Microplastics are reaching every corner of the earth, a hacker’s joke cost him over $12,000, and WIRED takes a look at the science of dick pics. Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as […]
Day: August 14, 2019
7 Places I’ve Been & Would Revisit In A Heartbeat, According To A World Traveler
Since I was a little girl, I've dreamed of traveling around the world, … From India, to Croatia, to New Orleans, to my motherland of the Philippines, I have … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Argentina, Macrì annuncia stop all’austerità e taglio tasse dopo la sconfitta alle primarie
«Vi ho ascoltato», ha detto Macri durante l'annuncio televisivo delle misure, che prevedono un taglio del 20 per cento delle tasse sul reddito per 2 … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Amazon is launching a new program to donate unsold products, after reports that millions were …
Amazon wants its third-party sellers to make better use of their unsold or unwanted products that often get dumped — by giving them away to charity. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Microsoft says humans will still transcribe Cortana and Skype audio
The company amended its privacy policy and other pages to make it clear human workers are listening to recorded conversations and commands to improve the services. “We realized, based on questions raised recently, that we could do a better job specifying that humans sometimes review […]
Humans are listening to some of your Skype calls and Cortana interactions
Some of our worst assumptions about smart speakers, digital assistants and internet phone services are coming true, as Microsoft has admitted that both Microsoft employees and contractors may listen to your Skype calls and voice interactions with its Cortana digital assistant. The confirmation comes a […]
Microplastics Are Blowing Into the Pristine Arctic
Welcome to the year of the plastic menace, a nonstop flow of terrible news about how the ocean and its organisms are choking on macroplastic, while microplastic particles—bits less than 5 millimeters long—are wafting their way to supposedly pristine mountaintops in Europe. It seems nowhere […]
Comune, lotta allo smog: nuovi contributi ai privati per risparmio energetico e tetti verdi
Abbattimento del 45% delle concentrazioni di Pm 10 e NOx, riduzione del CO2 entro il 2030 e azzeramento entro il 2050 attraverso la progressiva eliminazione dei combustibili fossili per Milano `Carbon neutral´. Sono gli obiettivi che l’Amministrazione comunale intende raggiungere anche attraverso la concessione di […]
Everything we know about the next Apple Watch, which could launch as soon as next month
Rumors suggest Apple might add sleep-tracking to future Apple Watch models and the company could bring back the ceramic casing option. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
A mysterious AMD Threadripper CPU appears in leaked Geekbench result
We’ve been sitting, waiting for 3rd Generation Threadripper processors to appear, but we might have finally seen one of these HEDT Castle Lake processors appear in a leaked Geekbench result. This leak was spotted by the folks over at TechPowerUp, and it references a mysterious […]