Beau Willimon, the screenwriter and playwright who created Netflix’s “House of Cards”, has turned his attention from Washington, D.C. to outer space in his latest series “The First”. The shows have more in common than I expected. Sure, “The First” is about a future expedition […]
Month: September 2018
Artificial Intelligence Has a Strange New Muse: Our Sense of Smell
Today’s artificial intelligence systems, including the artificial neural networks broadly inspired by the neurons and connections of the nervous system, perform wonderfully at tasks with known constraints. They also tend to require a lot of computational power and vast quantities of training data. That all […]
New Firefox browser bug causes crashes on Windows, Mac and Linux
Only a week after disclosing a new web code exploit that can cause an iPhone to crash, security researcher Sabri Haddouche, has uncovered another browser bug that can force Firefox to crash on all three popular desktop operating systems – Mac, Linux and Windows – […]
Incidente stradale, scontro tra due auto: passeggero sbalzato fuori dal finestrino, è molto grave
Incidente stradale avvenuto a Milano, in piazzale Martiri della Deportazione. Dopo un urto fra due auto , una 500 si è ribaltata su un lato ed è finita sopra una rotonda. Nell’urto, il passeggero dell’auto è stato sbalzato fuori finendo sul cordolo in marmo della […]
Bari, omicidio a San Giorgio: trans trovata morta in auto. Ferita d’arma da taglio su una spalla
Una transessuale 40enne è stata trovata morta nella sua auto a San Giorgio, periferia sud di Bari. La vittima presenta una ferita da arma da taglio alla spalla. Non è ancora chiaro cosa sia realmente successo, ma è probabile possa trattarsi di un omicidio. by […]
Our Precious
I’ve long theorized that one’s moral character is inversely proportional to the number of syllables in one’s Starbucks order. (Yes, this is a tech column. We’ll get to that. Have faith.) To which a friend pointed out that what Starbucks offers is control — your […]
Airbnb hopes to give hosts a stake in the company
“We would be nothing without our hosts,” he said in a statement to Axios. “We would like our most loyal hosts to be shareholders, but need these policies to change in order to make that happen.” This isn’t the first time a gig-oriented online service […]
Amazon Is Now the 3rd-Largest Digital Ad Platform in the US — Here’s Why It Matters
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is now the third-largest digital ad sales … The company doesn't have to beat Google and Facebook in advertising … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Wikipedia article of the day for September 24, 2018 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
The Wikipedia article of the day for September 24, 2018 is Operation Ke. Operation Ke was the largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. All attempts by the Japanese army to recapture Henderson Field, the only […]
Picture of the day for September 24, 2018 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 24, 2018: A female red-crowned woodpecker (Melanerpes rubricapillus rubricapillus). Trinidad and Tobago became a Republic on August 1, 1976. September 24 is Republic Day, the date when the Parliament first met. https://ift.tt/2I92h7G