Avreste voluto esserci anche voi, al lancio di iPhone X che coincide con l’apertura ufficiale per la stampa e il pubblico VIP della nuova sede Apple Park? Beh, il reportage fotografico di Recode risolve buona parte del vostro problema. È quasi come esserci stati.
Money quote: “Approaching Apple Park really does feel more like a real park than an office park — especially on the hill leading up to the Steve Jobs Theater and the grounds surrounding it. The theater is a 20-foot-tall glass cylinder, 165 feet in diameter, with a metallic carbon-fiber roof and a wide path completely surrounding it.”
https://www.recode.net/2017/9/13/16299086/apple-park-steve-jobs-theater-iphone-event-photos
Money quote: “Approaching Apple Park really does feel more like a real park than an office park — especially on the hill leading up to the Steve Jobs Theater and the grounds surrounding it. The theater is a 20-foot-tall glass cylinder, 165 feet in diameter, with a metallic carbon-fiber roof and a wide path completely surrounding it.”
https://www.recode.net/2017/9/13/16299086/apple-park-steve-jobs-theater-iphone-event-photos
Recode
Photos: What it was like to attend Apple’s iPhone X event — its first at the Steve Jobs Theater
Welcome to Apple Park.
La prima volta di Angela Ahrendts sul palco del Keynote Apple - il mio articolo pr Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/la-volta-angela-sul-palco/
https://www.macitynet.it/la-volta-angela-sul-palco/
Macitynet.it
La prima volta di Angela Ahrendts sul palco del Keynote Apple - Macitynet.it
La responsabile retail di Apple per la prima volta parla al keynote. Angela Ahrendts spiega perché gli Apple Store sono il più grande prodotto di Cupertino
Storia della macchina per fare il sushi, dell'uomo che l'ha creata e di chi si è sempre molto opposto
Money quote: “And that’s when it came to him: he would use his firm’s knowledge of candy-packaging machines to develop the robot. The idea, while off-the-wall in the mid-1970s, had a simple premise. If he could lower the cost of making sushi by mechanizing parts of the process and reducing the need for highly paid chefs, he could bring the previously elite Japanese dish to the masses, and in doing so increase demand for rice.
Four decades later, Suzumo Machinery Co.’s robots are used by about 70,000 customers around the world, ranging from sushi chains to factories, and account for about 70 percent of the market for the equipment at restaurants, according to Suzumo’s estimates. Kaiten sushi, also known as conveyor-belt sushi, has become a $6 billion industry in Japan alone, partly thanks to Suzuki’s invention.”
https://www.bloombergquint.com/pursuits/2017/08/30/how-an-angry-candy-man-revolutionized-the-modern-sushi-industry
Money quote: “And that’s when it came to him: he would use his firm’s knowledge of candy-packaging machines to develop the robot. The idea, while off-the-wall in the mid-1970s, had a simple premise. If he could lower the cost of making sushi by mechanizing parts of the process and reducing the need for highly paid chefs, he could bring the previously elite Japanese dish to the masses, and in doing so increase demand for rice.
Four decades later, Suzumo Machinery Co.’s robots are used by about 70,000 customers around the world, ranging from sushi chains to factories, and account for about 70 percent of the market for the equipment at restaurants, according to Suzumo’s estimates. Kaiten sushi, also known as conveyor-belt sushi, has become a $6 billion industry in Japan alone, partly thanks to Suzuki’s invention.”
https://www.bloombergquint.com/pursuits/2017/08/30/how-an-angry-candy-man-revolutionized-the-modern-sushi-industry
Bloomberg Quint
How an Angry Candy Man Revolutionized the Modern Sushi Industry
Creator of world’s first sushi robot developed the idea on his previous job.
Se vi siete mai chiesti come sia la vita di un ingegnere del software, che fatica a realizzare i suoi prodotti ma poi, contento del risultato, li vende con una certa soddisfazione, per fortuna c’è il mini documentario-verità di Yves Saint Laurent che vi spiega tutto. Scusatelo per il crudo realismo, ma si sa che i documenti storici sono fatti così, senza alcuna mediazione.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU09j2gGHYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU09j2gGHYg
Leggete abbastanza bene in inglese e volete provare ad abitare la mente di una persona dislessica? Ecco il vostro sito. Impressionante (se ne fanno anche uno per daltonici, sono contento).
http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea
http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea
La chiesa da campo sta diventando una città: straordinarie trasformazioni nel Lagos, che lasciano immaginare futuri alternativi. O forse neanche tanto alternativi.
Money quote: “Redemption Camp has 5,000 houses, roads, rubbish collection, police, supermarkets, banks, a fun fair, a post office – even a 25 megawatt power plant. In Nigeria, the line between church and city is rapidly vanishing”
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/sep/11/eat-pray-live-lagos-nigeria-megachurches-redemption-camp
Money quote: “Redemption Camp has 5,000 houses, roads, rubbish collection, police, supermarkets, banks, a fun fair, a post office – even a 25 megawatt power plant. In Nigeria, the line between church and city is rapidly vanishing”
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/sep/11/eat-pray-live-lagos-nigeria-megachurches-redemption-camp
the Guardian
Eat, pray, live: the Lagos megachurches building their very own cities
Redemption Camp has 5,000 houses, roads, rubbish collection, police, supermarkets, banks, a fun fair, a post office – even a 25 megawatt power plant. In Nigeria, the line between church and city is rapidly vanishing
Quando il giudice è fatto di silicio oppure è un terzista a 9 dollari l'ora. La storia della giornalista bannata a vita da YouTube, Gmail e da Google Drive per aver pubblicato video terrorisiti.
Money quote: “YouTube’s latest push to ban terrorist propaganda across its ubiquitous video platform is getting off to a rough start. Earlier this week, noted investigative reporter and researcher Alexa O’Brien woke to find that not only had she been permanently banned from YouTube, but that her Gmail and Google Drive accounts had been suspended as well. She would later learn that a reviewer who works for Google had mistakenly identified her channel, in the words of a YouTube representative, as “being dedicated to terrorist propaganda.””
http://gizmodo.com/journalist-nearly-banned-from-youtube-and-gmail-for-pos-1815314182
Money quote: “YouTube’s latest push to ban terrorist propaganda across its ubiquitous video platform is getting off to a rough start. Earlier this week, noted investigative reporter and researcher Alexa O’Brien woke to find that not only had she been permanently banned from YouTube, but that her Gmail and Google Drive accounts had been suspended as well. She would later learn that a reviewer who works for Google had mistakenly identified her channel, in the words of a YouTube representative, as “being dedicated to terrorist propaganda.””
http://gizmodo.com/journalist-nearly-banned-from-youtube-and-gmail-for-pos-1815314182
Gizmodo
Journalist Nearly Banned from YouTube and Gmail For Posting Al-Qaeda Videos From Chelsea Manning Trial
YouTube’s latest push to ban terrorist propaganda across its ubiquitous video platform is getting off to a rough start. Earlier this week, noted investigative reporter and researcher Alexa O’Brien woke to find that not only had she been permanently banned…
Quelli famosi tra noi che sono nati nel 1967 quest’anno compiono 50 anni. Il Post ci fa una bella gallery di 42 nomi, tra cui Matt LeBlanc, Pamela Anderson, Nicole Kidman, Fabio Caressa e Roberto Baggio
http://www.ilpost.it/2017/09/14/nati-nel-1967/the-new-york-comedy-festival-and-the-bob-woodruff-foundation-present-the-10th-annual-stand-up-for-heroes-event/
http://www.ilpost.it/2017/09/14/nati-nel-1967/the-new-york-comedy-festival-and-the-bob-woodruff-foundation-present-the-10th-annual-stand-up-for-heroes-event/
Il Post
La classe del 1967 - Il Post
Louis C.K (12 settembre) È uno dei comici americani più famosi e di successo degli ultimi anni, noto per i suoi spettacoli di “stand-up” e per la serie tv autobiografica Louie. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Bob Woodruff Foundation)
Storie del momento nerd.
Due Chromebook (uno a casa e uno in ufficio) per fare tutto senza doversi portare dietro niente e spendendo molto poco. Basta per uno che si occupa di data science? A quanto pare la risposta non è semplice, ma molto confortante. Se funziona per chi macina numeri tutto il giorno, pensate a voi che invece fate molto meno.
Money quote:
I set myself the following requirements:
I could only use Chrome OS - no installing/booting to Linux
I couldn’t use another computer for any task
I had to be “fully cloudy” in the sense that I didn’t run any additional hardware
One of the reasons I did this was I wanted to see if it was possible to be a functioning/day to day data scientist without using an expensive laptop. This is part of a broader experiment I’m just beginning on how to democratize data science education.
https://simplystatistics.org/2017/08/29/data-science-on-a-chromebook/
Due Chromebook (uno a casa e uno in ufficio) per fare tutto senza doversi portare dietro niente e spendendo molto poco. Basta per uno che si occupa di data science? A quanto pare la risposta non è semplice, ma molto confortante. Se funziona per chi macina numeri tutto il giorno, pensate a voi che invece fate molto meno.
