Libra Facebook, la Banca d'Inghilterra: "La finanza non è un Far West" - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/libra-la-banca-dinghilterra-a-facebook-la-finanza-non-e-un-far-west-come-i-social/

Privacy, YouTube corre ai ripari: tutti i contenuti per bambini migrano nella sezione Kids - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/youtube-corre-ai-ripari-tutti-i-contenuti-per-bambini-andranno-nella-sezione-kids/

Test: un iMac in famiglia come hub dello stile di vita digitale e multiutente - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/test-un-imac-in-famiglia-come-hub-dello-stile-di-vita-digitale-e-multiutente/

Padre e figlio lasciano New York e vanno a vivere per un periodo in Alaska. Illustratore e autore, lui crea un libro fantastico, dimenticato per decenni. Signore e signori, riscopriamo Wilderness".

Money quote: "One hundred years after Rockwell Kent, father and son, went to Fox Island, their own lonely, snowy paradise, discovering Kent’s book feels like uncovering a secret. Now little-known, Wilderness makes going off to the wilds of Alaska—as long as they’re not so remote, not as Into the Wild as the places Christopher McCandless sought—seem like an excellent idea. The book counts as forgotten classic of nature writing, with striking illustrations by Kent, that paints a picture of people settled in lonely landscapes, a dream that seems impossible a century later."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alaska-wilderness-rockwell

Letture della domenica. Daniel Fireside ha un hobby del quale è uno dei massimi esponenti planetari: fare le foto ai coperchi dei tombini. Dio mio, averci pensato prima!

Money quote: "Fireside is one of the Boston area’s most prolific and celebrated manhole cover photographers. While most people step around manhole covers—or on top of them, taking advantage of their textured, anti-slip surfaces—Fireside is pulled toward them, zigzagging from one to the next as though he is magnetic."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/massachusetts-manhole-photography-drainspotting

Alla fine del 1800 Edison, conosciuto per invenzioni "elettriche" ma in realtà creatore industrioso e industriale di molte altre cose, ebbe l'idea di fondare un'azienda che realizzasse dei prefabbricati in cemento da un'unica colata: si costruiva la gabbia in legno a forma di casa, si colava il cemento dentro e voilà, ecco la vostra brown stone monofamiliare di cemento. "Stranamente" questa non gli è andata molto bene. Comunque in New Jersey un po' di casette di cemento stampato ci sono...

Money quote: "In theory, this would result in a whole new kind of home with various benefits: fireproof, insect-proof, easy to clean, and at a very affordable $1,200 per house. Edison saw this as a potential solution for cities with housing shortages, allowing people to move from slums to cheap new residential areas of poured concrete houses. To help with this, he chose to donate the patented information, completely free of charge, to qualified builders."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/thomas-edisons-concrete-houses

Huawei passa alle vie legali: scatta la causa per il sequestro delle apparecchiature Tlc - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/usa-cina-contrattacco-huawei-parte-la-causa-al-dipartimento-del-commercio-usa/

Il Bitcoin oltre gli 11mila dollari, ma scatta l’allarme riciclaggio - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/allarme-riciclaggio-criptovalute-sotto-la-lente-dei-governi/

Quando è troppo? https://www.internazionale.it/opinione/annamaria-testa/2019/06/17/il-troppo-e-tossico 📣

Ci sono così tante cose che si possono leggere dentro questo articolo che racconta, in prima persona, l'esperienza di una donna americana di un aborto (di più di uno, in realtà), che posso solo consigliare di leggerlo. Perché c'è un aspetto fisiologico ma ce n'è uno enorme che è solo ed esclusivamente sociale.

