Apple brilla a Wall Street: capitalizzazione (di nuovo) oltre il trilione - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/apple-brilla-a-wall-street-capitalizzazione-di-nuovo-oltre-il-trilione/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/apple-brilla-a-wall-street-capitalizzazione-di-nuovo-oltre-il-trilione/
CorCom
Apple brilla a Wall Street: capitalizzazione (di nuovo) oltre il trilione - CorCom
Gli iPhone 11 Pro e Tv+ convincono il mercato: il titolo riparte dopo un anno molto fiacco e raggiunge il punto più alto dallo scorso ottobre
Kobo Libra H2O, il nuovo ereader da 7 pollici sfida il Kindle Oasis II - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/kobo-libra-h2o-il-nuovo-ereader-da-7-pollici-sfida-il-kindle-oasis-ii/
https://www.macitynet.it/kobo-libra-h2o-il-nuovo-ereader-da-7-pollici-sfida-il-kindle-oasis-ii/
Macitynet.it
Kobo Libra H2O, il nuovo ebook reader da 7 pollici sfida il Kindle Oasis II - Macitynet.it
Presentato Kobo Libra H2O, l'ebook reader impermeabile con schermo in alta risoluzione che sfida i modelli top Kindle. Reportage e fotogalleria dall'evento di presentazione svoltosi in una terrazza panoramica a Milano
Sono nato e cresciuto a Firenze quindi non mi è sconosciuto il concetto di turismo di massa e i suoi effetti devastanti (così come per i veneziani), che spesso diventa una sindrome di stoccolma che spinge a dire che dovremmo abbracciare il turismo come industria nazionale. Comunque, una riflessione da parte di chi non vive in un paese d'arte e si stupisce del fatto che il turismo moderno sia davvero predatorio. (Non poteva essere che Der Spiegel ad affrontare il tema in questo modo).
Money quote: "More than anything, in fact, it has become a symbol for the predatory nature of modern-day tourism -- a style of travel that is devouring all the beautiful places which drives it."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/paradise-lost-tourists-are-destroying-the-places-they-love-a-1223502.html
Money quote: "More than anything, in fact, it has become a symbol for the predatory nature of modern-day tourism -- a style of travel that is devouring all the beautiful places which drives it."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/paradise-lost-tourists-are-destroying-the-places-they-love-a-1223502.html
Spiegel
How Tourists Are Destroying the Places They Love
Travel is no longer a luxury good. Airlines like Ryanair and EasyJet have contributed to a form of mass tourism that has made local residents feel like foreigners in cities like Barcelona and Rome. The infrastructure is buckling under the pressure. By DER…
Guadagnarsi da vivere facendo lo scrittore adesso è statisticamente impossible. Meglio lo YouTuber probabilmente.
Money quote: “The study claims falling book prices, sales and advances mean that literary authors are struggling more than ever to make a living from their fiction. In today’s market, selling 3,000 copies of your novel is not unrespectable – but factor in the average hardback price of £10.12 and the retailer’s 50 per cent cut, and just £15,000 remains to share between publisher, agent and author. No wonder that the percentage of authors earning a full-time living solely from writing dropped from 40 per cent in 2005 to 11.5 per cent in 2013.“
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/01/slow-death-literary-novel-sales-crisis-afflicting-fiction
Money quote: “The study claims falling book prices, sales and advances mean that literary authors are struggling more than ever to make a living from their fiction. In today’s market, selling 3,000 copies of your novel is not unrespectable – but factor in the average hardback price of £10.12 and the retailer’s 50 per cent cut, and just £15,000 remains to share between publisher, agent and author. No wonder that the percentage of authors earning a full-time living solely from writing dropped from 40 per cent in 2005 to 11.5 per cent in 2013.“
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/01/slow-death-literary-novel-sales-crisis-afflicting-fiction
New Statesman
The slow death of the literary novel: the sales crisis afflicting fiction
The percentage of authors earning a full-time living solely from writing dropped from 40 per cent in 2005 to 11.5 per cent in 2013.
Trovano un vecchio Macintosh SE per strada, lo portano a casa, lo aprono e si mettono a ravanare dentro le rom di sistema, fino a che non trovano una easter egg del 1986. Hacking at its best, direi.
Money quote: "We found this Macintosh SE on the side of the road in Brooklyn and carried it to NYC Resistor. It boots, but lacks any media, so we decided to do some further digital archeology."
https://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/
Money quote: "We found this Macintosh SE on the side of the road in Brooklyn and carried it to NYC Resistor. It boots, but lacks any media, so we decided to do some further digital archeology."
https://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/
NYC Resistor
Ghosts in the ROM
While digging through dumps generated from the Apple Mac SE ROM images we noticed that there was a large amount of non-code, non-audio data. Adam Mayer tested different stride widths and found that at 67 bytes (536 pixels across) there appeared to be some…
YouTube: via dalle classifiche i videoclip "pagati" con gli ads - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/youtube-via-dalle-classifiche-i-videoclip-pagati-con-gli-ads/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/youtube-via-dalle-classifiche-i-videoclip-pagati-con-gli-ads/
CorCom
YouTube: via dalle classifiche i videoclip "pagati" con gli ads - CorCom
Per "fornire più trasparenza al settore" il servizio di videostreaming non conteggerà più le visualizzazioni"drogate" dalla pubblicità. Ecco cosa cambia
Rivoluzione seo, Google premia le news di qualità - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/google-pronta-a-mollare-il-seo-in-cantiere-un-algoritmo-che-valorizza-gli-scoop/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/google-pronta-a-mollare-il-seo-in-cantiere-un-algoritmo-che-valorizza-gli-scoop/
CorCom
Rivoluzione seo, Google premia le news di qualità - CorCom
Il searching di BigG darà più spazio ai contenuti originali prodotti dai giornali, come scoop e inchieste. In campo un mix di algortimi ed esperti "umani"
È possibile che un genitore non-partoriente (cioè il maschietto o l'altra femmina) di una coppia che ha avuto un figlio possa soffrire di depressione post-parto? Ebbene sì, e si chiama depressione post-natale (PND), perché non ha partorito. O è una follia solo pensarlo?
Money quote: "Some studies estimate that as many as one in 10 men may suffer from PND. But it’s still routinely left out of medical literature on the topic.
Neither postpartum nor postnatal depression has its own listing in the DSM-V (the definitive resource for psychological diagnosticians). In order for a diagnosis to be made, the sufferer first must meet all the criteria established for a “major depressive episode,” and then meet the qualifier that the depression begin during pregnancy or in the first four weeks after delivering a baby.
This, of course, leaves no official recognition of non-birthing parents who suffer from postnatal depression."
https://gay.medium.com/the-weather-a0ee3b988ed5
Money quote: "Some studies estimate that as many as one in 10 men may suffer from PND. But it’s still routinely left out of medical literature on the topic.
Neither postpartum nor postnatal depression has its own listing in the DSM-V (the definitive resource for psychological diagnosticians). In order for a diagnosis to be made, the sufferer first must meet all the criteria established for a “major depressive episode,” and then meet the qualifier that the depression begin during pregnancy or in the first four weeks after delivering a baby.
This, of course, leaves no official recognition of non-birthing parents who suffer from postnatal depression."
https://gay.medium.com/the-weather-a0ee3b988ed5
Medium
The Weather
My husband’s struggle with postpartum depression was my struggle, too
Possiamo chiamarla "l'economia dell'estorsione" o "l'economia del ransomware". In pratica, le assicurazioni delle città (soprattutto americane) che vengono bloccate da attacchi con il ransomware obbligano a pagare il riscatto perché conviene pagare quello anziché i danni di un eventuale risarcimento a tutti i titolari dei vari dati perduti. In questo omdo però stanno alimentando il mercato del ransowmare, tanto che adesso le città che vengono prese di mira sono prevalentemente quelle assicurate. Ma la cosa non si dice molto e anzi, aumenta la paura e quindi il numero di città che sentono il bisogno di assicurarsi. Conviene a tutti, no? No: solo ai ladri e alle assicurazioni. Ai contribuenti non conviene per niente.
Money quote: "“Our insurance company made [the decision] for us,” city spokesman Michael Lee, a sergeant in the Lake City Police Department, said. “At the end of the day, it really boils down to a business decision on the insurance side of things: them looking at how much is it going to cost to fix it ourselves and how much is it going to cost to pay the ransom.”"
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-extortion-economy-how-insurance-companies-are-fueling-a-rise-in-ransomware-attacks
Money quote: "“Our insurance company made [the decision] for us,” city spokesman Michael Lee, a sergeant in the Lake City Police Department, said. “At the end of the day, it really boils down to a business decision on the insurance side of things: them looking at how much is it going to cost to fix it ourselves and how much is it going to cost to pay the ransom.”"
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-extortion-economy-how-insurance-companies-are-fueling-a-rise-in-ransomware-attacks
ProPublica
The Extortion Economy: How Insurance Companies Are Fueling a Rise in Ransomware Attacks
Even when public agencies and companies hit by ransomware could recover their files on their own, insurers prefer to pay the ransom. Why? The attacks are good for business.
