Day: September 22, 2019

“We had been launched for maybe two months and we got that call that [Amazon founder and CEO] Jeff Bezos wants to see us. How exciting is that? social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

As Facebook prepares to launch its new cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, it’s putting the pieces in place to help it run. In one of the latest developments, it has acquired Servicefriend, a startup that built bots — chat clients for messaging apps based on artificial […]

The Wikipedia article of the day for September 22, 2019 is Joseph B. Foraker. Joseph B. Foraker (1846–1917) was the 37th Governor of Ohio (1886–1890) and a Republican U.S. Senator (1897–1909). Born in rural Ohio, Foraker enlisted in the Union Army at age 16 and […]

martial , adj : (comparable) Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike. (comparable) Connected with or relating to armed forces or the profession of arms or military life. (comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) […]

Netflix recently released The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a 10-episode prequel to Jim Henson’s classic 1982 feature film The Dark Crystal. Horror author Christopher M. Cevasco was impressed by the show’s visuals, which rely heavily on puppets and other practical effects. “There are moments, […]

Windows 10’s Xbox Game Bar has just witnessed the introduction of some smart new capabilities: namely a frame-rate counter, and an achievements overlay. The former displays your current frames per second so you can see exactly how smoothly (or jerkily) the game you’re playing is […]