Arrivano le nuove app! - il mio articolo per Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/07/22/arrivano-le-nuove-app/

Occupazione in chiaroscuro nei social: TikTok assume, Linkedin taglia - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/occupazione-in-chiaroscuro-nei-social-tiktok-assume-linkedin-taglia/

Obiettivo 100% carbon free nel 2023: la svolta green di Apple - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/obiettivo-100-carbon-free-nel-2023-la-svolta-green-di-apple/

Da Apple a Google, da Uber a eBay, ecco i segreti degli store digitali - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2020/07/22/news/da-apple-a-google-da-uber-a-ebay-ecco-i-segreti-degli-store-digitali-1.39112545

Negli Usa il consumo di carta igienica è esploso e non dà segni di voler rallentare. Ecco come ha fatto a reagire il mercato dei produttori

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVcqbqpMfQY

C'è un odioso stereotipo che sostiene che i figli unici siano meno intelligenti di quelli con fratelli o sorelle. Ebbene, posso dire da figlio unico e con l'aiuto della scienza, che non è vero. Anzi, i figli unici sono più flessibili e creativi.

Money quote: "The idea that only children are somehow deficient was started 125 years ago by Granville Stanley Hall, a leader in the child-study movement, writes Lauren Sandler, author of One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joys of Being One. Having worked on the 1896 study “Of Peculiar and Exceptional Children,” Hall cast only children as “oddballs” as “permanent misfits,” descriptions that have stuck over the years with remarkable persistence. “Being an only child is a disease in itself,” he claimed.

There is ample evidence suggesting the stereotypes of the “lonely only” are wrong."

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/neuroscience-shows-that-our-gut-instincts-about-only-children-are-right

Il digitale salva-occupazione: le imprese italiane accelerano gli investimenti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/lavoro-carriere/competenze/il-digitale-salva-occupazione-le-imprese-italiane-accelerano-gli-investimenti/

Microsoft, ricavi al rialzo: boom del cloud. Ma su Teams scatta la denuncia di Slack - il mio articolo in pool per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/microsoft-ricavi-al-rialzo-boom-del-cloud-ma-su-teams-scatta-la-denuncia-di-slack/

In ia Writer 5.6 arrivano due grandi aggiornamenti - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/in-ia-writer-5-6-arrivano-due-grandi-aggiornamenti/

Cdp Venture Capital investe in Sardex, sul piatto 5,8 milioni - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/finance/cdp-venture-capital-investe-in-sardex-sul-piatto-58-milioni/

Ora, io capisco tutto: si scrive su Medium per attirare i click e fare due soldi, la prospettiva black matters, il punto di vista femminile-femminista, il disagio che si vive in un'altra cultura e che diventa difficile da comprendere perché diverso da quelli della nostra cultura, e tutto il resto. Però, questo che sembrava un semplice articolo su "terapia e matrimonio" (una accoppiata interessante, direi), si è rivelato un delirio. Cioè, ma sul serio? Credo di vivere su un altro pianeta.

Money quote: "My mother’s “all men are trash” rhetoric never sat well with my spirit. So, with the help of my therapist, I went back into those spaces most of us fear — those dark, dank corners of our past relationships, where everything we’ve ever learned about love, from the people who love us the most, has been wrong.

One constant I found is that I date mentally unstable men. When I’m not dating them, I’m marrying them. And whether I’m dating or marrying them, I’m ignoring their mental health issues — as well as my own."

https://level.medium.com/why-isnt-therapy-a-prerequisite-for-marriage-e6ec2b9721a9

Un cervello digitale per Industria 4.0, la scommessa dell’Europa - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/un-cervello-digitale-per-industria-4-0-la-scommessa-delleuropa/

Sketchfighter 4000 Alpha, un vecchio classico di Ambrosia Software, ce l'ha fatta: è sbarcato nel mondo a 64 bit.

Money quote: "With so many games gone with the transition to 64-bit apps, I was happy to see Lost Minds take the time and effort to revitalize this small but fun corner of Mac gaming history. Updating older games isn’t trivial, which is why reboots like Sketchfighter are sadly the exception rather than the rule."

https://www.macstories.net/reviews/game-day-sketchfighter-4000-alpha/

Optimizing the Joy in Your Life | The New Yorker

Vignette serali

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/optimizing-the-joy-in-your-life

Ogni tanto tutti quanti, inclusi noi giornalisti, ci emozioniamo all'idea delle "fattorie-verticali", che coltivano cibo sulle pareti dei palazzi cittadini. E ci sono parecchie startup hi-tech che ci provano. Il problema è che la Silicon Valley non ha la più pallida idea di come funzioni l'agricoltura. Peccato.

Money quote: "So why am I not worried about vertical farming or startups that are trying to reinvent the wheel? They are busy fighting battles that simply don’t exist for their competition (outdoor/field-based agriculture). Current agriculture doesn’t need an artificial energy source and the automation that exists today is breathtaking. It is completely reasonable for a single human, with assistance from machines, to comfortably farm 1,000 acres or more of traditional rows crops. It generally doesn’t matter if a vertical farm can ‘produce’ 365 days a year, the existing agriculture infrastructure in the breadbaskets of the world (United States, Brazil/Argentina/Eastern Europe) make any indoor advantage disappear, and quickly. These centers are ‘connected’ as well, with existing GPS and cellular networks available today."

https://thinkingagriculture.io/what-silicon-valley-doesnt-understand-about-agriculture

È uscita Mostly Weekly. https://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite

Il reportage che mancava: l’Italia al tempo del coronavirus. (Poi lo ritroverete su Internazionale e sul Post, se bon c’è già andato).

Money quote: “Why am I taking this trip to Italy?

First, because it matters. The economic and political uncertainty now surrounding the EU’s third largest economy constitute its biggest internal risk. Second, because it has just been through a searing experience. Italy was not the only Western country to experience a large Covid-19 outbreak, but it was the first and for several weeks seemed to have been uniquely condemned to the virus’s scythe. Third, because I have a stake in the place; I have Italian family, have lived in the country and as a journalist have reported from it many times. And fourth, because Italy is complicated, contradictory and hard to understand from afar. So I have set out by train – the best way to see Europe – to capture the feel of Italy today, assess the state of its society, economy and politics and work out what the future might hold.”

https://www.newstatesman.com/international/places/2020/07/italy-wake-coronavirus

Questa studentessa di 23 anni ha smontato, uno dopo l'altro, tutti i big della tecnologia (Facebook, Google e Instagram) scoprendo segreti, trucchi e prodotti futuri. Con un metodo che nessun altro sito di rumors o di news riesce a trovare. In una parola: epico.

Money quote: "When we asked her about her workflow, and how she manages to stay ahead of the rest, Wong replied that her methods were somewhat “scientific”: “It is an iterative work on top of past knowledges and experiences. I would say my methods could be pretty scientific (i.e. Observation, Hypothesis, Experiments). It’s pretty similar to how other security researchers made the exploits possible.”

“I observe how the app and the operating system works programmatically, and how the company seemingly operates structurally, and how its people operate psychologically. I then try to make sense between the different observations and find their weaknesses… and then come up with hypotheses of how to make it worse. I then test to see of those work. If something interesting comes up, I usually tweet it out.”"

https://thenextweb.com/tnw-answers/2018/10/24/meet-the-23-year-old-engineering-detective-behind-the-biggest-leaks-in-tech/

Molte aquile ho visto in volo - il mio articolo per il Post su un libro molto bello

https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2020/07/27/molte-aquile-ho-visto-in-volo/

Quando anche Tex sbagliava - il mio articolo per Fumettologica

https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/07/tex-willer-bonelli-fumetto/

Google maps e il piccolo trucco con cui gli Usa proteggono alcune delle location più sensibili del pianeta. Se lo fanno una volta, vedete che lo fanno anche altre volte.

Money quote: "After stumbling onto this strange piece of information, we, as researchers critical of the National Security State wanted to know how and why this happened. While the area has since been updated (the current image you see in Google Earth/Maps was taken on October 1st, 2017), the gap in Google Earth’s historical data set remains. (Since we began our investigation, Google Earth updated its historical dataset to include images from both 2014 and 2015, making the total gap remaining 6 years.)

That this gap occurred for eight years without any acknowledgement from Google, Alphabet, or the federal government suggests that it can happen again with no warning or oversight. This is Google’s Earth, not ours."

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gye79x/google-earth-stopped-mapping-this-military-installation