Huawei, l’auto intelligente è un gioco di squadra - il mio articolo Wired
https://www.wired.it/gadget/motori/2019/09/18/auto-intelligente-gioco-di-squadra/
https://www.wired.it/gadget/motori/2019/09/18/auto-intelligente-gioco-di-squadra/
Wired
Huawei, l’auto intelligente è un gioco di squadra
Terminali connessi e centraline collegate al 4G e al 5g: le auto del futuro si parleranno grazie alle reti. E i cinesi sperimentano anche in Italia con Anas
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
Ho sempre sognato di scrivere un romanzetto rosa invece ho scritto un manuale. Però comincia con l’amore e l’ho scritto con amore, solo che al posto del lieto fine ci son gli esercizi. Lo metto qua https://www.amazon.it/dp/8850334966/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_c_Zq0GDbVQBWF3F per tutte le volte che ho detto che scrivere fa bene. C’è anche il corso https://www.apogeonline.com/corsi/scrivere-per-lavoro-simona-sciancalepore/
Apogeo Editore
Scrivere per lavoro
Scrivere per te è faticoso e quando lo fai per lavoro la fatica è doppia? Pensi di non riuscire a comunicare nel modo giusto e non sai dove trovare la creatività per essere originale oltre che chiaro? Il corso di Simona Sciancalepore ti viene in aiuto.
Intere fortune costruite in maniera predatoria, violenta, schiavista e magari sfruttando debolezze o fragilità umane e del sistema (e anche dell'ambiente). Soldi sporchi. Che però diventano una forma di beneficio per l'umanità grazie alla sponsorizzazione di istituzioni accademiche. In un momento di grande confusione etica, questo articolo ripercorre la storia di una famiglia che ha costruito un impero miliardario sul dolore, e sul modo con il quale in America l'etica protestante "lava" i peccati dei suoi figli prediletti.
Money quote: "When the Met was originally built, in 1880, one of its trustees, the lawyer Joseph Choate, gave a speech to Gilded Age industrialists who had gathered to celebrate its dedication, and, in a bid for their support, offered the sly observation that what philanthropy really buys is immortality: “Think of it, ye millionaires of many markets, what glory may yet be yours, if you only listen to our advice, to convert pork into porcelain, grain and produce into priceless pottery, the rude ores of commerce into sculptured marble.” Through such transubstantiation, many fortunes have passed into enduring civic institutions. Over time, the origins of a clan’s largesse are largely forgotten, and we recall only the philanthropic legacy, prompted by the name on the building."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
Money quote: "When the Met was originally built, in 1880, one of its trustees, the lawyer Joseph Choate, gave a speech to Gilded Age industrialists who had gathered to celebrate its dedication, and, in a bid for their support, offered the sly observation that what philanthropy really buys is immortality: “Think of it, ye millionaires of many markets, what glory may yet be yours, if you only listen to our advice, to convert pork into porcelain, grain and produce into priceless pottery, the rude ores of commerce into sculptured marble.” Through such transubstantiation, many fortunes have passed into enduring civic institutions. Over time, the origins of a clan’s largesse are largely forgotten, and we recall only the philanthropic legacy, prompted by the name on the building."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
The New Yorker
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.
La prova: lettore ebook Kobo Libra H2O - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/prove/2019/09/20/news/la-prova-lettore-ebook-kobo-libra-h2o-1.37482266
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/prove/2019/09/20/news/la-prova-lettore-ebook-kobo-libra-h2o-1.37482266
La Stampa
La prova: lettore ebook Kobo Libra H2O
Abbiamo testato il nuovo e-reader impermeabile con schermo da 7 pollici e luce filtrata per leggere la sera
Il mistero dell'X-37, la nave spaziale segreta (e senza equipaggio) del governo americano
Money quote: "There’s no crew on board operating X-37B, but the vehicle can autonomously descend back through Earth’s atmosphere and land horizontally on a runway, just like the NASA Space Shuttle used to do when it was in operation."
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/26/experimental-u-s-air-force-space-plane-breaks-previous-record-for-orbital-spaceflight/
Money quote: "There’s no crew on board operating X-37B, but the vehicle can autonomously descend back through Earth’s atmosphere and land horizontally on a runway, just like the NASA Space Shuttle used to do when it was in operation."
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/26/experimental-u-s-air-force-space-plane-breaks-previous-record-for-orbital-spaceflight/
Febbre cinese per i nuovi iPhone 11 e iPhone 11 Pro: la nostra galleria da Apple Store Shangai - le mie foto per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/febbre-cinese-per-i-nuovi-iphone-11-e-iphone-11-pro-la-nostra-galleria-da-apple-store-shangai/
https://www.macitynet.it/febbre-cinese-per-i-nuovi-iphone-11-e-iphone-11-pro-la-nostra-galleria-da-apple-store-shangai/
Macitynet.it
Febbre cinese per i nuovi iPhone 11 e iPhone 11 Pro: la nostra galleria da Apple Store Shangai - Macitynet.it
L'Apple Store di Shangai fa il pienone per il lancio di iPhone 11 e 11 Pro in cina. E gli altri brand stanno a guardare...
Il presidente e Ceo della News Media Alliance ha parole dure per i big dell'internet e suggerimenti radicali più in generale. Tipo: pagate per le vostre news.
