Boeing 737 Max, una task force per valutare la sicurezza del software - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/boeing-737-max-una-task-force-per-valutare-la-sicurezza-del-software/

Google scommette sugli smartphone low-cost: arrivano i Pixel 3a - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/google-scommette-sugli-smartphone-low-cost-arrivano-i-pixlel-3a/

Secondo me passerà alla storia come la rivolta delle spie. Coalizzate contro la presidenza di Donald Trump.

Money quote: "“Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs. … Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions”—which he later described as “McCarthy-era tactics”—“you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and worst of all, divided us as a nation.”"

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/the-nations-top-former-intelligence-officials-issue-a-stunning-rebuke-to-trump.html

Whatsapp, a Londra il nuovo centro per i pagamenti mobili - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/whatsapp-a-londra-il-nuovo-centro-per-i-pagamenti-mobili/

Oracle si ridimensiona in Cina? Spunta un piano da 900 licenziamenti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/oracle-si-ridimensiona-in-cina-spunta-un-piano-da-900-licenziamenti/

Il multi-cloud alla sfida sicurezza: machine learning chiave di volta - il mio articolo da Sitges per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/il-multi-cloud-alla-sfida-sicurezza-machine-learning-chiave-di-volta/

Quanto potrebbe essere alta la torre più alta di tutte? Il problema nel rispondere non sono le tolleranze dei materiali, ma le regole che applichiamo in quella che gli architetti chiamano scienza delle costruzioni.

Money quote: "This led to a sub-discipline known as ‘reliability engineering’. Designers started to make structures that were much stronger than the maximum possible load they needed to bear – which meant the stress on the materials stayed within a range where the probability of breakage was very low. Once structures turn into megastructures, though, calculations show that this risk-averse approach places a cap on their size. Megastructures necessarily push materials to their limits, and remove the luxury of weathering comfortable levels of stress."

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-would-it-take-to-build-a-tower-as-high-as-outer-space

L'auto che esce dal parcheggio e ti viene a prendere: il video in fondo all'articolo è spettacolare.

Money quote: "Enhanced Summon enables Tesla vehicles to autonomously navigate much more complex parking lot situations than just moving forward or back.

In the beta release notes, Tesla describes Summon as “a parking assist feature that helps you bring your car towards you or towards the destination of your choice by navigating out of parking spaces and maneuvering around objects as necessary.”"

https://electrek.co/2019/05/06/tesla-model-3-autonomously-pickup-owner-iparking-video/

Lettura lunga per la domenica. La competizione maschile figlia letterlmente del testosterone: è il mito della corsa degli spermatozoi, una gara a chi arriva prima (vi ricordate Woody Allen?) che ci dice molto non tanto del processo riproduttivo (l'immagine è infatti sbagliata) ma della nostra cultura, dell'idea di macho, della supposta passività femminile.

Money quote: "It was in the relatively recent year of 1991, long after much of the real science had been set in stone, that the American anthropologist Emily Martin, now at New York University, described what she called a ‘scientific fairy tale’ – a picture of egg and sperm that suggests that ‘female biological processes are less worthy than their male counter-parts’ and that ‘women are less worthy than men’. The ovary, for instance, is depicted with a limited stock of starter eggs depleted over a lifetime whereas the testes are said to produce new sperm throughout life. Human egg production is commonly described as ‘wasteful’ because, from 300,000 egg starter cells present at puberty, only 400 mature eggs will ever be released; yet that adjective is rarely used to describe a man’s lifetime production of more than 2 trillion sperm. Whether in the popular or scientific press, human mating is commonly portrayed as a gigantic marathon swimming event in which the fastest, fittest sperm wins the prize of fertilising the egg. If this narrative was just a prejudicial holdover from our sexist past – an offensive male fantasy based on incorrect science – that would be bad enough, but continued buy-in to biased information impedes crucial fertility treatments for men and women alike."

https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-that-sperm-race-to-the-egg-is-just-another-macho-myth

Apple vuol cambiare Messaggi, ma non ci serve un clone di Whatsapp - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/apple-messaggi-no-whatsapp/

Copyright, le nuove norme Ue preoccupano Youtube - Il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/europa/copyright-le-nuove-norme-ue-preoccupano-youtube/

Inchiestona di Pro Publica su una delle aziende che svuotano i cassonetti di New York (il servizio è appaltato ad aziende private). Non soltanto perché è interessante leggerlo, ma perché vi dà anche la misura di come sia fatta un'inchiesta.

Money quote: "An investigation by Voice of America and ProPublica, drawing on thousands of pages of public documents and interviews with more than a dozen current and former workers, depicts a workplace environment in which concerns about safety, as well as workers’ rights and compensation, are flouted despite years of complaints from workers to regulators.

Records show that more than three-quarters of Sanitation Salvage trucks have been ordered off the road after federal safety checks. Yet the company has paid lobbyists to fight local legislation that backers say would compel haulers to improve on working conditions and safety.

The Department of Labor several years ago found that Sanitation Salvage had cheated workers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages. Today, the New York State Insurance Fund is suing the company for $780,000 in unpaid workers’ compensation insurance obligations for on-the-job injuries."

https://features.propublica.org/sanitation-salvage/sanitation-salvage-accidents-new-york-city-commercial-carting-garbage/

Recensione Marshall Major 3 Bluetooth: le cuffie Rock si evolvono - Il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-marshall-major-3-bluetooth-le-cuffie-rock-si-evolvono/

Reti aziendali, quelle del futuro saranno ibride e “software defined” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cloud/reti-aziendali-quelle-del-futuro-saranno-ibride-e-software-defined/

Schiaffo della Corte Suprema Usa ad Apple: sì alla class action sui prezzi delle app - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/schiaffo-della-corte-suprema-usa-ad-apple-class-action-contro-le-app/

Whatsapp a rischio spyware: “Gli utenti Android e iOS aggiornino subito l’app” - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/2019/05/14/tecnologia/whatsapp-a-rischio-spyware-gli-utenti-android-e-ios-aggiornino-subito-lapp-ytLnL5p8WvDH1MAht7oSwM/pagina.html

Cos'è la globalizzazione? Un fatto reale e analogico che cerchiamo di definire in maniera digitale, on-off, bianco-nero. Però un segnale di discontinuità esiste: è la "nave cinese". L'infografica del South China Morning Post è quasi un romanzo interattivo. Bastava poco più e ci facevi un'app a pagamento...

Money quote: "Globalisation is thought to have its beginnings in the 16th century when the Spanish silver dollar went transcontinental. Its acceptance as common currency arose when Spanish navigators in the Philippines established a circular shipping route, known as the tornaviaje, between Asia and the Americas. More than 250 years of uninterrupted trade ensued between Asia and the rest of the world. And the ships playing this route were known as China Ships"

https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_01.html

Ps: per gli appassionati, c'è anche questo sul clima di Hong Kong che si sta devastando...

https://multimedia.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/extreme-weather/index.html

Chissò quanto ci vorrà prima che anche l'Italia si aggiunga alla lista...

Money quote: "China blocked Wikipedia in April, using DNS injections to prevent its citizens from accessing the encyclopedia. There has been no official statement as to why the website was blocked. In May 2017, China put forth plans for making its own encyclopedia with over 300,000 articles from 20,000 scholars. Other countries such as Turkey, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela have also blocked access to Wikipedia in the past."

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-great-firewall-of-china-blocks-off-wikipedia/

La cosa più gustosa di articoli come questo - l'equivalente di chi ti vuol fare dimagrire - è che li scrivono con il computer e li pubblicano su internet su Medium. Praticamente le istruzioni per dimagrire scritte con la glassa sulla torta...

Money quote: "Here’s how to achieve digital minimalism on the internet:
- Know Your Time Wasters: use Time Tracker to figure where you spend most of your web browsing. Knowing the time-wasters is the first step
- Unfollow & Unfriend: if it doesn’t interest, entertain, or inform you anymore it’s time to go. Our feeds are full of distracting posts from people we’re not particularly close to. Unfriend anyone that doesn’t add value to your life
- Delete Social Media: no sense using all the platforms available. Keep only the ones that you love. If you want to go hardcore, delete your profiles (here’s how to remove Facebook). To be less extreme simply de-activate your account
- No Bookmark Bar: next time you want to browse Reddit you’ll have to manually type it
- Review Your Reading: stop browsing websites that do not contribute to your life. Removing an option by default is the quickest way to change behavior
- Block Websites: blacklist websites that aren’t essential for work. In Mac use
- SelfControl; in Windows Cold Turkey; in Chrome StayFocusd; in Firefox use LeechBlock"

https://medium.com/swlh/digital-minimalism-how-to-simplify-your-online-life-76b54838a877

È un bell'editoriale sulla tecnologia, certo, ma soprattutto è scritto da uno a cui William Gibson gli ha proprio cambiato la vita

Money quote: "Billions of transistors, attached to green plastic, soldered by robots into a microscopic Kowloon Walled City of absolute technology that we call a phone, even though it is to the rotary phone as humans are to amoebas­. It falls out of my hand at night as I drift to sleep, and when I wake up it is nestled into my back, alarm vibrating, small and warm like a twitching baby possum."

https://www.wired.com/story/why-we-love-tech-defense-difficult-industry/

Quando i test del dna a scopo “esplorativo” (da dove viene la nostra famiglia) diventeranno una cosa praticata anche da noi - e lo diventeranno - ricordate che questo articolo ve l’ho fatto leggere per primo io...

Money quote: “The evolutionary geneticist Mark Thomas at University College London has dismissed ancestry testing as ‘genetic astrology’, but it could be as useful to think of it as genetic gossip: a rumoured past that, like most rumours, is at least partly true. It begins with a test-tube of spit and ends with fractional estimates: a story, whispered by an algorithm, in the language of information.”

https://aeon.co/ideas/like-the-emperors-new-clothes-dna-kits-are-tailored-for-the-vain