For the first time, Netflix tops HBO for most Emmy nominations
Netflix has broken HBO’s 17-year streak as the most nominated network at the Emmy Awards. In the nominations released this afternoon, Netflix came out slightly ahead, with 112 nominations compared to HBO’s 108. Those include Best Comedy nods for GLOW and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as well as Best Drama nominations for The Crown and Stranger …
Uber lets riders pay with Venmo
“There have been 6 million transactions inside of Venmo in the last year alone that were discussing Uber,” BIll Ready, COO of the Venmo parent company PayPal Holdings, told Bloomberg. Uber is now the largest retailer to accept Venmo payments, according to Bloomberg. The service introduced ‘Pay with Venmo’ last fall, which enabled retailers to …
Best 4K TVs for gaming: 5 TVs that pair nicely with your PS4 and Xbox One
Best TVs for Gaming Buying Guide: Welcome to TechRadar’s round-up of the best 4K TVs for PS4 and Xbox you can buy for any budget in 2018. If you’re a console gamer, finding the right TV can be a hassle. PC gamers have it easy – all they need to do is find a …
Vitalizi, oggi si decide il taglio agli ex deputati. Di Maio: «Giornata storica»
«Oggi è giornata storica, almeno per il simbolo che rappresenta questa decisione che dopo oltre trent'anni sancisce un principio chiaro, se hai versato i contributi allora il vitalizio ti spetta, se non hai versato no». Per il vicepremier Luigi Di Maio … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews
The latest Spike Lee Joint is all about Uber drivers
The five films are subtitled for Uber drivers in Brooklyn (that Uber paid for their participation), including an aspiring actress, and art restorationist, a serial entrepreneur, a “passionate carer” for animals and a hairstylist (and mother of two). The auteur apparently chose the featured folks by himself out of thousands of Uber non-employees in the …
The Department of Justice isn’t done fighting the AT&T-Time Warner merger
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed to appeal a federal judge’s decision to approve AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. Back when he was campaigning for the presidency, Donald Trump said his administration would block the deal, and indeed, the DOJ sued to stop the merger, arguing it would hurt competition. Last month, however, U.S. …
The Ultimate Carbon-Saving Tip? Travel by Cargo Ship
By the end of June, Kajsa Fernström Nåtby was homesick. The native Swede had just finished a 5-month internship with her country’s diplomatic office near the UN headquarters in Manhattan, darting between debates on migration and ocean plastic. Now, her parents were pleading for her to hop on an 8-hour flight across the Atlantic and …
Windows 10 has a new exclusive emoji: the Astro Cat
Microsoft has worked out another exclusive emoji for Windows 10, the infinitely awesome Astro Cat. Found by Emojipedia, the emoji is achieved by joining the ‘Cat Face’ and ‘Rocket’ emojis by a small string of characters in between. Specifically, this technique is known as the ‘zero width joiner’ (ZWJ), a specific string of characters that, …
Google’s Apigee teams up with Informatica to extend its API ecosystem
Google acquired API management service Apigee back in 2016, but it’s been pretty quiet around the service in recent years. Today, however, Apigee announced a number of smaller updates that introduce a few new integrations with the Google Cloud platform, as well as a major new partnership with cloud data management and integration firm Informatica …