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5G in volata, mercato a 30 miliardi di dollari nel 2025 - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/5g/5g-in-volata-mercato-a-30-miliardi-di-dollari-nel-2025/

5G, convergenza e cloud chiavi del successo - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/5g-convergenza-e-cloud-chiavi-del-successo/

Wearable in volata, partita a 5 per conquistare il mercato - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/wearable-in-volata-partita-a-5-per-conquistare-il-mercato/

Com'è stare a Hong Kong durante i giorni delle proteste. Money quote: "The time and location of protests are set via social media alchemy; once you get notified about one, you descend through a spotless mall onto a bright and clean train platform, get whisked away by a train that arrives almost immediately, step out into another mall, then finally walk outside into overwhelming heat and a gathering group of demonstrators. When it’s over, whether the demonstrators have dispersed of their own will, or are running from rubber bullets and tear gas, you duck into another mall, and another train, and within minutes are back in a land of infinite hypercommerce, tiny alleys and posh hotels with their lobby on the 40th floor of a skyscraper." https://idlewords.com/2019/08/a_walk_in_hong_kong.htm

Volkswagen scommette sull’automotive 4.0: sul piatto 8 miliardi - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/volkswagen-scommette-sullautomotive-4-0-sul-piatto-8-miliardi/

Per i più interessati a seguire le mie peripezie giornalistiche, mentre settimana scorsa ero a Shanghai ho continuato a scrivere per CorCom, ma il grande firewall della Cina mi ha impedito di acchiappare le notizie pubblicate e rimetterle qui. Rimedio in giornata, pian piano

iPhone 11 a rischio flop: gli utenti aspettano il 5G - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/iphone-11-a-rischio-flop-gli-utenti-aspettano-il-5g/

L’attesa è finita, il Galaxy Fold il 27 settembre debutta negli Usa - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/lattesa-e-finita-il-galaxy-fold-il-27-settembre-debutta-negli-usa/

Huawei: l'informatica è il business su cui puntare - il mio articolo per Wired https://www.wired.it/attualita/tech/2019/09/24/huawei-e-informatica/

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook cancella migliaia di app sospette - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cambridge-analytica-facebook-cancella-migliaia-di-app-sospette/

Assist di Trump a Cook, niente dazi per i Mac di lusso - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/assist-di-trump-a-cook-niente-dazi-per-mac-di-lusso/

Trade war Usa-Cina, Aguiar: "Huawei solo un pretesto. L'Europa non si faccia ingannare" - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/trase-war-usa-cina-aguiar-huawei-solo-un-pretesto-leuropa-non-si-faccia-ingannare/

Silenzio, parla l'hacker Money quote: "What is it about the computer that makes it become such an obsession for young guys? Well, it's power at your fingertips. You can control all these computers from the government, from the military, from large corporations. And if you know what you're doing, you can travel through the internet at your will, with no restrictions. That's power; it's a power trip." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/interviews/anon.html

La storia dei Captcha (dietro l'acronimo c'è una dei nomi più assurdi che abbia mai incontrato: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). E cosa significano per l'intelligenzaa artificiale. Money quote: "Because CAPTCHA is such an elegant tool for training AI, any given test could only ever be temporary, something its inventors acknowledged at the outset. With all those researchers, scammers, and ordinary humans solving billions of puzzles just at the threshold of what AI can do, at some point the machines were going to pass us by. In 2014, Google pitted one of its machine learning algorithms against humans in solving the most distorted text CAPTCHAs: the computer got the test right 99.8 percent of the time, while the humans got a mere 33 percent." https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence

5G, convergenza e cloud chiavi del successo - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/5g-convergenza-e-cloud-chiavi-del-successo/

Il presidente e Ceo della News Media Alliance ha parole dure per i big dell'internet e suggerimenti radicali più in generale. Tipo: pagate per le vostre news. Money quote. "We can start with the fact that “free” isn’t a good business model for quality journalism. Facebook and Google flatly refuse to pay for news even though they license many other types of content. Both companies have deals to pay music publishers when copyrighted songs play on their platforms. And the companies also aggressively bid to stream live sports and entertainment content to run on Facebook Watch and YouTube. These deals are varied and often secret, but none of them are based on “free.” Why are the platforms so unwilling to pay news publishers for access to the quality journalism that users need and value?" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/google-facebook-fake-news-journalism.html

Febbre cinese per i nuovi iPhone 11 e iPhone 11 Pro: la nostra galleria da Apple Store Shangai - le mie foto per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/febbre-cinese-per-i-nuovi-iphone-11-e-iphone-11-pro-la-nostra-galleria-da-apple-store-shangai/

Il mistero dell'X-37, la nave spaziale segreta (e senza equipaggio) del governo americano Money quote: "There’s no crew on board operating X-37B, but the vehicle can autonomously descend back through Earth’s atmosphere and land horizontally on a runway, just like the NASA Space Shuttle used to do when it was in operation." https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/26/experimental-u-s-air-force-space-plane-breaks-previous-record-for-orbital-spaceflight/

La prova: lettore ebook Kobo Libra H2O - il mio articolo per La Stampa https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/prove/2019/09/20/news/la-prova-lettore-ebook-kobo-libra-h2o-1.37482266

Intere fortune costruite in maniera predatoria, violenta, schiavista e magari sfruttando debolezze o fragilità umane e del sistema (e anche dell'ambiente). Soldi sporchi. Che però diventano una forma di beneficio per l'umanità grazie alla sponsorizzazione di istituzioni accademiche. In un momento di grande confusione etica, questo articolo ripercorre la storia di una famiglia che ha costruito un impero miliardario sul dolore, e sul modo con il quale in America l'etica protestante "lava" i peccati dei suoi figli prediletti. Money quote: "When the Met was originally built, in 1880, one of its trustees, the lawyer Joseph Choate, gave a speech to Gilded Age industrialists who had gathered to celebrate its dedication, and, in a bid for their support, offered the sly observation that what philanthropy really buys is immortality: “Think of it, ye millionaires of many markets, what glory may yet be yours, if you only listen to our advice, to convert pork into porcelain, grain and produce into priceless pottery, the rude ores of commerce into sculptured marble.” Through such transubstantiation, many fortunes have passed into enduring civic institutions. Over time, the origins of a clan’s largesse are largely forgotten, and we recall only the philanthropic legacy, prompted by the name on the building." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain