Day: February 11, 2019

Heat Slows You Down. Even When It’s Not Real When it comes to the effects of temperature on performance, perception is reality. February 9, 2019 at 05:49PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2WQrsTG

“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society,” quoth Wikipedia, “held in common, not owned privately.” We live in an era of surveillance capitalism in a symbiotic relationship with advertising technology, quoth me. And I put it to […]

Two weeks out from the longest government shutdown in United States history—and with the possibility of another still looming—government employees are still scrambling to mitigate impacts on federal cybersecurity defenses. And the stakes are high. Furloughed cybersecurity employees returned to expired software licenses and web […]

You might not think of self-driving technologies and politics having much in common, but at least in one way, they overlap meaningfully: yesterday’s enemy can be tomorrow’s ally. Such was the message we gleaned Thursday night, at a small industry event in San Francisco, where we had […]

Lego’s Big Fictional Brand Is An Oil Company. Why? There’s always gotta be a brand. February 8, 2019 at 01:58PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2I1V5xX via Blogger http://bit.ly/2Gky3AM

The lawsuit could prove expensive for Airbnb. The law permits fines of 12,500 euros per illegal posting, which could leave the company paying nearly $14.2 million if every ad is deemed illegal. In response, Airbnb told Reuters that it had taken steps to ensure visitors […]

It’s bad enough that dating sites are a pit of exaggerations and inevitable disappointment, they’re also a hot target for hackers. Dating sites aren’t considered the goldmine of personal information like banks or hospitals, but they’re still an intimate part of millions of people’s lives […]

Tasse invariate quest'anno a Villafranca. Mercoledì sera il consiglio comunale si riunirà per approvare tutte le aliquote della tassazione locale che … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit via Blogger http://bit.ly/2Sobd1n

While navigation by way of Google Maps is, for the most part, a smooth process for pedestrians, there’s usually an awkward moment of failed orientation when you first start the feature and try and line yourself up with the little blue dot. At the tech […]