Consegne con i droni: via libera a Google dalle autorità Usa - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/consegne-con-i-droni-via-libera-a-google-dalle-autorita-usa/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/consegne-con-i-droni-via-libera-a-google-dalle-autorita-usa/
CorCom
Consegne con i droni: via libera a Google dalle autorità Usa - CorCom
Wing, azienda del gruppo Alphabet, aveva già ricevuto il consenso in Australia all'inizio di aprile. Ora è arrivato anche quello della Federal Aviation Administration. Le sperimentazioni partiranno da due piccoli centri della Virginia
Netflix lancia un bond da due miliardi per le nuove produzioni - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/netflix-lancia-un-bond-da-due-miliardi-per-le-nuove-produzioni/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/netflix-lancia-un-bond-da-due-miliardi-per-le-nuove-produzioni/
CorCom
Netflix lancia un bond da due miliardi per le nuove produzioni - CorCom
E’ la seconda raccolta di finanziamenti sul mercato negli ultimi sette mesi. Il colosso dello streaming mira a rafforzarsi sul mercato per reggere alla concorrenza di Amazon Prime Video, Apple Tv e Disney+
Ha catturato uno dei primi hacker e ha scritto un bel libro. Tuttavia, nessuno è perfetto, soprattutto quando cerca di prevedere il futuro. Neanche Cliff Stoll. Ecco ripubblicato nel 2015, con abbondanti critiche il suo classico di predizioni sballate. "Claim chowder" for him.
Money quote: "The internet turned 25-years-old this week. However, some people didn't think it'd last that long. Here's an article from 1995 predicting that the web is just a fad."
https://thehustle.co/clifford-stoll-why-the-internet-will-fail
Qui il video di una sua audizione del 1989 a una commissione del Senato americano che fa pensare che Stoll sia un pazzo o quantomeno un perfetto impersonatore del prototipo di scienziato per l'immaginario collettivo dell'epoca (stile "Back to the Future" per capirci).
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4594226/epic-testimony-hacking-cliff-stoll-1989
Money quote: "The internet turned 25-years-old this week. However, some people didn't think it'd last that long. Here's an article from 1995 predicting that the web is just a fad."
https://thehustle.co/clifford-stoll-why-the-internet-will-fail
Qui il video di una sua audizione del 1989 a una commissione del Senato americano che fa pensare che Stoll sia un pazzo o quantomeno un perfetto impersonatore del prototipo di scienziato per l'immaginario collettivo dell'epoca (stile "Back to the Future" per capirci).
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4594226/epic-testimony-hacking-cliff-stoll-1989
thehustle.co
Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet Will Fail
In 1995 Clifford Stoll famously (and incorrectly) predicted that the internet would fail. Here's what he said. And why here is how he was wrong.
Kaleyra, in Borsa l'app italiana che usa WhatsApp per le imprese - Wired
https://www.wired.it/economia/finanza/2019/04/25/kaleyra-whatsapp/
https://www.wired.it/economia/finanza/2019/04/25/kaleyra-whatsapp/
Wired
Un'azienda italiana fa concorrenza a WhatsApp direttamente da Wall Street
Si quota a New York l'azienda italiana che realizza servizi di messaggistica per le aziende, per gestire i rapporti con la clientela. Concorrenza diretta ai big del web
Un sistema fatto in casa che permette di regolare i livelli di insulina necessari a pazienti con il diabete di tipo 1. Un sistema che costa 250 dollari. Il futuro? Un pericolo enorme? Nel purgatorio di chi ha il diabete un altro argomento sul quale dibattere.
