A major snowstorm walloped the US north-east, causing disruptions for millions and thousands of flight cancellations.

Dans un entretien avec CNN, le président ukrainien estime que son homologue américain, Donald Trump, ne fait suffisamment pression sur Vladimir Poutine pour tenter de mettre fin à la guerre qui entre, mardi, dans sa cinquième année.

Keep in mind that DeepSeek is expected to release a new flagship model any day now.

On a rooftop in Manhattan’s Garment District, a blue hexagonal machine hummed quietly while producing something unexpected: gasoline. The device, about the size of a commercial refrigerator, pulls carbon dioxide from the air and converts it into usable fuel. According to New York–based startup Aircela, the result can be poured straight into the tank of a standard car with no engine modifications required. Transportation accounts for about 28 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, with most of that tied to gasoline vehicles. Electric cars are often promoted as the solution, yet adoption remains limited. Only about 8 percent of vehicles on U.S. roads are electric today, and roughly 90 percent worldwide...

Viral videos have caused the stuffed animal to sell out.

If you want to reverse engineer a PC board, you could do worse than X-ray it.  But thanks to [Philip Giacalone], you could just take a photo, load it into PCB Tracer, and annotate the images. You can see a few of a series of videos about the system below.
The tracer runs in your browser. It can let you mark traces, vias, components, and pads. You can annotate everything as you document it, and it can even call an AI model to help generate a schematic from the net list. This is one of those things that you could do without. Any photo editor could do the same thing. But having the tool aware of what the photo is showing makes life easier. The built-in features are free, but if you use the AI tool, he says it...

EVs in their current form do not deliver the "specific emotional connection" Lamborghini says its cars need.

AI is coming for everything, Wall Street seems to believe.

This soundbar is just the beginning, with the option to add wireless bookshelf speakers or a subwoofer.

A monkey descending a tree trunk often keeps its head up, moving almost like a cautious climber backing down a ladder. Squirrels and many other mammals, by contrast, tend to go headfirst. That difference turns out to carry clues about how primates evolved their distinctive upright postures. A new comparative analysis of tree-dwelling mammals, published in eLife, examined how animals move down vertical supports such as trunks and vines. The research compared 21 arboreal species, from primates to rodents and marsupials, making it the first broad study to analyze both upward and downward climbing across many mammal groups. The results point to a pattern shaped not just by body size, but by evolutionary history...

Lego's controversial wave of tech-enhanced 'Star Wars' sets are getting into people's hands, and showing the premium being paid isn't quite worth it.

Need to schlep some stuff? Consider these field-tested duffel bags. The Eastpak Duffel Pack S Tarp Black2 is our top pick.

How recommendations evolved from star ratings to behavioral data, and why the system may be worth billions as it scales to 325 million viewers

Trump demanded Susan Rice be fired “IMMEDIATELY“ and warned of “consequences,” forcing Netflix to navigate deal math in a Washington that feels personal

A wave of violence has erupted across Mexico since a powerful drug cartel boss died following his capture by special forces.

The promise of free ice cream for life might sound like a joke. In Oakland, it became a tribute. After figure skater Alysa Liu captured Olympic gold at the 2026 Winter Games, the hometown celebration began almost immediately. Fentons Creamery, a longtime Bay Area institution, announced it would reward the 20-year-old champion with unlimited ice cream and host a public welcome when she returns from Italy. The gesture reflected something larger than dessert. It marked a city claiming one of its own. Liu’s victory carried historic weight. She became the first American woman to win Olympic gold in individual figure skating since 2002, ending a drought that had stretched across generations of fans. Her...

In mid-February, the Department of Justice lost its head antitrust enforcer - just weeks before it was scheduled to argue one of the year's biggest anti-monopoly cases in court. Antitrust Division chief Gail Slater announced her departure suddenly, via a post on her personal X account. But to those who follow the agency closely, it was far from surprising. For months, leaks about the division described tensions between Slater and her team with DOJ leadership, and President Donald Trump's penchant for personal dealmaking raised questions about who would really call the antitrust shots. Over the summer, two of Slater's top deputies were fi …
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The last few years of Xbox have been expensive. Under Phil Spencer's leadership, Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in an attempt to build an ambitious future for gaming that looks a lot like Netflix. And while its subscription service Game Pass started out as a good deal for gamers (although now not so much), that spending spree has led to catastrophic layoffs, studio closures, and confused and inconsistent messaging about what Xbox actually stands for. And with Spencer set to retire as new leadership takes charge, the future of Microsoft's gaming efforts looks increasingly unclear.
Spencer announced his retirement last week, after ov …
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Anthropic claims DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model in an attempt to improve their own products. In an announcement on Monday, Anthropic says the "industrial-scale campaigns" involved the creation of around 24,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal.
The three companies - DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot - are accused of "distilling" Claude, or training a smaller AI model based on a more advanced one. Though Anthropic says that distillation is a "legitimate training method," it adds that it can "also be used for illicit purpose …
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Lundi 23 février, le Parlement européen a suspendu la ratification de l’accord de Turnberry après la décision de la Cour suprême d’invalider des droits de douane mis en place par l’administration Trump. Mais les importations européennes sont maintenant sous le coup d’une nouvelle taxe du président américain.

