As battle royale games like Fortnite pit more players against each other, studios are starting to realize the potential of bringing a massive online audience together at one time. This ambition has always existed, but Improbable, a well-funded startup aiming to enable these vast online […]
Day: October 11, 2018
Genome Hackers Show No One’s DNA Is Anonymous Anymore
In 2013, a young computational biologist named Yaniv Erlich shocked the research world by showing it was possible to unmask the identities of people listed in anonymous genetic databases using only an Internet connection. Policymakers responded by restricting access to pools of anonymized biomedical genetic […]
E l’elogio alla Fornero ora è un caso
Roma – Galeotto fu Il Giornale con un pezzo di Angelo Allegri uscito il 6 ottobre, nel quale si «denunciava» che nel Def si parla della legge Fornero come di una norma che, testuale, «elevando i requisiti di accesso per il pensionamento ha migliorato … […]
“Fatima , maestra di jihad per le donne di Siria”: così i giudici che hanno condannato la foreign fighter
“Una volta arrivata in Siria, si è immersa completamente nelle attività programmate per le donne”. “L’impegno messo nell’accrescimento della sua formazione è tale che lei stessa diventa una maestra”. I giudici della Corte d’Appello di Milano ricostruiscono così la vita da combattente di Maria Giulia […]
AR meets accessibility: how Epson’s smart glasses found a home in the theater
Smart glasses never quite lived up to their initial hype. When the likes of Epson Moverio and Google Glass were released a few years ago, the idea of an augmented reality overlay built into your glasses, projecting words, images and information on the environment around […]
Spanish tourism chief warns over ‘disaster’ of no-deal Brexit
Javier Pinanes, director of Spain's tourist office in London, acknowledged that travel disruption caused by the UK and the European Union failing to … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
iPhones may soon be able to automatically detect spam calls
How can a phone identify a spam or spoofed call? The patent makes clear that the phone would check against established, legitimate call parameters in order to determine the validity of a call that’s being connected. The phone would analyze the information being send over […]
SpankChain spanked
SpankChain, a cryptocurrency aimed at decentralized sex cams, has announced that a hacker stole about $38,000 from their payment channel thanks to a broken smart contract. They wrote: At 6pm PST Saturday, an unknown attacker drained 165.38 ETH (~$38,000) from our payment channel smart contract […]
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A ripple effect is a situation in which, like ripples expanding across the water when an object is dropped into it, an effect from an initial state can be followed outwards incrementally (source Medium)
Pensioni: che ne sarà di Opzione donna, Quota 41 e Ape sociale?
La riforma delle pensioni del Governo gialloverde non dovrebbe presentare grosse sorprese, con la Quota 100 che, secondo le ultime indiscrezioni e … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit