HTC is cozying up to its main competitor in the VR space, Facebook-owned Oculus as it looks to find a business model that will wrestle it out of the VR market doldrums. Today, the Taiwanese hardware company announced that its Viveport VR subscription service has […]
Month: September 2018
How Google Chrome Spent a Decade Making the Web More Secure
A lot of people may find it hard to remember a time before Chrome. But as Google’s browser hits its 10th birthday Tuesday, it’s worth noting one under-appreciated source of its popularity: how it made the web more secure. Google developers didn’t invent every improvement […]
TechRadar Mobile Choice Consumer Awards: two more shortlists revealed
We put out a call and you answered, in your thousands. Thank you to all those who took the time to have their say and vote in the TechRadar Mobile Choice Consumer Awards 2018. While your votes are being counted and our judges deliberate their […]
Cheap autumn sun holiday deals – from Greece to the Costa Brava for as little as £117pp including …
Check out TUI last minute holidays for seven-night Greece beach breaks … Vote in our Sun Travel Awards and enter our prize draw for six great … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Amazon strikes $1 trillion market cap, 4 weeks after Apple did the same
Amazon just joined the exclusive $1 trillion club (briefly). The e-commerce behemoth jumped above a trillion dollar market cap on Tuesday during intraday trading. It’s share price hit an all-time high of $2,050.27 earlier this morning bringing its value above the massive, yet meaningless, milestone. The […]
CBS will stream Super Bowl LIII on mobile devices without a sign-in
CBS is streaming on a plethora of big-screen devices and platforms, including Apple TV, Android TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, Roku players, Samsung TVs, Xbox One and Amazon’s Channels. And you’ll still have the choice of watching through NFL’s website and app, and Verizon (our parent […]
Caos Libia, piano migranti a rischio e lo spettro di una crisi creata in laboratorio
Lo scontro tra le milizie della Settima Brigata e il governo di Tripoli del premier Serraj ha provocato già decine di vittime e adesso la fragile tregua che pure sembrava reggere da oltre un anno è venuta improvvisamente giù. Ad approfittare delle … by Livio […]
Pensioni, vivremo fino a 100 anni ma non potremo permettercelo
Il sistema pensionistico di alcuni Paesi sviluppati andrà incontro a un inesorabile squilibrio fra il risparmio e le prestazioni pensionistiche ricevute nel … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
How Self-Driving Supergroup Aurora Is Making Self-Driving Cars
The Traveling Wilburys were a short-lived phenomenon. From 1988 to 1991, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty—each a star in their own right and with a robust catalog to their name—combined their talents and experiences to produce two albums. That’s […]
Wallet-friendly or wallet-busting? Putting a price on retro gaming
The games industry can be a strange and eldritch beast, shifting its face with each coming year. If the Atari-tickling pioneers of gaming past could see us today, I honestly couldn’t say if they would stand in starry-eyed wonder or recoil in horror. If you […]