« Face à cette apparente incompréhension des attendus élémentaires de la mission d’ambassadeur (…), [Jean-Noël Barrot] a demandé qu’il ne puisse plus accéder directement aux membres du gouvernement français », a fait savoir le Quai d’Orsay.

You can get an IDE to USB bridge from all the usual sources, but you may find those fail on the older drives in your collection– apparently they require drives using logical block addressing, which did not become standard until the mid-1990s. Some while some older drives got in on the LBA game early, you were more likely to see Cylinder-Head-Sector (CHS) addressing. That’s why [JJ Dasher], a.k.a [redruM0381] created ATABoy, an open-source IDE bridge that can handle the oldest drives that fit on the bus.
The heart of the build is an RP2350, which serves as both IDE and USB host controller. To computer, after a little bit of setup, the drive attached to ATABoy shows up as a regular USB mass storage device. A...

This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents. Plus, we attend a soiree thrown by a conservative women's magazine.

Opa Architecture broke down walls, brought in color, and created "islands of design" to update an Upper East Side penthouse for a family of five."The playdates are always at our place," says Brianna Tsarevsky about the penthouse she and her husband, Daniel, recently renovated on New York City’s Upper East Side. The couple previously lived in a 5,000-square-foot house with a yard in the suburbs—and their eagerness to host in a much smaller space shows just how well the renovation by Opa Architecture suits their family of five while marrying livability and personality with everything the big city has to offer. With few exceptions, "Everything is as good as it can be," Daniel says. Before: Entry Before: Prior...

Sergiy Kyslytsya is among those trying to negotiate an end to the conflict, which is entering its fifth year.

The State Department has ordered non-essential staff to leave the embassy in Beirut after a security review.

A shrimp scrap drifted down the face of a mirror, and a small reef fish tracked it like it was watching a slow-motion experiment. The fish, a blue-streak cleaner wrasse, had carried the shrimp upward, released it near the glass, and then followed its fall while repeatedly touching the mirror with its mouth. That sequence showed up days after the wrasse first met its own reflection. To the researchers watching from outside the tank, it looked less like feeding and more like curiosity aimed at the mirror itself. A team from Osaka Metropolitan University says this is a new, higher-order kind of mirror probing in cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), a fish already known for passing the classic “mark test”...

Le narcotrafiquant Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, dit “El Mencho”, a été tué par l’armée mexicaine le 22 février. La presse du pays retrace le parcours de ce fils de paysans qui, en une décennie seulement, a constitué l’une des organisations criminelles les plus violentes du pays, le cartel de Jalisco Nouvelle Génération.

Built in 1829, the historic Poggensee home has a well-preserved facade and radically reenvisioned, monochromatic living spaces.Location: Alte Dorfstrasse 25, 23896 Poggensee, Germany Price: €1,750,000 (approximately USD $2,061,539) Year Built: 1829 Renovation Year: 2019 Footprint: 1,969 square feet  (2 bedrooms, 3 bath) From the Agent: "The historic Smokehouse of Poggensee, dating back to 1829, stands as a masterfully preserved piece of North German architectural heritage. Thanks to a series of renovations, it blends authentic thatched architecture with uncompromising contemporary design. The home’s steep, thatched roof rises monumentally above a finely balanced half-timbered structure of brick and wood....

La presse russe a annoncé vendredi 20 février la disparition du musée de l’Histoire du goulag, situé à Moscou, unique institution du pays qui documentait les crimes commis par l’État soviétique. Il sera remplacé par un musée en hommage aux “victimes du génocide du peuple soviétique”. Les médias indépendants dénoncent un énième assaut du pouvoir contre la mémoire historique.

Dans un témoignage écrit, Laurent Nuñez a déclaré que le fait d’accuser le professeur de blasphème ne l’exposait « pas nécessairement à un danger ». Il est ensuite revenu sur sa déclaration dans un courriel envoyé à la présidente, qui a demandé lundi à ce qu’il soit réentendu.

