Apple ma non solo: cosa c'è dietro la moda delle carte di credito minimaliste - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/economia/finanza/2019/04/02/apple-card-carta-credito/

Amore per i videogame. Letteralmente.

Money quote: “Love and Producer is a mobile game that follows the story of a young TV producer who is dedicated to reviving her late father’s TV show that explored mysterious incidents and anomalies revolving around Evols (humans with special powers, think X-Men but different). In the game you explore the main plot and produce shows, making tough decisions by selecting the right crew and guest stars, according to their strengths, for each episode.

But it’s her four love interests that have captured female gamers’ imaginations. “I’ve been playing nonstop for a year,” says Zhao Xueyue, 29, who works in marketing in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. “There are four types of boys who I can choose to talk to. When a girl is single, she likes that type of thing.”

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-love-games

Thanos è tornato, siete pronti per Avengers: Endgame?

https://www.fumettologica.it/2019/04/avengers-endgame-thanos-trailer-film-marvel/

Google-Huawei: la “strana coppia” dell’AI preoccupa gli Usa - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/google-huawei-la-strana-coppia-dellai-preoccupa-gli-usa/

Facebook, non decolla (per ora) il progetto sulle “news di qualità” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/facebook-non-decolla-per-ora-il-progetto-sulle-news-di-qualita/

Il Dipartimento della Giustizia americano scrive all'Academy degli Oscar: se cambiate le regole in maniera tale da escludere Netflix dalle prossime edizioni, indagheremo sulle vostre pratiche per appurare se vanno contro il libero mercato. Tra l'altro, quanto segue spiega perché Steven Spielberg fosse l'ospite d'onore della presentazione di Apple Tv+: guerra aperta contro Netflix.

Money quote: "The letter came in response to reports that Steven Spielberg, an Academy board member, was planning to push for rules changes to Oscars eligibility, restricting movies that debut on Netflix and other streaming services around the same time that they show in theaters. Netflix made a big splash at the Oscars this year, as the movie “Roma” won best director, best foreign language film and best cinematography."

https://variety.com/2019/politics/news/doj-oscar-rules-changes-netflix-1203178413/

Ops. Microsoft ha chiuso il suo store dei libri. E i libri già comprati? Ehm...

Money quote: "“The books category is closing,” a Microsoft email to ebook customers reads. “Thanks for buying or downloading an ebook from the Microsoft Store. Starting April 2, 2019, the books category will be closing. Unfortunately, this means you will no longer have access to your current ebooks as of July 2019, but you’ll get a full refund if you paid for your ebook download.”"

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/204207/microsoft-is-closing-its-ebook-store-edge-support

Sarà il fattore A a salvare i nostri dati? - Il mio lungo articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/2019/04/03/tecnologia/sar-il-fattore-a-a-salvare-i-nostri-dati-nLxpqaIIq9BNz4xhhJiWyK/pagina.html

Vodafone ottimista sul deal con Liberty: “Aspettiamo il disco verde Ue” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/vodafone-ottimista-sul-deal-con-liberty-aspettiamo-il-disco-verde-ue/

Intelligenza artificiale, rivoluzione da 100 mld di $: Rometty: “La sfida sarà il lavoro” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/intelligenza-artificiale-rivoluzione-da-100-mld-di-rometty-la-sfida-sara-il-lavoro/

La guerriglia casa per casa, ospite per ospite, di AirBnB per non far pagare le tasse ai suoi affiliati

Money quote: "Airbnb is engaged in “a city-by-city, block-by-block guerrilla war” against local governments, says Ulrik Binzer, CEO of Host Compliance, which helps cities draft and enforce rules for short-term rentals, sometimes putting it at odds with hosting platforms. “They need to essentially fight every one of these battles like it is the most important battle they have.”"

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-airbnbs-guerrilla-war-against-local-governments/

Privacy, Facebook ancora nella bufera: online i dati di 540 milioni di utenti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/privacy-facebook-ancora-nella-bufera-online-i-dati-di-540-milioni-di-utenti/

Bitcoin, ecco le regole della Sec per valutare le Ico - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/finance/bitcoin-ecco-le-regole-della-sec-per-valutare-le-ico/

Wi-fi più sicura: finalmente si muove qualcosa anche per gli smartphone - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/mobile/app/2019/04/04/privacy-navigazione-mobile/

Davvero sentiamo la mancanza di Clippy? - Il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2019/04/05/non-ridateci-clippy-per-favore/

Amazon e il caso “zero tasse” pagate in Usa: ecco perché - Il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/amazon-e-il-caso-zero-tasse-pagate-in-usa-ecco-perche/

Social “affamati” di dati, i tre saggi Ue: “Siano obbligati a condividerli” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/over-the-top/social-affamati-di-dati-i-tre-saggi-ue-siano-obbligati-a-condividerli/

C'è una tecnica, un algoritmo e un software capace di trasformarvi in geni. La cosa pazzesca è che funziona. L'ha inventato un polacco, il software si chiama SuperMemo. La sua storia è ancora più incredibile.

Money quote: "Piotr Wozniak's quest for anonymity has been successful. Nobody along this string of little beach resorts recognizes him as the inventor of a technique to turn people into geniuses. A portion of this technique, embodied in a software program called SuperMemo, has enthusiastic users around the world. They apply it mainly to learning languages, and it's popular among people for whom fluency is a necessity — students from Poland or other poor countries aiming to score well enough on English-language exams to study abroad. A substantial number of them do not pay for it, and pirated copies are ubiquitous on software bulletin boards in China, where it competes with knockoffs like SugarMemo."

https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/

La mano invisibile al lavoro: la legge della domanda e dell'offerta. Quando i cartelli della droga fanno macelli, il business delle casse da morto esplode (sembra uno spaghetti western e invece...)

Money quote: "At the coffin factory—a nest of corrugated iron and wood peeking out through a copse of oak trees a few miles up a rutted track—the work stations inside roughly track the construction process. Near the entrance, carpenters hammer nails and cut with wailing electric saws through planks hewn from the local olive trees. In another corner, men varnishing finished coffins with a thick black sealant resemble coal miners, their faces coated in the varnish and their eyes watery and red with irritation. In a separate hut across an open-air courtyard at the back of the workshop, the last set of workers uses a spray gun to paint the coffins, the way mechanics repaint a car. “We have to get them nice and shiny,” one says. “That’s what customers look for.” Like their competitors, the factory’s seven workers make money by the coffin, Juan Carlos says. He estimates that a good carpenter there makes $250 a week; a painter, about $150."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-06/this-city-of-coffins-fills-the-needs-of-families-of-victims-of-ms-13-and-barrio-18

Sulla Lettura del Corriere, la storia del computer di Mario Tchou e Adriano Olivetti.

Money quote: “Dall’incontro tra l’ingegnere cinese e l’imprenditore nacque il primo calcolatore elettronico italiano - di Ciaj Rocchi e Matteo Demonte /Corriere Tv”

https://video.corriere.it/computer-mario-tchou-adriano-olivetti-60-anni-fa-l-italia-entrava-nell-era-elettronica/9863ed36-56e4-11e9-90e6-51f9d2c65261?refresh_ce-cp

Riflettiamo sul senso dei campi estivi. Degli scout, delle giovani marmotte. Negli Stati Uniti i campi estivi per ragazzini sono molto diffusi da più di un secolo. E hanno un'agenda. Quella di base è ricreare il contatto con la natura che manca in città e porta a nevrosi e peggio. Ma ce ne sono anche altre (ad esempio, i mormoni). Per esempio, i campi estivi degli ebrei volevano preparare già dall'inizio del secolo scorso al ritorno ad Israele.

Money quote: "Jews attend summer camp at a higher rate than Americans as a whole, though not nearly as high a rate as Mormons, but the particulars of the Jewish camping experience—begun due to exclusion, changing rapidly due to politics and social movements and the Holocaust—put it in a unique place.

Summer camping in the United States began as a movement in the late 19th century, a sort of rebellion against increasing urbanization and industrialization. By the late 1920s, Jewish summer camps had gotten explicitly ideological: socialist, communist, anarchist, Zionist, Yiddish. Despite this, they were, and remained until after World War II, almost entirely secular. The Yiddish camps focused on Yiddish language and culture, and the Zionist camps on building, farming, and a connection to Israel; neither put much of an emphasis on religion.

A socialist summer camp would have no individual money, and any packages a camper received from home would be divided equally to the rest of the camp. Labor was highly valued; a punishment for bad behavior would never be, say, cleaning the bathrooms, because bathroom duty was a noble and important role in the camp society.

Zionist summer camps prepared kids to move to Palestine (which they sometimes called EY, which stands for Eretz Yisrael, or “the land of Israel”)."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jewish-summer-camps