Vintage Travel has been renting villas in Spain, the Balearic islands, France, Greece, Portugal, Croatia and Turkey for many years. Many are rural … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from

Remember being blown away by the fact that a game character’s mouth would move when it talked. Or that it could blink? Or that it even had fingers? We’ve come along way since the early days of 3D gaming, with titles like the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2 achieving a level of visual fidelity that …

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Xcode, a small Czech team called Brightify has created Reactant, a framework that makes it easy to program iOS apps. The system is a Swift-based framework that offers live-reload of code, allowing you to add elements on the fly as you program. “The Reactant …

Roma – Anche in caso di condanna in primo grado Virginia Raggi non si dimetterà, e se si autosospenderà dal M5S lo farà per poter venir riammessa con gloria. Anzi, facendo leva sul codice di comportamento, sarà proprio l'autosospensione a salvarla. by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from

There are around 43 million foreign-born people living in the US right now. And even if you don’t personally know someone who’ll be made into a terrifying dossier for Trump’s anti-immigrant foot soldiers, you’ll most certainly show up in those millions of files somewhere as a “like” or other piece of tangential social metadata. People …

Podcasts are a growing area of interest even for media companies that typically work in TV and other formats, and AMC/Sundance is extending its bet on making something of streaming audio. The show is called “Deadly Manners,” and it’s a fictional murder mystery with some big-name stars, including Kristen Bell, Anna Chlumsky, RuPaul, LeVar Burton, …

Molti paesi europei sono piu' preoccupati di far pagare le tasse ai giganti della Rete piuttosto che garantire una buona navigazione agli internauti. by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from

Apple is looking at producing its own ARM processors for its notebooks Rather than relying on Intel CPUs for MacBooks. In the same self-reliant way it already makes in-house CPUs for the iPad and iPhone – it seems the company intends to produce all the chips for its devices. ARM-powered Macs is something we’ve heard …

Five years ago, Nvidia was best known as a maker of chips to power videogame graphics in PCs. Then researchers found its graphics chips were also good at powering deep learning, the software technique behind recent enthusiasm for artificial intelligence. The discovery made Nvidia into the preferred seller of shovels for the AI gold rush …

The research team, led by post-doc Giovanni Salvatore, reported its findings in the Advanced Functional Materials journal. These super-thin microsensors are made with a polymer created with corn and potato starch, magnesium (which humans can digest) and water-soluble silicon dioxide and nitride. At 16 micrometers thin this sensor is much thinner than a human hair, …