A WIRED analysis of nearly 1,400 Friday showtimes of Melania found only two with no tickets available. Both are before 3 pm.

"Used to be that when Darren Aronofsky wanted to feature a dead-eyed actor, he'd just employ Jared Leto."

As 'Threshold' turns 30, there's still some potential in between all the weird space amphibian sex.

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J’ai aujourd’hui reçu au courrier le Compte rendu d’hospitalisation / Lettre de liaison relatif à ma récente seconde hospitalisation. La première, en décembre, était due à une septicémie.
La cause de la seconde, en janvier, n’était pas immédiatement claire, sa justification était une douleur fulgurante dans la jambe droite rendant soudainement la marche impossible. Le sujet du jour n’est pas susceptible d’intéresser une proportion significative de mes lecteurs, et si j’en parle, c’est que le partage de mon expérience pourrait épargner à d’autres bien des désagréments, sous la forme de ce que je n’hésiterai pas à qualifier de « souffrances...

For a company that has spent the past year being asked whether its best days are behind it, the numbers arrived without any qualifiers

Now that's what I call slop! Vol. 2.

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into the news that's held our attention this week: ICE activity as it's been unfolding in Minnesota.

The iPhone is aging into infrastructure; Services is doing Office math, and Apple’s next act has to arrive before its “premium” cycle cools for good

Gas turbines at the on-site natural gas plant under construction during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The US is now leading a global surge in new gas power plants being built in large part to satisfy growing energy demand for data centers. And more gas means more planet-heating pollution.
Gas-fired power generation in development globally rose by 31 percent in 2025. Almost a quarter of that added capacity is slated for the US, which has surpassed China with the biggest increase of any country. More than a third of that growth in the US is expected to directly power data centers, according to a recent analysis by the...

Along with a brutal day for software stocks, Microsoft's wipeout helped drag down the tech-heavy Nasdaq about 0.7% for the day

Although the recently announced 'Dragon Ball Super: Galactic Patrol' is poised to adapt one of Goku's best arcs, 'Dragon Ball' without Akira Toriyama is gonna be weird to witness.

Updates to the vehicle of the financial district include things you can feel, including heated seat belts.

iPhone 17 Pro Apple says the iPhone had its "best-ever" quarter, with revenue hitting more than $85.3 billion over the past few months. The company announced the news as part of its Q1 2026 earnings report, which also revealed record-breaking revenue of $143.8 billion, up 16 percent when compared to the same time last year.
"The demand for iPhone was simply staggering, with revenue growing 23 percent year over year," Apple CEO Tim Cook says during a call with investors. "This is the strongest iPhone lineup we've ever had, and by far the most popular."
iPhone sales surged despite delays surrounding an AI-upgraded Siri, with the base iPhone 17 model offer …
Read the full story at The Verge.

“Ghana said it had made progress in curbing poverty amid an improvement in households’ conditions of nutrition and education, although inequality remained a persistent problem. A multidimensional poverty index for the West African nation declined to 21.9% at the end of the third quarter of last year from 24.9% in the final quarter of 2024, Ghana Statistical Service said in a report on Wednesday… The measure tracks worsening states of living, employment, health and education using 13 indicators.” From Bloomberg.
The post Ghana’s Poverty Eases as Nutrition and Education Improve appeared first on Human Progress.

Panne de jeux vidéo : quand le combat contre les contenus malveillants bloquent des gamers....

Russia has not confirmed it agreed to Trump's request, but Ukraine's president said he expected Vladimir Putin's promise to be kept.

“An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction event. The fossils date from the Cambrian period, which began 541 million years ago. The early Cambrian saw an explosion of diversity in animal life which gave rise to most of the major groups alive today. But this flourishing came to a halt with the Sinsk event around 513.5 million years ago, when oxygen levels in the ocean fell, killing off several groups of animals. Han Zeng at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in China and his colleagues began finding fossils at a quarry in the mountainous...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy has long been discussed as a possible driver of dementia, but proving that link has been hard. Now, researchers at the Boston University CTE Center say the evidence is strong enough to treat CTE as a distinct cause of dementia, alongside Alzheimer’s disease and other related brain disorders. In a study published online in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, a team led by Michael Alosco, an associate professor of neurology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and co-director of clinical research at the BU CTE Center, analyzed 614 brain donors who had known exposure to repetitive head impacts. Most were contact sport...

Tom Homan said the immigration operation would be more "targeted", as the Trump administration works to calm frustrations both in the city and on Capitol Hill

There's never a shortage of weird tech debuting at CES every year. A new company called Tomorrow Doesn't Matter, or TDM, announced a peculiar pair of headphones at the show earlier this month with a feature no one has tried before. The Neo headphones can be rolled up like a hedgehog which turns them into a compact Bluetooth speaker for those times when you want to share a real banger with those around you. They were expected to launch through a Kickstarter slated for this month, but TDM now says the crowdfunding campaign will officially open on February 10th, 2026.
Pricing for the Neo is set to be $249 when they eventually launch in July 20 …
Read the full story at The Verge.

For a full-fledged, bells-and-whistles driving simulator a number of unique human interface devices are needed, from pedals and shifters to the steering wheel. These steering wheels often have force feedback, with a small motor inside that can provide resistance to a user’s input that feels the same way that a steering wheel on a real car would. Inexpensive or small joysticks often omit this feature, but [Jason] has figured out a way to bring this to even the smallest game controllers.
The mechanism at the center of his controller is a DC motor out of an inkjet printer. Inkjet printers have a lot of these motors paired with rotary encoders for precision control, which is exactly what is needed here. A rotary...

“Researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled their latest artificial intelligence tool and claimed it will help scientists identify the genetic drivers of disease and ultimately pave the way for new treatments. AlphaGenome predicts how mutations interfere with the way genes are controlled, changing when they are switched on, in which cells of the body, and whether their biological volume controls are set to high or low… The researchers trained AlphaGenome on public databases of human and mouse genetics, enabling it to learn connections between mutations in specific tissues and their impact on gene regulation. The AI can analyse up to 1m letters of DNA code at once and predict how mutations will affect...

Girly “What If They Knew”
I think shoegaze is a very forgiving genre in that basic competence can provide satisfying results if you have any affinity for the aesthetic. Artists working in the genre don’t have to work very hard, but at this point, I sorta demand that they do. “What If They Knew” starts off in the “basic competence” zone but gradually builds a lattice of distinct, beautiful, and emotionally potent guitar parts. The vocals barely rise above a whisper, but the blaring accompaniment is like a flood of yearning desire. Girly nail one of the best shoegaze tricks – contrasting an outward shyness with the overwhelming emotions screaming beneath the surface.
Buy it from Amazon.
Jaymin...

A foldable phone isn’t for the faint of heart. They’re generally heavier, pricier, and have less capable cameras than a standard slab-style phone. They’re also still not as durable as regular smartphones, though they’re not nearly as fragile as they once were. In fact, thanks to Google, we finally have a foldable phone we can take with us to the beach. There are basically two kinds of foldables at the moment — the kind that fold like books and the ones that fold clamshell style, like your old flip phone. Here’s how I think of it: a book-style foldable is like a phone plus a tablet, and a flip-style foldable is a phone plus a smartwatch. The book foldables provide an outer screen for all your...

One Battle After Another, The Smashing Machine, and Sinners are just a few of the movies you should be watching on HBO Max this month.

“The instrument is called LuSEE-Night, short for Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment–Night. It will be launched from Florida aboard a SpaceX rocket and carried to the moon’s far side atop a squat four-legged robotic spacecraft called Blue Ghost Mission 2, built and operated by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas… A moon-based radio telescope could help unravel some of the greatest mysteries in space science. Dark matter, dark energy, neutron stars, and gravitational waves could all come into better focus if observed from the moon. One of Burns’s collaborators on LuSEE-Night, astronomer Gregg Hallinan of Caltech, would like such a telescope to further his research on electromagnetic activity...

Elon Musk-led SpaceX may merge with another company helmed by Elon Musk. Reuters initially reported Thursday that SpaceX and xAI are "in discussions to merge" ahead of SpaceX's IPO that's planned for later this year. The merger would help with SpaceX's plans to launch data centers into space, according to the publication. Later on Thursday, Bloomberg reported that SpaceX is "considering" a potential merger with Tesla or an "alternative combination" with xAI.
The specific timing and value of any potential merger are unclear. SpaceX is considering an IPO date in mid-June, the Financial Times reported this week. SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI didn't i …
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In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the 6502 used separate circuits for operations, and the Intel 8085 a clump of reconfigurable gates, the 8086 uses microcode that configures the ALU along with two lookup tables. This complexity is one of the reasons why the Intel 8086 is so unique, with [Ken Shirriff] taking an in-depth look at its workings on a functional and die-level. These lookup tables are used for the ALU configuration – as in the above schematic – making for a very flexible but also complex system, where the same microcode can be used by multiple instructions. This is effectively the very definition of a...

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Les réflexions présentées ici s’inscrivent dans le cadre général de GENESIS, qui décrit l’univers comme le résultat de transitions de régime irréversibles soumises à des contraintes informationnelles.
Deux lectures distinctes sont possibles à partir de ce cadre.
La Voie A, adoptée dans les billets signés Jean-Baptiste Auxiètre, explore une interprétation ontologique : elle fait l’hypothèse que ce qui se trouve au-delà du régime observable – parfois nommé “Nirvana” – possède une réalité propre, et que l’univers peut être compris comme une région différenciée au sein d’un tout informationnel plus large. Cette lecture est assumée comme...

« L’Ukraine est un pion et un outil utilisé par l’Occident pour établir une tête de pont aux frontières mêmes de la Fédération de Russie afin de menacer directement notre sécurité », a estimé, jeudi, le ministre des affaires étrangères russe, cité par l’agence TASS.

Across Instagram and Facebook, AI-generated videos show people of color putting ICE agents in their place. Are they cathartic or just adding to a stew of misinformation?

Methamphetamine addiction has a way of looping back on itself. A rush of pleasure pulls you in, cravings follow, and the brain learns that the drug is the fastest route to reward. Yet scientists still lack an approved medication that directly treats methamphetamine addiction. That gap has left clinicians relying on counseling and support, while researchers hunt for new biological targets. Now, University of Florida neuroscientists say they have identified a key chain reaction in the brain that could open a new path: testing immune-modulating medicines as a way to interrupt meth’s grip. In a preclinical study, a team at the McKnight Brain Institute led by Habibeh Khoshbouei, Ph.D., Pharm.D., traced how meth...

During a cabinet meeting, Trump updated his timeline to name a new Fed chair. He plans to announce Jerome Powell's replacement "next week sometime"

As the world’s largest companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into large language models, San Francisco-based Logical Intelligence is trying something different in pursuit of AI that can mimic the human brain.

En Russie, des objets connectés se bloquent : apps absentes, cloud inaccessible, mises à jour et activation deviennent un casse-tête....

Jeudi 29 janvier, pour répondre à la féroce répression exercée par le régime de la République islamique sur ses citoyens, l’Union européenne a décidé d’ajouter le Corps des Gardiens de la révolution à sa liste d’organisations terroristes. Une mesure qui n’est pas seulement symbolique.

Jeudi 29 janvier, les autorités chinoises ont annoncé la mise à mort de onze personnes liées au crime organisé en Birmanie. Elles avaient été condamnées à la peine capitale en septembre dernier.

Deux suspects visés après la découverte d’un site présumé de tueurs à gages payé en cryptomonnaie....

Tickets start at just under $6,100 and go as high as $24,000 for this year's Big Game. That's higher than last year

Les prévisions financières de notre système de solidarité n’ont pas intégré certaines dépenses, souligne une note présentée mercredi par un comité d’experts. Le déficit, déjà massif, pourrait se creuser de 700 à 800 millions d’euros, repassant au-dessus de la barre des 20 milliards.

Over the past years there have appeared in the media increasingly more alarming reports about micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) and the harm that they are causing not only in the environment, but also inside our bodies. If some of the published studies were to be believed, then MNPs are everywhere inside our bodies, from our blood and reproductive organs to having deeply embedded themselves inside our brains with potentially catastrophic health implications.
Early last year we covered what we thought we knew about the harm from MNPs in our bodies, but since then more and more scientists have pushed back against these studies, calling them ‘flawed’ and questioning the used methodology and conclusions. Despite...

Au milieu de la nuit de mercredi à jeudi, l’aéroport international de la capitale a été la cible de tirs nourris. Aucune revendication n’a été publiée, mais le mode opératoire correspond à celui des groupes djihadistes actifs dans la région.

Dubbed "the great potato rescue", it is part of a plan to save the spuds from going to waste.

Arrestations après une vague de swatting, doxing et fausses alertes à la bombe....

Des lunettes aviateur, un discours devenu viral et un adversaire désigné : ces derniers jours, plusieurs articles dans la presse internationale soulignent l’heureux hasard qui a permis à Emmanuel Macron de se présenter en premier résistant face aux intimidations de Donald Trump. L’horizon semble s’éclaircir au-dessus du “canard boiteux”, mais pour combien de temps ?

Le Parquet national financier vient de reprendre les investigations visant le groupe spécialiste de l’optique et de l’audition. Son PDG Laurent Lévy a été convoqué pour être entendu dans les prochaines semaines.

Sunlight carries more energy than most solar devices can catch. That gap matters as heat waves grow worse. It also matters as grids strain under rising demand. A team working at the KU R&D Center at Korea University says a new coating could help. In ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, researchers Jaewon Lee, Seungwoo Lee and Kyung Hun Rho from the KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology at Korea University, report a gold-based material that absorbs nearly the full range of sunlight. They built it from tiny gold nanospheres that self-assemble into microscale balls. The team calls the spheres “supraballs.” The idea targets a common weakness in today’s light-harvesting materials. Many...

Le Japon a enregistré en 2025 le nombre total de suicides le plus bas depuis qu’il a commencé à comptabiliser le phénomène sur une base annuelle, en 1978. Mais cette tendance à la baisse est contrebalancée par la très forte hausse du nombre de cas concernant des personnes de moins de 30 ans, en particulier des adolescentes.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says the move is a response to Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters.

Plutôt que de sauver le monde, les deux protagonistes de “Wonder Man” s’intéressent à leur carrière d’acteur à Hollywood. La série, sortie le 28 janvier sur Disney+, se déroule dans le monde de Marvel, mais les superpouvoirs n’occupent pas le devant de la scène. La presse américaine adore le duo formé par Yahya Abdul-Mateen II et Ben Kingsley.

RAMP affiche une saisie du FBI : DNS, absence d’annonce DOJ, doutes et stratégie de perturbation....

Why press many button when few button do trick? That was the thinking of [Bike Cook Robots] when it came time to revamp his desk. To that end, he whipped up a tidy macropad to make daily computing tasks easier.
The build is based around an Adafruit RP2040 Feather ThinkInk devboard, chosen because it plugs straight into a readily-available 4.2 inch e-ink. The display is tasked with showing icons that correspond to the macro assignments for the 3 x 4 array of mechanical keyboard switches. Everything is wrapped up in a 3D printed frame, with an bracket to mount it to the monitor arms on the desk. The macropad is set up to talk to a custom Python app that runs on the host machine, which handles triggering actions...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The proposed bill would enshrine in law the end of so-called "conjugal rights" – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex.

In 1932, Albert Einstein wrote to Sigmund Freud with what he called a life-or-death question for civilization: can people ever escape war? Freud’s reply was stark. He argued that no technology could secure peace without confronting violence at its core, warning that conflict grows from human impulses that do not disappear with new tools. Nearly a century later, engineers are revisiting that question with renewed urgency. In a recent Perspective article, Guru Madhavan of the National Academy of Engineering, Nicholas M. Donofrio, formerly of IBM, and Asad M. Madni of the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, ask whether peace itself can be engineered. Their answer is...

Like many of you, I have a hard time getting rid of stuff. I’ve got boxes and boxes of weirdo bits and bobs, and piles of devices that I’ll eventually get around to stripping down into even more bits and bobs. Despite regular purges — I try to bring a car-load of crap treasure to local hackerspaces and meetups at least a couple times a year — the pile only continues to grow.
But the problem isn’t limited to hardware components. There’s all sorts of things that the logical part of me understands I’ll almost certainly never need, and yet I can’t bring myself to dispose of. One of those things just so happens to be documents. Anything printed is fair game. Could be the notes from my last...

Vous avez sûrement déjà eu ce moment de solitude où vous devez filer le mot de passe du WiFi, de Netflix ou d'un compte commun à un pote. Et là, comme un mec bourré qui recontacte son ex après une soirée déprimante, vous finissez par l'envoyer par SMS ou l'écrire sur un bout de papier qui finira à la poubelle.
C'est le genre de truc qui rend dingue niveau sécurité, mais bon, dans la vraie vie on le fait tous !
Au début, je cherchais donc juste un moyen simple de faire ça proprement, et je suis tombé sur ShareMyLogin. C'est un petit outil open source très bien pensé qui permet de partager des identifiants (ou n'importe quel secret) via un lien unique, en chiffrant tout directement dans votre...

Le député européen David Cormand (Les Écologistes) réclame « l'expulsion du réseau social X du territoire européen jusqu’à nouvel ordre », après les révélations sur la production massive de deepfakes pornographiques via Grok, l’assistant IA du réseau social.

Body fat rarely stays in one place. A new imaging study suggests that the spots where fat settles can line up with changes in your brain. Researchers at The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University in Xuzhou, China, analyzed MRI scans from nearly 26,000 adults in the UK Biobank. The team focused on how fat spreads across organs and tissues, not just on body mass index. Their results were published today in Radiology, the flagship journal of the Radiological Society of North America. The study links two underrecognized fat patterns to smaller brain volumes, more signs of tissue damage, slower thinking speed, and higher odds of certain neurologic and psychiatric conditions. Those patterns showed up in...

Dopé par l’accélération numérique, à fortiori avec le boom de l’IA générative, le travail a, ces dernières années, profondément muté et s’est émancipé d’un modèle unique en faveur d’une expérience de travail personnalisable. Au détriment du collectif ? Pas tout à fait. Dans cette périlleuse équation, l’IA pourrait s’imposer comme une alliée. C’est ce que racontent en creux les résultats de la troisième édition du HP Work Relationship Index - qui met en avant le potentiel de l’IA pour faire advenir un « travail à la carte ».