Global investment firm KKR is betting on the pizza business — it just led a $43 million Series C investment in Slice. Formerly known as MyPizza, Slice has created a mobile app and website where diners can order a custom pizza delivery from their local, […]
Day: May 12, 2020
Spaceship Earth and the Value of Utopian Thinking
What makes an experiment a success or a failure? For decades, the prevailing wisdom about the elaborate ecological laboratory known as Biosphere 2 was how foolhardy it was. Biosphere 2 was a splashy, $200 million New Age vision of the Space Age with a concept […]
Outlook will soon be able to write your emails for you
Microsoft is currently working on a new feature for Outlook called text predictions that uses smart technology to to suggest the best word possible while users are typing an email. In an Office support document, the software giant explains that users can use either the […]
Facebook upgrades its AI to better tackle COVID-19 misinformation and hate speech
Facebook’s AI tools are the only thing standing between its users and the growing onslaught of hate and misinformation the platform is experiencing. The company’s researchers have cooked up a few new capabilities for the systems that keep the adversary at bay, identifying COVID-19-related misinformation […]
Bitcoin Advocates Cry Foul as US Fed Buying ETFs for the First Time
Bitcoin (BTC) has only just completed its “hardening” — but fiat currency is already getting even “easier” as money after a historic move by the United … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Le préfet des Alpes-Maritimes annonce que certaines plages pourront rouvrir dès ce week-end
Le préfet des Alpes-Maritimes était l'invité de France Bleu Azur ce mardi matin. Bernard Gonzalez a annonce que tous les maires qui en auront fait la … Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #wired
Best practices for SMBs to build a website
While social media is a powerful tool for businesses to engage with customers, it cannot be a substitute for a website. With a website you can: Increase search engine visibility – People tend to search using keywords in search engines like Google. They type “Italian […]
That Fresh Sea Breeze You Breathe May Be Laced With Microplastic
Out in the field, the researchers chose a particularly rough and stormy section of French coastline along the Bay of Biscay to search the air for microplastics. They set up two kinds of collectors: one that could pull particles out of the water droplets that […]
Motorola promises one additional Android update for the $1,000 Edge+
The new policy doesn’t propel the Edge+ into a category of its own, but it does make it at least competitive against some other Android devices. For instance, like most of Samsung’s high-end devices, the recently released Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Z Flip will receive two major Android upgrades. […]
Silvia Romano, la madre: «Chiunque tornerebbe convertito dopo due anni»
Francesca Fumagalli, mamma di Silvia Romano – la cooperante milanese 24enne tornata nella sua casa di Milano lunedì dopo un sequestro di un anno e mezzo fra Kenya e Somalia – a un giornalista che l’ha aspettata sotto casa, mentre usciva con il cane, e […]