Apple has reportedly acquired U.K. special effects studio IKinema, a startup that may be useful in Apple’s quest to bolster its mobile devices with AR special effects and in its more far-flung attempts to enter the AR/VR headset market. The company issued its standard confirmation […]
Day: October 6, 2019
The First Smartphone War
Not that the grunt wasn’t doing his own private staging and propagandizing. In one of the more disturbing and regrettably funny passages in Herr’s Dispatches, he describes the albums of snapshots of Vietnamese corpses and body parts that Americans carried around. The pictures were always […]
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019 is… Render
At the very beginning, there were 20 startups. After two days of incredibly fierce competition, we now have a winner. Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple […]
Teresa Giudice Enjoys Football Game With Daughter Amid Joe Giudice’s Italy Arrangements
Teresa Giudice scored a major touchdown on Saturday. Why, you might ask? The Real Housewives of New Jersey star spent the afternoon with her … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Il post-quota 100: dal 2022 nuovi esodati e scalone, le pensioni si allontanano
Il capitolo Pensioni è stato affrontato solo marginalmente. In un Capitolo della Nota di aggiornamento al Def, quello dedicato al mercato del lavoro ed … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
How Apple Is Reacting to Trump’s Tariffs
And it goes without saying that Apple suffers more in a trade war with China than, for instance, Alphabet's Google or even Amazon.com, because tech … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
HTC stopped innovating on smartphones, new CEO admits
Several months back, we invited HTC cofounder and CEO Cher Wang to appear on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Sometimes, however, life happens. Two weeks ago, the company announced that Wang would be stepping down from the role, which would immediately be filled by longtime telecom […]
evert: Word of the day for October 6, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
evert , v : (transitive, often biology, physiology) To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. (transitive, obsolete) To move (someone or something) out of the way. (transitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, also figuratively) […]
Wikipedia article of the day for October 6, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 6, 2019 is Barge of the Dead. “Barge of the Dead” is an episode from the sixth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. First broadcast by UPN on October 6, 1999, it […]
‘Rule of Capture’ Combines Legal Thriller and Dystopian Sci-Fi
Christopher Brown’s first novel, Tropic of Kansas, is about a charismatic CEO who becomes president and moves the country toward autocracy. Many readers credit Brown with being prescient, but ironically he initially set the book aside because he thought the premise was too far-fetched. “I […]
