan suggests we’re looking at three different colors for the new phones: mint, white and black. Probably. Load up […]
Iran accuses French police of slow reaction to attack on Paris embassy
France has already told its diplomats and foreign ministry officials to postpone indefinitely all non-essential travel to Iran, citing a hardening of Tehran's … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
FEMA to send its first ‘Presidential Alert’ in emergency messaging system test
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will this week test a new “presidential alert” system that will allow the president to send a message to every phone in the US. The alert is the first nationwide test of the presidential alert test, FEMA said in an […]
Sesso durante il Ramadan, 21enne accoltella il connazionale che lo aveva sgridato: catturato a Milano dopo fuga in Spagna
Aveva accoltellato un connazionale durante una lite ed era poi scappato in Spagna. Ma per rivedere la fidanzata è rientrato in Italia monitorato sui social, ed è stato arrestato dalla polizia. Il giovane, un marocchino di 21 anni, è stato bloccato su ordinanza di custodia […]
Sci-Fi Writers Are Predicting the Future, but Is Anyone Listening?
[unable to retrieve full-text content] social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #wired https://www.wired.com/geeks-guide-walter-jon-williams
Scoperto un foreign fighter italiano, perquisizioni in Sardegna
Perquisizioni sono scattate questa mattina in Sardegna nei confronti di un foreign fighter italiano e di altri due soggetti, sempre italiani, tutti residenti in Sardegna, nell'ambito di un'indagine dell'Antiterrorismo della polizia e della Digos di … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews