Certezze che tramontano. Qualcosa di nuovo sulla Monna Lisa: essa non ti guarda. Dopotutto, è solo un dipinto, no?

Money quote: "The Mona Lisa effect is a centuries-old optical illusion that relies on tricky interplay of light and shadow, which shifts our perspective of the subject’s stare. Since canvases are flat, the depth of a painting cannot change, but it can look like it does. This is why some people insist that Mona Lisa’s gaze can look like a skeptical side-eye from one side and a thoughtful glance straight-on. But, according to the new research, the painting that lends the phenomenon its name doesn’t actually display it. “The effect itself is undeniable and demonstrable,” Loth said. “But with the Mona Lisa, of all paintings, we didn’t get this impression.”"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/is-the-mona-lisa-looking-at-me

Apple ogni giorno acquista 50 posti per i voli per Shanghai - il mio articolo (a pagamento) per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/2019/01/15/tecnologia/apple-ogni-giorno-acquista-posti-per-i-voli-per-shanghai-gSr8uNqBGuER1CakvEwhJK/pagina.html

Lost in translation, ma attraverso l'Atlantico

Apple verso l’addio allo spinotto “proprietario”, in arrivo l’Usb-C per iPhone - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/apple-verso-laddio-allo-spinotto-proprietario-in-arrivo-lusb-c-per-iphone/?sfdcid=0030O00002LXcuNQAT

Biometria nelle indagini di Polizia, la giustizia Usa mette i paletti - Il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/biometria-nelle-indagini-di-polizia-la-giustizia-usa-mette-i-paletti/?sfdcid=0030O00002LXcuNQAT

È uscito il nuovo rapporto del Reuters Institute sul giornalismo etc per il 2019.

Money quote: "Our 2019 Trends and Predictions report surveys 200 digital leaders from across the world on what they believe will be the challenges and opportunities facing journalism, media and technology this year. This will be the year when the regulation of platform companies starts to bite following growing concern about misinformation, privacy, and market power. Something once considered unthinkable has become ‘inevitable’, in the words of Apple boss Tim Cook – though the details will be messy, hard-fought, and take time to play out.

Meanwhile the spread of false, misleading and extreme content will continue to undermine democracies around the world with polarising elections in India, Indonesia and Europe likely flashpoints. Journalism will continue to be hollowed out by structural shifts that have already led to significant falls in advertising revenue. Publishers are looking to subnoscriptions to make up the difference but the limits of this are likely to become apparent in 2019. Taken together these trends are likely to lead to the biggest wave of journalistic lay-offs in years – weakening further the ability of publishers to hold populist politicians and powerful business leaders to account."

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/journalism-media-and-technology-trends-and-predictions-2019

Apple ha sostituto 11 milioni di batterie per iPhone nel 2018 - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/2019/01/16/tecnologia/apple-ha-sostituto-milioni-di-batterie-per-iphone-nel-KJkW5BEmISNdYcjqzguZ1H/pagina.html

Su Hubble probabilmente c’è Windows. Si era incartato un giroscopio qualche mese fa ma è bastato riavviare perché tornasse tutto a posto.

Money quote: “If you’ve ever worked in IT, you know that most problems require eye-rollingly simple solutions. One, check that the device is plugged in. Two, turn the device off and back on again. Three, wiggle some things around. It appears that such thinking will fix the Hubble Space Telescope, which entered a safe mode two weeks ago after a gyroscope failure.”

https://gizmodo.com/hubble-telescope-s-broken-gyroscope-seemingly-fixed-aft-1829934018

Stripe, la fintech che punta a pagamenti online semplici come un’email - il mio articolo per Wired.it

https://www.wired.it/economia/finanza/2019/01/16/stripe-pagamenti/

Il retail alla sfida digital, cloud è la parola d'ordine - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/il-retail-alla-sfida-digital-cloud-e-la-parola-dordine/

Oracle: i tempi sono maturi per cloud e AI in azienda - il mio articolo per il Sole 24 Ore

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2019-01-16/oracle-tempi-sono-maturi-cloud-e-in-azienda-141329.shtml?uuid=AEiosSGH

In America cresce la resistenza contro le auto a guida autonoma - Il mio articolo (a pagamento) per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/2019/01/17/tecnologia/in-america-cresce-la-resistenza-contro-le-auto-a-guida-autonoma-CfQsI8i4ZxHU0wimx59bdN/premium.html

Visto da vicino nessuno è normale. Alcuni anche dalla media distanza, però.

Soggetti così mi fanno sentire leggero e senza problemi di accumulo seriale

Money quote: “For Clinco, it’s always been about heat. He inherited a love of spicy food from his father and grandfather, “eating jalapeños in the backyard with them, when I was just a kid,” he says. But the idea of a sauce collection didn’t coalesce until two decades ago, when Clinco’s then-girlfriend, soon-to-be wife gifted him some novelty hot sauces. Charmed by their off-color labels, Clinco gave them a place of honor on his countertop”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hot-sauce-collection

Google, rincari per G Suite Basic e Business: prezzi a +20% - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/google-rincari-per-g-suite-basic-e-enterprise-prezzi-a-20/

La scure dell'India su Amazon & Co: limiti all'e-commerce per favorire i negozianti - Il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/la-scure-dellindia-su-amazon-co-limiti-alle-commerce-per-favorire-i-negozianti/?sfdcid=0030O00002LXcuNQAT

Best of 2018

WordPress.org presenta Newspack per il settore dell'editoria - Il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/wordpress-org-presenta-newspack-per-il-settore-delleditoria/

Qualcomm vs Intel, la lotta è per il pc portatile del futuro - Il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2019/01/17/lotta-portatile-del-futuro/

La rabbia delle donne dovreste prenderla molto molto sul serio

Money quote: “Is female anger really always taken less seriously? While reading the book, a a member reminded me of the phrase, “When mama’s unhappy, everyone’s unhappy.” It seemed to her that, especially when women invoke their roles as wives and mothers when angry, their anger is extremely effective. — Caroline Kitchener

Rebecca Traister: That is historically the context in which women have been offered what power is on the table. Their power is within a domestic sphere, within familial relationships. But if the only way we can invoke our authority is by making a comparison to a domestic and maternal sphere, that’s a very limited scope. Part of what this book is about is the fact that women’s anger is not taken seriously as politically consequential and valid, in part because women are sucked back into a maternal or wifely aesthetic framework. And we need to understand their fury as politically and socially catalytic.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/575365/

Trade War, monito di Cisco a Trump: “Dazi mettono a rischio investimenti in R&S” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/monito-di-cisco-a-trump-dazi-piu-altri-mettono-a-rischio-investimenti-in-rsaziende/

Perché Google ha comprato la divisione smartwatch di Fossil? - il mio articolo per Wired.it

https://www.wired.it/gadget/accessori/2019/01/18/google-fossil/