Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced official impeachment proceedings against President Trump today, and while the approaching political fracas may not be directly tech-related, it could have serious effects on several efforts at the federal level to rein in or otherwise influence the tech industry. Impeachment does not mean the government stops doing what …
Audius already has backing from some big names, like deadmau5, Rezz, 3LAU and The Stafford Brothers. But to start the library is small, just a few hundred artists. For now, Audius is free, and artists can’t make money. By early 2020, the company may run ads or offer a subscription. According to TechCrunch, the plan …
About 80 Google contractors in Pittsburgh voted to unionize with United Steelworkers on Tuesday, in a historic move for white-collar workers at the search giant. The tech workers, who are employed by Google contractor HCL Technologies, are only a few of the many contractors that make up the bulk of Google’s labor force. But Tuesday’s …
La Commissione consultiva del Comune per le onoranze al Famedio ha deciso i nomi delle 12 personalità che il prossimo 2 novembre saranno iscritte nel Pantheon di Milano, all’interno del Cimitero Monumentale. L’elenco dei cittadini illustri comprende: Rachele Bianchi (artista, pittrice e scultrice), Mario Cervi (giornalista), Luigi Dadda (ricercatore e accademico), Gillo Dorfles (critico d’arte), …
iOS 13 launched just a week ago, adding a plethora of new features for the iPhone 6S and above, yet Apple has already rolled out the next major update for its mobile operating system. iOS 13.1 was initially slated for a September 30 release, but Apple has fast tracked the rollout after users began to …
L'ex ministro Damiano risponde agli esodati esclusi e ricorda gli interventi a suo modo di vedere prioritari in tema di riforma pensioni. by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
The Los Angeles-based startup Canoo has finally unveiled its first model, the eponymously named canoo. The Canoo designers have departed pretty radically from the traditional designs that other electric vehicle manufacturers have favored going with something that looks more like a VW Microbus than the sport utility vehicle that Byton is aiming for, or Tesla …
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, an American mathematician known for her work at NASA on early spaceflight. Wikipedia Everybody loves an algorithm. To be more accurate, everybody loves their smartphone with its intelligent applications that run on algorithms. But not everybody appreciates the fact that the calculations going on in the background are a form of algorithmic …
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 25, 2019: Rib vault in the choir of the parish church Freistadt, Upper Austria https://ift.tt/2mqOAKB
jovial , adj : (comparable) Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1). To mark the premiere of English composer Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets on 29 September 1918, we are featuring …