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Ulysses 20 analizza come scrivi e porta il cruscotto su iPhone, iPad e Mac - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/ulysses-20-analizza-come-scrivi-e-porta-il-cruscotto-su-iphone-ipad-e-mac/

La svolta green di Apple: nel 2030 totalmente carbon free - il mio articolo per La Stampa https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/07/21/news/la-svolta-green-di-apple-nel-2030-totalmente-carbon-free-1.39108066

Dal 5G all’iperautomation: gli 8 trend che cambieranno lo scenario 2020 - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/dal-5g-alliperautomation-gli-8-trend-che-cambieranno-lo-scenario-2020/

La prima cosa che mi ha attratto di questo articolo è la foto di apertura, che avevo visto anche io sui siti dove si distribuiscono foto gratuitamente per scrivere. Bella immagine, evocativa. L'idea dell'articolo, invece, è singolare: a differenza della retorica che circola adesso per cui lo smart work è qui per restare, secondo l'autore dell'articolo invece le cose non stanno così. Money quote: "I haven’t had the “good fortune” of working from home during the quarantine season. I’ve still been going into the office each day, but I am experiencing the effects of 1/3 of my staff working from remote locations, including their homes. I am very much looking forward to having my team back together in the same location." https://medium.com/swlh/remote-work-is-not-here-to-stay-9ef4f0f8f169

Leica presenta la nuova M 10-R, la fotocamera d'elite diventa ancora più potente - il mio articolo per IlSole24Ore https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/leica-presenta-nuova-m-10-r-fotocamera-d-elite-diventa-ancora-piu-potente-ADVukxe

Digital tax, l’alert di Ibm: “No a ritorsioni contro l’Europa, per gli Usa effetto boomerang” - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/digital-tax-lalert-di-ibm-no-a-ritorsioni-contro-leuropa-per-gli-usa-effetto-boomerang/

Chiude Odessa, uno dei tre grandi ristoranti alternativi del Village di New York Money quote: "It was like a time capsule and a love letter to the East Village of three decades earlier. But even then, I could see that the restaurant’s days were numbered. Not only was the value of frontage on Tompkins Square zooming, but this kind of food was becoming increasingly less popular. Yes, you can still get it at places like Veselka (opened 1954), but now the troika of Kiev, Leshko’s, and Odessa will all be shuttered, depriving the East Village and its arts scene of an important vestige of its culinary history." https://ny.eater.com/2020/7/14/21322961/odessa-closure-east-village-robert-sietsema-lookback

Proseguendo il discorso del messaggio precedente, la lettera di dimissioni di Bari Weiss dal New York Times, dopo l’assunzione che aveva l’obiettivo di portare un po’ di conservatorismo in un giornale dalle opinioni liberali che aveva completamente mancato di prevedere il fenomeno Donald Trump. Una lettera pesante che spiega come il problema non sia solo di una parte degli elettori o dei giornalisti o dei politici. La responsabilità è comune. Money quote: “But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.” https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

Negli Stati Uniti si stanno rendendo conto di essersi messi nei guai da soli. Trump è il figlio dell’America, non solo la sua nemesi. Money quote: “We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal.” https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

Nassim Nicholas Taleb è infastidito. Altro che cigno nero. Il coronavirus è stato ben previsto ed era evitabile. Money quote: “Besides, the pandemic was wholly predictable—he, like Bill Gates, Laurie Garrett, and others, had predicted it—a white swan if ever there was one. “We issued our warning that, effectively, you should kill it in the egg,” Taleb told Bloomberg. Governments “did not want to spend pennies in January; now they are going to spend trillions.”” https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-isnt-a-black-swan-but-a-portent-of-a-more-fragile-global-system

John Lewis: “My philosophy is very simple: When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to stand up and just say something. You have to do something. I got into good trouble, necessary trouble. Even today, I tell people, ‘We need to get in good trouble.’”

Un paper sui tre approcci della Artificial Intelligence rispetto alla società negli Usa, Uk e Ue. Money quote: “In October 2016, the White House, the European Parliament, and the UK House of Commons each issued a report outlining their visions on how to prepare society for the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI). In this article, we provide a comparative assessment of these three reports in order to facilitate the design of policies favourable to the development of a ‘good AI society’. “ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-017-9901-7

Facebook pronta a lanciare l’anti TikTok, in arrivo Reels - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/facebook-pronta-a-lanciare-lanti-tiktok-in-arrivo-reels/

L’evoluzione dei robot: arrivano quelli con il senso del tatto - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/levoluzione-dei-robot-arrivano-quelli-con-il-senso-del-tatto/

Il 2020 doveva essere l’anno dell’ebook. Ma qualcosa è andato storto (e non è il coronavirus). Money quote: “And in part, Albanese tells Vox in a phone interview, that’s because the digital natives of Gen Z and the millennial generation have very little interest in buying ebooks. “They’re glued to their phones, they love social media, but when it comes to reading a book, they want John Green in print,” he says. The people who are actually buying ebooks? Mostly boomers. “Older readers are glued to their e-readers,” says Albanese. “They don’t have to go to the bookstore. They can make the font bigger. It’s convenient.”” https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/23/20991659/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad

La mossa di Apple che sconvolgerà Microsoft - il mio articolo per La Stampa https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2020/07/17/news/la-mossa-di-apple-che-sconvolgera-microsoft-1.39089116?refresh_ce

Da oggi per un mese è un buon momento per comprare i libri di Adelphi. Non avendo affiliazioni di nessun tipo, vi consiglio “andate e comprateli dove vi pare”

Ecco la Leica M 10-R da 40 megapixel - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/leica-m-10-r/

Ecco come Baidu ha inventato nuove strade per addestrare le reti neurali: merito delle differenze linguistiche tra inglese e cinese. Money quote: “When Baidu researchers began developing their own language model, they wanted to build on the masking technique. But they realized they needed to tweak it to accommodate the Chinese language.“ https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/12/26/131372/ai-baidu-ernie-google-bert-natural-language-glue/

E-commerce, italiani più consapevoli dopo la “full immersion” del lockdown - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/ecommerce/e-commerce-italiani-piu-consapevoli-dopo-la-full-immersion-del-lockdown/