Se state per scrivere un libro fantasy o magari un gioco di ruolo, e vi serve una cittadella medioevale, ecco qui il vostro generatore casuale ideale.

Money quote: "This application generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size. The generation method is rather arbitrary, the goal is to produce a nice looking map, not an accurate model of a city. Maybe in the future I'll use its code as a basis for some game or maybe not."

https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator

Cloud, Snowflake vale 12,4 miliardi di dollari. Guanto di sfida ad Aws - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cloud/snowflake-vale-124-miliardi-di-dollari-guanto-di-sfida-ad-aws/

Coronavirus, l'emergenza mette a rischio lo shopping online - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/ecommerce/coronavirus-lemergenza-mette-a-rischio-le-consegne-online/

Suggerimenti su come fare a dare le brutte notizie

Money quote: "The bad news is almost always a smaller issue than what happens when you don't take responsibility for it. That's the worst possible outcome."

http://boz.com/articles/bad-news.html

5G, Verizon battezza a Londra il primo hub extra-Usa - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/5g/5g-verizon-battezza-a-londra-il-primo-hub-extra-usa/

Cloud per il Pentagono, Amazon vuole Trump sul banco dei testimoni - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cloud/cloud-per-il-pentagono-amazon-vuole-trump-sul-banco-dei-testimoni/

Video 8K, 108 MPixel: Galaxy S20 è la grande scommessa di Samsung - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/video-8k-108-mpixel-galaxy-s20-e-la-grande-scommessa-di-samsung/

Samsung Galaxy S20, la fotocamera è il suo punto di forza - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/02/11/news/samsung-galaxy-s20-la-fotocamera-e-il-suo-punto-di-forza-1.38456664

Ci siamo, gli audiolibri tornano alla carica anche da noi. Ma in realtà cosa sono e cosa vuol dire ascoltare un libro anziché leggerlo?

Money quote: "“I was a fan of audiobooks, but I always viewed them as cheating,” says Beth Rogowsky, an associate professor of education at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania."

Tra l'altro, l'articolo offre una buona prospettiva anche su come funziona il rapporto del lettore con il libro elettornico rispetto a quello cartaceo. Ma tutto l'articolo è abbastanza notevole, se non altro perché piomba come un falco in uno spazio sostanzialmente vuoto (a parte il marketing di chi produce ebook e adesso audiolibri).

Money quote: "If you’re wondering why printed books may be better than screen-based reading, it may have to do with your inability to gauge where you are in an electronic book. “As you’re reading a narrative, the sequence of events is important, and knowing where you are in a book helps you build that arc of narrative,” says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Raising Kids Who Read. While e-readers try to replicate this by telling you how much of a book you have left, in a percentage or length of time to the end, this doesn’t seem to have the same narrative-orienting effect as reading from a traditional book."

http://time.com/5388681/audiobooks-reading-books/

La guerra dei dazi si abbatte sui robot: calano le vendite in Usa - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/la-guerra-dei-dazi-si-abbatte-sui-robot-calano-le-vendite-in-usa/

Coronavirus, in Cina un’app per gestire il rischio contagio - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/coronavirus-in-cina-unapp-per-gestire-il-rischio-contagio/

Un fumetto (agghiacciante) per capire come funziona il protocollo HTTPS

Money quote: "Have you ever wondered why a green lock icon appears on your browser URL bar? And why is it important? We did too, and this comic is for you!

Follow the adventures of Certificat, Browserbird, and Compugter as they explain why HTTPS is crucial for the future of the web and how it all works together.

Don't let the bad crabs get you (you'll know what we mean in the comic). Get to know HTTPS and why it is essential to your privacy."

https://howhttps.works

Privacy, l'Irlanda "blocca" il dating di Facebook - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/over-the-top/facebook-rinvia-il-lancio-del-servizio-per-cuori-solitari/

Regno Unito, giro di vite sui social: risponderanno dell'hate speech - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/regno-unito-giro-di-vite-sui-social-risponderanno-dei-contenuti-violenti/

Parliamone. L'articolo di Alberto Brambilla:

https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/02/dragonero-fumetto-fantasy-bonelli/

Non ho capito se la misofonia esiste o è una psicosi americana, però alcune cose di cui parla qui io me le ritrovo (per certe tipologie di rumore)

Money quote: "Misophonia, also known as selective sound sensitivity syndrome, starts with a trigger. It’s often an oral sound — the noise someone makes when they eat, breathe, chew, yawn, or whistle. Sometimes a small repetitive motion is the cause — someone fidgets, jostles you, or wiggles their foot."

https://bolesblogs.com/2018/07/06/misophonia-and-the-agape-orifice/

Non si ferma la crescita di Xiaomi: avanti tutta sul 5G - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/non-si-ferma-la-crescita-di-xiaomi-avanti-tutta-sul-5g/

Big data, Google compra Looker: sfida a Microsoft - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/big-data-google-compra-looker-sfida-a-microsoft/

Articolo vintage: rivedere per capire. Tesla: come finirà? È una lezione che vale per molti altri

Money quote: "Meanwhile, the people who are first to bring the disruption to market may not be the people who end up benefiting from it, and indeed the people who win from the disruption may actually be doing something different - they may be in a different part of the value chain. Apple pioneered PCs but lost the PC market, and the big winners were not even other PC companies. Rather, most of the profits went to Microsoft and Intel, which both operated at different layers of the stack. PCs themselves became a low-margin commodity with fierce competition, but PC CPUs and operating systems (and productivity software) turned out to have very strong winner-takes-all effects. Being first is not the same as having a sustainable competitive advantage, no matter how disruptive you are, and the advantage might be somewhere else. "

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/8/29/tesla-software-and-disruption

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