Recent studies have suggested that sugar substitutes might not be the free lunch they're advertised as. We asked experts what they thought.

Apple and Samsung dominate the US phone market, and they've done so for years. Together with Google, they've shaped our sense of what a smartphone is and what it can do, pushing the boundaries of mobile photography, software, and processing power. But over the last few years, they've sat back, content to iterate rather than innovate - and in the interim, China's tech giants have plowed ahead. Now a gulf is growing between the phones on sale in the US and those available in the rest of the world. US phone buyers are missing out.
Some of the blame for that gap lies with Apple. Where it goes, the market follows, and in recent years it's gone s …
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Local elections are held in the occupied West Bank and in one Gazan city, though Hamas and other groups are not taking part.

October 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

Witnesses report explosions and sustained gunfire near a military base outside the capital, Bamako.

The new game from the creators of Returnal goes all-in on the PlayStation’s haptics and 3D audio. Maybe it will catch on with other game developers.

Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more.

Sur les réseaux sociaux, depuis plusieurs mois, la Gen Z crée des mèmes sur une potentielle troisième guerre mondiale. Ces vidéos et images ironiques cachent en fait une saturation face à une actualité déprimante et à un avenir de plus en plus incertain, analyse la presse étrangère.

The city of Dnipro was hardest hit, with officials saying four died in a strike on a residential building.

Much of humanity has now watched—or scrolled past—extremely short shows about love and betrayal. How do Chinese companies create them?

Fans want to reclaim the music and myth of Michael Jackson in the new biopic while critics call for accountability. Who’s right?

Nataliia Khodymchuk lived in memory of her late husband, the first worker to die at the nuclear reactor, until she fell victim to a Russian attack.

TikTok and Instagram made it easy to monetize the physical self. Now the social-media-savvy can use A.I. to play with their identity, or overhaul it entirely.

Le pays est confronté depuis 2012 à une profonde crise sécuritaire, nourrie notamment par les violences de groupes djihadistes affiliés à Al-Qaida et à l’organisation Etat islamique, ainsi que de groupes criminels communautaires et des indépendantistes.

Pour “The Daily Telegraph”, cette journaliste britannique a testé une nouvelle tendance venue tout droit de France : le “deep dating”. Imaginé pour éviter les banalités échangées lors du premier rendez-vous, il invite les célibataires à plonger directement dans une conversation sur leurs penchants sexuels.

Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players.

Le ministre des affaires étrangères iranien, Abbas Araghtchi, est arrivé vendredi soir à Islamabad, pour des entretiens avec des responsables pakistanais. Mais « aucune rencontre n’est prévue entre l’Iran et les Etats-Unis », a affirmé Téhéran, précisant que le Pakistan servirait de médiateur. Pourtant, la Maison Blanche a assuré que Steve Witkoff et Jared Kushner rencontreraient « des représentants de la délégation iranienne » dans la capitale pakistanaise.

À l’approche du lancement de la Coupe du monde 2026, prévu pour le 11 juin à Mexico, l’enthousiasme est tempéré par plusieurs mouvements de contestation. Dans la capitale mexicaine, des artistes comme Vlocke Negro dénoncent les conséquences sociales délétères de l’événement, coorganisé avec les États-Unis et le Canada.

Voici l'histoire de Neukgu, un loup coréen de deux ans qui s'est fait la malle d'un zoo de Daejeon le 8 avril dernier, et qui a tenu en haleine toute la Corée du Sud pendant neuf jours.
Sauf que dans la foulée de l'évasion, un homme de 40 ans génère une fausse photo IA du loup en train de traverser un carrefour, la diffuse en ligne, et l'image finit par remonter jusqu'aux autorités qui n'y voient que du feu.
La séquence qui suit est assez improbable. La municipalité de Daejeon envoie une alerte d'urgence par SMS à la population, signalant un loup au niveau du carrefour en question. Les autorités présentent même l'image en conférence de presse officielle sur l'évasion.
Toute l'opération de...

Once upon a time, not every computer lived in a vertical “tower” case. Many decades back a horizontal arrangement was a popular choice, sometimes just referred to as the “desktop” style. [PuTaTuo] is helping to bring it back, with this amazing 3D printed case design.
The case is designed to suit mini-ITX motherboards, while supporting standard ATX-size power supplies. The printed components are all designed to measure less than 220 mm in any dimension to ensure they can easily be produced on smaller printers. The case has a 3.5″ drive bay cutout up front, which you can use for the front panel I/O or a floppy drive if you’re super-retro like that. The front panel is otherwise relatively simple, with...

Anthropic a partagé hier les résultats de Project Deal, une expérience interne menée en décembre 2025 où des agents Claude ont négocié, acheté et revendu des objets personnels pour le compte de 69 salariés volontaires de leur bureau de San Francisco. Le but : voir ce que ça donne quand des gens laissent leur IA faire les courses entre elles.
Pendant deux jours, chacun des 69 participants a confié un agent Claude à son téléphone, avec 100 dollars de budget virtuel et une liste d'objets à vendre ou à acheter. Les agents ont publié les annonces, échangé des messages, négocié les prix et conclu des accords.
186 transactions ont été closes sur plus de 500 objets listés, pour un volume total...

Façonnées à la main, les vaisselles et figurines en argile de Sejnane sont reconnaissables à leurs formes organiques et à leurs motifs géométriques bicolores. Dans cette ville du nord de la Tunisie, les agricultrices se transmettent depuis des siècles ce savoir-faire, désormais classé à l’Unesco. Le quotidien “Al-Araby Al-Jadid” est allé les rencontrer.

Paramount Faces DMCA Whac-a-Mole as Leaked Avatar: Aang Movie Thrives on Pirate Sites
https://torrentfreak.com/paramount-faces-dmca-whac-a-mole-as-leaked-avatar-aang-movie-thrives-on-pirate-sites/

Poussées par le déclin démographique de l’archipel, les maisons d’édition nippones ont commencé à recruter des mangakas et des éditeurs étrangers. Parmi eux, quelques Français, constate le quotidien japonais “Nihon Keizai Shimbun”.

ResEdit est un programme Apple que l’on trouve dans beaucoup de Mac (et qui est pratique). Le programme d’Apple a plusieurs Easter Egg, et voici le premier. Pour simplifier les choses, il faut lancer ResEdit, cliquer sur le clown qui sort de sa boîte puis faire Cancel.
Le clown
La fenêtre à fermer
Ensuite, il faut aller dans le menu  et choisir About ResEdit tout en pressant command et option. Une fenêtre avec des crédits va apparaître. Sans les deux touches, vous verrez juste l’image du clown.
L’Easter Egg

L’ancien ministre de l’économie est proche depuis des années de l’entrepreneur radical, prêt à payer chèrement son entregent et son image de « souverainiste de gauche ». Sévère sur son ancienne famille politique, il se défend toutefois d’avoir basculé à l’extrême droite.

Deux mois après le début de la guerre au Moyen-Orient, à l’origine de la plus grande crise énergétique de l’histoire selon l’Agence internationale de l’énergie, les principaux indicateurs économiques sont au vert aux Etats-Unis.

Si vous avez un site, vous savez déjà qu'il faut l'optimiser et le rendre lisible pour Google. Mais en ce moment, Cloudflare pousse vraiment une toute autre couche par-dessus : le rendre lisible pour les agents IA. Et pour vérifier si vous êtes dans les clous, l'équipe a sorti
isitagentready.com
, un scanner gratuit qui vérifie ça en quelques secondes.
Vous tapez tout simplement votre URL, et le scanner check une dizaine de standards émergents, puis pour chaque truc qui manque, il vous crache carrément un prompt prêt à coller dans Claude Code, Cursor ou Windsurf pour qu'il vous aide à l'implémenter. Vous pouvez aussi customiser le scan en cochant uniquement ce qui vous intéresse, selon que votre...

John Decebal vient de sortir le
RSVP Nano
, une mini-liseuse open-source qui tient sur un ESP32-S3 et qui affiche votre bibliothèque... un mot à la fois. 92 mm sur 34, et sous licence MIT, je me suis dis que j'allais y jeter un oeil.
En fait, le concept tient en 4 mots : Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. Au lieu d'afficher une page entière, l'appareil fait défiler les mots un par un, à la cadence que vous voulez. Imaginez un téléprompteur de poche, sauf que c'est vous qui gérez le défilement. J'en parlais déjà avec
Uniread en 2018
, sauf que là, la chose est matérialisée dans un boîtier qui tient dans la paume de la main, au lieu de tourner en CLI dans un terminal.
Côté hardware, c'est une...