The second-gen trackers look similar to the originals but come with a few welcome upgrades. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Less than a month after making their debut, Apple’s second-gen AirTags are already receiving their first discount. Right now, Costco members can buy five location trackers for $99.99 ($29 off) either online or in-store, bringing the price of each tracker down to about $20 a pop. If you don’t already belong to Costco, you can still take advantage of the discount if you’re willing to pay a $5 surcharge or sign up for an annual membership, which currently starts at $65 a year. Apple AirTag (second-gen) Where to Buy: $145 $99.99 at Costco (five-pack)
Apple’s original...

You wake up in the middle of the night. Is it time to get up? Well, you can look at the nightstand clock. Unless your partner is in the way. Whoops. Even then, without your glasses, the time is just a fuzzball of light. You could ask Alexa, but that’s sure to wake your partner, too. The answer is a projection clock. In its modern form, it shoots a digital time display on a wall or ceiling with digits so large that you don’t need your glasses. If you can see the ceiling, you can tell what time it is.
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A modern invention, of course. No, not really. According to [Roger Russel], a UK patent in 1909 used an analog clock face and lightbulbs to project the clock face and hands on the ceiling....

During Supreme Court arguments in November, the Department of Justice undercut the case to use the same legal authority Trump is using now

Europe hits pause on a trade deal with the U.S., Trump vows the Supreme Court won't stop his tariffs — and stocks fall as trade war volatility returns

Acme Weather is currently only available for iOS. | Image: Acme Weather Corporation After selling their popular weather app to Apple in March 2020, where some of its core features were incorporated into Apple Weather, the creators of Dark Sky have left Apple to create yet another alternative. Their new app, called Acme Weather, embraces the fact that forecasts will never be entirely accurate by providing both a main prediction of the day's conditions and several alternate predictions.
Acme Weather is currently only available for iOS. An Android version is planned, but there's no release timeline yet. You can try it out for two weeks for free, but a $25 annual subscription is needed if you like what you see and...

"Hyperreal natural scenes" served as source matter, leading to flame-shaped cutouts hanging from skylights, a wall of pink tie-dye tiles, and a meandering kitchen island.Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: London, United Kingdom Architect: CAN / @can_agram Footprint: 1,830 square feet Builder: MxH Construction Structural Engineer: Hardman Engineers Photographer: Felix Speller / @felixspeller From the Architect: "Named Druid Grove for its mystical and grounding qualities, the house weaves together an eclectic mix of natural and monumental elements, both...

À seulement 38 ans, le volontaire et optimiste Rob Jetten est désormais le plus jeune Premier ministre néerlandais. Sa coalition de centre droit, qui a pris ses fonctions ce 23 février, devra faire la preuve de son efficacité – et de son habileté, puisqu’elle ne dispose d’une majorité dans aucune des deux chambres du Parlement.

A pair of identical particles swapping places sounds like a small move. In quantum physics, it is a defining one. In everyday three-dimensional space, that swap only comes in two flavors. Either the system looks exactly the same after the exchange, or it flips sign in a way that forces the particles to avoid sharing a state. Those two outcomes sit at the heart of the boson and fermion divide that organizes the Standard Model. Lower the number of dimensions, and that clean split starts to fray. Physicists have predicted since the 1970s that a middle ground should exist: anyons, particles that are neither bosons nor fermions. In 2020, experiments observed anyons at the interface of supercooled, strongly...

Depuis le début de l’année, les attaques d’adolescents dans des établissements scolaires russes se multiplient. Tandis que les autorités dénoncent des manipulations extérieures et renforcent la surveillance, une partie de la presse indépendante y voit le symptôme d’un malaise plus profond, nourri par la guerre et l’épuisement des enseignants.

Le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Jean-Noël Barrot, a annoncé que l’ambassadeur des États-Unis en France, Charles Kushner, serait convoqué lundi 23 février au soir après des déclarations de l’administration Trump sur le meurtre du militant d’extrême droite. Une décision justifiée, estime la presse étrangère, qui note que Paris est de plus en plus irritable à l’approche des prochaines échéances électorales.

Most Americans haven't heard of Mixue, but the Chinese chain has already extended into the U.S. and is looking to grow even bigger

Moscou n’a conquis que 0,75 % du territoire ukrainien au cours de l’année écoulée, à rebours des discours triomphalistes tenus à Moscou.

Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids.

The CEO of the supercar company says demand for high-end full electric cars is “almost zero.” Could this mean Ferrari's Luce will be dead on arrival?