Money quote. "We can start with the fact that “free” isn’t a good business model for quality journalism. Facebook and Google flatly refuse to pay for news even though they license many other types of content. Both companies have deals to pay music publishers when copyrighted songs play on their platforms. And the companies also aggressively bid to stream live sports and entertainment content to run on Facebook Watch and YouTube. These deals are varied and often secret, but none of them are based on “free.” Why are the platforms so unwilling to pay news publishers for access to the quality journalism that users need and value?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/google-facebook-fake-news-journalism.html
Money quote. "We can start with the fact that “free” isn’t a good business model for quality journalism. Facebook and Google flatly refuse to pay for news even though they license many other types of content. Both companies have deals to pay music publishers when copyrighted songs play on their platforms. And the companies also aggressively bid to stream live sports and entertainment content to run on Facebook Watch and YouTube. These deals are varied and often secret, but none of them are based on “free.” Why are the platforms so unwilling to pay news publishers for access to the quality journalism that users need and value?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/google-facebook-fake-news-journalism.html
NY Times
Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing
Google and Facebook should be allies of quality journalism, not its gravest threat.
5G, convergenza e cloud chiavi del successo - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/5g-convergenza-e-cloud-chiavi-del-successo/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/5g-convergenza-e-cloud-chiavi-del-successo/
CorCom
5G, convergenza e cloud chiavi del successo - CorCom
Per lo sviluppo di reti di nuova generazione è di vitale importanza passare ad un'architettura virtualizzata e automatizzata delle reti di accesso. La fotografia scattata da una ricerca condotta da Arthur D. Little in collaborazione con At&t, Deutsche Telekom…
La storia dei Captcha (dietro l'acronimo c'è una dei nomi più assurdi che abbia mai incontrato: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). E cosa significano per l'intelligenzaa artificiale.
Money quote: "Because CAPTCHA is such an elegant tool for training AI, any given test could only ever be temporary, something its inventors acknowledged at the outset. With all those researchers, scammers, and ordinary humans solving billions of puzzles just at the threshold of what AI can do, at some point the machines were going to pass us by. In 2014, Google pitted one of its machine learning algorithms against humans in solving the most distorted text CAPTCHAs: the computer got the test right 99.8 percent of the time, while the humans got a mere 33 percent."
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence
Money quote: "Because CAPTCHA is such an elegant tool for training AI, any given test could only ever be temporary, something its inventors acknowledged at the outset. With all those researchers, scammers, and ordinary humans solving billions of puzzles just at the threshold of what AI can do, at some point the machines were going to pass us by. In 2014, Google pitted one of its machine learning algorithms against humans in solving the most distorted text CAPTCHAs: the computer got the test right 99.8 percent of the time, while the humans got a mere 33 percent."
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence
The Verge
Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult
Demonstrating you’re not a robot is getting harder and harder
Silenzio, parla l'hacker
Money quote: "What is it about the computer that makes it become such an obsession for young guys?
Well, it's power at your fingertips. You can control all these computers from the government, from the military, from large corporations. And if you know what you're doing, you can travel through the internet at your will, with no restrictions. That's power; it's a power trip."
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/interviews/anon.html
Money quote: "What is it about the computer that makes it become such an obsession for young guys?
Well, it's power at your fingertips. You can control all these computers from the government, from the military, from large corporations. And if you know what you're doing, you can travel through the internet at your will, with no restrictions. That's power; it's a power trip."
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/interviews/anon.html
Trade war Usa-Cina, Aguiar: "Huawei solo un pretesto. L'Europa non si faccia ingannare" - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/trase-war-usa-cina-aguiar-huawei-solo-un-pretesto-leuropa-non-si-faccia-ingannare/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/trase-war-usa-cina-aguiar-huawei-solo-un-pretesto-leuropa-non-si-faccia-ingannare/
CorCom
Trade war Usa-Cina, Aguiar: "Huawei solo un pretesto. L'Europa non si faccia ingannare" - CorCom
L'esperto mondiale di Tlc a Corcom: "L'America intimidisce le aziende e la competizione. Ma con il braccio di ferro non si arriva a nulla. La cooperazione e gli standard aperti sono la strada per arrivare a una posizione comune che favorisca la crescita economica"
Assist di Trump a Cook, niente dazi per i Mac di lusso - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/assist-di-trump-a-cook-niente-dazi-per-mac-di-lusso/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/assist-di-trump-a-cook-niente-dazi-per-mac-di-lusso/
CorCom
Assist di Trump a Cook, niente dazi per Mac di lusso - CorCom
I regolatori Usa hanno approvato dieci delle quindici richieste di esenzioni presentate da Apple: le componenti prodotte in Cina destinate ai Mac Pro non saranno oggetto di sovrattasse