These 20 inventions were used in ways their creators never intended, from a wartime weapon to a global soft drink and the modern internet

The Black Cat Frappuccino and Venti Black Night Cookie join Halloween-themed merchandise hitting stores Sept. 15

The Oxford-based company is one of several European space startups to secure large funding rounds in recent weeks

The Hong Kong-listed company is selling new shares at a 9.96% discount and issuing zero-coupon bonds due 2027

The California Department of Public Health issued a recall notice for Happy Hens brand organic shell eggs over possible salmonella contamination

Selon “Politico”, la Commission européenne va présenter, le mercredi 16 septembre, un texte de loi visant à réduire l’accès aux réseaux sociaux et aux plateformes de partage de vidéos aux utilisateurs de moins de 15 ans. Une réforme soutenue par de nombreux pays membres de l’Union européenne.

Le RN s’oppose aux pistes d’économie du gouvernement pour marquer son soutien aux retraités, qui lui ont jusqu’ici barré l’accès à l’Elysée. Cette défense de leur pouvoir d’achat va de pair avec un affichage de sérieux.

The average domestic flight now costs $390, up from $290 a year ago.

If you want an idea of what’s next in film, the Toronto International Film Festival is a good place to start. Every year TIFF features a huge range of features from around the world, and often some of them go on to be huge hits or awards contenders; the 2025 edition, for instance, included the likes of both Hamnet and Obsession. Covering a sprawling festival like TIFF solo is next to impossible, so I do my best to see as much as I can, and then write about everything with bite-sized reviews published each day. For 2026, that means exciting upcoming films like Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and a gigantic Elon Musk documentary, and even a few streaming series,...

Alliés du régime iranien, les houthistes ont annoncé, le 11 septembre, s’être emparés du détroit de Bab El-Mandeb, goulet stratégique à l’entrée de la mer Rouge. Ils offrent ainsi un levier supplémentaire à l’Iran face aux États-Unis, tout en menaçant les exportations pétrolières de l’Arabie saoudite.

Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate on Monday, which brings the new Siri AI assistant, Liquid Glass improvements, improved performance, and more. The update is compatible with all Macs with Apple Silicon, but not Intel Macs - Apple released its final big update for Intel-based Macs last year with macOS Tahoe.
Siri AI is arguably the biggest feature in macOS 27, and it allows you to ask questions, search through things involving your personal context like photos and emails, and take actions in apps such as Messages and Reminders. There's a new dedicated Siri app that keeps an archive of your chats for easier reference. However, Siri AI will …
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The iOS 27 update arrives just in time for the iPhone 18 Pro release. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates. Siri AI is the headline feature across all four updates, the delayed AI-powered overhaul of the Siri assistant. Siri AI is available as a beta today for English-only devices, and Apple says support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish is coming in October.
Siri AI isn't the only big feature in iOS 27, though. Apple is adding a new Liquid Glass opacity slider that lets you pick between a clearer UI or a more frosty one. A lot of built-in apps are also...

Pour la première fois depuis 2014, un candidat soutenu par le PLD au pouvoir a remporté ce scrutin. Denny Tamaki, gouverneur d’Okinawa depuis 2018, a été battu malgré sa lutte contre la concentration des bases américaines sur cet archipel du sud-ouest du Japon.

The streamer is also expanding its Sega portfolio with movies based on 'Crazy Taxi' and 'Stranger Than Heaven.'

The Steam Frame VR headset doesn’t do anything but play games, but there are so many more reasons to care.

The Steam Frame VR headset is all about gaming, and that means RAMageddon has taken the screws to its price tag.

« Le système Poutine » (1/3). Les pléthoriques « siloviki », ces officiers issus des services de sécurité, ont pris le pouvoir et sont omniprésents dans les élites. Dans la société, ils ont diffusé un climat de peur et de suspicion qui interdit toute remise en question du Kremlin et de la guerre en Ukraine.

Valve is finally releasing its Steam Frame headset, which can run both flat and VR games locally and stream both kinds of games from your PC. The Steam Frame will start at $1,059. Valve will also offer a 1TB model that starts at $1,299. Every Steam Frame will come with a copy of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's made-for-VR entry in the Half-Life franchise, and Valve has ported the game to run natively on the headset as well as via streaming.
Here are the prices for the Frame across several different currencies for the two configurations: Steam Frame 256GB: $1,059 / $1,529 CAD / €1,049 / £889 / $1,609 AUD / 4,539 zlotys
Steam Frame 1TB: $1,29 …
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For nearly three weeks, I've been testing the limits of Valve's Steam Frame, the company's new wearable PC. At first glance, it's easy to write it off as a pricey headset that missed the VR craze. At $1,059 with 256GB of storage or $1,299 for 1TB, it costs two to three times as much as similar-looking headsets from Meta.
You should not write it off that way. The Steam Frame isn't just a VR headset. It's not even primarily a VR headset. And it's the most comfortable headset I've ever worn. It weighs just over 1 pound (469g) with its optional top head strap attached, and doesn't leave a mark on my face even after hours of use.
The Steam Fram …
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Ce lundi 14 septembre, la raffinerie d’Aliko Dangote entre en Bourse, avec l’objectif de lever 1,4 milliard de dollars. Une opération historique qui vise à consolider l’empire du milliardaire nigérian, porté par la conjoncture géopolitique.

In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.

L’appel lancé par Dario Amodei, le PDG d’Anthropic, en faveur d’un ralentissement du développement de l’intelligence artificielle est plutôt mal reçu en Chine. On y voit surtout un plaidoyer pour entraver les entreprises chinoises et leurs modèles open source afin d’asseoir la domination américaine sur ce secteur éminemment stratégique.

It's the third measles-associated death in the state this year, though the CDC has yet to officially acknowledge any so far.

Rattrapage ou surdiagnostic ? La prévalence du trouble du spectre de l’autisme (TSA) a bondi depuis les années 2000, un phénomène qui conduit certains spécialistes à plaider pour une révision de sa définition. Malgré un constat partagé, alors que le TSA regroupe différents types de catégories, cette proposition est loin de faire l’unanimité.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

“Nuclear reactors worldwide generated 2,702 TWh of electricity in 2025, beating the previous year's record of 2,667 TWh, according to the World Nuclear Outlook Report… Looking ahead at the prospects for new nuclear capacity, the report projects that it could reach 1,457 GWe by 2050 if all national targets and goals are achieved and the existing fleet continues to operate. With current operating capacity being 423 GWe, that projected figure would be 200 GWe more than a tripling of the current levels.” From World Nuclear News.
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“Some people without plane tickets will be allowed to pass through security at US airports and go to gates to see off family or friends, rolling back a rule that was introduced after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Certain people who are part of the TSA PreCheck program but who do not have tickets to fly will be able to go through security to airport gates, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said… The program, called Gateside by TSA PreCheck, is free, but interested members must apply online one to three days before their planned visits and receive approval before going to the airport. If approved, they can enter security using a TSA PreCheck lane with an acceptable form of identification. The...

Recently researchers finished mapping the central nervous system (CNS) connectome of not just the female Drosophila melanogaster (i.e. fruit fly) brain, but also that of the male D. melanogaster for a comparative analysis. Here the sexually dimorphic changes turned out to induce specific mating behavior that ensures that there will only be smooching between genetically fit D. melanogaster males and females, while the rest of the connectome remained effectively the same.
Of course, with this connectome in hand it led some people to ask themselves what else one can do with this connectome graph of about 160,000 neurons other than make a fruit fly into a fruit fly. So far we have seen [Nftechie] turn this...

“The human genome is made of about 3 billion base pairs of DNA — but much of it remains a mystery. Scientists understand the 2% of the human genome that codes for proteins relatively well, but have only limited knowledge of the remaining 98%. Our AlphaGenome model has already shown how single changes in these non-coding DNA regions can disrupt molecular processes like protein production, but the bigger picture remained unclear. Today, we're introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database that predicts the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome. We used the AlphaGenome AI model to pre-calculate the regulatory impact of all 9 billion single-letter genetic changes, resulting in a...