One of the issues with nuclear power plants is that they produce long-lived radioactive waste. Storing spent nuclear fuel is a real problem. However, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have made strides not only to produce more electricity from spent fuel but also to break it down into shorter-lived nuclear waste. [Aman Tripathi] shares the details about NEWTON, a program to fire high-energy protons at a target to produce a flood of neutrons that can interact with nuclear waste. You can read the original press release, too.
Short-lived, of course, is a relative term. Unprocessed spent fuel may be dangerous for about 100,000 years. After the proposed...

Le nom de Caroline Lang, fille de l’ancien ministre de la culture français, apparaît des milliers de fois dans les documents dévoilés aux Etats-Unis. Tout indique qu’elle et sa famille avaient noué avec l’homme d’affaires et prédateur sexuel américain une relation bien plus importante que ce qu’elle reconnaît aujourd’hui.

Le 24 février 2022, alors que la Russie envahit l'Ukraine, le monde a pensé que le droit international disposerait d'un arsenal assez puissant pour contraindre le président russe Vladimir Poutine. Quatre ans plus tard, malgré les Conventions de Genève et les mandats d'arrêt de la Cour Pénale Internationale contre Vladimir Poutine, les violations humanitaires sévissent toujours en Ukraine. Le droit international dévoile ses fragilités : ce n'est pas un bouclier protecteur mais un système paralysé par sa structure, dépourvu de force coercitive et instrumentalisé par les grandes puissances révisionnistes. Le droit international devient, ainsi, impuissant en temps de conflits. Cicéron l'affirmait...

The Most Interesting Man in the World judges ideas for The Talk of the Town.

Zeph McDonough takes a tour through the Annual Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest, and talks to its quirky participants.

Some women seem to have it all. How do they make it look so effortless?

Your partner’s exes can get inside your head—and they might just enjoy a few mimosas while they’re in there.

Edward Steed animates some of life’s most crucial lessons.

Huzefa Hafiz Ismail est arrivé sur le sol français, vendredi 20 février. Il avait été arrêté en août 2024 au Texas à la demande de la justice française, qui le soupçonne d’avoir dirigé un vaste réseau de blanchiment d’argent.

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À l’occasion du sommet mondial sur l’intelligence artificielle, qui s’est déroulé en Inde du 16 au 20 février, 86 pays ont signé une déclaration appelant à la mise en place d’une IA « sûre, digne de confiance et robuste ». L’occasion de revenir sur les origines de cette discipline née en 1956 à l’occasion d’un colloque universitaire organisé à Dartmouth, sur la côte est des États-Unis. Un article à retrouver également dans le nouveau numéro de FUTUR, le magazine d’Usbek & Rica.

Automotive airbags are key safety devices that aim to reduce injuries and mortality in the event of motor vehicle accidents. These rapidly-inflating cushions act to soften the blow of an impact, catching occupants of the vehicle and preventing them from hitting hard parts of the vehicle’s interior.
Airbags are rigorously tested to perform as faultlessly as possible under all conditions. However, no system is perfect, and every automotive component has an expected service life. The question is—how old is too old when it comes to airbags? The answer is not exactly straightforward. What’s My Age Again?
Airbags first hit the market in the 1970s, but it was in the 1980s that the technology became more widely...

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L'entraînement de l'oreille, c'est le truc que les musiciens amateurs repoussent en général à plus tard... Et puis après ils jouent faux ^^ !
Heureusement, pour vous améliorer, il existe
Lend Me Your Ears
qui est un jeu d'entraînement musical, 100% gratuit, dans le navigateur qui va vous permettre de vous entrainer à l'oreille sans prise de tête. Ce site c'est le boulot d'un seul dev, Shaun Pedicini et y'a pas besoin de compte ni d'abonnement. Le principe c'est que le site joue une mélodie, et vous la reproduisez. En mode "Simon" les séquences s'allongent au fil des niveaux et si vous vous plantez, faut recommencer. Et en mode Practice, la difficulté monte progressivement avec un verrou pour...

Vos photos dans iCloud, c'est une synchronisation, et pas un backup et même si la nuance est mince, quand on s'en rend compte, il est souvent trop tard... C'est pourquoi même si vous avez une confiance aveugle en Apple, si demain votre compte est supprimé pour une raison ou une autre, vous perdrez l'accès à vos précieuses photos. Et ça, on ne le veut pas ! Alors aujourd'hui, on va apprendre à en faire une sauvegarde.
Pour cela, on va utiliser
osxphotos
, une bibliothèque Python open source (MIT) qui lit directement la base SQLite de Photos.app pour en exporter tout le contenu. Ça tourne sur macOS de Sierra à Sequoia, et même sur Linux.
L'installation :
brew tap RhetTbull/osxphotos
brew install...