Money quote "I have a precise memory of asking my mother what an abortion was. I was around 10. “It’s when you were going to be pregnant,” she said, “but they make it so you’re not.” I believed everything about this. On the day when I found out that I was pregnant for the second time in 2011, I wanted so much to snap my fingers and magically make the whole thing go away. I wanted abortion to be what my mother said it was, and even though I knew abortion was what she said it was, the actual experience had really never reflected that truth."

https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/the-best-abortion-ever.html

Bill Gates: “Il mio più grande errore? Aver lasciato spazio a Google” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/bill-gates-il-mio-piu-grande-errore-aver-lasciato-spazio-a-google/

Qualcomm alle strette: nuova multa in arrivo dall’Europa - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/qualcomm-alle-strette-nuova-multa-in-arrivo-dalleuropa/

Il libro più famoso di George Orwell, 1984, è anche uno di quelli più grandemente fraintesi. Deve essere collocato nel suo contesto storico e critico per capire come mai lo leggiamo ancora. Ci prova il New Yorker.

Money quote: "The fundamental premise of the novel was its most quickly outmoded feature—outmoded almost from the start. This is the idea that the world would divide into three totalitarian superstates that were rigidly hierarchical, in complete control of information and expression, and engaged in perpetual and unwinnable wars for world domination. This was a future that many people had contemplated in the nineteen-thirties, the time of the Great Depression and the rise of Stalinism and Fascism. Capitalism and liberal democracy seemed moribund; centralized economies and authoritarian regimes looked like the only way modern mass societies could be governed. This was the argument of a book that is now almost forgotten, but which Orwell was fascinated and repelled by, James Burnham’s “The Managerial Revolution” (1941)."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/1984-at-seventy-why-we-still-read-orwells-book-of-prophecy

Come funziona la versione beta di iPadOS - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/mobile/tablet/2019/06/26/come-funziona-ipados/

Libra, Facebook nel mirino dell'Europa: la banche centrali pronte alla stretta - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/finance/libra-nel-mirino-delleuropa-la-banche-centrali-chiedono-a-facebook-i-dettagli/

Caso Huawei, le telco Usa passano ai fatti: virata su Nokia ed Ericsson - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/trade-war-nokia-ed-ericsson-allassalto-del-mercato-usa/

Prima delle piante, c’erano i funghi. Letteralmente ovunque. Ci abbiamo messo un sacco di tempo per accorgercene.

Money quote: “Fossils of the organisms, known as Prototaxites, had peppered the paleontological findings of the past century and a half, ever since they were first discovered by a Canadian in 1859. But despite the fossil records, no one could figure out what the heck these giant spires were.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms-13709647/

Facebook, ecco cosa che c'è dietro Libra. La criptovaluta solo la punta dell'iceberg - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/over-the-top/facebook-ecco-cosa-che-ce-dietro-libra-la-criptovaluta-solo-la-punta-delliceberg/

Oxford Economics: l'economia dei robot più grande di quella dell'intera Germania - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/industria-4-0/oxford-economics-leconomia-dei-robot-piu-grande-di-quella-dellintera-germania/

Monaci fantasiosi nel 1100 “vedono” un meteorite che colpisce la Luna. Ma prendono un abbaglio.

Money quote: “The thing is, astronomers don't really know how young the crater is. While estimates at the time suggested that it might have been less than a thousand years old, more modern figures place it between one and 10 million years ago, most likely about four million. The other problem is that Giordano Bruno is pretty enormous. At about 14 miles (22 kilometers) across, the asteroid that caused it would have to be between a half-mile and 2 miles (1-3 kilometers) across — big enough to be a threat to human civilization if it had struck our home turf instead. That's a pretty close call, and it happened only a half-second ago if you think about it on a geological scale. It would be pretty weird if only five people on the entire planet witnessed an Armageddon-level event like that.”

https://curiosity.com/topics/these-12th-century-monks-may-have-seen-an-asteroid-strike-the-moon-curiosity/

Perché usare i DNS con HTTPS è peggio del problema che cerca di risolvere.

Money quote: “Why are you against changes in DNS?

I’m not. The DNS needs modernization. The DNS needs security features that prevent the peepers from reading your DNS traffic. I’m all in for it. But DoH is NOT the answer to this.”

https://www.bsdhowto.ch/doh.html