Sri Lanka vs England Twenty20 cricket – when and where There’s only time for one Twenty20 international between England and Sri Lanka. It’s on Saturday October 27 at 2.30pm BST (9.30am ET, 6.30am PT , 11.30pm AEST). It takes place at the 40,000 capacity R. […]
Day: October 27, 2018
Meet Shuttle, the company that’s building a booking agent for spaceflight
Avery Haskell says he first knew he wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a boy growing up in Houston near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The 24-year-old Stanford graduate who counts Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan as his heroes grew up in an […]
These tiny drones can lift 40 times their own weight
The drones, called FlyCroTugs (short for “flying, micro tugging robots”), are equipped with a system of winches, adhesives and microspines that allow the tiny crafts, which weigh just a few ounces each, to latch onto just about anything. The winch is one of the few […]
Weekend Wanderlust: A love letter to Turin, Italy
Out on the city's main square, Piazza San Carlo, there were just a handful of people having coffee on a weekday morning, and not a tour group in sight … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Sciopero dei trasporti a Milano: si abbassano le saracinesche in metropolitana
Sciopero dei trasporti a Milano: si abbassano le saracinesche in metropolitana – 1 di 1 – Milano – Repubblica.it LO sciopero generale dei trasporti indetto da Cub, Sgb, Si-Cobas, Usi-Ait, Slai-Cobas per chiedere più diritti e più rispetto per i lavoratori delle categorie pubbliche e […]
Pensioni, ddl ad hoc per quota 100: allo studio il preavviso agli statali
Un provvedimento specifico anche per quota 100. Non dovrebbe infatti arrivare più, il dettaglio della misura, con la legge di Bilancio la quale conterrà … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Travolge in auto moto e poi fugge: feriti due centauri. Caccia al pirata
Grave incidente nella notte tra venerdì e sabato in centro a Milano. Due motociclisti sono stati travolti in piazzale Loreto da una vettura che poi è scappata a tutta velocità lasciando i motociclisti feriti in strada. L'automobilista però, non si è … by Livio Acerbo […]
Iran’s New Facebook Trolls Are Using Russia’s Playbook
On Friday, Facebook shut down another network of 82 accounts, pages, and groups that have been posing as US and UK citizens since 2016. The network, which Facebook says originated in Iran, has spread memes, articles, and other posts about political topics including race relations, […]
Expedia acquires Pillow and ApartmentJet to conquer the short-term rental market
To keep up with the rising demand for short-term rentals in U.S. cities and compete with the home-sharing giant Airbnb, travel booking site Expedia has picked up a pair of venture-backed hospitality startups, Pillow and ApartmentJet. Employees of both companies will join Expedia. The company declined […]
Tesla’s ‘Navigate on Autopilot’ goes live in North America tonight
[embedded content] As described by Tesla: Our most advanced Autopilot feature ever, Navigate on Autopilot is an active guidance feature that, with driver supervision, guides a car from a highway’s on-ramp to off-ramp, including suggesting lane changes, navigating highway interchanges and taking exits. It’s designed […]