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James Cameron's multi-billion dollar Avatar franchise returns with a new entry December 19.

Though Superman is clearly going to get the living daylights beat out of him at some point in James Gunn’s upcoming DC Studios feature, the movie’s latest trailer puts a spotlight on how the Man of Steel gets put back together again. During its presentation at this year’s CinemaCon, Warner Bros. shared an extended sneak peek from the new Superman, and the studio has just posted the footage online. For the most part, the video focuses on a very badly-wounded Superman (David Corenswet) begging for his dog, Krypto, to drag him home because he’s unable to walk or fly. While it’s played for comedy, it’s a little morbid to see Superman’s body flopping around like most of his bones are broken. But the...

Nike and Apple were among brands worst hit, but Trump maintained the US economy would ultimately "boom".

The BBC's Hugo Bachega explores the future for Hezbollah in the wake of Israel's devastating attacks.

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The CEO of Steve Jackson Games, which makes board games and card games, says that the 54 percent tariff on goods imported from China that will go into effect on April 5th is a “seismic shift” for the board game industry and that “prices are going up.” “At Steve Jackson Games, we are actively assessing what this means for our products, our pricing, and our future plans,” CEO Meredith Placko says in a post. “We do know that we can’t absorb this kind of cost increase without raising prices. We’ve done our best over the past few years to shield players and retailers from the full brunt of rising freight costs and other increases, but this new tax changes the equation entirely.” In the post,...

Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn star in the July release from Marvel Studios.

On a chilly Wednesday afternoon, the President announced he would single-handedly blow up a century’s worth of globalization.

We’re used to there being an array of high-end microprocessor architectures, and it’s likely that many of us will have sat in front of machines running x86, ARM, or even PowerPC processors. There are other players past and present you may be familiar with, for example SPARC, RISC-V, or MIPS. Back in the 1990s there was another, now long gone but at the time the most powerful of them all, of course we’re speaking of DEC’s Alpha architecture. [JP] has a mid-90s AlphaStation that doesn’t work, and as part of debugging it we’re treated to a description of its unusual boot procedure.
Conventionally, an x86 PC has a ROM at a particular place in its address range, and when it starts, it executes from the...

Yes, prices will likely go up though not right away. If you were wondering how President Trump’s tariffs may impact gadgets like smartphones, laptops, and smartwatches, there’s some bad, and perhaps slightly less-bad news. Unless something changes, Trump’s sweeping tariffs will lead to increased prices for consumers. But it will likely take some time before that actually happens. Modern gadgets generally aren’t made or assembled solely in the U.S. anymore. Device makers big and small source components from all over the world, and often have them assembled overseas before importing the final product into the country. Given that Trump has levied tariffs on...

CinemaCon audiences got an early look at Predator: Badlands, including its setting: an alien 'planet of hurt.'

Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else. Modern trackers can monitor everything from your heart health to how well you’ve recovered from a hard bout of training. Even flagship smartwatches, which used to be lackluster trackers, have become pretty adept workout companions. Whatever your fitness goals are, there’s probably a fitness tracker that can help you achieve them. Compared to some other gadgets, wearables are incredibly personal, which means there are a few extra considerations you’ll have to take into account before reaching for your wallet. It makes it hard to say that any one fitness tracker is the best for everyone. Thankfully, the best...

The Pixel 9A’s main camera might go to the base Pixel 10. Google’s upcoming base Pixel 10 might come with primary and ultrawide cameras that match the hardware recently introduced in the budget Pixel 9A, which aren’t as good as the cameras on the Pixel 9, Android Authority reports. However, the new phone may get a telephoto camera, which the Pixel 9 and other base Pixels haven’t had.  As for the Pixel 10 Pro devices, Android Authority reports that they will have the same camera hardware as the 9 Pro, which could indicate that Google may lean more on the abilities of its expected next-generation Tensor G5 chip to improve photos. Meanwhile, the upcoming Pixel 10 Pro Fold, which is rumored to have an...

The Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says the US "cannot annex other countries".

In the wake of Snow White's middling performance, Disney seems to be rethinking the pace and potential of its live-action remakes.

James Gunn's superhero tale starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, a bunch of other humans, and one really cute dog lands in theaters July 11.

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While much of the attention was focused on the beating taken by stocks Thursday, a few that escaped unscathed. After all, tariffs have an unequal effect, hitting some businesses harder than others.Read more...

Nvidia (NVDA) fell with other Magnificent 7 stocks on Thursday as the market reacted to new tariffs — but the company also may’ve slipped because a major bank downgraded it for unrelated reasons.Read more...

Ahmed Riesgo, chief investment officer at financial services firm Insigneo, spoke with NYSE (ICE) TV for a special video interview.Read more...

Markets plummeted Thursday in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 1,679.39 points, or 4%, with the damage extending to most industries on the prospects of stagflation — that is, slower economic growth accompanied by faster inflation.Read more...

Two new dramas—from the Vietnamese director Truong Minh Quy, and from the Portuguese director Miguel Gomes—embark on hypnotic, mind-bending treks between past and present.

En Russie, les oligarques versent une grosse partie de leurs revenus annuels au régime, afin de pouvoir rester en vie. Comme quoi taxer les riches, ce n'est pas très compliqué, il faut juste savoir être persuasif.

Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great, but not every device that’s marketed as an ultrasonic cleaner is necessarily such a device. In a recent video on the Cheap & Cheerful YouTube channel the difference is explored, starting with a teardown of a fake one. The first hint comes with the use of the description ‘Multifunction cleaner’ on the packaging, and the second in the form of it being powered by two AAA batteries.
Unsurprisingly, inside you find not the ultrasonic transducer that you’d expect to find in an actual ultrasonic cleaner, but rather a vibration motor. In the demonstration prior to the teardown you can see that although the device makes a similar annoying buzzing noise, it’s...

North Sentinel is home to a tribe that does not have contact with the outside world.

Les corps de trois personnes ont été retrouvés dans les décombres de bâtiments résidentiels et de bureaux dans l’un des districts de Kharkiv, dans l’est de l’Ukraine, dans la soirée de jeudi. Trente-deux personnes, dont un enfant, ont également été blessées.

Palestinian authorities say children were among the dead, while Israel says it hit a Hamas command-and-control centre.

The latest film releases include Freaky Tales, A Minecraft Movie, The Luckiest Man in America, and The Friend. Weighing in are Shawn Edwards, a film critic at Fox 4 News and co-founder of the African American Film Critics Association, and Katie Walsh, film reviewer for the Tribune News Service and the Los Angeles Times. Freaky Tales Set in 1980s Oakland, California, this combines real-life stories with tall tales, including former Golden State Warriors basketball player Sleepy Floyd as a skilled fighter wielding a samurai sword. Edwards: “It's overly nostalgic, and unless you grew up in Oakland … in the 1980s, it's really hard to grasp a lot of the storytelling that takes place in the film. … Freaky...

Most holiday tables consist of dishes that appear each year like clockwork. For families that celebrate Passover, the greatest hits are often chicken soup with matzo balls, brisket or roast chicken, potato kugel, I could go on. But that is a very Ashkenazi or Eastern European Jewish expression of culinary tradition. And Jews, by our nature, exist in diaspora with food traditions that span the globe. A long time ago when my restaurant Angeli was in its early years, a wonderful woman talked her way into my kitchen to make pastries. Victoria Granof had a joie de vivre and a love of research that made working with her a delight. Now Granof is a food stylist, commercial director, and cookbook author known for her...

With cuts to Ivy League and other schools, President Trump tries to reshape higher education. Schools are falling in line, but some professors are fighting back.

Stocks are in a tailspin following President Trump’s tariffs. Now’s the time to prepare for a possible recession , says personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary.

The manager of Rafu Bussan in Little Tokyo says she’s been stockpiling goods imported from Japan in preparation for Trump’s tariffs, but she may have to eat costs or raise prices soon.

A Complete Unknown, Anora, and Jurassic Park are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now.

“Michigan could soon host the United States’ first commercial small modular nuclear reactors—essentially mini nuclear plants with simpler and more compact designs that proponents say could shorten construction timelines and cut costs.  Two SMRs are set to begin operations in 2030 in Covert Township, on Lake Michigan about 36 miles north of the Indiana border. If approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, they will be built alongside the Palisades nuclear plant—initially set for retirement in 2022, but now scheduled to resume operations this fall under its new owner, Holtec International. Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy released a $57 million loan for the plant’s restarts.  So far,...

“Wildlife crossings are growing in popularity across the country, and in recent years, Colorado has emerged as a leader. Since 2015, it has built 28 new large game crossing structures, according to the state Transportation Department… Wildlife crossings, when combined with long stretches of fencing to funnel animals to the right location, have been found to reduce vehicle collisions with large animals by more than 80 percent. They are expensive, but research has shown they can save money when installed on stretches of highway with at least an average of three collisions between motorists and deer per mile per year. For collisions with elk and moose, which are bigger and therefore cause more damage to...

When you think about the dawn of modern computers, you often think about the work done in the UK and the US. But Australia had an early computer scene, too, and [State of Electronics] has done a series of videos about the history of computers down under. The latest episode talks about SILLIAC, a computer similar to ILLIAC built for the University of Sydney in the late 1950s.
How many racks does your computer fill up? SILLIAC had quite a few.
This episode joins earlier episodes about CSIRAC, and WREDAC. The series starts with the CSIR Mark I, which was the first computer in the southern hemisphere.
The -AC computers have a long history. While you often hear statements like, “…in the old days, a computer...

S’il s’est exprimé de façon moins brutale que le chef du Pentagone, Pete Hegseth, mi-février, le secrétaire d’Etat américain, en visite au siège de l’OTAN à Bruxelles, jeudi, n’en a pas moins exhorté les membres de l’Alliance à augmenter massivement leurs dépenses de défense pour que celles-ci atteignent à moyen terme 5 % de leur produit intérieur brut.

La Commission espère encore négocier avec Washington pour limiter les dégâts que provoqueraient les surtaxes annoncées. La première salve de rétorsions, qui devaient être effectives le 1er avril, est repoussée pour une partie à la mi-avril et pour l’autre à la mi-mai.

“Several methods are currently used to reduce mosquito numbers and malaria risk. One of these includes the antiparasitic medication ivermectin. When mosquitoes ingest blood containing ivermectin, it shortens the insect’s lifespan and helps decrease the spread of malaria. However, ivermectin has its own issues. Not only is it environmentally toxic, but also, when it is overused to treat people and animals with worm and parasite infections, resistance to ivermectin becomes a concern. Now a study in Science Translational Medicine has identified another medication with the potential to suppress mosquito populations to help control malaria. Researchers found when patients take the drug nitisinone, their blood...

“A petite, flightless grasshopper once thought to be extinct has been spotted in Virginia for the first time in nearly 80 years. The last time anyone officially documented the Appalachian grasshopper (Appalachia hebardi) in the state was in 1946, according to a January statement from the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. But Andrew Rapp, a field zoologist with the department’s Natural Heritage Program, recently captured an adult female in the northwest part of Virginia—proof that the elusive species has not completely disappeared.” From Smithsonian Magazine.
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Le plan de sauvegarde de l’emploi (PSE) présenté ce jeudi pourrait concerner 186 salariés du siège de Villeneuve-sur-Lot et 116 autres dans les magasins que le groupe à l’intention de fermer.

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In the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly every student in the room takes a big whiff of their sheet before setting it down. If you know, you know, I guess, but if you don’t, keep reading.
Those often purple-inked papers were fresh from the ditto machine, or spirit duplicator. Legend has it that not only did they smell good when they were still wet, inhaling the volatile organic compounds within would make the sniffer just a little bit lightheaded. But the spirit duplicator didn’t use ghosts, it used either methanol (wood alcohol), isopropyl, or, if you were loaded,...

Dans la guerre tarifaire mondiale lancée par Donald Trump, la Chine a réagi immédiatement en affichant sa détermination devant ce qu’elle qualifie de mentalité de “pilleur”. Certains médias chinois veulent croire que Pékin pourrait in fine en sortir gagnant.

L’armée israélienne a procédé à des frappes aériennes en plusieurs points du territoire syrien, visant des cibles militaires. Selon la presse régionale, il s’agit essentiellement d’envoyer un message à Ankara, soutien du nouveau régime syrien.

Happy Liberation Day!

Le gouvernement hongrois a annoncé, jeudi 3 avril, son intention de quitter la Cour pénale internationale, alors que le Premier ministre israélien, Benyamin Nétanyahou, visé par un mandat d’arrêt du tribunal, est en visite à Budapest. Une décision qui ne surprend pas la presse étrangère.

Depuis une semaine, l’actualité politique israélienne s’est muée en chronique judiciaire. En cause, les transactions financières illégales entre Israël et le Qatar au profit du Hamas, dans le contexte des massacres du 7 octobre 2023. Le Premier ministre israélien survivra-t-il à ce qui s’apparente à une énième saga judiciaire ?

La presse eurosceptique fanfaronne outre-Manche. Le taux plancher de 10 % appliqué par Donald Trump aux exportations britanniques vers les États-Unis démontre à ses yeux un bénéfice irréfutable de la sortie de l’Union européenne, frappée plus durement par le président américain.

When you think of attacking or defending computer systems, you probably think of software viruses and the corresponding anti-virus software. But MIT’s 6.5950 class teaches secure hardware design — how to attack and defend CPUs from bad actors. Interested? The course is open source, so you can follow along as long as you don’t mind not getting a grade.
Browsing some of the lecture slides shows that the material isn’t as stuffy as you might imagine. A slide about side channel attacks, for example, features an article called “And Bomb the Anchovies,” which says that Washington DC pizza places know when big news is about to break because pizza delivery to places like the White House or the Pentagon...

Il y a trois explications possibles au comportement de Donald Trump aujourd’hui : 1) Il se croit un génie (suprémaciste blanc) de la finance comme son père. 2) Il applique la politique russe de démantèlement des États-Unis telle qu’il l’avait déjà cautionnée en 1987 au retour d’un voyage tous frais payés en URSS.
3) Les deux sont vrais : 1) & 2).
Maintenant, « souvenirs ! souvenirs ! », l’une de mes chroniques, datant d’il y a… six ans et demi : Le Monde : « La présidence hors norme de Donald Trump », le 10 septembre 2018
L’Écho : Trump, une politique qui vient de loin Quels sont les ressorts de la politique économique et commerciale internationale de Donald Trump ? Il...

The US is barreling toward a recession for no good reason, and dragging the world—and a few thousand penguins on remote Antarctic islands—down with it.

Quand une bonne affaire frappe à votre porte, il faudrait être fou pour ne pas lui ouvrir : je vend un lot de 5 pailles géantes, un produit qui ne court pas les rues. Si vous ne possédez pas de verre à mojito géant, elles peuvent également être utilisées comme coffrages à béton.
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The hoodie is a work-from-home security blanket. But in the office, it’s a trap.

“India’s National Highway network has grown by 60% over the past decade, expanding from 91,287 km in 2014 to 146,195 km by 2024, as per the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH). In addition, high-speed corridors have surged from 93 km to 2,474 km, significantly enhancing road connectivity across the nation.” From DD News.
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Nintendo’s pricey new Switch 2 has been updated to create a product that feels both familiar and improved. WIRED spent some time with it.

These mid-tier earbuds have 15 hours of battery life with noise canceling, and a magnetic design that keeps them charged—no case required.

Depuis plusieurs mois, la ligne éditoriale d’Alohanews évolue. Sous prétexte de couvrir l'actualité dramatique du Proche-Orient, la chaîne aux 253 000 abonnés accueille désormais des figures plus que compromise avec le complotisme, l'antisémitisme et l'extrême droite. L'objectif : faire toujours plus d'audience.

Petites particularités juridiques locales: Quand tu divorces dans le Nord Pas-de-Calais tu peux faire une demande pour rester frère et sœur. La réponse dépend du taux d'alcoolémie du juge.

You could buy the $135 YSL Black Opium perfume *or* you could grab this $30 alternative that's nearly identical. Up to you.View Entire Post ›