Day: April 16, 2020

In late 2018, Google made the decision to prevent its “Smart Compose”—a feature that predicts what users intend to write in emails and auto-completes sentences—from suggesting gender-based pronouns such as “him”, her”, and “their”. Why? Google feared that the tool was biased and would be […]

The Portugese multinational energy giant Energias de Portugal (EDP) is the latest company to fall victim to the RagnarLocker ransomware and the attackers are now asking for a $10.9m ransom to unlock its files. According to BleepingComputer and MalwareHunterTeam, the attackers claim to have stolen […]

Until mid-March, the emergency room entrance at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, looked much like the entrance to other ERs: an illuminated red “EMERGENCY” sign mounted on a brick facade, above an open space where cars and ambulances could unload patients. By the end […]

Silicon Valley mainstay the Mayfield Fund has raised $750 million across two new funds, the firm said today. The venture capital firm said its Mayfield XVI will continue to invest in early-stage companies, while its Mayfield Select II will invest in later-stage rounds of breakout […]

«La Lombardia guarda avanti e progetta la “nuova normalità” all’insegna della prevenzione, della cura e della programmazione. Dal 4 maggio, la Regione – si legge in una nota – chiederà al Governo di dare il via libera alle attività produttive nel rispetto delle “Quattro D”: […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has kept a huge number of the global population at home due to countrywide lockdowns and as part of social distancing … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit