Today was the second half of Y Combinator’s two-day Demo Day for its Winter 2019 class. Over 85 startups pitched on stage yesterday, and another huge batch launched today. Previously held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, this YC Demo Day instead took […]
Day: March 20, 2019
Facebook Changes Its Ad Tech to Stop Discrimination
On Tuesday, Facebook reached a historic settlement with civil rights groups that had accused the company of allowing advertisers to unlawfully discriminate against minorities, women, and older people by using the platform’s ad-targeting technology to exclude them from seeing ads for housing, jobs, and credit—three […]
Can AI help crack the code of fusion power?
With the click of a mouse and a loud bang, I blasted jets of super-hot, ionized gas called plasma into one another at hundreds of miles per second. I was sitting in the control room of a fusion energy startup called TAE Technologies, and I’d […]
Apex Legends launches its first season, introduces new character Octane
After reaching an astonishing 50 million players in less than a month, Apex Legends has now officially launched its first season, dubbed Wild Frontier. Players on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC are now able to purchase the Wild Frontier Battle Pass for 950 Apex […]
Launching from YC, Eclipse Foods casts a long shadow over the $336 billion dairy industry
Eclipse Foods may be the company that finally takes milk out of the dairy business. Ever since the acquisition of WhiteWave Foods by the French dairy giant Danone for over $10 billion investors have been thirsting for a technology that would give consumers a better […]
Roma, gravissimo il pittore picchiato Il padre: perché l’hanno ridotto così?
A largo Preneste lo conoscono da anni come «il professore». Come una persona mite e gentile che ama fare lunghe passeggiate. Ora lo piangono mentre attendono notizie dalla terapia intensiva del San Giovanni dove Umberto Ranieri, 55 anni, pittore di … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews
Mirai botnet returns to target IoT devices
A new variant of the Mirai malware targeting IoT devices has been discovered in the wild by security researchers from Palo Alto Networks. The researchers first discovered this new strain earlier this year and now it is being used in a new IoT botnet targeting […]
With Google Stadia, Gaming Dreams Head For the Cloud
Last October, Google gave away one of the biggest videogames of the year, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. You didn’t have to specify which game console you wanted to play it on, or even whether you preferred PC to console. Format didn’t matter at all, because the […]
Worldwide Measles Spotlight: March 19, 2019
Measles vaccinations are mandatory in France for all children born after January 1, 2018. The CDC reaffirmed a Level 1 Travel Alert for France for … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
The Best Thing About Google’s New Gaming Platform Is Also the Worst
At the annual Game Developers Conference this afternoon, Google finally … supplement to YouTube, the perennial runner-up to the Amazon-owned … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit