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by The Verge - about 31 minutes
Twisting the PlayCube angles the image without a tripod. The best all-in-one portable projector is the one that makes all the right compromises. It needs to balance image and sound quality with battery life and responsiveness in a device that's not too expensive and small enough to take anywhere. TCL's fun little PlayCube delivers the right mix to justify paying $800 for a 1080p projector in 2026.
I tested the TCL PlayCube running Google TV during a two-month road trip, and then again for a few months at home. It's so small, adaptable, and enjoyable that I've had no problem setting it up at a moment's notice, day or night, anywhere I've been.
TCL PlayCube Score: 8ProsCons3 hour battery in bright …
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by Courrier International - about 41 minutes
La gauche latino-américaine craint que l’accord commercial ne relègue les pays du Mercosur à un rôle de simples pourvoyeurs de matières premières, alors que l’industrie et les secteurs technologiques pourraient souffrir.
by BBC - about 1 hour
Yokohama mayor Takeharu Yamanaka admits using the terms "idiot" and "human scum" to disparage staff.
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Le dessinateur suisse Chappatte a passé près d’un mois aux États-Unis et a rencontré ceux qui résistent à Donald Trump. Dans son labo californien, Ardem Patapoutian, prix Nobel de médecine, incarnation du rêve américain, alerte sur le danger que court la science amputée de ses financements. Ou quand l’idéologie Maga entrave la recherche de nouveaux médicaments. Un reportage dessiné interactif réalisé avec Anne-Frédérique Widmann et publié par le quotidien suisse “Le Temps”.
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Le dessinateur suisse Chappatte a passé près d’un mois aux États-Unis et a rencontré ceux qui résistent à Donald Trump. À l’université Columbia, face à la peur qui a gagné le monde universitaire, les voix d’Anya Schiffrin et de son mari, le Nobel d’économie Joseph Stiglitz, résonnent : quand on attaque la liberté d’enseigner et de critiquer, la démocratie est en jeu. Un reportage dessiné interactif réalisé avec Anne-Frédérique Widmann et publié par le quotidien suisse “Le Temps”.
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Depuis son retour à la Maison-Blanche, le 20 janvier 2025, Donald Trump étend ses pouvoirs. Face à cette poigne autoritaire, où est l’opposition ? Malgré la peur, qui décide de se battre ? Le dessinateur suisse Chappatte a passé près d’un mois aux États-Unis et a rencontré ceux qui résistent. Dans un format interactif publié par le quotidien suisse “Le Temps”, découvrez sa série de reportages dessinés en cinq parties.
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Le dessinateur suisse Chappatte a passé près d’un mois aux États-Unis et a rencontré ceux qui résistent à Donald Trump. Ils ont moins de 30 ans, sont nés avec Internet et n’ont pas peur de se mettre en première ligne pour défendre les droits démocratiques. Hannah fait partie des organisateurs du mouvement No Kings et est bien décidée à arrêter Trump. Et si l’espoir était en marche ? Un reportage dessiné interactif réalisé avec Anne-Frédérique Widmann et publié par le quotidien suisse “Le Temps”.
by Korben - about 2 hours
Si vous êtes du genre à avoir passé des heures sur Half-Life 2 à vous en retourner les paupières (et je sais que vous êtes nombreux), oubliez tout ce que vous pensiez savoir sur la stabilité légendaire du Source Engine. Car figurez-vous qu'un bug totalement improbable vient de refaire surface grâce à Tom Forsyth, un ancien de chez Valve, et c'est clairement un truc de fou, vous allez voir...
Tout commence en 2013. À l'époque, Valve bosse sur le portage de HL2 pour le tout premier Oculus Rift (le fameux DK1 qui nous donnait tous envie de vomir au bout de 5 minutes). Pour tester la VR, ils se disent que le mieux, c'est de reprendre un bon vieux classique. Tout se passe bien jusqu'à ce que Tom...
by daryo Bluesky - about 2 hours
Our Favorite Compact Power Station Is on Sale for 33% Off
https://www.wired.com/story/jackery-explorer-300-plus-deal-126/
by BBC - about 2 hours
It comes as fresh details emerged in the death of a Minneapolis woman shot last week by an ICE agent in the city.
