Salil Deshpande Contributor Salil Deshpande serves as the managing director of Bain Capital Ventures. He focuses on infrastructure software and open source. More posts by this contributor Let’s define “container-native” After the Satoshi Roundtable, is there a way to bridge the bitcoin divide? There’s a […]
Month: September 2018
Botte e insulti, sospese due maestre di una scuola materna
Picchiavano ed insultavano i bimbi della scuola materna dove lavoravano. Per questo due maestre di una scuola dell'infanzia di Alessandria sono state sospese dall'esercizio dalla polizia. Le indagini, condotte dagli agenti della Squadra Mobile, sotto … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews
The ‘Liquidators’ Who Risked It All to Clean Up Chernobyl
In late April, Tom Skipp traveled to Slavutycch, Ukraine to meet the “liquidators” of Chernobyl, men and women who cleaned up the disaster. Here, several pose for a group picture at a local museum before a picture of the exploded reactor and a clock stopped […]
Trump tells Apple to build more US plants in response to tariffs
Apple has claimed that the Apple Watch, HomePod, Mac mini and accessories would be more expensive in the US as a result of imposing new tariffs on China. The problem, as you might guess, is that it’s not as simple as building new plants in […]
Salvini critica i patiti di Starbucks: “Due ore di coda per un caffé? Non ho parole”
“Due ore di coda per un caffè da Starbucks? Ma nemmeno se mi pagano! Non ho parole…”. Dalla sua pagina Facebook (ma anche su Twitter), dove campeggia la scritta ‘Prima gli italiani’, il ministro dell’Interno Matteo Salvini commenta così una delle migliaia di immagini circolate […]
Nima launches food sensor to detect peanuts
[embedded content] I’m deathly allergic to nuts, so I felt super excited when I heard about the Nima peanut sensor. I’ve ended up in the emergency room numerous times because there were nuts in something I thought did not contain nuts. With Nima, I could’ve […]
Space Photos of the Week: Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon
This psychedelic, color-filtered view shows the unique hexagonal cloud structure at Saturn’s north pole. When Cassini first came near Saturn in 2004, the timing of seasons put this area in darkness; it wasn’t until much later that the spacecraft was able to observe this massive, […]
Two of Samsung’s livelier mid-range devices reach the US
The so-so 1.6GHz Exynos 7884 chip, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable storage and Android 8.0 Oreo won’t blow you away (seriously, Samsung, new devices should be running at least 8.1 by now). However, you do get a tall 5.6-inch 1,480 x 720 display and […]
More Kenyans Travel to the UAE, Pakistan and Spain
Instead, it's come from trips to countries like Pakistan and Spain, which have lower volumes. This highlights the power of analytics tools as they enable … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Alex Jones’ Infowars gets banned from Apple’s App Store
Another domino has fallen in Alex Jones’ media empire. Apple confirmed with TechCrunch this week that it’s pulled the controversial conspiracy theorist/provocateur from the App Store this week, banning the Infowars app over violations to its “objectionable content” rules. Slightly more specifically, the host was […]