App developers and big tech companies alike have responded to growing concerns of smartphone addiction with an array of usage-tracking services that are intended to curb a user’s bad habits. Google’s Digital Wellbeing service is one such app, promising to transparently track and measure your […]
Day: May 13, 2019
Botched update crashes hundreds of Netherlands police ankle monitors
This isn’t the first time the Netherlands has had to deal with an outage, albeit not for the same reasons — this one was under police control. A cellular network outage in August 2018 knocked out connections to 450 ankle monitors, forcing a similar scramble. […]
Elon Musk shows SpaceX’s first internet satellites ready for launch
Elon Musk has posted a photo (below) of the first 60 production satellites packed into the fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of their launch this coming … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415 parts per million for the first time in human history
The human race has broken another record on its race to ecological collapse. Congratulations humanity! For the first time in human history — not recorded history, but since humans have existed on Earth — carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 415 parts per million, […]
Friend portability is the must-have Facebook regulation
Choice for consumers compels fair treatment by corporations. When people can easily move to a competitor, it creates a natural market dynamic coercing a business to act right. When we can’t, other regulations just leave us trapped with a pig in a fresh coat of […]
Da Silvio (106 anni) ad Alberto (medaglia d’oro): l’orgoglio alpino ha sfilato per 12 ore
Milano si è stretta intorno alle Penne nere nel giorno del `raduno del Centenario´, la 92esima Adunata nazionale che coincide con i 100 anni dell’Associazione Nazionale Alpini, fondata nel 1919 da un gruppo di reduci proprio in città nella Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. Lo ha […]
Stepping back from the life of a foreign correspondent and the world’s best job
France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Spain, South Africa, Germany, Russia, Kenya, Somalia, Argentina, Chile, … For a start, there was the last-minute trip to Windsor Castle where I waited for Queen Elizabeth to walk in and shake my hand. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel […]
iPhone 11’s ugly camera design seems certain after two new case-render leaks
The iPhone 11 is still several months away, and as with every Apple flagship in recent memory, there’ve already been numerous rumors and leaks about the device – many of which are, admittedly, impossible to confirm this far out from release. However, there’s one persistent […]
The Obsessive, Tumultuous Lives of SpaceX Rocket Chasers
A few hours before dawn in January 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket departed from a launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a mission to the International Space Station. It was the company’s fifth cargo resupply mission and the first time […]
Tagli fiscali attesi dal governo UCP di Alberta per “rinnovare il vantaggio Alberta”
Kenney e l'UCP hanno anche criticato gli aumenti delle tasse del precedente governo NDP e hanno parlato pubblicamente del ripristino del … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit