Toyota punta 600 milioni di dollari su Didi, l’Uber cinese - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/toyota-punta-600-milioni-di-dollari-su-didi-luber-cinese/

A quanto pare la Lego va davvero forte in Cina. È una azienda che sa ascoltare.

Money quote: "Lego has also astutely catered to local tastes. This year the firm launched three sets specifically for China, the first time it has done so for any country. Fans were delighted at the attention to cultural detail. One was a Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner kit, with tiny red envelopes and chunlian, lucky couplets on banners pasted around doorways. A dragon boat race set included a sticky-rice dumpling, a popular festival snack. The high-quality kits are pricey, costing up to 700 yuan ($100) apiece."

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/07/27/why-chinese-parents-prefer-lego-to-barbie

Non è un tesoro ma è conservato come se fosse tale. Nessuno tocchi le rocce lunari: una delle due letture di questa domenica (l'altra è la mia newsletter Mostly Weekly: https://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite)

Money quote: "In the room where NASA stores the samples that Apollo astronauts brought to Earth decades ago, I peer at rocks and trays of dirt through glass. But my tour guides are firm: Nobody touches the moon rocks."

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-apollo-anniversary-moon-rocks-preservation

Ero a casa di amici sul lago e a un certo punto un drone ha cominciato a svolazzare sul giardino. È una violazione del mio spazio, lenta, piccola, appuntita, dolorosa. E il discorso dei droni in generale è molto, molto brutto. È il lato "fisico" di quello che avviene con il tracciamento online. Leggere per credere. (lettura lunga)

Money quote: "Drones have come to define the United States’ forever war, the so-called war on terror. The expansion of drone systems developed by the military into new territories — including the continental United States — embodies this era’s hyper-paranoid ethos: new threats are ever imminent, conflict is always without resolution. At the same time, non-militarized drones have entered civilian life in a number of ways, from breathtaking cinematography to flight control at Heathrow airport. There are many avid documenters of this new technology, but no one seems to understand its many facets quite like Arthur Holland Michel, founder and co-director of the Bard Center for the Study of the Drone, which catalogs the growing use of drones around the world. Now, Holland Michel has written Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All, a book of startling revelations about drone surveillance in the United States."

https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night-the-way-the-gorgon-stare-did/

No a sconti a Apple. Trump punta a riportare il Mac Pro negli Usa - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/no-a-sconti-a-apple-trump-punta-a-riportare-il-mac-pro-negli-usa/

T-Mobile-Sprint, disco verde alla fusione da 26 miliardi di dollari - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/t-mobile-sprint-disco-verde-alla-fusione-da-26-miliardi-di-dollari/

WhatsApp ha appena creato un rivale per i sistemi operativi di Apple e Google - il mio articolo per Wired.it

https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2019/07/29/whatsapp-kaios/

Apple acquista il 5G di Intel: ma sui prodotti farà qualcosa di veramente nuovo? - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2019/07/26/apple-intel/

Raccontami, nonno, com’era la “vecchia guardia” di Internet.

Link:
https://reading.supply/post/432f6903-c7cd-4cb0-a894-c09155a8ca8b

Stop allo strapotere delle web company: l’Australia passa all’azione - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/stop-allo-strapotere-delle-web-company-laustralia-passa-allazione/

Lavarsi male (o non lavare) i denti porta a malattie di primo e secondo ordine molto brutte. Il trucco? Lo spazzolino elettrico.

https://elemental.medium.com/do-i-need-a-fancy-toothbrush-b6064ba0fa7f

Money quote: “For a 2014 Cochrane review, Deery and colleagues analyzed roughly 50 studies that compared powered and manual toothbrushes in terms of their ability to prevent plaque buildup and gingivitis, which is the first stage of gum disease. “At three months, powered brushes reduced plaque levels by 21% and gingivitis by 11% compared to manual brushes,” he says. “This suggests that in the long term there will be less gum disease and decay if you use a powered brush.””

Apple ci ripensa: tutti i nuovi smartphone saranno 5G. Ma solo nel 2020 - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/5g/apple-ci-ripensa-tutti-i-nuovi-smartphone-saranno-5g-ma-solo-nel-2020/

Ecco a voi la giornalista che spiega com’è seguire un evento di Apple allo Steve Jobs Theater.

Money quote: “Now take a look at what it’s like to cover the event in person as an invited journalist, which is always a privilege.”

https://medium.com/cheddar/covering-an-apple-event-at-the-steve-jobs-theater-278cc7405791

Facebook fa marcia indietro? "Troppa ostilità, Libra potrebbe non vedere mai la luce" - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/finance/allarme-facebook-troppa-ostilita-libra-potrebbe-non-vedere-mai-la-luce/

Cloud ibrido, Google e VMware uniscono le forze - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cloud/clou-ibrido-alleanza-google-vmware/

Zitta zitta Korg si sta inventando il futuro della musica a valvole. In particolare, ha inventato un nuovo tipo di valvola a triodo a bassissimo consumo (funziona anche a batteria), forma ultra compatta, ricchezza e colore del suono. Il prezzo? Non me lo chiedete, non sono andato a guardare. Preferisco coltivare i miei sogni.

Money quote: “Nutube, similar to a conventional vacuum tube, has an anode grid filament structure, and operates exactly as a triode vacuum tube. Also similar to a vacuum tube, it creates the same characteristic rich overtones. By applying their vacuum fluorescent display technology, Noritake Itron Corp., a Noritake Co. Ltd affiliated company, have devised a structure which achieves substantial power saving, miniaturization, and quality improvements when compared with a conventional vacuum tube.”

https://korgnutube.com/en/

Facebook "corteggia" Netflix e Disney. Nel mirino i servizi streaming - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/facebook-corteggia-neflix-e-disney-nel-mirino-i-servizi-streaming/

Attacco hacker a Capital One, coinvolta Unicredit? L'azienda: "Stiamo indagando" - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/privacy/attacco-hacker-a-capital-one-coinvolta-unicredit-stiamo-indagando/

Un mese con macOS Catalina, il nuovo sistema operativo di Apple - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/tempi-moderni/2019/08/02/news/un-mese-con-macos-catalina-il-nuovo-sistema-operativo-di-apple-1.37289435?refresh_ce

Sono semplicemente ipnotizzato. E disgustato. Non dalla storia, ma dallo "sport"

Money quote: "The godfather of competitive eating, Takeru Kobayashi burst onto the American scene at the 2001 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, where the lithe 5-foot-8 Japanese 23-year-old, using a revolutionary water-dipping technique and a body-wiggling maneuver known as the “Kobayashi Shake,” ate an astounding 50 hot dogs—double the prior record. That feat thrust Kobayashi to instant superstardom, and his subsequent five wins at the famed July 4th competition only solidified his standing as the king of the eating world—a noscript he’d only officially relinquish in 2007, when American Joey Chestnut dethroned him at the Nathan’s extravaganza."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-takeru-kobayashi-godfather-of-competitive-eating-they-were-making-a-joke-of-me

Unicredit rassicura: nessun coinvolgimento nel data breach Capital One - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/privacy/unicredit-rassicura-nessun-coinvolgimento-nel-data-breach-capital-one/