Da bambina sognava di fare l’infermiera in un campo militare, però. Per guarire quelli che uscivano con le ossa rotte dalla battaglia. A voler spoilerare il finale si può dire che Vanessa Tahi ha quasi realizzato il suo sogno. Tutta la vita che ci passa […]
Month: July 2020
Victress Capital, a fund founded by women to back women founders, just closed its second fund
Women start 40 percent of the businesses in the U.S., but they receive just 3% of venture funding. It doesn’t take a math whiz to recognize that such an extreme funding gap could spell opportunity, but it might help if you are math minded, a […]
Ennio Morricone’s The Thing score showcased elevated science fiction at its best
The score in question is that of John Carpenter's seminal horror/sci-fi masterpiece The Thing, which features an iconic main theme and score by …
Tech Confronts Its Use of the Labels ‘Master’ and ‘Slave’
Last month, on Juneteenth—June 19—the data management company Delphix hosted a hackathon for employees to make coding terminology at the company more inclusive. Engineers tailored replacements for master/slave to specific contexts, says Sebastien Roy, the company’s director of systems platform development. Alternatives included active/standby, writer/reader, […]
Dark theme lands for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on Android Google Docs
The wave of software and apps that are getting the ‘dark mode’ treatment continues, ceaselessly beating against the default, glaring white of their interfaces. Google has now announced that its G Suite products – Docs, Sheets, and Slides –are all getting support for Android’s system-wide […]
Momentum Shift Will Drive Bitcoin (BTC) to $50K in Six Months or Less, Says Nexo’s Antoni Trenchev
Trenchev says Nexo will likely launch a cryptocurrency exchange this year to address demand from its clients. ADVERTISEMENT. Check Latest News … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Secretive data startup Palantir has confidentially filed for an IPO
Secretive big data and analytics startup Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, said late Monday it has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. Its statement said little more. “The public listing is expected to take place after the SEC […]
Il Fisco torna a settembre. La petizione di Consumatori Associati per tagliare le tasse
… data solo a chi dimostrerà concretamente di non potere pagare, sarà un'iniezione di fiducia per i cittadini già oberati da troppe tasse e burocrazia”. by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
The Epic Siberian Journey to Solve a Mass Extinction Mystery
“I really wanted to find this place that was rumored where there were a lot of rocks that result from explosive volcanic eruptions,” Elkins-Tanton says, “because that’s the only way that we know of that you can effectively drive chemicals into the upper atmosphere where […]
Multiple retailers hit by new North Korea cyberattack null
The websites of multiple retailers in the US and Europe have been compromised by the Magecart credit card skimmer following a series of cyberattacks which are believed to have been launched by the North Korean state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group Lazarus. Up until now, […]