«Il movente dichiarato da Fabiana Muscas, consistente nel volere fare un regalo di compleanno a sorpresa a Marco Carta – scrive il giudice Caramellino nelle motivazioni della sentenza -, corrisponde a una eventualità non certo remota né congetturale, bensì oggettivamente riscontrata nel caso concreto, poiché […]
Day: November 19, 2019
Bangle.js is an Hackable, Open Source JavaScript and TensorFlow-driven Smartwatch … BIG Data
Espruino brought JavasScript to the Microcontroller, now Bangle.js is bringing Javascript plus TensorFlow Lite to your smartwatch. There has been some movement by some developers that says that JavaScript should be used for everything, even though I find that idea ridiculous, I still find JavaScript […]
Can Fake Horns Save the Rhino? That’s … Extremely Thorny
The economics of knockoffs is simple: The rich buy Prada bags, while the not so rich opt for fakes, which telegraph to the world they’re just as shallow as the rich, but on a budget. Prada doesn’t like knockoffs because they undercut both the bottom […]
Tesla’s presence could be a ‘positive catalyst’ for China’s electric vehicle market
Tesla's presence in China will be a positive factor for the domestic electric vehicle market's development, according to a senior executive at Xpeng … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
BlueVine raises $102.5M more for banking services that target small businesses
When it comes to fintech plays, small and medium businesses are not often the target audience: they’re too small and fragmented compared to big-spending corporates; and they’re too demanding compared to mass-market consumer users. But as a sector, they account for over 99% of all businesses […]
Gambling reform in Germany could be coming soon
Gambling reform in Germany could be coming soon … According to most Germans, the country's gambling system is in need of a lot of repair. … However, as robust as the plan would be, there is apparently no love of poker by the GRC. … […]
Forget the QR code. Facial recognition could be the next big thing for payments in China
Scanning a barcode to make payments in China could soon be a thing of the past, as technology giants such as Tencent are now studying the use of …
Now Disney has spoiled The Mandalorian’s big twist
When The Mandalorian launched on Disney Plus last week, it came with a big end-of-episode twist. And, spoiler alert, that twist was that the show features what’s become known as ‘Baby Yoda’, an extremely cute Force-using alien of Yoda’s unknown species who the titular Mandalorian […]
How Facebook’s Anti-Revenge Porn Tools Failed Katie Hill
Twitter declined to provide any comment, and instead pointed me to the company’s nonconsensual nudity policy. The original DailyMail.com tweet—nude photo, shortened link, and all—remains online, with 1,500 retweets and 2,300 likes. “What we know about the viral nature of especially salacious material is that […]
A 10-point plan to reboot the data industrial complex for the common good
A posthumous manifesto by Giovanni Buttarelli, who until his death this summer was Europe’s chief data protection regulator, seeks to join the dots of surveillance capitalism’s rapacious colonization of human spaces, via increasingly pervasive and intrusive mapping and modelling of our data, with the existential […]