What went wrong with Haiti's sanitation plan? The story involves the
Queen of Spain, the "sanitation champion" and the man with the worst job
in the world.
Sightbox is an annual membership for contact lenses wearers. After you
sign up, they book and pay for your eye exam, then deliver a 12-month
supply of contacts to your door. All major brands are supported,
including color and astigmatism lenses.
"Well right after the chest busting scene, I admit that I was not able
to talk for about two or three days. When that thing came out of the
chest, I was smoked."
With a real threat of antitrust and privacy regulation on the horizon,
Google is on track to become this year’s top corporate lobbying spender
in the US.
The 2-seater "smart" car is tiny. Firetrucks are large. New York City
streets can be a little cramped. That's how you end up with four men
bouncing an itty-bitty car on the job.
As a stopgap and communal gesture, the mini food donation boxes are
great. But they also point out a much larger issue: Food insecurity is
on the rise and it can't be solved by charitable donations.
The opening car chase in "Baby Driver" is one of the best scenes of the
movie and it's even cooler when you can see how the car chase would
unfold in the real-life streets of Atlanta, Georgia (especially when
sudden teleportations occur).
With more than 1.6 million members, AFSCME is the nation’s biggest union
of public employees, and one of the most politically powerful — and
now, one of the most threatened.
The sex robots currently being designed can't walk yet, but you can
actually interact with them. Here's, however, an example of how a
conversation would go: "Do you want to walk?" "I don't want anything but
you."
Every day satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible
pictures of Earth, the solar system, and outer space. Here are the
highlights from this week.
"When the bear was up in the tree I'd have tourists — I remember
specifically from like Britain — say, 'Oh my God, we came here to see a
Mountie and a bear and we get to see both,'" Sgt. Clayton Wilbern told
the CBC.
The headlines have never been worse. But an increasingly influential
group of thinkers insists that humankind has never had it so good – and
only our pessimism is holding us back
The creator of the video mapped a ton of textures using photogrammetry
and then fed the data to Unreal Engine, which rendered these shots in
real time. Somehow.
When Anthony Scaramucci took over as White House communications
director, prompting the resignation of press secretary Sean Spicer, the
initial reaction from Washington journalists was warily optimistic.
Where Spicer was aggressive and hostile, Scaramucci would be “smooth ”
and affable. He even blew a kiss to end his first press briefing. These
looked like signs of a thaw. After all, officials and reporters in
Washington may still joke around after a bad story or a slight; the
hostility is often for show. Politics is communal and built on
co-dependency. Finance is different. It is individua...
Il Mezzogiorno d’Italia non finisce mai di stupire con lo
splendore del suo patrimonio culturale e dei suoi meravigliosi paesaggi.
È uno scrigno di tesori ed energie creative capaci di incantare anche
persone che hanno una consuetudine con la bellezza e il mondo dell’arte.
L’ultima sorpresa me l’ha regalata Ravello, un affascinante borgo della
Costiera Amalfitana. Ero stato qui tempo fa e non mi era capitato di
frequentare il festival che si svolge a Villa Rufolo su quello che
ritengo uno dei palcoscenici più belli del mondo, costruito come una
terrazza affacciata tra il mare blu cobalto e ...
roma È costretto a guardare avanti, alla prossima riforma che il
Parlamento dovrà votare, alla successiva misura contro la corruzione,
alla riorganizzazione della macchina dello Stato. Vive, per necessità,
ogni problema come una sfida: «Per non togliere forza al rinnovamento.
Dobbiamo diventare un Paese che attrae investimenti, che favorisce chi
vuole fare impresa», tenendo fermo l’obiettivo di entrare nell’Unione,
«una scelta, quella europea, fatta una volta per tutte dall’Ucraina con
la “rivoluzione della dignità” nel 2014». Oleksandr Danyliuk è dall’anno
scorso ministro delle Finanze ucr...
MUFG, Japan’s biggest bank, plans to choose Amsterdam as the new
EU base for its investment banking operations to cope with the
disruption of Brexit, according to two people briefed on the situation.
The decision highlights the fierce competition between European
capitals, which are vying to snap up London’s financial services
companies in the wake of Brexit. MUFG’s move also underlines how many of
the world’s biggest banks have decided they cannot afford to wait for
political uncertainty surrounding the outcome of Brexit negotiations to
clear before implementing their plans for a potential...
Way back in the 1990s, my first job on the Financial Times was to
cover German industry, which effectively meant the car industry. Germany
in the 1990s was like Detroit in the 1950s or early 1960s. The industry
was at the top of its game. Profit margins were large. The companies
started to expand, into other brands — like VW and BMW — or into other
industries, like Daimler. The chief executives of the car industry were
the bosses of the bosses. They had the world as their oyster, and the
government in their pockets. But those who feel strong and stable are
prone to errors. Much of the stuff...
On twin theremins, Dorit Chrysler and Charlie Draper were playing
Bernard Herrmann’s theme from The Day the Earth Stood Still, the
electronic threnody offering either lamentation or possibility. Outside,
festival-goers were anxiously watching the skies not for aliens but for
clouds. So far, the UK’s festival season had been improbably dry; but
now, deluges were forecast. Nonetheless, for the first afternoon,
Womad’s 35th anniversary weekend was pleasantly warm. São Paulo pioneers
Metá Metá played a mixture of free jazz, albeit with saxophone and
guitar in mathematically precise alignment, a...
Niantic, la casa sviluppatrice del celebre gioco per smartphone
Pokémon GO, in occasione dell'anniversario dell'uscita del titolo ha
organizzato una serie di eventi live, invitando tutti gli appassionati a
parteciparvi, giocando insieme e promettendo *...*
The debate about what sort of Brexit the government should be
seeking to secure has generated a tremendous amount of heat but not a
great deal of light. Hard, soft, car crash, red white and blue — you
name it, the list of random adjectives used to describe the type of
departure from the EU is long. So, perhaps now would be a good time to
remind ourselves of three vitally important facts. First, the scope of
the negotiations that will define the terms of Britain’s withdrawal from
the EU in March 2019 is narrow and focused on three key items:
settlement of financial liabilities, clarification...
No, l’aggressione a tre deputati del Partito democratico da parte
dei «no vax» perché hanno votato a favore della obbligatorietà dei dieci
vaccini non va bene. La si può pensare in modo diverso, si possono
usare forme di lotta tra le più provocatorie per far sentire la propria
voce, ma nell’ambito di un’accesa discussione democratica. D’altro canto
dobbiamo essere tutti più responsabili su questo terreno, in primis il
Parlamento che deve dare l’esempio su come ci si confronta su tematiche
tanto sensibili. Se pure dentro il Parlamento, dove ci sono i
rappresentanti dei cittadini, si esagera ...
Ultimate Fighting Championship, the world’s biggest mixed martial
arts league, will hold its first fight in mainland China, as it seeks a
larger slice of the country’s vast sports market. “We anticipate an
exciting future in the China market,” said Joe Carr, UFC senior
vice-president. The event in Shanghai in November will be jointly
organised by the municipal sports bureau and will probably see
Chinese-born fighters compete. UFC, which reported revenues of $600m
including merchandise in 2015, was acquired by US talent agency WME-IMG
for $4bn last year. It is relatively late to China’s grow...
Le «big five» dell’hi-tech nella settimana delle trimestrali che
si è appena conclusa - a eccezione di Apple che presenterà i risultati
del secondo trimestre martedì primo agosto - hanno superato i 3mila
miliardi di dollari di valore di Borsa. Per poi ripiegare - si fa per
dire - venerdì scorso, dopo i dati deludenti di Amazon, a quota 2.986,5
miliardi di dollari. Miliardo più miliardo meno, Apple, Alphabet, cioè
la holding che controlla Google, Microsoft, Amazon e Facebook valgono
otto volte il Pil annuo della Norvegia. Tre volte quello di un
continente come l’Australia. E ben ottocento vo...
30 luglio 2017 E' morto a Torre del Greco (Na) l'ex presidente
della Regione Campania, Ciro Cirillo. Aveva 96 anni. L'esponente di
punta della Dc fu sequestrato dalle Brigate Rosse nel 1981, quando era
assessore regionale ai Lavori pubblici, in un ...
Il ritornello della canzone, evidente invettiva contro quelli che
per il cantautore sono “gli italiani alternativi”, dice che
“l'immigrazione è una follia voluta da chi vuole che tu vada via”. E sul
social scatta l'offerta speciale... di Domenico Naso *...*
Valeria Robecco Il senatore malato va in aula e vota contro Il
presidente caccia Priebus, capo di gabinetto Valeria Robecco New York
Cancellare e sostituire l'Obamacare è stato uno dei cavalli di battaglia
della campagna elettorale di Donald Trump, e uno dei primi risultati
che il presidente americano voleva mettere a segno una volta entrato
alla Casa Bianca. Un obiettivo a cui ora deve dire forse definitivamente
addio, dopo lo schiaffo ricevuto dal Senato Usa, che in una votazione
proseguita sino a tarda notte ha bocciato il disegno di legge per una
revoca parziale della normativa. Affossa...
Robots that work alongside humans on factory floors and whizzing
turbines that power wind farms are at risk of attack from ransom-seeking
hackers, according to cyber security researchers exposing new
vulnerabilities. Fresh flaws revealed at the Black Hat cyber security
conference show how hackers could use weak security in industrial
control systems. Researchers, who expose vulnerabilities so companies
can fix them, showed how to hijack robots so that they stop working or
alter products or injure humans, and how to slam the brakes on energy
production by wind farms. Cyber security experts a...
For decades, tobacco groups have puffed along steadily, churning
out their deadly product to smokers and deliveringhandsome dividends to
shareholders. In recent years, however, they have been disrupted by new
ways of getting a nicotine hit, such as ecigarettes. Some have embraced
it, while others have been more cautious — but now US regulators have
told all of them to sit up and take notice. The Food and Drug
Administration fired a shot across the bows of the industry on Friday,
signalling a potentially more permissive approach to those developing
less harmful ways to take nicotine, while a...