His movies aren't without frights ('Jaws' and 'Jurassic Park' surely caused some nightmares), but the Oscar winner would like to tackle a full-on scary movie someday.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would've required residents to verify their age before accessing porn sites, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a letter to the members of the assembly last week, Evers writes that the bill "imposes an intrusive burden on adults who are trying to access constitutionally protected materials."
The bill (AB 105) would've required sites with more than one-third of their total content deemed harmful to minors to impose a "reasonable" form of age verification, such as asking users to show their government-issued ID. More than two dozen states have already passed similar age check requirements for …
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The operation to extract him from the ground in hostile territory was hugely complex and involved multiple US government agencies.

New York City's Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, was non-committal when it comes to the future.

If camera-equipped smart glasses aren't your thing, you're about to have a new pair at your disposal.

The crew of the ongoing space mission not only saw and loved the movie, they're referencing it in real time.

Four astronauts are travelling deeper into space than anyone in history. NASA will never be the same.

Artemis II is capturing images of the far side of the Moon, partially visible here, which can’t be seen from Earth. | Image: NASA A few minutes before 2PM ET on Monday, the crew of Artemis II broke a record set 56 years ago by the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission - at over 248,655 miles, they have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans before them. They marked the occasion with a crater naming ceremony that left the whole crew embracing each other in lunar orbit. To commemorate the Artemis II mission, the astronauts announced their suggestion to rename certain features on the Moon to honor the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, as well as commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll....

The Gulf’s water system is built with layers of backup, but it relies on continuous operation to hold.

The accounts, which launch July 4, offer a $1,000 government seed deposit for children born between 2025 and 2028

Friction usually announces itself through contact. A chair scraping across a floor, a tire gripping asphalt, a hand sliding over fabric. For centuries, the rule seemed simple: press harder, and resistance grows. That idea, formalized in Amontons’ law, has guided physics since the 17th century. Now a tabletop experiment suggests a very different picture can emerge when nothing touches at all. Researchers at the University of Konstanz have identified a form of friction that arises purely from magnetic interactions. No surfaces rub together. No material wears down. Yet resistance appears, peaks, and then fades again as conditions change. The familiar rule linking friction to load no longer holds in a...

Although the Sega Dreamcast had many good qualities that made it beloved by the thousands of people who bought the console, one glaring omission was the lack of DVD video capabilities. Despite its optical drive being theoretically capable of such a feat, Sega had opted to use the GD-ROM disc format to not have to cough up DVD licensing fees, while the PlayStation 2 could play DVD movies. Fortunately it’s possible to hack DVD capability into the Dreamcast if you aren’t too fussy about the details, as [Throaty Mumbo] recently demonstrated.
For the Tl;dw folk among us, there’s a GitHub repository that contains the basic summary and all needed files. Suffice it to say that it is a bit of a kludge, but on the...

Comments released by the National Capital Planning Commission range from out-of-touch "yo mama" jokes to depressed arguments from architects over taste, style, and due process.Can public opinion actually sway our elected officials? Not so, it turns out, with President Trump’s White House ballroom proposal, which finally has the green light after a few hiccups, and in spite of more than a few critics decrying the ornate, neoclassical expansion as an overblown overhaul of one of the country’s most historic public buildings. The project was announced on July 31, 2025, as a privately funded, $200 million addition to the East Wing, designed by McCrery Architects and slated to begin that fall. By October,...

U2 is ground zero for me. They weren’t the first act I loved as a kid, but they were probably the first that I took seriously. Achtung Baby wasn’t my first album, but it was certainly the first that I absorbed as such – a world unto itself, sophisticated rock music for adults just a bit beyond my full comprehension as a 12 year old boy. It’s still one of my all-time favorite records, and I’m somehow still growing into it now even though I’m a lot older than U2 were at the time they made it. U2 were one of the first acts where I learned all the lore, in part because I had an older friend who was an absolute fanatic and had read all the books and collected all the b-sides. I’d do the same with...

The rapper's appearance in London in July has caused controversy because of his past antisemitic comments.

At 50, Apple is navigating an AI transition it didn't start — and its numbers reveal a company more skilled than most at playing long

A sprawling roof extending over indoor/outdoor spaces has cutouts that make space for mature trees.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: San Bernardino, Paraguay Architect: Equipo de Arquitectura / @equipodearquitectura Footprint: 2,800 square feet Landscape Design: Viviana Pozzoli Structural Engineer: Felipe Ramírez Photographer: Federico Cairoli / @federicocairoli From the Architect: "A Forest in the House proposes an alternative approach to harmonizing the built form with its natural surroundings. Rather than treating existing trees as obstacles,...

The Israeli strikes reportedly targeted Hamas security personnel after they clashed with an Israeli-backed militia near Maghazi camp.

Buying Globalstar would bolster Amazon's Kuiper satellite internet service as it works to close a wide gap with SpaceX's Starlink.

The MacBook Neo (left) next to the 15-inch MacBook Air. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge It’s 2026, and that means Apple sells MacBooks equipped with not just its capable M-series processors but A-series chips that were previously exclusive to the iPhone. With the MacBook Neo starting at $599, the company now offers a wider range of options with more sizes and price points than ever before, all of which run the company’s newest operating system, macOS 26. Purchasing a new MacBook is easy if all you want is an affordable laptop. But if you have more specific needs and use cases that require a lot of power, or if you want to connect multiple 6K displays, it gets more complicated. That said,...

A cross-trial comparison shows Novo's oral semaglutide produced 3.2 percentage points more weight loss than Foundayo, with Eli Lilly's drug seeing significantly higher dropout rates due to side effects.

Everything on the electromagnetic spectrum has some properties of both waves and particles, but it’s difficult to imagine a radio wave, for example, behaving like a particle. The main evidence for a particle-like nature is quantization, the bundling of electromagnetic energy into discrete packets. One way around this is to theorize that quantization is due to the specific interaction between the electromagnetic field and matter, not intrinsic to the field itself. To investigate this theory, [Huygens Optics] conducted several experiments with gamma rays, including Compton scattering.
For these experiments, he used a Radiacode 110 X-ray and gamma ray detector, which uses a photodetector to detect radiation’s...

The DJI Mic Mini is matching its all-time low. | Image: DJI If you regularly create content for TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube on the go, bad sound quality can easily take away from an otherwise great video. DJI’s Mic Mini helps you record clear, reliable sound for videos without carrying around bulky, expensive gear, and it’s currently down to its all-time low price. You can buy the mic with two transmitters for $59.99 ($20 off) at Amazon.
DJI Mic Mini (with one mic and two transmitters) Where to Buy: $79 $59.99 at Amazon
Built for on-the-go creators, the Mic Mini makes it easy to capture clearer audio than your phone or camera alone. It weighs just 10 grams, so it’s comfortable enough to wear all day,...

Nonprofits run out of US Border Patrol stations are also selling other “operation”-themed coins that include a phrase popularized by the Proud Boys, potentially in violation of government rules.

Autonomous vehicle companies are refusing to disclose key details about their use of remote assistance teams, including how often these workers are forced to intervene to help their self-driving cars. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) had asked robotaxi companies to disclose the information as part of an investigation by his office into the use of remote assistance operators (RAO). The senator's office sent letters to seven robotaxi companies - Aurora, May Mobility, Motional, Nuro, Tesla, Waymo, and Amazon's Zoox - seeking information about the use of remote workers to monitor the driverless vehicles and occasionally intervene when the vehicles need h …
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« Ils sont prêts à souffrir, à payer le prix pour la liberté », a ajouté le président américain lors d’une conférence de presse. « Ils nous ont demandé de continuer à bombarder, ils nous ont dit “s’il vous plaît, continuez”. »

No injuries have been reported, but regulators say the manufacturer can't guarantee the products are free of bacteria or fungi

Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona, in what authorities believe was an abduction.

Un rapport d’Urgence Palestine et de Palestinian Youth Movement révèle que plus de 525 cargaisons d’équipements français à usage militaire ont été expédiées vers Israël entre octobre 2023 et mars 2026. Pour le gouvernement, il s’agit de matériel à vocation défensive ou destiné à être réexporté.

Even a brief time spent on a bedside pedal device has positively impacted an area of the brain related to memory, according to recent research published in Brain Communications. In a study involving 14 participants suffering from medically intractable epilepsy, researchers recorded activity in the brain before and after the participants engaged in approximately 20 minutes of light to moderate cycling. After cycling, the participants showed a higher incidence of fast electrical bursts (known as “ripples”) in the hippocampus. This is a well-known brain structure involved in learning and memory. For several years, scientists have been researching these ripples and their role in helping the brain sort and...

En validant le fractionnement de la gestion des infrastructures olympiques, le Conseil d’Etat a rendu une décision qui réduit la consultation des citoyens face aux méga-événements.

Après avoir battu ce record, la mission Artemis-2 a ensuite amorcé, à 20 h 45 lundi soir, un vol autour de la Lune. Ce qui ne s’était pas produit depuis plus de cinquante ans. Pendant sept heures, la Lune sera dans le hublot du vaisseau Orion.

In Highland Park, designer Ben Warwas turns "a starter home into a forever home" with a quirky bedroom suite perched above a poolside patio.Kristen Shattuck had a vision when she first saw the three-bedroom, 1947 fixer in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood. Brushing aside what she calls "frozen-in-time moments" like the kitchen’s swinging saloon doors, the gold-veined mirrored panels in a bedroom, and the Lucite shell toilet seat in the bathroom, she imagined a home that she and her husband, Greg Saunders, could make their own. In Highland Park, designer Ben Warwas expanded a 1947 home with an elevated addition. Clad in wood, a window seat cantilevers off the new primary suite and creates a covered patio...

The recently renovated NoHo flat comes with an overhauled kitchen, a communal roof deck, and a collection of vintage doors.Location: 21 Bond Street, Unit 3, New York, New York Price: $4,250,000 Year Built: 1900 Footprint: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths From the Agent: "Situated on one of NoHo’s most storied cobblestone blocks, this full-floor loft at 21 Bond Street offers an authentic downtown living experience within a landmarked Renaissance Revival building. Occupying the entire third floor, the home spans a long and gracious footprint. It has a curated collection of vintage doors, each with its own storied provenance. The layout flows naturally from generous entertaining spaces to more private bedroom wings,...

You can score over $200 off the DJI Osmo 360.

The news is full of reports from the moon-bound Integrity, otherwise known as Artemis II. Mostly, the news is good, but there has been one “Houston, we have a problem…” moment. The space toilet, otherwise known as the Universal Waste Management System or UWMS is making a burning smell while in use. While we would love to be astronauts, we really don’t want to go ten days without using the can, and it made us wonder how, exactly, the astronauts answered the call of nature.
The Old Days
Back in the Apollo-era, going to the bathroom was a messy business. The capsule wasn’t that big, and there were no women on board. So you simply strapped an adhesive-rimmed bag or tube to yourself and answered...

This colossal pizza oven is both pricey and impractical. It also makes the best pizza I’ve ever cooked at home.

Water hidden beneath Arctic glaciers is moving far more than scientists realized. Now there is a map to prove it. Researchers have identified 37 active subglacial lakes across the Canadian Arctic, including 33 bodies of water that had not been documented before. The lakes sit beneath or partly beneath glaciers. Furthermore, some of them drain or refill so quickly that the ice above them can rise or fall by more than 100 meters in less than a year. The work offers the first decadal inventory of active subglacial lakes in the region. It also adds a new layer to the picture of Arctic ice loss in one of the world’s fastest-changing glacier zones. “Now we can further characterize the way the Arctic environment...

Condamné il y a six ans pour atteinte à la sécurité de l’Etat, l’intellectuel a été gracié par Mohammed VI en 2024, mais ne peut toujours pas quitter son pays.

En mars 2026, Zanele Muholi a remporté le prix Hasselblad. Cette récompense, la plus prestigieuse dans le domaine de la photographie, vient consacrer la stature internationale de l’artiste queer. Iel a mis son art au service des personnes noires et LGBTQI d’Afrique du Sud, victimes d’une grande violence.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Ordinary Iranians respond to the US president's threat to destroy Iran's power plants and bridges unless it opens the Strait of Hormuz.

The topic of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) has become increasingly prevalent over the past years, as amidst dismissal and panic, researchers attempt to distinguish just how much of a problem MNPs truly are. The most essential problem here is that we are still developing the tools to accurately measure the levels of MNP contamination. Recently, [Madeline E. Clough] et al. demonstrated in an article published in Analytical Methods how gloves worn in laboratory settings can create false positive MNP signals.
As we covered previously, detecting MNPs is tough due to the detection methods used, many of which rely on interpreting signals from methods like pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS),...

Séduite par l’ordre et la sécurité du Japon, une famille néo-zélandaise a organisé son départ pendant des années. Mais vivre sur place s’est avéré bien plus déroutant que prévu, explique Kerri King dans “Business Insider”.

Déclin cognitif, maladies cardio-vasculaires, santé mentale… Tous ces troubles sont façonnés par le lien entre deux organes vitaux, le cœur et le cerveau. Dans son édition du 4 avril, l’hebdomadaire “New Scientist” a choisi de mettre à l’honneur les avancées de la recherche en la matière.

Last week, X asked a federal court in Tennessee to dismiss a music piracy lawsuit, arguing that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Cox v. Sony, rendered the music companies’ contributory infringement theory futile. The music publishers, meanwhile, were busy in a different court, asking a Texas judge to throw out X’s antitrust complaint against them with similar finality.
The motion to dismiss, filed in the Northern District of Texas, argues that X’s lawsuit doesn’t hold up and the music companies want all eight counts dismissed with prejudice.
A Conspiracy Built on One Word
X filed its antitrust complaint in January, accusing the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and a coalition of major...

Alors que les forces armées burkinabè sont accusées de crimes de guerre et de crimes contre l’humanité par Human Rights Watch, dans un rapport qui documente de nombreux massacres de civils, le gouvernement burkinabè crie à la manipulation et à la “haine viscérale” de “la coalition des forces des ténèbres”.

Artemis II remains on course for its lunar flyby as the crew shares historic photos of Earth, tests key systems for future lunar missions, and attempts to fix the toilet.

Tandis que le président américain a menacé de détruire les ponts et centrales électriques iraniennes et qu’Israël a bombardé South Pars, un des plus grands complexes pétrochimiques iraniens, les diplomates s’activent. Un plan pakistanais en deux phases a ainsi été communiqué à Washington et Téhéran. “Une tentative désespérée” pour empêcher une nouvelle escalade.

An exoplanet, TOI-5205 b, which is almost as large as Jupiter, orbits a small red star. By many estimates, this red star should not have been able to form it due to the star’s mass. The fact that TOI-5205 b exists as it does at all raises intriguing questions about how it came to be. In addition, the James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that this planet may be even stranger than previously thought. Specifically, the atmosphere of TOI-5205 b is deficient in heavy elements relative to the hosting star. This discrepancy suggests that the outer layers of the planet and its deep interior have not developed in the same way through the formation process. The findings from the study of TOI-5205 b were recently...

These days our appetite for more data storage is larger than ever, with video files larger, photo resolutions higher, and project files easily zipping past a few hundred MB. At the same time our options for data storage are becoming more and more limited. For the longest time we could count on there always being a newer, roomier, faster, and cheaper form of storage to come along, but those days would seem to be over.
We can look back and laugh at low capacity USB Flash drives of the early 2000s, yet the first storage drive to hit 1 TB capacity did so in 2007, with a Hitachi Deskstar 7k100, only for that level of capacity in PCs to not really be exceeded nineteen years later.
We also had Blu-ray discs (BD)...

A muscle that no longer answers to the brain might sound useless. MIT researchers are trying to turn that idea into medicine. In a study published in Nature Communications, the team described a new implant called a myoneural actuator, or MNA. It uses living skeletal muscle that has been surgically rewired so a computer, not the brain, can control it. In rodent tests, the system restored squeezing motion in the small intestine and also passed sensory signals back toward the brain, raising the possibility of future implants that could help revive organ function and restore some lost bodily sensations. The work comes from researchers at the MIT Media Lab, the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics, and the McGovern...

Illustration par ChatGPT (ne doit pas être prise à la lettre !)
6 avril 2026 — J+37 depuis le début du conflit
La décision Trump du 30 mars — terminer la guerre sans rouvrir Ormuz — n’est plus seulement une décision politique. Elle est contrainte par les données d’épuisement. Forcer militairement la réouverture du détroit nécessiterait de consommer les 5–15% de stocks restants contre un adversaire qui conserve les trois quarts de son arsenal offensif. C’est arithmétiquement intenable.
Le calcul produit ici est en réalité l’explication causale de la décision Trump, pas seulement une donnée parallèle. La dissociation des deux interfaces — fin de guerre d’un côté, Ormuz de...

At the Cherry Lane Theatre, the writer and the director of “You Got Older,” starring Alia Shawkat and Peter Friedman, dish on mortality, romantic angst, and the rapper Pitbull.

To ring in his new WQXR podcast, the veteran pianist puts on a special live show with a secret surprise guest—his old drinking buddy Yo-Yo Ma.

The New York Public Library’s new series, Lunch Dances, features choreography based on objects in the stacks. Can a pirouette tell the story of a mid-century lesbian magazine?

11/04 : Super Carnaval Antifasciste
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Le Red Magic 11 Golden Saga Edition est un téléphone Android capable de faire tourner des jeux PC Windows en local, sans connexion internet et sans cloud gaming. Red Dead Redemption 2 tourne à plus de 40 images par seconde, GTA V dépasse les 60, et Cyberpunk 2077 est jouable. Le tout dans la poche.
Comment ça marche
Red Magic utilise un outil appelé GameHub, qui fait tourner des jeux Windows directement sur Android grâce à une couche d'émulation basée sur Wine et Proton (les mêmes technologies que Valve utilise sur le Steam Deck pour faire tourner des jeux Windows sous Linux).
Pas besoin de streaming, pas besoin de serveur distant. Le jeu s'exécute en local sur le téléphone, avec les fichiers...

Il y a quelques semaines, un site australien a ouvert, et il propose du matériel Apple qui provient des Apple Store (notamment, il y a aussi pas mal de goodies). J’avais justement envie d’un support MagSafe Apple et il n’était pas trop cher. Truc rapide sur Apple Unsold, donc. Ils vendent pas mal d’accessoires et avaient une boutique eBay au départ. Ça vient d’Australie, donc il faut prévoir un peu de temps et un petit budget en plus. En théorie, vous aurez la TVA française (20 %), la taxe petit colis (2 €) et des frais de dossiers (8 € avec la Poste, 2 € si payé en ligne). Dans la pratique, le site a sous-estimé directement la déclaration sur la facture et c’est passé, et j’en...

Ce mercredi 25 mars, l'Assemblée générale de l'Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU) a adopté une résolution proclamant la traite transatlantique des Africains comme « crime le plus grave contre l'humanité ». Porté par le président du Ghana, le texte met à nouveau à jour les vives tensions mémorielles qui subsistent entre les pays occidentaux et les anciennes colonies africaines. Décryptage. Résolution de l'ONU : une décision historique
Tête de file de l'Union africaine sur la question des réparations liées à la traite transatlantique, le président ghanéen John Dramani Mahama a salué, devant l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU, un moment « historique », appelant à la « vérité » et à...