Coronavirus, l’intelligenza artificiale individua i contagi in real time - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/coronavirus-lintelligenza-artificiale-individua-i-contagi-in-real-time/

Gli hacker “virano” sui servizi finanziari: nel mirino le Api - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/gli-hacker-virano-sui-servizi-finanziari-nel-mirino-le-api/

Addio a Larry Telser, il papà del taglia-copia-incolla - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/addio-a-larry-tesler-papa-del-taglia-copia-incolla/

Auto elettrica e noleggio, la combo per far decollare la mobilità green - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2020/02/20/auto-elettrica-noleggio/

E-Health, grazie all’AI la sanità diventa “più umana” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/pa-digitale/e-health/e-health-grazie-allai-la-sanita-diventa-piu-umana/

Da una vita sono affascinato dal concetto di esposizione universale e dal suo derivato, il parco tematico così come l'aveva immaginato Walt Disney. L'intersezione tra questi due mondi è la pianificazione - organica e molto più strutturata da parte del gruppo di lavoro di Disney. Un nuovo libro la racconta nel dettaglio.

Money quote: "In the new book "Walt Disney’s Disneyland", architecture historian Chris Nichols retraces the long road from idea to the media empire’s first park. To hear one animator tell it, Disney first hatched his idea for a play land while plugging away on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. At the film’s premiere, Disney himself made it a kind of reality superimposed atop Los Angeles. Guests strolled along the median of Crescent Heights Boulevard, which had been reimagined as “Dwarfland” and crowned with a charmingly ramshackle cottage and a cast of costumed characters."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/urban-planning-disneyland

Google-Fitbit, il garante Ue: privacy utenti a rischio con l’acquisizione - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/google-fitbit-il-garante-ue-privacy-utenti-a-rischio-con-la-fusione/

Intervista allo scomparso Larry Harvey, fondatore del festival The Burning Man.

Money quote: "I was raised to be radically self-reliant I was raised on a farm; my parents were farmers, though my father was a carpenter by trade. He regarded any unnecessary conversation as mouth-flap. I would have put my arm in a fire to get praise from my parents but I never felt I pleased him. But what I learnt to do was stand on my own two feet."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/larry-harvey-the-founder-of-the-burning-man-festival-on-adoption-uncontrollable-rage-and-how-freud-9083511.html

Ogni tanto una buona notizia. A maggio ci sarà una puntata speciale di “Friends”

https://www.ilpost.it/2020/02/22/friends-reunion/

L'immagine usata da HBO per annunciare la #reunion. Sarà probabilmente la trasmissione di punta del nuovo servizio streaming HBO Max (solo negli Usa, da maggio)

E poi le notizie della stampa italiana sul coronavirus. Titoli equilibrati che invitano alla calma e alla riflessione. Don’t panic!

In compenso arrivano le contromisure elefanti, per chi vive con stile anche ai tempi del colera

Ecco qua, visto che me la chiedevate: la storia di The Burning Man. Il viaggio straordinario di un'epoca ormai finita.

Money quote: "The paradox was unpacked by Larry Harvey, Burning Man’s primary founder, during a lecture in Minneapolis in 2000. He asked the audience to imagine ‘a place that is no place at all apart from what we choose to make of it’. It was Harvey, the landscape gardener and one-time taxi driver, who had, with his carpenter buddy Jerry James and friends, lugged an eight-foot wooden statue onto San Francisco’s Baker Beach, summer solstice, 1986. They weren’t the first to draw a crowd to a flaming object on that beach. Nor was Harvey the first to torch an anthropomorphic figure as a means to catharsis. He didn’t start the fire, but in the three decades before he died on 28 April 2018 following a stroke, Harvey sure kicked up some dust. The newly-built statue was razed annually at Baker Beach until 1990, when it was deemed a public safety hazard destined to be razed somewhere else.

That elsewhere, it turned out, was an absolute nowhere."

https://aeon.co/essays/what-happens-when-you-set-foot-on-absofreakinglutely-nothing

Ci vorranno decenni prima che la stampa americana riesca a darsi pace per quel mucchio di banditi, profittatori e falliti che Donald Trump ha tirato fuori e portato nei pressi della Casa Bianca.

Money quote: “A handful of former and wannabe administration officials have descended on the Bellagio Hotel to speak at an annual conference put on by one of their own: Anthony Scaramucci, the investment executive whose stint in the West Wing lasted only 11 days. The summit, called SALT, is a kind of reunion for these Trump discards, who either were hired and fired at the president’s behest, or never landed the enticing job that he had dangled.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/scaramucci-christie-sessions-and-kelly-talk-trump/589162/

Twitter sospende gruppo pro-Bloomberg: “Manipola la piattaforma” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/twitter-sospende-gruppo-pro-bloomberg-manipola-la-piattaforma/

G20, l’Ocse stringe sulla digital tax: “tesoretto” da 100 miliardi l’anno – il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/locse-prepara-la-digital-tax-varra-100-miliardi-di-dollari-allanno/

Ci sono molti modi per definire l'impatto che il lavoro di un singolo può aver avuto sulla collettività (e su quanto grande nello spazio e nel tempo sia questa collettività). Inventare le minifigure del Lego, secondo me è enorme. È il caso di Jens Nygaard Knudsen, scomparso da pochi giorni. Io faccio parte di quella comunità su cui ha avuto un impatto enorme. Penso anche voi.

https://www.ilpost.it/2020/02/24/jens-nygaard-knudsen-lego-inventore/

Gli hacker della Corea del Nord sono dei gran ladroni. Letteralmente.

Money quote: “We should not be surprised that state-sponsored hackers have moved into crypto. According to Nikkei, which obtained a copy of the report, the UN panel said cryptocurrencies have given North Korea a new way to get around sanctions, since “they are hard to trace, can be laundered many times and are independent from government regulation.””

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613099/north-koreas-military-has-stolen-more-than-half-a-billion-dollars-in/

Il Coronavirus affonda le big tech in Borsa, in fumo 250 miliardi di dollari - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/il-coronavirus-affonda-le-big-tech-in-borsa-in-fumo-250-miliardi-di-dollari/