They are calling on Amazon to be more transparent about the virus and immediately close and clean the warehouse. On the morning of the walkout, … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Day: April 1, 2020
The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started
The popular video conferencing application Zoom has been having A Moment during the Covid-19 pandemic. But it’s not all positive. As many people’s professional and social lives move completely online, Zoom use has exploded. But with this boom has come added scrutiny from security and […]
Venture debt’s new reality: ‘The last thing we want is management walking away from a company’
Maurice Werdegar is the longtime CEO of venture debt shop Western Technology Investment, one of the most active venture debt lenders in the U.S. It’s also one of the older firms, having loaned out money for roughly 40 years to startups that needed to achieve […]
Bitcoin Forks: You Wont Believe How Many There Actually Are
While both soft and hard forks change how the protocol of cryptocurrency works, a soft fork allows non-updated nodes to process transactions. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Rolling Meadows proposes limits on video gambling
After the growth of video gambling in Rolling Meadows after a ban was overturned in 2018, city officials have proposed putting limits on the number of …
Remote working and health and safety
We’re living in a whole new world. As many employees have shifted to a home office and are under stay-at-home orders, there are legal questions about who is responsible for employee health and safety. In many ways, now that most of us are stuck at […]
Researchers to study if startup’s wrist-worn wearable can detect early COVID-19 respiratory issues
It’s highly unlikely that the current coronavirus crisis will neatly and fully “solved” by any one endeavor or solution, which makes news studies like one involving startup WHOOP’s wrist-worn fitness and health tracking wearable all the more important. The study, conducted by the Central Queensland […]
The Quieter Side of Preparing for Disaster
Dutch photographer Lise Straatsma remembers the exact day that sparked her headlong dive into the world of prepping. It was November 13, 2015, when terrorists launched a string of coordinated attacks throughout Paris that killed 129 people. Straatsma was visiting the city for a photography […]
Coronavirus, Lombardia contro Viminale per le uscite genitori-figli: “Vale nostra ordinanza”. Crimi: “Non paghino i bambini”
No alla circolare del Viminale che consente ai genitori di minori di fare passeggiate intorno alla propria casa con i figli. “Un messaggio devastante”, per l’assessore al Welfare della Lombardia Giulio Gallera che annuncia: “Vedremo se c’è possibilità di attivare ordinanze o altro che la […]
Asda, Aldi, Morrisons and Waitrose are loosening panic-buying shopping limits
Due to Covid-19 panic-buying concerns, lots of supermarkets introduced buying restrictions to stop people purchasing too many of certain items, thus ensuring more people got their share. However it seems like lots of these same supermarkets have now dropped certain restrictions. As reported by the […]
