Da giorni migliaia di penne nere – 500 mila persone, secondo le stime – invadono le strade, le piazze e gli spazi verdi di Milano per l’evento che segna il ritorno delle penne nere a cent’anni dalla fondazione dell’Associazione nazionale alpini (Ana). Gli accampamenti riempiono […]
Day: May 11, 2019
*Prospect* Is a Master Class in Low-Budget Space Opera
The indie science fiction film Prospect, directed by Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell, shows that you don’t need $100 million to make a first-rate space opera. Horror author Christopher M. Cevasco was surprised that the movie looks as good as it does. “If I had […]
Zuckerberg says breaking up Facebook “isn’t going to help”
With the look of someone betrayed, Facebook’s CEO has fired back at co-founder Chris Hughes and his brutal NYT op-ed calling for regulators to split up Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. “When I read what he wrote, my main reaction was that what he’s proposing that […]
Why I travel the world with my mother
… it was when I went to Canada and Greece at five years old that I really knew … I decided to become a freelancer, working in content creation and travel … that led to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. … […]
Bilancio a Maierato, la replica della maggioranza: «Niente lezioni da chi ci ha preceduto»
Per la maggioranza guidata dal sindaco Danilo Silvaggio, l'opposizione, «predicando un aumento delle tasse, cerca di spargere terrore nelle famiglie … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Monster Hunter World has a free trial on PS4
If Monster Hunter World completely passed you by when it released last year, you can make up for lost time by trying it out in a free trial on PS4 right now. From now until May 20, PlayStation 4 owners are able to play through […]
Original Content podcast: We’re not impressed by Netflix’s ‘Extremely Wicked’ Ted Bundy movie
Despite its grandiose title, Netflix’s “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” turns out to be surprisingly forgettable. In this week’s episode of the Original Content podcast, we’re joined by Brian Heater to review the film, which features Zac Efron as serial killer Ted Bundy and […]
Recommended Reading: Google Duplex still confuses restaurants
One year later, restaurants are still confused by Google DuplexNatt Garun,The Verge Google had us in awe when it debuted the AI-powered Duplex tech at I/O 2018. The system can be used to make reservations on your behalf, and it can even make a call […]
GitHub gets a package registry
GitHub today announced the launch of a limited beta of the GitHub Package Registry, its new package management service that lets developers publish public and private packages next to their source code. To be clear, GitHub isn’t launching a competitor to tools like npm or […]
Space Photos of the Week: Hot Hubble Time Machine
This is no ordinary space photo: It is 16 years’ worth of Hubble data—7,500 exposures in total, including more than 265,000 galaxies. But that’s not all. Some of the galaxies in this image are so ancient, they date back to almost the beginning of the […]