Sometime around the turn of the millennium, a strange new object appeared in my life. Metal, vaguely alien, it was bolted to the outside wall of our apartment building in Southern Italy: a satellite dish. Inside, a decoder box materialised in the living room, paired with a remote that looked ordinary enough, until I learned …
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Imagine a world where the government can halt all financial transactions for a number of days. Where detainees from a specific commission aren’t entitled to legal representation. That’s precisely what happens (among other extraordinary situations) in Netflix’s Zero Day, a political drama that thrives on an unsettling sense of plausibility. Here’s a question I’ve asked …
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Ok, I may have exaggerated a little with the title, but man, it should be illegal not to have this little device plugged in to each one of your HD tv’s. Seriously. How did I ever live without it! Google Chromecast turns your boring HD screen into a smart TV that can be controlled from your computer …
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