Distribuer des paquets binaires en WebAssembly, c'est galère. Vous téléchargez le .tar.gz, vous le gunzippez, vous l'extrayez en mémoire... et ça rame sévèrement !! Mais youpi, Jeroen Ooms (qui contribue à webR et bosse chez ROpenSci) vient de publier
tar-vfs-index
, un petit npm package qui casse cette malédiction des enfers en sautant carrément l'étape extraction.
L'astuce est toute bête ! Au lieu d'extraire l'archive, on génère un fichier d'index qui liste la taille et l'offset de chaque fichier dans le tar. Du coup le navigateur n'a plus qu'à monter le blob du tar comme un système de fichiers virtuel, et chaque lecture devient alors un simple slice du blob à la bonne position. Pas...

Recently Haiku has become a bit of a popular subject of articles and videos, owing perhaps to how close it currently is to be a daily-driver OS and fulfilling the dream that BeOS set out with. That said, there are still quite a few hurdles before that glorious era can fully commence, with a video by [Ex-IT guy] on YouTube demonstrating some of the major hurdles by installing Haiku on Ryzen 3-based MiniPC that only supports UEFI boot.
Installing the UEFI bootloader is still a very much manual process with the user required to create UEFI boot and OS partitions before copying the bootloader into UEFI boot partition. After this Haiku can be installed as normal. The other variation of multi-boot is demonstrated in...

Score big savings on Altra Running shoes with up to 50% off sale styles, 20% off select models, 10% off your first order when you sign up, plus free standard delivery on every purchase.

L’analyse du groupe de réflexion Geonexio relève l’inadéquation entre l’organisation administrative et l’échelle des déplacements quotidiens, bien plus large.

From tariffs to the war with Iran, the President is blowing up the global economy.

Héritière d’idées humanistes et d’une culture antifasciste fondée après la seconde guerre mondiale, la capitale de l’Emilie-Romagne est devenue une sorte de laboratoire de la résistance aux idées réactionnaires en Italie.

Sometimes, a major discovery is exactly what you were hoping not to find. That’s the case with a team at Penn State who seem to have recently closed the door on any new physics stemming from a longstanding discrepency in the magnetic moment of the muon. It turns out, the model was fine, and we just needed better calculations.
The Muon is a heavier cousin to the electron. Like the electron, it has an intrinsic magnetic moment, but the traditional methods to calculate it did not quite match experiments, which was very exciting because it made us hope our models could be improved. Rather than try the traditional approximation methods for the unsolvable equations, the group at Penn State set up what you can...

On Friday morning, souring relations between Europe and the United States reared its Medusa-like head again, writes the BBC's Europe editor.

The humble cathode ray tube (CRT) was once the technology behind almost all of our televisions and computer displays. Its replacements, from LCD screens to OLED and others, are generally cheaper to make and better to look at. Old televisions were comparatively large as well, but their size can be an advantage for people like [ManicMods] aka [Jeff]. His latest build ditches the CRT from an old Bently portable TV and uses the huge space available in the case for a hi-fi audio system and some other parts that turn it into an impressive portable home theater system.
After removing most of the internals of the TV, the first part to go in is the stereo and subwoofer combo as it takes up the most amount of space. The...

Radio Silence's creature feature co-starring Rachel Weisz will now arrive in October 2027 rather than May 2028.

Windows users will no longer be forced to run automatic updates in the middle of a game or a busy day. Microsoft is rolling out some long-awaited changes to Windows Update to users on its Dev and Experimental Windows Insider channels, including the ability to indefinitely delay updates up to 35 days at a time. Last month, Microsoft announced a slew of upcoming changes to improve Windows 11 and address some of users' most common complaints about the platform. Chief among the company's planned fixes was making updates less disruptive. In its blog post on Friday, Microsoft says you'll be able to "extend the pause end date as many times as you …
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The new IONIQ V is key to Hyundai's plans in China.

The cutting-edge propulsion system could be used to power rockets to the Moon and beyond.

The critically acclaimed MMO's next expansion, 'Evercold,' is bringing big gameplay changes to let you keep up at your own pace.

Alex Jones is onto something. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz / Getty Images Alex Jones may soon lose Infowars, the digital perch that he's used for decades to traffic in conspiracy theories, to The Onion, the satirical newspaper. But not before he's uncovered something truly dastardly: comedian Tim Heidecker's past (publicly available) work.
"The Onion newspaper has been rocked by the discovery that their new creative director, produced pro pedo/child kidnapping, torture and murder programs," Jones wrote on X on Friday. "Below is an actual mug shot of the creep.." he continued. Included in the post is a fake mugshot of Heidecker taken from a 2017 Adult Swim courtroom series, in which he's standing trial for 20 coun...

Many HVAC systems in North America operate off 24V systems, which can be readily upgraded with off-the-shelf  smart thermostats quite easily. However, there are many people living in buildings with 120-volt fan coil units who aren’t so lucky. [mackswan] is one such individual, who set about building a smart thermostat to work in these situations.
The build is based around an ESP32 running ESPHome firmware. It rocks a 2.42″ OLED screen with automatic brightness adjustment for showing temperature and control parameters. There’s a rotary encoder on the front with an integrated button for control, with [mackswan] building the physical device to look as clean and neat as possible. The device uses a relay to...

Following Paramount Skydance's move to launch an investigation into how its upcoming Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender animated feature leaked onto the internet, a suspect has been taken into custody by police.
The Straits Times reports Singaporean police have arrested a 26-year-old man who is alleged to have uploaded the new Avatar movie (previously titled The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender) online after accessing a server where the project was being held ahead of its scheduled October 9th premiere on Paramount Plus. According to the authorities, a copy of the entire movie was found on the suspect's electronic devices. If he is ultimatel …
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“A powerful light source bigger than a London double-decker bus has set a record: it can create structures on a silicon wafer that are just 8 nanometres (nm) wide. Those are thought to be the smallest ever made in a single step by a commericial chip-patterning system. According to the system’s manufacturer, it could be used to make computer chips patterned with 2.9 times more transistors than chips produced with the previous generation of the light sources used for this purpose.” From Nature.
The post Breakthrough Computer-Chip Tech Could Help Meet AI Demand appeared first on Human Progress.

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever gene therapy for inherited deafness. The therapy, called Otarmeni, is approved to treat a form of hearing loss caused by mutations in the OTOF gene, which codes for a protein called otoferlin. Cells in the inner ear need otoferlin to translate vibrations into signals that can be interpreted by the brain. When people carry two defective copies of the OTOF gene — one from each parent — this line of communication between the inner ear and brain is cut, resulting in severe-to-profound hearing loss. Otarmeni is a one-time treatment that uses harmless viruses to deliver working copies of OTOF into the ear. In a trial including 20...

“Forty years after China launched the ‘Wild Horse Return Program.’ the Przewalski’s horse — the world’s only surviving wild horse species — has completed a historic transition from being on the brink of extinction to there being self-sustaining wild herds in Northwest China. The population of Przewalski’s horses in China has surpassed 900 individuals, accounting for approximately one-third of the global total, according to figures released during an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the species’ reintroduction.” From China Daily.
The post China’s Przewalski’s Horse Population Rises Above 900 appeared first on Human Progress.

The novelist Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses her short-story collection “Fat Swim,” and the fatphobia she finds in contemporary fiction, with the critic Jennifer Wilson.

“The largest genomic study of African elephants to date has found that both species – savanna and forest elephants – remain in generally good genetic health despite long-term numerical declines, though some isolated populations are showing worrisome signs of inbreeding and deleterious mutations. Researchers analyzed the genetic health of African elephants – Earth’s largest land animals – by looking at genome data for 181 savanna elephants and 51 forest elephants from 29 locations across 17 countries. Their genetic health was found to be positive overall because many populations, particularly in a broad swathe of southern Africa, can still roam across large distances and exchange genes. Signs of...

Alcova announces a Mexico City edition, a famous landscape from an iconic Andrew Wyeth painting opens to visitors, and more.Bonhams’s four-part auction of Diane Keaton’s eclectic trove of personal belongings will feature a sale devoted entirely to home furnishings. At Home with Diane, running online June 1 through June 10, is set to include more than 150 pieces from multiple properties belonging to the late actress, including a pre-styled metal step ladder expected to fetch upwards of $1,000. (Artnet) A mainstay of Milan Design Week, Alcova, a platform with a focus on emerging design, is heading to Mexico City for Art Week 2027. The itinerant showcase will unfold across a restored 1930s building in...

It’s not quite the color-changing car that’s been teased, but BMW’s new BMW iX3 Flow Edition brings us closer. | Image: BMW At CES 2022, BMW debuted its BMW iX Flow concept car that could dynamically change its appearance using the same grayscale E Ink panels found in e-readers like the Kindle. It was followed by the BMW i Vision Dee concept and the BMW i5 Flow Nostokana that were both upgraded with color E Ink panels. Its latest concept, the BMW iX3 Flow Edition announced at the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, might look slightly less ambitious but it takes a new approach, pushing color-changing cars closer to actual production.
BMW's previous concepts wrapped the entire vehicle in a patchwork of E Ink panels...

“The Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort (UPRISE) program announced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in March will help nuclear companies uprate their reactors and bring dormant facilities back online… Since the 1970s, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved 171 uprates, resulting in a ‌gain of around 8 GW as of January 2022. The NRC expects to receive applications for 32 additional uprates by 2032 that would increase the power capacity of the existing nuclear fleet by a further 2.4 GW. Uprates are ‘certainly the most cost effective and immediate way to increase nuclear capacity, and it capitalizes on infrastructure we already have,’ Rian Bahran, Deputy Assistant...

Inspired by Usonian homes, the 1957 residence by Herbert Fritz Jr. has wooden built-ins, concrete blocks, and…purple carpet?Location: 852 N. Cedar Street, Richland Center, Wisconsin Price: $379,900 Year Built: 1957 Architect: Herbert Fritz Jr. Footprint: 1,878 square feet (4 bedrooms, 3 baths) Lot Size: 0.44 Acres From the Agent: "852 N. Cedar Street is a 1957 commission from Herbert Fritz Jr.—son of a Taliesin survivor, heir to a tradition that believed a house should belong to its land. The vaulted ceiling opens the living room far beyond its footprint. Band windows frame a panoramic hillside view that feels, from inside, like it was always part of the plan. The cantilever pushes the bedroom wing out...

An internal Pentagon email reportedly outlines options to punish allies over a perceived lack of support for Iran war.

Anna Paulina Luna (1989 - ) est une députée américaine républicaine et l'une des figures centrales de la mouvance MAGA. Élue du 13ème district de Floride depuis 2023, cette ancienne militaire accède à la notoriété grâce à sa maîtrise des réseaux sociaux et un discours de rupture à l'égard des institutions. Elle se distingue en […]

1936. hitler enfile un kimono offert par l'ambassadeur du japon.
la photo paraït dans le asahi shimbun. plus tard, il ordonnera qu'on la fasse disparaître.

Launched in 2015, Zoowoman was a popular Spanish non-commercial film repository. The site did not store any movies, but it hosted links to approximately 11,000 titles before it was shut down.
The site was purportedly operated by a group of people, including film enthusiast “El Feo,” who is also the creator of La Filmoteca Maldita, a YouTube channel with over 400,000 subscribers dedicated to film analysis and criticism.
El Feo told TorrentFreak that the site focused specifically on films that were out of circulation commercially, discontinued, or otherwise difficult to access through normal channels. As such, the project was recognized for its uniqueness and reportedly used as a teaching resource by several...

Quels risques l’IA fait peser sur les artistes, la création et l’industrie culturelle ? Pour répondre à ces questions, nous avons organisé la rencontre entre le journaliste et scénariste Pascal Chind, cofondateur du label Fabrication Humaine, et Louis de Diesbach, éthicien de l’IA qui a publié début avril Faussaires algorithmiques (L’Aube, 2026).