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Cosa sappiamo del volo MH370 della Malaysia Airlines: spettacolare articolo investigativo di uno dei migliori giornalisti della nostra epoca Money quote: “Gibson left the commemoration determined to help by addressing a gap he had perceived—the lack of coastal searches for floating debris. This would be his niche. He would become MH370’s private beachcomber. The official investigators, primarily Australian and Malaysian, were heavily invested in their underwater search. They would have scoffed at Gibson’s ambition, just as they would have scoffed at the prospect that on beaches hundreds of miles apart, Gibson would find pieces of the airplane” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/

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Gli Usa dichiarano guerra alle "robocall": in campo tutte le telco - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/gli-usa-dichiarano-guerra-alle-robocall-in-campo-i-procuratori-generali/

La nuova sfida di Google: far convivere privacy e pubblicità - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/la-nuova-sfida-di-google-far-convivere-privacy-e-pubblicita/

Forse alcune persone con una intelligenza superiore, o una memoria superiore, hanno semplicemente una frequenza di campionamento più alta. Perché a quanto pare noi percepiamo la realtà come continua, ma in realtà la assorbiamo a frammenti, alternandola a rapidissimi momenti di coma celebrale. (Questo spiegherebbe cosa vuol dire essere nella zona o meditare: entrare e uscire da uno stato di flusso continuo e non frammentato della coscienza). Inquietante. Money quote: "To understand these “rhythms of attention,” Fiebelkorn suggests imagining standing in Times Square on New Years’ Eve, surrounded by people, cars, and music. The scene presents far more sensory information than one human brain is capable of sorting through, and so, the brain deals with all of the information in two ways. First, it focuses on a single point of interest: the street corner where you might meet a friend, or Ryan Seacrest combing the crowd for interviews. Like a filmstrip, the brain takes snapshots of these moments and pieces them together into a cohesive narrative, or “perceptual cycle.” We experience that moment as continuous, but in reality, we’ve only sampled certain elements of the environment around us. It feels continuous because our brains have filled in the gaps for us, explains Berkeley’s Knight Lab researcher and first author Randolph Helfrich, Ph.D. to Inverse. “I think it’s more a philosophical problem that it is a scientific problem,” he says. “Because when we look at brain data we see a pattern that waxes and wanes, they’re never constant and stable. Everyone perceives the world as continuous and coherent, but the real tricky part is, how does the brain do that?”" https://www.inverse.com/article/48300-why-is-it-hard-to-focus-research-humans

Amazon pronta per il debutto in Israele. Anche con un centro logistico - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/ecommerce/amazon-pronta-per-il-debutto-in-israele-anche-con-un-centro-logistico/

Adecco sotto attacco hacker: rubati i dati biometrici di 2mila dipendenti - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/adecco-sotto-attacco-hacker-rubati-i-dati-biometrici-di-2mila-dipendenti/

Considero articoli e riflessioni come questa, sul rapporto tra cinema e baseball, una cosa completamente aliena. Sono stato a vedere partite di baseball negli Stati Uniti, in bar dove si guardavano partite di baseball in televisione, in cene dove si parlava di baseball. E mi sembrava di essere la moglie dell'antropologo andato in micronesia. O su Marte, se è per questo. Comunque, se siete infoiati di baseball oppure se volete vedere lo schema senza capire i movimenti, questo è il (cervellotico) articolo che fa per voi. Money quote: "There have been so many new baseball movies in the past couple of years that it has seemed at times that filmmakers were taking on the form as a kind of penance. Some of the results have been pretty good, or partly good, and some god-awful; one of the movies is just about perfect, to my way of thinking. (It’s Bull Durham, which offers almost the first evidence that the phrase “baseball movie” is not an oxymoron.) "

Smart city, il nodo è la cybersecurity. E gli investimenti in campo non bastano - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/smart-city/smart-city-il-nodo-e-la-cybersecurity-e-gli-investimenti-in-campo-non-bastano/

In crisi il team health di Apple, fuggi fuggi dei manager chiave - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/pa-digitale/e-health/in-crisi-il-team-health-di-apple-fuggi-fuggi-dei-manager-chiave/

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L’India “ostacola” Google & co: è reverse trade war? - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/ecommerce/lindia-ostacola-google-co-e-reverse-trade-war/

Automotive, parte la sfida degli assistenti vocali di bordo - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/automotive-parte-la-sfida-degli-assistenti-vocali-di-bordo/

Sexy and sensible. Cosa volete di più da un gestore della scrivania e delle finestre? Ecco qui un altro articolo pieno di iperboli e con poca sostanza (anche se poi in realtà Deepin è un ottimo ambiente grafico per Linux. Money quote: “Like many other Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu and elementary OS, Deepin is based on Debian. But Deepin is also a standalone desktop environment, meaning it's possible to install it as your default "look and feel" on a wide range of distributions (an alternative word for desktop operating system in the Linux world). Deepin does something unique that I haven't seen in any other Linux distribution I've tried. Or for that matter, in any version of macOS or Windows. This compels me to describe it as simultaneously sexy and sensible. I know, it's an unusual combination!” https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/12/10/meet-the-linux-desktop-that-blows-away-windows-10-and-macos/#1d89b3595000

Spiragli di pace tra la Casa Bianca e Apple. Trump: "Presto una cena con Tim Cook" - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/spiragli-di-pace-tra-la-casa-bianca-e-apple-trump-presto-una-cena-con-tim-cook/

Trade war, gli Usa concedono a Huawei altri 90 giorni di tregua - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/trade-war-gli-usa-concedono-a-huawei-90-giorni-di-tregua-sul-ban/

Se non puoi evitarli, unisciti a loro e diventa il migliore. La strategia di Apple per la GDPR Money quote: “Apple is a prime example of a major tech giant taking steps to improve data transparency for its users. It recently launched a portal where customers can sift through all the data the company has on them, and CEO Tim Cook has been very vocal about data protection. He recently called it a "fundamental human right" and commended the implementation of GDPR, calling on tech companies to not only embrace the spirit of the EU laws, but to support the introduction of similar legislation across the US.” https://www.itpro.co.uk/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/32509/apples-transparent-data-policy-is-a-lesson-in-how-to

Cerchiobottismo in salsa americana Money quote: “So to get the most out of innovations and avoid betting on the also-rans, my inaugural advice to readers was to follow these steps: Buy hardware from Apple. Use online services made by Google. And get digital media from Amazon” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/technology/how-to-survive-the-next-era-of-tech-slow-down-and-be-mindful.html

Storia e retroscena dei 100 milioni di dollari che Netflix ha pagato per ‘Friends’ Money quote: “But Netflix wasn’t the only streamer interested in “Friends.” Other bidders for the show included Hulu, the streaming service currently owned by Disney, Fox, NBCU and … WarnerMedia, as well as Apple, which doesn’t have a streaming service yet, but also plans on launching one next year.” https://www.recode.net/2018/12/4/18126596/friends-netflix-warnermedia-att-hulu-apple-deal