Uber pronta ad acqusire Lime: sul piatto 170 milioni - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/uber-pronta-ad-acqusire-lime-sul-piatto-170-milioni/

E-banking in volata, il lockdown mette il turbo ai servizi digitali - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/finance/e-banking-in-volata-il-lockdown-mette-il-turbo-ai-servizi-digitali/

La santa alleanza tra Wikipedia e Archive.org, spiegata bene.

Money quote: “The reason people rely on Wikipedia, despite its imperfections, is that every claim is supposed to have citations. Any sentence that isn't backed up with a credible source risks being slapped with the dreaded "citation needed" label. Anyone can check out those citations to learn more about a subject, or verify that those sources actually say what a particular Wikipedia entry claims they do—that is, if you can find those sources”

https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-wikipedia-more-reliable/#

Il segreto della felicità di coppia. Si, come no.

Money quote: “For someone like me, who practised the most difficult kind of psychotherapy with distressed couples seeking to mend their relationship, all this was problematic. As a young doctoral student trying to be helpful in the face of all shapes and sizes of relationship distress, the one thing that rapidly became clear was that no one, no poet, philosopher or psychologist, had cracked the code of the drama that played out in my office every day, leaving me as overwhelmed and distressed as my clients”

https://aeon.co/essays/how-emotionally-focused-couple-therapy-can-help-love-last

Se l'iPhone SE vende come il pane è anche grazie alla pandemia - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/mobile/smartphone/2020/05/07/iphone-pane-e-pandemia/

"Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045", l'era della maniera sbarca su Netflix - il mio articolo per Fumettologica

https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/05/ghost-in-the-shell-sac-2045/

Programmatic adv, in fumo il 50% degli investimenti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/programatic-adv-in-fumo-il-50-degli-investimenti/

Microsoft insegue Zoom e Meet: su Teams in chat fino a 250 persone - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/microsoft-insegue-zoom-e-meet-su-teams-in-chat-fino-a-250-persone/

I supercomputer dei big della ricerca in campo contro il Coronavirus - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/i-supercomputer-dei-big-della-ricerca-in-campo-contro-il-coronavirus/

Smartphone, Xiaomi scalza Apple dal podio italiano - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/smartphone-xiaomi-scalza-apple-dal-podio-italiano/

La folle, straordinaria storia di un pianoforte

Money quote: “According to a 1955 article in Time, work on the piano began around 1800, in Turin. Rumor has it that harpsichord maker Sebastian Marchisio used wood from Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem—unlikely, perhaps, but not necessarily impossible, as the Romans may have brought pieces of the sacked temple back to Italy. It’s believed that they were used in churches, and that Marchisio salvaged the wood for his piano after an earthquake struck one of those churches.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lost-wwii-piano

Prevedibili effetti del coronavirus

Money quote: “For the past three weeks, Justin LaBoy, 28, a former professional basketball player and a social media personality, and Justin Dior Combs, an entrepreneur and P. Diddy’s 26-year-old son, have been hosting virtual pop-up strip clubs on Instagram Live”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/style/justin-laboy-instagram-strip-clubs-live.html

Il fondatore di Sonos: "Apple è chiusa? Dovreste vedere Spotify" - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/il-fondatore-di-sonos-apple-e-chiusa-dovreste-vedere-spotify/

Alla fine, cos’è la scienza? E il metodo scientifico?

Money quote: “Karl Popper poked huge holes in the standard view (Logical Positivism or Logical Empiricism), persuasively arguing that scientific theories can never be proven, and the best we can hope for is to falsify a scientific theory³. Platt argued that scientists should apply the “method of multiple hypotheses,” wherein they come up with as many alternative explanations as possible, and set out to test them against each other⁴.”

https://towardsdatascience.com/i-dont-believe-in-electrons-8f1b59adc1ec

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Oggi domenica di relax, leggendo e aspettando gli impegni di lunedì. Ma a quanto pare il mio condominio ha altri progetti...

Lucille, la chitarra di B.B. King, non aveva il tremolo perché era lui, B.B. King, il tremolo

Non mi è mai piaciuto Eric Schmidt. Sono convinto che sia stato lui l'anima nera dietro a Larry Page e Sergei Brin che ha trasformato Google da super motore di ricerca cool in una macchina per schedare il pianeta (e in super avversario di Apple a cui ha "rubato" tutto quel che poteva rubare, sulla falsariga di Bill Gates con Microsoft venti anni prima). E dopo la sua uscita dall'azienda è andato a fare il super-esperto per i militari americani. Un duca nero il cui peso potrebbe essere estremamente negativo

Money quote: "Last April, Mr. Schmidt announced he planned to leave Google’s board. He had helped create an A.I. center backed by the Pentagon in 2018 and had also become co-chair of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a new group advising Congress on developing A.I. for defense.
A month after leaving Google, Mr. Schmidt invested in Rebellion Defense, a software start-up founded by former Defense Department employees that analyzes video gathered via drone. His venture firm later put more money into the company, and Mr. Schmidt joined its board."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/technology/eric-schmidt-pentagon-google.html

Ecco, prove alla mano, come funziona la censura su WeChat, l’app di messaggistica più usata in Cina, gestita - e quasi imposta - direttamente dal governo. L’articolo spiega anche come chi la usa in Occidente non sia sottoposto alla stessa censura, ma aiuti il governo cinese ad affinare le tecniche per individuare i messaggi scomodi.

Link: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/ 🇬🇧

Uno degli effetti della quarantena e del bisogno di videoconferenze di massa, è l'ufficio assistenza dei vecchi nonni e genitori all'uso delle nuove diavolerie. È una vita dura a tutte le latitudini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ef5dRyvQ1Y