by Journal du Lapin - about 2 hours
Quand j’ai parlé d’Asteroids dans la version Macintosh d’Office (2004), j’avais un autre Easter Egg en tête au départ. Mais les explications sur ce vieil Easter Egg n’étaient pas totalement claires. Les vieux sites font référence à Office Manager, mais ce n’est pas un programme très documenté. Après quelques recherches, je suis tombé sur ce que je cherchais : c’est un tableau de bord pour Mac OS qui permet de lancer les applications de Microsoft Office. J’ai d’abord tenté avec la version 9.0, distribuée en ligne en parallèle de Microsoft Office 2001, mais l’Easter Egg n’est dans cette version. Donc je suis passé sur la version de Microsoft Office 98. Elle est sur le CD-ROM...
by Le Monde - about 3 hours
L’association L’Enfant bleu a déposé, jeudi 15 janvier, trois plaintes contre l’instance ordinale bretonne, qu’elle accuse de ne pas avoir pris en 2006 « ses responsabilités » contre l’ex-chirurgien, condamné depuis pour pédocriminalité.
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
Recently, [Vinnie] aka [vinthewrench] moved from Oregon to Arkansas to start a farmstead. This is a style of farming that focuses not just on a profitable farm where produce is sold at market, but also on a homestead where much of one’s own food is grown on the farm as well. Like any farm, though, it’s extremely hard work that takes a tremendous amount of time. Automation and other technology can make a huge impact in these situations, and [Vinnie] is rolling out his own software stack to help with this on his farm.
He calls his project the Pi Internet of Things, or PioT, and as its name suggests is based around the Raspberry Pi. Since this will all be outdoors and exposed to the extremes of Arkansas...
by Usbek & Rica - about 3 hours
Dans son nouvel essai Le triomphe des égoïsmes. Une nouvelle contrainte sociale (Presses universitaires de France), Camille Peugny, sociologue et professeur à l'Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, observe une montée d’un égoïsme structurel généré par une mise en concurrence de tous contre tous depuis l’école, qui alimente une « droitisation » des classes moyennes supérieures. Entretien.
by Wired - about 3 hours
Save on Petlibro essentials, including automatic feeders, water fountains, and accessories to keep cats and dogs fed, hydrated, and comfortable every day.
by Le Monde - about 4 hours
Le premier ministre a dévoilé, lors d’une allocution vendredi soir, des « propositions d’évolution de la copie initiale du budget ». Elles donnent satisfaction aux socialistes, mais ne convainquent ni à gauche ni au sein du « socle commun ».
by New Yorker - about 4 hours
Can American democracy come back from the brink?
by HackAdAy - about 6 hours
Internals of the 1900 Evershed & Vignoles Ltd 1 ohm resistance standard. (Credit: Three-phase, YouTube)
Resistance standards are incredibly useful, but like so many precision references they require regular calibration, maintenance and certification to ensure that they stay within their datasheet tolerances. This raises the question of how well a resistance standard from the year 1900 performs after 125 years, without the benefits of modern modern engineering and standards. Cue the [Three-phase] YouTube channel testing a genuine Evershed & Vignoles Ltd one ohm resistance standard from 1900.
With mahogany construction and brass contacts it sure looks stylish, though the unit was missing the shorting pin that...
by New Yorker - about 7 hours
A new restoration of Stroheim’s unfinished 1929 drama “Queen Kelly” spotlights his reckless directorial career, which, though brief, is one of the greatest of all.
by Wired - about 9 hours
Leaders at Mira Murati’s startup believe Barret Zoph engaged in an incident of “serious misconduct.” The details are now coming to light.
by BBC - about 9 hours
Researchers say their gold-standard review should put an end to the debate over use of the common painkiller during pregnancy.
by Le Monde - about 9 hours
Seul l’ancien premier ministre britannique n’est pas américain. Ce conseil présidé par le locataire de la Maison Blanche va superviser le travail du comité d’experts palestinien chargé d’administrer la bande de Gaza, dans le cadre de la deuxième phase du plan Trump.
by HackAdAy - about 9 hours
There are a few types of continuous 3D printing with FDM printers, with a conveyer belt and automatic build plate swapping the most common types. The advantage of build plate swapping is that it automates the bit where normally a human would have to come in to remove finished parts from the build plate. A recent entry here is the Chitu PlateCycler C1M which the [Aurora Tech] YouTube channel had over for a review. This kit bolts onto the Bambu Lab A1 Mini FDM printer and comes with four extra PEI build plates for a not unreasonable $79 (€69).