Money quote: "Although no users have reported a disastrous malfunction, trusting your life (or your child’s) to a DIY pancreas carries obvious risks. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is years away from approving a comparably flexible and automated rig for sale. “You’ve got a group that is circumventing all of the controls that are in place,” says Hooman Hakami, president of the diabetes group at Medtronic Plc, the leader in the $8.3 billion market for old-school diabetes devices. “I can show you what a few of our engineers have put together over a weekend, and it would blow you away. But we don’t call that a finished product. We call that a prototype.”"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-08/the-250-biohack-that-s-revolutionizing-life-with-diabetes
Money quote: "Although no users have reported a disastrous malfunction, trusting your life (or your child’s) to a DIY pancreas carries obvious risks. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is years away from approving a comparably flexible and automated rig for sale. “You’ve got a group that is circumventing all of the controls that are in place,” says Hooman Hakami, president of the diabetes group at Medtronic Plc, the leader in the $8.3 billion market for old-school diabetes devices. “I can show you what a few of our engineers have put together over a weekend, and it would blow you away. But we don’t call that a finished product. We call that a prototype.”"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-08/the-250-biohack-that-s-revolutionizing-life-with-diabetes
Microsoft nel club del trilione, sfondati i mille miliardi di dollari di capitalizzazione - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/microsoft-taglia-il-traguardo-dei-mille-miliardi-di-dollari-di-capitalizzazione/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/microsoft-taglia-il-traguardo-dei-mille-miliardi-di-dollari-di-capitalizzazione/
CorCom
Microsoft taglia il traguardo dei mille miliardi di dollari di capitalizzazione - CorCom
La trimestrale superiore alle aspettative, con un fatturato su del 14%, ha fatto volare il titolo in Borsa. Negli ultimi 12 mesi le azioni sono salite del 41%
Facebook riparte in Europa. Ma sui conti aleggia la multa per Cambridge Analytica - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/facebook-riparte-in-europa-ma-sui-conti-pesa-la-multa-per-cambridge-analytica/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/facebook-riparte-in-europa-ma-sui-conti-pesa-la-multa-per-cambridge-analytica/
CorCom
Facebook riparte in Europa. Ma sui conti pesa la multa per Cambridge Analytica - CorCom
Nel primo trimestre aumentano di 4 milioni gli utenti del Vecchio Continente. Crescono complessivamente i ricavi ma l'accantonamento di 3 miliardi di dollari in vista della sanzione Ftc dimezza gli utili
Il guanto di Thanos colpisce anche su Google, distrugge il 50% dei risultati di ricerca - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/il-guanto-di-thanos-colpisce-anche-su-google-distrugge-il-50-dei-risultati-di-ricerca/
https://www.macitynet.it/il-guanto-di-thanos-colpisce-anche-su-google-distrugge-il-50-dei-risultati-di-ricerca/
Macitynet.it
Il guanto di Thanos di Avengers Endgame su Google distrugge il 50% dei risultati di ricerca - Macitynet.it
Se cercate il più potente e mortale degli Eterni, c'è un piccolo trucco nascosto che vi stupirà
Bialetti in crisi per colpa di Nespresso e Starbucks. Questa la notizia. Ma il vero merito di questo articolo è quello di rimettere ordine nella storia del caffè. E dei meccanismi ad esso dedicati.
Money quote: “Italy’s place in the history of global coffee culture is substantial, but for different reasons and in different ways than most people probably think. The various species of Coffea, the seeds of which are dried, roasted, and ground to make coffee, are native to east Africa, particularly Ethiopia. Coffee as a beverage first shows up in the historical record—which is not necessarily to say that it wasn’t consumed in its native Ethiopia first—in what is now Yemen. It spread quickly throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and firmly established itself as part of the culture in what are now Turkey and Iran.
Europeans were late to the coffee party, but Italy, sharing the Mediterranean with the Arab and Greek worlds and not really very far from North Africa, was probably the gateway for coffee to spread westward.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/make-coffee-moka-pot
Money quote: “Italy’s place in the history of global coffee culture is substantial, but for different reasons and in different ways than most people probably think. The various species of Coffea, the seeds of which are dried, roasted, and ground to make coffee, are native to east Africa, particularly Ethiopia. Coffee as a beverage first shows up in the historical record—which is not necessarily to say that it wasn’t consumed in its native Ethiopia first—in what is now Yemen. It spread quickly throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and firmly established itself as part of the culture in what are now Turkey and Iran.
Europeans were late to the coffee party, but Italy, sharing the Mediterranean with the Arab and Greek worlds and not really very far from North Africa, was probably the gateway for coffee to spread westward.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/make-coffee-moka-pot
Atlas Obscura
The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot
In the era of pods, the iconic item has become an endangered species.
I margini per la domenica. Un cartografo e la sua vecchia macchina per scrivere. Risultato? Mappe che volete vedere...
Money quote: “And then it occurred to me that I should just go with my default reason: maps.
After a few hours of planning and typing, I managed to create a typewriter map and I put it out on Twitter, where it ended up being by far the most popular thing I’ve ever put on that platform. Or probably ever, anywhere.”
https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/typewriter-cartography
Money quote: “And then it occurred to me that I should just go with my default reason: maps.
After a few hours of planning and typing, I managed to create a typewriter map and I put it out on Twitter, where it ended up being by far the most popular thing I’ve ever put on that platform. Or probably ever, anywhere.”
https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/typewriter-cartography
somethingaboutmaps
Typewriter Cartography
This is my father’s manual typewriter, a Royal Safari II. Or maybe it’s mine — I appropriated it quite a long time ago. I remember playing with it a bit as a child in the 1980s, but for…
Se gli studenti si suicidano perché i test degli esami sono sbagliati causa problemi di software (e dietro ci sarebbe anche uno scandalo politico perché la software house è del figlio di un politico importante) forse c’è un problema più ampio che non quello del software. Qualcosa che ha a che fare con il senso di quel che fanno quegli studenti e con il sistema scolastico iper competitivo e iper selettivo.
Money quote: “In the last 24 hours, three students have taken their lives, taking the toll to 19 in Telangana in the span of one week. According to the parents, what has caused this tragedy is an error on the part of the software solutions firm, Globarena Technologies Private Limited, which had been engaged by the intermediate board in September 2017 for development of software to process admissions, pre-examination, post-examination results, including OMR (optical mark recognition) scanning.”
https://www.firstpost.com/india/19-telangana-students-commit-suicide-in-a-week-after-goof-ups-in-intermediate-exam-results-parents-blame-software-firm-6518571.html
Money quote: “In the last 24 hours, three students have taken their lives, taking the toll to 19 in Telangana in the span of one week. According to the parents, what has caused this tragedy is an error on the part of the software solutions firm, Globarena Technologies Private Limited, which had been engaged by the intermediate board in September 2017 for development of software to process admissions, pre-examination, post-examination results, including OMR (optical mark recognition) scanning.”
https://www.firstpost.com/india/19-telangana-students-commit-suicide-in-a-week-after-goof-ups-in-intermediate-exam-results-parents-blame-software-firm-6518571.html
Firstpost
19 Telangana students commit suicide in a week after 'goof-ups' in intermediate exam results; parents blame software firm
Students and parents in Telangana squarely blamed the firm for the blunders that found their way into tabulation and preparation of marks memos.
Seguo da tempo e con occhio pigro un settore del quale vorrei a un certo punto occuparmi meglio: i modelli di collaborazione e i relativi strumenti. JIRA è uno di questi, nel mondo software, e non privo di problemi.
Money quote: “One thing that writing elegant software has in common with art: its crafters should remain cognizant of the overall macro vision of the project at the same time they are working on its smallest micro details. JIRA, alas, implicitly teaches everyone to ignore the larger vision while focusing on details. There is no whole. At best there is an “Epic” — but the whole point of an Epic is to be decomposed into smaller pieces to be worked on independently. JIRA encourages the disintegration of the macro vision.”
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/
Money quote: “One thing that writing elegant software has in common with art: its crafters should remain cognizant of the overall macro vision of the project at the same time they are working on its smallest micro details. JIRA, alas, implicitly teaches everyone to ignore the larger vision while focusing on details. There is no whole. At best there is an “Epic” — but the whole point of an Epic is to be decomposed into smaller pieces to be worked on independently. JIRA encourages the disintegration of the macro vision.”
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/
TechCrunch
JIRA is an antipattern
Atlassian’s JIRA began life as a bug-tracking tool. Today, though, it has become an agile planning suite, “to plan, track, and release great software.” In many organizations it has become the primary map of software projects, the hub of all development, the…
Rassegnamoci: il prossimo iPhone sarà bruttissimo - il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/mobile/smartphone/2019/04/29/prossimo-iphone-bruttissimo/
https://www.wired.it/mobile/smartphone/2019/04/29/prossimo-iphone-bruttissimo/
Wired
Rassegnamoci: il prossimo iPhone sarà bruttissimo
Perché Apple sta facendo scelte di design così estremo? In rete nessuno ama la nuova estetica del melafonino, a parte gli appassionati di fotografia
“Google punisce chi protesta”: il j’accuse dei lavoratori - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/google-punisce-chi-protesta-il-jaccuse-dei-lavoratori/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/google-punisce-chi-protesta-il-jaccuse-dei-lavoratori/
CorCom
"Google punisce chi protesta": il j'accuse dei lavoratori - CorCom
I lavoratori chiedono ai vertici un'indagine interna e una presa di posizione chiara da parte del co-fodatore Larry Page. Ma l'azienda chiarisce: "Le ritorsioni sul posti di lavoro sono assolutamente vietate"
Amazon rivoluziona il delivery, arriva il postino-robot - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/amazon-rivoluziona-il-delivery-arriva-il-postino-robot/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/amazon-rivoluziona-il-delivery-arriva-il-postino-robot/
CorCom
Amazon rivoluziona il delivery, arriva il postino-robot - CorCom
A Seattle i test sulla consegna automatica dei pacchi. Obiettivo del colosso dell'e-commerce: consegne in 24 ore per tutti gli utenti negli Usa
Quanto ci costa un centimetro quadrato di iPad? - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/quanto-ci-costa-un-centimetro-quadrato-di-ipad/
https://www.macitynet.it/quanto-ci-costa-un-centimetro-quadrato-di-ipad/
Macitynet.it
Quanto ci costa un centimetro quadrato di iPad? - Macitynet.it
I tablet di Apple non sono mai stati così numerosi. Ci sono vari modi con i quali considerare qual è il più adatto a noi. Ma anche confrontare il costo della superficie dello schermo è un buon indicatore
Me lo diceva anche il poeta residente Roberto R. Corsi pochi giorni fa: meno news e più libri. Le news fanno male. Che dite, chiudiamo il canale?
Money quote: "Perhaps it’s time we realize that consuming more news about the world around us is not the way to improve it (or ourselves), personally or politically. Two thousand years ago, Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Meditations, “Are you distracted by breaking news? Then take some leisure time to learn something good, and stop bouncing around.”"
(Ps: la parte su Marco Aurelio che ragiona dell'information overload mi fa impazzire. Gli americani sono proprio dei giuggioloni...)
https://medium.com/s/story/the-case-for-watching-less-news-8020c88fd5f
Money quote: "Perhaps it’s time we realize that consuming more news about the world around us is not the way to improve it (or ourselves), personally or politically. Two thousand years ago, Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Meditations, “Are you distracted by breaking news? Then take some leisure time to learn something good, and stop bouncing around.”"
(Ps: la parte su Marco Aurelio che ragiona dell'information overload mi fa impazzire. Gli americani sono proprio dei giuggioloni...)
https://medium.com/s/story/the-case-for-watching-less-news-8020c88fd5f
Medium
Why Everyone Should Watch Less News
And read more books instead
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Forse è la più grande rivista manga del mondo: 2264 pagine, 44 manga e 120 personaggi in un volume spesso 13 centimetri: https://bit.ly/2VE6B84.