Cibo e viaggi / Food and travel notes by Livio Acerbo
A collision in space was narrowly avoided last week when a newly deployed Chinese satellite came within a few hundred meters of one of the roughly 9,000 Starlink satellites currently operating in low Earth orbit. SpaceX is laying the blame on the satellite operator for […]
A rare gourd can change the way you look at your garden, your kitchen, and even your creativity. In a world where most of us only meet pumpkins and zucchini,…
Here are some of the most significant world news developments reported in the latest bulletins: Mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Australia Two gunmen opened fire at Bondi Beach, killing…
Major world news headlines as of December 14, 2025, include a mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration, ongoing border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia despite US…
Google has just taken a big step toward truly frictionless communication: Google Translate now lets you hear real-time translations directly in your headphones. Built on new Gemini speech-to-speech technology, this…
By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished idea – the iPhone had only just gotten copy and paste! – but it was clear that these big slabs of glass were going to change the way we […]
Here are some of the most significant world news developments reported in the latest bulletins: Ukraine war intensifies A major overnight Russian missile and drone barrage targeted multiple regions in…
Grok’s track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia is shocking. The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man […]
Absynth is something of a cult classic in the soft synth world. It was originally released in 2000, and quickly found an audience among the growing cadre of people making music on computers. But its last major update, Absynth 5, was released in 2009, and […]
Here’s a thought: what if the next-generation Siri is awesome? Not just awesome for setting timers and dictating text messages (though that would be nice), but so awesome and fun to talk to that people actually start falling in love with their iPhones. We may […]