Money quote:
I set myself the following requirements:
I could only use Chrome OS - no installing/booting to Linux
I couldn’t use another computer for any task
I had to be “fully cloudy” in the sense that I didn’t run any additional hardware
One of the reasons I did this was I wanted to see if it was possible to be a functioning/day to day data scientist without using an expensive laptop. This is part of a broader experiment I’m just beginning on how to democratize data science education.
https://simplystatistics.org/2017/08/29/data-science-on-a-chromebook/
Storia orale di un videogioco che non è solo un videogioco, sul Campo Santo Quarterly Review, rivista trimestrale che non conoscevo ma che mi pare assai interessante.
Money quote: "I like it a lot. I wanted to know how Tales from the Borderlands came to be, I wanted to know who made it, and I wanted most of all for my mind not to think of the game in the same breath as “plane racist”. So I did this. Here, for the first time, is the oral history of the development of Tales from the Borderlands, compiled from interviews with over a dozen members of the cast and crew from Telltale and Gearbox."
https://quarterly.camposanto.com/tales-from-the-borderlands-the-oral-history-d33bb5f146e6
Money quote: "I like it a lot. I wanted to know how Tales from the Borderlands came to be, I wanted to know who made it, and I wanted most of all for my mind not to think of the game in the same breath as “plane racist”. So I did this. Here, for the first time, is the oral history of the development of Tales from the Borderlands, compiled from interviews with over a dozen members of the cast and crew from Telltale and Gearbox."
https://quarterly.camposanto.com/tales-from-the-borderlands-the-oral-history-d33bb5f146e6
Medium
Tales from the Borderlands: The Oral History
It may be Telltale’s best game. Here for the first time is the story behind Tales from the Borderlands. Ups, downs, sock fetishes. All…
Ne parliamo tutti, ma di cosa stiamo parlando? Le blockchain secondo molti solo “la cosa nuova” che tutti stavamo aspettando. Trasformative, rivoluzionarie: a partire dalla criptovalute fino ai documenti notarili del futuro (quelli senza più il notaio, finalmente). Eppure, ne sappiamo veramente poco. Se avete voglia di smanettare un po’, questo buon samaritano ha fatto una applicazione per la riga di comando che permette di creare la propria piccola blockchain personale, con tutti i passaggi che potete immaginare. Una sperie di versione in Lego della Torre di Pisa, insomma. Divertente!
Money quote:
Genesis Block
Every blockchain will start with the🏆 Genesis Block. As you will see later, each block on the blockchain is dependent on the previous block. So, the Genesis block is needed to mine our first block.
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-does-blockchain-really-work-i-built-an-app-to-show-you-6b70cd4caf7d
Money quote:
Genesis Block
Every blockchain will start with the🏆 Genesis Block. As you will see later, each block on the blockchain is dependent on the previous block. So, the Genesis block is needed to mine our first block.
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-does-blockchain-really-work-i-built-an-app-to-show-you-6b70cd4caf7d
freeCodeCamp.org
How does blockchain really work? I built an app to show you.
by Sean Han How does blockchain really work? I built an app to show you. According to Wikipedia, a blockchain is: > A distributed database that is used to maintain a continuously growing list of records, called blocks. That sounds nice, but how does it work?…
Alla fine, siamo noi che viviamo dentro il computer. Senza bisogno di nessuna Matrix
Money quote: "Connected toasters promise to help people “toast smarter.” Smartphone-connected bike locks vow to “Eliminate the hassle and frustration of lost keys and forgotten combinations,” at the low price of just $149.99. There’s Nest, the smart thermostat made by the former designer of the iPod and later bought by Google for $3.2 billion. The company also makes home security cameras, which connect to the network to transmit video to their owners’ smartphones. Once self-contained, gizmos like baby monitors now boast internet access as an essential benefit"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/you-are-already-living-inside-a-computer/539193
Money quote: "Connected toasters promise to help people “toast smarter.” Smartphone-connected bike locks vow to “Eliminate the hassle and frustration of lost keys and forgotten combinations,” at the low price of just $149.99. There’s Nest, the smart thermostat made by the former designer of the iPod and later bought by Google for $3.2 billion. The company also makes home security cameras, which connect to the network to transmit video to their owners’ smartphones. Once self-contained, gizmos like baby monitors now boast internet access as an essential benefit"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/you-are-already-living-inside-a-computer/539193
The Atlantic
You Are Already Living Inside a Computer
Futurists predict a rapture of machines, but reality beat them to it by turning computing into a way of life.
La potenza di Trello per progetti e collaborazione arriva su Mac e Windows - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/arriva-lapp-trello-macos-windows/
https://www.macitynet.it/arriva-lapp-trello-macos-windows/
Macitynet.it
La potenza di Trello per progetti e collaborazione arriva su Mac e Windows - Macitynet.it
Trello sta cambiando il modo di collaborare, gestire progetti e comunicare per gruppi di lavoro e aziende. Già disponibile su Web, iOS, Apple Watch e Android ora anche su Mac e Windows
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Valérian, storia di un fumetto che ha fatto la Storia e le cose da sapere prima di vedere il film di Luc Besson in arrivo prossimamente nelle sale italiane.
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/09/valerian-laureline/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/09/valerian-laureline/
Fumettologica
Valérian e Laureline, e altri due vecchi amici
Tra i più importanti fumetti francesi, "Valerian e Laureline" ha influenzato l'immaginario fantascientifico di numerosi registi, a partire da Luc Besson.
Trucchi per fotografare i paesaggi dal finestrino dei treni americani. Ma funziona anche per quelli nostrani, paesaggi a parte.
Money quote: “Ho viaggiato migliaia di chilometri sui treni americani, e posso quindi garantirti che non vorrai dimenticarti i paesaggi che vedrai dal finestrino.
Ho deciso quindi di condividere con te i miei trucchi per fotografare al meglio il paesaggio dal finestrino del treno.”
http://storiedisanfrancisco.it/trucchi-per-fotografare-lamerica-dal-treno/
Money quote: “Ho viaggiato migliaia di chilometri sui treni americani, e posso quindi garantirti che non vorrai dimenticarti i paesaggi che vedrai dal finestrino.
Ho deciso quindi di condividere con te i miei trucchi per fotografare al meglio il paesaggio dal finestrino del treno.”
http://storiedisanfrancisco.it/trucchi-per-fotografare-lamerica-dal-treno/
Storie di San Francisco
14 Trucchi per fotografare il paesaggio dal finestrino del treno [foto]
Quando viaggi in treno vuoi conservare i ricordi più belli degli straordinari paesaggi che vedi: scopri come con le mie 14 tips dai treni americani
Il mio tema di maturità, una vita fa, era sul concetto di alienazione nella società moderna. Da allora siamo andati solo peggiorando, a quanto pare (e probabilmente adesso lo svolgimento sarebbe ancora più apocalittico).
Money quote: "The stories have become all too familiar in Japan, though people often do their best to ignore them. An elderly or middle-aged person, usually a man, is found dead, at home in his apartment, frequently right in his bed. It has been days, weeks, or even months since he has had contact with another human being. Often the discovery is made by a landlord frustrated at not receiving a rent payment or a neighbor who notices an unpleasant smell. The deceased has almost no connections with the world around him: no job, no relationships with neighbors, no spouse or children who care to be in contact. He has little desire to take care of his home, his relationships, his health. “The majority of lonely deaths are people who are kind of messy,” Taichi Yoshida, who runs a moving company that often cleans out apartments where people are discovered long after they die, told Time magazine. “It’s the person who, when they take something out, they don’t put it back; when something breaks, they don’t fix it; when a relationship falls apart, they don’t repair it.”"
http://www.nautil.us/blog/-alienation-is-killing-americans-and-japanese
Money quote: "The stories have become all too familiar in Japan, though people often do their best to ignore them. An elderly or middle-aged person, usually a man, is found dead, at home in his apartment, frequently right in his bed. It has been days, weeks, or even months since he has had contact with another human being. Often the discovery is made by a landlord frustrated at not receiving a rent payment or a neighbor who notices an unpleasant smell. The deceased has almost no connections with the world around him: no job, no relationships with neighbors, no spouse or children who care to be in contact. He has little desire to take care of his home, his relationships, his health. “The majority of lonely deaths are people who are kind of messy,” Taichi Yoshida, who runs a moving company that often cleans out apartments where people are discovered long after they die, told Time magazine. “It’s the person who, when they take something out, they don’t put it back; when something breaks, they don’t fix it; when a relationship falls apart, they don’t repair it.”"
http://www.nautil.us/blog/-alienation-is-killing-americans-and-japanese
Nautilus
Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese
Almost a quarter of Japanese men and a tenth of Japanese women over age 60 say there is not a single person they could rely on in…
L’unica mail sicura è quella testuale - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/lunica-mail-sicura-quella-testuale/
https://www.macitynet.it/lunica-mail-sicura-quella-testuale/
Macitynet.it
L’unica mail sicura è quella testuale - Macitynet.it
L’errore è stato inventare le mail via web, che funzionano come pagine html, sostiene lo Scientific American, e rendono la vita facile ai pescatori di frodi
Dieci città cinesi da visitare. Se capitate da quelle parti.
Money quote: "Polluted and crowded. Also distinct and completely fascinating. And then there's the food"
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-12/10-chinese-megacities-to-see-before-you-die
Money quote: "Polluted and crowded. Also distinct and completely fascinating. And then there's the food"
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-12/10-chinese-megacities-to-see-before-you-die
Bloomberg.com
10 Chinese Megacities to See Before You Die
Polluted and crowded. Also distinct and completely fascinating. And then there's the food.