As it prepares to enter its endgame, 'Strange New Worlds' wants to emphasize the boldness in boldly going.

Samedi 25 avril, plusieurs villes, dont Bamako et Kati, où résident les généraux au pouvoir, ont été la cible d’un assaut coordonné entre les djihadistes du JNIM et les indépendantistes touaregs du FLA. Dans la soirée, la situation était sous contrôle des forces gouvernementales et de leur allié russe dans la capitale.

Le président américain a estimé, samedi, qu’il n’était pas utile pour sa délégation de rejoindre Islamabad. Il a ajouté que les responsables iraniens pouvaient contacter Washington « à tout moment ».

Iran had earlier said there were no plans for a direct meeting with a US delegation led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

Witnesses report clashes in the centre and north, in what has been described as the largest jihadist attack in years.

A new, but familiar story lies at the heart of 'Invincible VS,' and with some slightly different actors along for the ride.

Have you ever looked out across the rooftops of a city and idly gazed at the infrastructure that remains unseen from the street? It seems [varunsontakke80] has, because here’s their project, harvesting energy from the rotation of a rooftop ventilator.
The build is a relatively straightforward one, with a pair of disks with magnets attached being mounted on the ventilator shaft inside its dome. A third disk sits between them and is stationary, with a set of coils in which the magnets induce current as they move. A rectifier and charge circuit completes the picture.
This appears to be part of a college project, but despite searching, we can’t find any measure of how much power this thing generates. We’d be...

One of the originators of the genre now haunts it.

Multiple sources are reporting that the Trump administration has dismissed the entire National Science Board (NSB). The NSB advises the president and Congress on the National Science Foundation (NSF), which has already been funding research at historically low levels and has seen significant delays in doling out that funding. The NSF has been fundamental in helping develop technology used in MRIs, cellphones, and it even helped get Duolingo get off the ground. In a statement, Zoe Lofgren, the ranking Democrat on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, said: "This is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to …
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Bones and Hiromu Arakawa reunite to bring her latest manga to animated life, and it's a teamup well worth the watch.

Part of what has held back electric cars has been the cost. But an influx of used vehicles over the next three years could bring prices down dramatically. In 2025, just 123,000 leases on EVs expired. That is expected to more than double to 300,000 in 2026, and double again to 600,000 in 2027 and 660,000 in 2028, according to Cox Automotive. Most leased vehicles end up entering the used market. This means more than a million used EVs could become available over the next few years, making them far more accessible. The vast majority of cars sold in the US are used - some 76 percent as of 2024, according to Consumer Affairs. A large part of th …
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You've heard of shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Now meet AI-generating a wolf in a crowded country.

Illustration par ChatGPT
Je profite du fait qu’on soit un samedi et que personne ne regarde pour le glisser en vitesse : j’ai le sentiment d’avoir été présent lors du sommet de la civilisation humaine.
Je suis d’accord, ça n’a pas duré, mais je suis content d’avoir été là, d’avoir été conscient qu’il s’agissait d’un moment privilégié et d’en avoir tiré le maximum – mes copines, mes copains et moi.
Est-ce que j’ai cru que cela pouvait durer ? Je ne me suis sans doute pas posé la question.
C’était il y a soixante ans. On en est loin aujourd’hui. Et, malheureusement, à chaque jour qui passe, de plus en plus loin.
Si vous ne viviez pas à cette époque-là, je suis...

The two Americans who reportedly worked for the CIA died in a car crash after a Mexican-led operation to destroy a drug lab.

More than 500 political prisoners are thought to still be in jail, despite the releases since the amnesty law was brought in.

Local elections have been held in the occupied West Bank and in one Gazan city, though Hamas and other groups are not taking part.

Emergent properties include examples like murmurations of starlings which can’t be predicted from looking at a single bird, weather which can’t be predicted by looking at a few air molecules, and consciousness which can’t be predicted by looking at a neuron. Likewise, when adding a new tool to a workflow, emergent properties can show up as well. A group at Chicago University developed a robotic drawing tool and a few artists developed some unique drawing methods using it.
The robotic pen uses a pair of tendons to extend the working end out a certain amount. From there it uses a set of servos to can be programmed to revolve around in a defined path, making repeating movements while the artist makes larger...

En visite dans la capitale grecque, le président français était accompagné d’une délégation d’entrepreneurs français intéressés par l’investissement dans un pays en pleine croissance.

Tous les 25 avril, le “Anzac Day” honore la mémoire des combattants australiens et néo-zélandais de la Première Guerre mondiale. Et les Australiens se ruent dans les pubs pour jouer à un jeu d’argent interdit le reste de l’année : le “two-up”. Les explications de la presse locale sur cet emballement annuel.

Penguin Random House is giving 'Baldur's Gate 3' a whole imprint to itself, where a cookbook and Astarion-focused novel await.

Depuis quelques jours, plusieurs médias français ressortent cette merveilleuse histoire de la carte bancaire à empreinte digitale comme s'il s'agissait d'une révolution imminente ! Par exemple
l'Indépendant
titre carrément "le code à quatre chiffres c'est bientôt fini". Toudoum !!
Sauf que la techno, conçue par
Thales
et
IDEMIA
, est commercialisée en Europe depuis 2021 quand même. Et plus drôle encore, c'est que
BNP Paribas
a fermé la commercialisation de sa première version le 8 décembre 2025, soit bien avant que la presse en fasse un sujet d'actualité "frais". La carte F.CODE d'IDEMIA, l'un des deux principaux fabricants de cartes biométriques en Europe avec Thales (crédit : IDEMIA).
Donc...

Nobody is talking. | Image: Metrograph Pictures Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Arizona say that between 2005 and 2019, the number of words we speak out loud to another human being fell by nearly 28 percent. And that has likely only gotten worse following the pandemic.
The researchers actually counted the number of words we were speaking on average (16,632 in 2005). They looked at data from 22 studies in which over 2,000 people recorded audio of their daily lives. Over time, as ordering through apps became the norm, texting increased, and our lives became increasingly online, they found that number had dropped dramatically. By 2019, we were onl …
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The Icemag 3’s kickstand allows you to prop up your phone as it recharges. | Image: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge I’ve been testing compact, magnetic Qi2 power banks that can snap onto your phone for an upcoming buying guide. They make recharging much easier than bringing along a huge battery that weighs down your bag. One of my favorites so far is the Sharge Icemag 3, a 10,000mAh model that can wirelessly output 25W to iPhone 16-series phones and newer models. It also offers a built-in kickstand and a 35W USB-C cable that doubles as a lanyard, plus a USB-C port for passthrough charging. For a limited time, Amazon Prime subscribers can get it in either white or black for $69.90 ($10 off), and Sharge will...

Parue sur le site jobs.ch, une offre d’emploi pour un poste d’infirmier(ère) excluait les candidat(e)s né(e)s après 1997. Retirée presque aussitôt, cette annonce en dit long sur le regard que portent certains employeurs suisses sur les jeunes professionnels, relève la “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”.

Du Caucase à l’Asie centrale, Moscou ne considère pas les anciennes républiques soviétiques comme des partenaires égaux, mais comme un espace stratégique à préserver. Or dans les pays concernés, des désirs d’autonomie s’expriment.

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Joining me today is economist Samuel Gregg, the President and Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of seventeen books, including The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, which will form the basis of our discussion today. So, tell me about why you chose to write this book and why it is, perhaps unfortunately, more relevant today than ever? In around 2016, the way that Americans thought about the nature of their economy started to shift. Since the early 1980s, America had moved back towards markets, free enterprise, and limited...

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Handheld consoles are great for gaming on the go, but who wants to hold onto things all the time? Would it not be easier to strap the game to your wrist? Well, not in its current form factor, but [LeggoMyFroggo], aka [
Chris Hackmann] has you covered, because he turned the Gameboy Color into a (relatively smart) watch.
Why “relatively” smart? Well, we say that because he’s using the original Game Boy Color CPU, a Sharp SOC based on the Z80 that is far less powerful than modern smartwatch platforms. That SOC is helped out by an RP2040 that translates the chip’s parallel RGB output into something a modern watch-sized display can comprehend via its PIOs. [Chris] refers to it as a “poor man’s FPGA”...

I knew things were not quite right when I had to throw a towel over a broken Ikea lamp to block out its light. How did I get here? I cover fancy and capable tech for a living, and yet, it took me two years to get rid of a pair of old, broken Ikea lamps in my bedroom. Then I got some floor lamps from Govee that changed everything.
Those Ikea lamps were around for two years after I moved from Orange County to Los Angeles. Soon after that move, my mom's Parkinson's disease - a neurodegenerative condition with no cure - progressed quickly, my mental health took a hit, and most of my own to-do list quietly slid to the back burner as she lost mob …
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À la faveur de la politique d’ouverture entamée il y a une décennie et de l’assouplissement des codes moraux, la culture de la rencontre est en pleine éclosion dans ce pays autrefois ultraconservateur. Mais elle se heurte toujours à un cadre légal restrictif et au puritanisme de certaines familles, raconte “The Wall Street Journal”.

Distractions? What distractions? Here are our recommendations for apps that help you stay focused on the task at hand.

Un courriel du Pentagone, très commenté par la presse étrangère, suggère de sanctionner les membres de l’Alliance atlantique qui ne soutiennent pas Washington dans sa guerre au Moyen-Orient, au premier rang desquels l’Espagne. Les Américains ne disposent toutefois que d’une faible marge de manœuvre pour arriver à leurs fins.

One of the nice things about magnetic storage is that as long as the magnetic layer remains intact, the data it contains should stay readable pretty much indefinitely. That raises the prospect of recovering data from really old computer systems featuring magnetic memory, such as the 63-year old LGP-21 that [David Lovett] of Usagi Electric is currently restoring. Its magnetic memory disk is nothing amazing by modern standards, but after initial testing it seems to spin up and read data just fine, raising the question of what was left on the drive when it was last used, meaning what was in memory at the time.
The read/write head side of the LGP-21’s magnetic memory. (Credit: Usagi Electric,...

October 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

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.

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.

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

Pour la première fois, Donald Trump participe au dîner de l’association des correspondants de la Maison Blanche en tant que président. Il y a quinze ans, il assistait à ce même événement prestigieux, où il a été moqué par son prédécesseur, Barack Obama.

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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/

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

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...

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

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.

“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.
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“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.
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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...

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...

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).