As also noted in the review video, this is effectively a clone of the original swapmod A1m kit, but a big difference is that the Chitu kit comes with all of the parts...
by The Verge - about 10 hours
The 15-inch MacBook Air offers better speakers than its 13-inch sibling, but is otherwise similar. Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which run the company’s newest operating system, macOS 26. Purchasing a new MacBook can be complicated if you’re trying to figure out what specs you need, but finding a deal on a relatively speedy model is surprisingly easy, especially since Apple increased the starting RAM on several models in late 2024. These days, it’s not uncommon to see various MacBooks discounted by up to $800. Alternatively, purchasing refurbished options directly from Apple is another way to save money without...
by io9 - about 10 hours
If you love 'Berserk' and 'Vinland Saga,' you'll get a kick out of 'Centuria.'
by BBC - about 10 hours
The former UK prime minister and US secretary of state will sit on the "founding executive board", the White House says.
by New Yorker - about 10 hours
In this gory sequel to Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later,” an undead threat that has ravaged Britain turns out to be no match for the reality of living human evil.
by io9 - about 10 hours
In the latest headache-inducing update, there are now dubious figures surrounding this ultra-dubious phone.
by io9 - yesterday at 23:45
As 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' arrives on HBO, the author is once again addressing that long-awaited next entry in his 'A Song of Ice and Fire' book series.
by Wired - yesterday at 23:37
After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.
by The Verge - yesterday at 23:36
Google is appealing a federal court's decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to appeal on Friday, requesting a pause on the court-ordered remedies meant to restore competition to the online search market. "As we have long said, the Court's August 2024 ruling ignored the reality that people use Google because they want to, not because they're forced to," Google's vice president of regulatory affairs, Lee-Anne Mulholland, said in a blog post. "The decision failed to account for the rapid pace of innovation and intense competition we face from established players and well-funded start-ups. And it di …
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by io9 - yesterday at 23:30
The final stage of launch preparations officially kicks off tomorrow.
by QZ - yesterday at 22:31
The long-maligned Export-Import Bank could serve a key role in Trump's push to drum up private-sector financing for Venezuela's oil sector
by Human Progress - yesterday at 22:20
“Since 2020, the population of whales has grown by about 7 percent. In 2024, the most recent year for which there is data available, the whale consortium estimated that there were 384 whales, an increase of about 2 percent from the year before. And in 2025, Pettis said, there were zero mortalities of right whales detected. This year’s calving season, which began in November and runs through April, has brought more promising news. So far, 18 new calves have been spotted, including one on New Year’s Day. An aerial survey team identified a calf swimming off the coast of Florida with its mother, Boomerang, named for her boomerang-shaped white scar. ‘We’re having a great year,’ said Ryan Schosberg, a...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 22:13
“In 2011, mammoth ivory hunters in northeastern Siberia discovered a mummified wolf puppy that had lain frozen for 14,400 years. An autopsy of the permafrost-preserved pup revealed another surprise: its gut contained chunks of grayish meat covered with strands of golden hair. ‘The tissue was so intact, it looked like the wolf had just swallowed it before it died,’ says Camilo Chacón-Duque, an evolutionary geneticist who previously worked at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm and is now at Uppsala University in Sweden.  Ancient DNA retrieved from the wolf cub’s final meal revealed the tissue belonged to a woolly rhinoceros. Chacón-Duque and his team used the devoured morsel to reconstruct the...
by Wired - yesterday at 22:10
This little power station can keep your stuff topped up, plus you can save some cash on solar panels.
by Human Progress - yesterday at 22:06
“Numbers of critically-endangered flapper skate are beginning to recover in Scotland, new research has suggested. The study, conducted by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, involved interviews with commercial fishers from all over Scotland, who reported a significant increase in flapper skate caught while fishing for other species over the past four years. Half of those interviewed had seen them daily.” From BBC.
The post Europe’s Largest Skate Recovers in Scottish Waters appeared first on Human Progress.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 22:05
Quelque 17 000 Groenlandais vivent au Danemark, soit l’équivalent d’un tiers de la population de l’île. A la veille de manifestations organisées dans le pays en soutien à la souveraineté du Groenland, certains veulent imaginer une réconciliation quand d’autres la jugent impossible.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
A lot of retrocomputer enthusiasts have a favourite system, to the point of keeping up 40 year old flame wars over which system was “best”.   In spite of the serious, boring nature of the PC/AT and its descendants, those early IBMs have a certain style that Compaq and the Clones never quite matched. Somehow, we live in a world where there are people nostalgic for Big Blue. That’s why [AnneBarela] built a miniature IBM PC using an Adafruit Fruit Jam board.
If you haven’t seen it before, the Fruit Jam board is an RP2350 dev board created specifically to make minicomputers, with its two USB host sockets, DVI-out and 3.5mm jack. [Anne] loaded a PC emulator by [Daft-Freak] called PACE-32 than can emulate...
by The Verge - yesterday at 21:51
An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a massive buildout of new power plants. Together, they're "urging" PJM to hold an "emergency" auction for companies to procure electricity over 15-year contracts. The unusually long length of the contracts would ostensibly make it easier to build out new infrastructure by guaranteeing revenue and discouraging speculative requests to connect to the grid by data center developers.
The move comes as power grids scramble to meet...
by Human Progress - yesterday at 21:25
“As of 2025, about 9.6% of the world’s oceans are now covered by marine protected areas, according to the latest global tracking data by the World Database on Protected Areas. This marks a 1.2% increase in 2025, up from 8.4% coverage in 2024. There are now 16,608 marine protected areas (MPAs) globally, covering nearly 35 million square kilometers (13.5 million square miles) of the ocean — an area more than twice the size of Russia.” From Mongabay.
The post Marine Protected Areas Expanded in 2025 appeared first on Human Progress.
by The Verge - yesterday at 21:20
A prize wheel in Steal The Brainrot. Epic Games is making a big change to the rules for Fortnite creators just days after allowing them to publish experiences with in-game transactions. Beginning January 20th, experiences - which Epic Games calls "islands" - will not be able to offer in-island transactions as "a 'spin' or 'increased luck' for a prize wheel," according to an Epic staffer on Reddit.
Epic is adding the rule after Steal The Brainrot, one of the biggest non-Epic games available to play in Fortnite, implemented a prize wheel that let players pay V-Bucks (Fortnite's in-game currency) for spins and luck to acquire in-game items. Steal The Brainrot also added lootboxes …
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by Human Progress - yesterday at 21:18
“Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch are hailing a historic drop in shootings last year.   ‘In 2025, New York City recorded 688 shooting incidents, the lowest number in the city’s history. That didn’t just break the previous record set in 2018, it shattered it, with 66 fewer shootings than that benchmark year.'” From CBS News.
The post NYC Had the Lowest Number of Shootings in Its History Last Year appeared first on Human Progress.
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 20:53
Illustration par ChatGPT
L’idée est très répandue qu’il n’y a pas de progrès en philosophie : Untel a dit ceci et Telautre a dit autre chose et à chaque génération qui vient correspond son lot de philosophes, chacun porteur d’une valeur ajoutée qui lui est propre.
Or, une remarque que j’avais faite récemment à propos de GENESIS, que « le plus extraordinaire selon moi est que la clé d’une théorie unifiée de la relativité et de la mécanique quantique se trouvait dans… les Catégories d’Aristote ! », avait conduit mon fils Armel (philosophe et mathématicien de formation) à observer que « ceux qui ont véritablement fait avancer la philosophie ne sont pas ceux qui ont inventé...
by QZ - yesterday at 20:31
Former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh's stock is now rising again following the Trump DOJ's probe into Fed chair Powell
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 20:30
Following up on user-reported cases of Battle Born LiFePO4 batteries displaying very hot positive terminals, [Will Prowse] decided to buy a brand new one of these LFP batteries for some controlled cycle testing.
Starting with 30 cycles with a charging current of 49 A and a discharge current of 99 A, this put it well within the 100 A continuous rating for the battery. There is also a surge current rating of 200 A for thirty seconds, but that was not tested here. What’s interesting about the results here is that instead of the positive terminal getting visibly discolored as with the previous cases that we reported on, [Will] saw severe thermal effects on the side of the negative terminal to the point where the...
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 20:12
Villas, actifs financiers, bijoux… Les enquêtes menées en France, notamment par le parquet de Paris, ont permis en quatre ans la saisie de biens d’une valeur record, appartenant à des personnalités russes de la politique ou des affaires soupçonnées de blanchiment ou de fraude fiscale.
by BBC - yesterday at 20:07
Reza Pahlavi, a US-based opposition figure, called on the world to target Iran's Revolutionary Guards leadership.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 20:00
The reporter Danny Funt discusses his new book, “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling.”
by New Yorker - yesterday at 20:00
A left-wing, atheist reality-TV host from Oklahoma is one of the most popular liberal podcasters, channelling outrage with MAGA and with Democrats she views as complacent.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 19:33
La justice interdit à l’ICE d’arrêter des manifestants pacifiques ou de leur envoyer des gaz lacrymogènes. Le président américain a jugé jeudi qu’il n’y avait finalement « pas de raison pour le moment » d’invoquer l’Insurrection Act, qui lui permettrait d’utiliser l’armée comme une force de police dans la ville du Minnesota.
by Wired - yesterday at 19:00
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.
by QZ - yesterday at 18:51
As job cuts rip through the economy, a new analysis finds that women walk away with less
by QZ - yesterday at 18:01
The White House has another idea to blunt Americans' concerns that everyday life has gotten too expensive: mortgaging their future
by Les Décodeurs - yesterday at 18:00
Depuis 2025, ce compte iconoclaste enchaîne les punchlines et les coups d’éclat sur le réseau social X. Une manière assumée de contrer les tentatives d’ingérence étrangère, qui convainc les experts, malgré des réserves quant à son utilité à long terme.
by Korben - yesterday at 17:08
OK les amis, là faut qu'on parle de ce qui se passe chez Rockstar. Je pense que vous passez probablement trop de temps à errer dans Los Santos au lieu de bosser, mais ce qui vient de tomber est bien plus inquiétant qu'un braquage de banque qui foire. En effet,
d'après une enquête de Variety
, Rockstar vient de supprimer des missions créées par des joueurs qui recréaient l'assassinat réel de Charlie Kirk, un fasciste américain tué en septembre dernier.
Le truc, c'est que ce n'est pas juste une petite polémique politique de plus. C'est LE SIGNE que Rockstar Games est en train de réaliser, un peu tard, qu'ils ne contrôlent plus leur propre bébé. Car même si les outils de création existent depuis...
by Paul Jorion - yesterday at 17:07
Illustration par ChatGPT
Quand l’explicabilité rattrape la précision en chimie moléculaire
GENESIS n’a jamais été conçu comme une théorie de la chimie.
Il s’agit, à l’origine, d’un cadre général visant à comprendre comment des structures organisées émergent, se stabilisent et deviennent explicables – que l’on parle d’intelligence artificielle, de cognition humaine ou de systèmes naturels. C’est précisément pour cette raison que le résultat que je présente ici mérite d’être signalé publiquement.
En travaillant à partir de GENESIS, Jean-Baptiste Auxietre a développé un modèle analytique explicable permettant de prédire les angles de valence moléculaires avec une...
by Korben - yesterday at 16:05
Il y a des combats comme cela auxquels pas grand monde ne pense et qui pourtant sont très importants. Je parle évidemment de la lutte contre le chaos du texte non structuré. Si vous avez déjà essayé d'extraire des données propres d'un tas de PDF (après OCR), de rapports ou de notes griffonnées, vous voyez de quoi je parle : c'est l'enfer ! (oui j'aime me faire du mal en tentant des regex impossibles).
Heureusement, Google a lâché début janvier 2026 une petite pépite en open source (même si c'est pas un produit "officiel") qui s'appelle
LangExtract
. C'est une bibliothèque Python qui utilise la puissance des LLM pour transformer vos documents textuels en données JSON bien rangées. Exemple...
by Zataz - yesterday at 15:47
Cyberinfo ZATAZ de la semaine du 16 janvier 2026 : hack, piratage et opérations internationales cyber....