“The global population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros has reached a record 4,075, with Assam accounting for nearly 80% of the species’ population and Kaziranga National Park alone sheltering more than 2,600 rhinos, state forest minister Jayanta Mallabaruah said. According to him, the global population of one-horned rhinoceroses was fewer than 100 in the early 1900s but has now crossed the 4,000 mark for the first time, and Assam’s contribution to this is particularly significant.” From Hindustan Times.
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“Coal generation has stopped growing in 17 of 26 provinces and regions in China, and fossil fuel use has passed its peak in eight of 11 industrial sectors, according to a new analysis by global energy think tank Ember. Thermal generation, most of it coal, fell 0.7% in 2025 while electricity demand rose 5%. It has fallen before, but the last time was 2015, when demand was almost flat at 0.5% growth. A fall under strong demand growth is different: it shows that clean electricity is growing quickly enough to both meet rapid demand growth and replace coal.” From Ember.
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Quinze prévenus, la plupart issus d’un petit réseau d’extrême droite constitué pendant la crise sanitaire due au Covid-19, comparaissent à partir de mardi devant le tribunal correctionnel de Paris. Outre leur leader, seront jugés un sous-officier à la retraite, un éducateur, un professeur… et la mère de la petite fille.

- Contient des liens affiliés Amazon - Vous savez ce que c'est une caméra thermique ? Oui, probablement, mais au cas où, c'est un appareil qui affiche les écarts de température sous forme de couleurs, pour chercher un défaut d'isolation autour d'une fenêtre par exemple ou repérer un composant qui chauffe trop. Avec la Thermal Master P3, cette image apparaît sur votre téléphone, grâce à un petit module branché à sa prise USB-C. Il faut d'abord installer l'application du fabricant, puis connecter la caméra à un smartphone Android ou à un iPhone compatible. L'adaptateur Lightning est dans la boîte pour les anciens iPhone, et l'alimentation passe par le téléphone : la P3 n'a aucune batterie à...

Saisie par deux partis d’extrême droite, la Cour suprême de Madrid a suspendu le droit de vote accordé depuis 2022 aux descendants d’exilés de l’époque franquiste, déclenchant une vive polémique.

As part of my back-away-from-burnout plan, I've been trying to re-awaken my enthusiasm for tech by finding things to tinker with.
Someone recently posted in the fediverse about a small e-ink name badge that they'd had delivered. Unfortunately, the kit that they bought only seems to be available in the US, but I instead stumbled upon Badgeware's Badger.
Badger is a name badge made of a 2.7" e-ink display and powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2350.
I've played around with programmable wearables before, so I thought that this might be a good way to encourage some unstructured tinkering.
This post talks about getting started with the Badger 2350. Connecting To A PC
Badger has MicroPython installed on it and, to be...

Scientists say the record-breaking journey by three brothers offers hope wildlife can survive growing pressures.

Most of us are guilty of romanticizing the past. Do you long to be the captain of a tall ship? Just as long as you don’t mind weevils in your food, vitamin deficiencies, and death from an infection when there were no antibiotics. Want to be a medieval knight? Even worse. But surely, retrocomputing is as fun as we remember, right? Turn your computer on, and it comes up with BASIC! Ready for you to write your own programs. None of this GUI foolishness. Of course, this is just another example of rosy retrospection.
Even if you like BASIC or a similar language today, things have changed. You have a nice text editor, a fast computer, debugging tools, along with things like named functions, no line numbers, and...

Le recul des glaciers de l’Arctique trace un nouveau passage pour la flotte de commerce entre l’Asie et l’Europe. Un raccourci établi dans un contexte géopolitique sous tension, révélant les nouvelles ambitions sino-russes dans le commerce maritime et fragilisant l'écosystème qu'il traverse.

- Article rédigé par l'ami Remouk (DansTonChat) - Merci à lui - Un univers dystopique contrôlé par un gouvernement totalitaire. Des robots, drones et caméras de surveillance qui épient les faits et gestes de la population. Heureusement il ne s'agit pas du futur de notre société (quoi que ?) mais de celui du jeu ANTRO que je voulais vous présenter.
Parce qu'au-delà de l'univers plutôt cool à la Blade Runner, c'est un petit jeu au gameplay plutôt original et super fun. Basiquement, c'est un jeu de plate-forme type "runner", dans lequel il faut courir et éviter les obstacles. L'originalité vient du fait que 1) l'univers et les décors sont bien travaillés avec pas mal de choses qui se passent en...

The former UK PM said: "I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning".

Protect your home against dust, pets, allergens, and more with the best air purifiers, tested firsthand.

It follows the Anthropic CEO's calls for a slowdown in AI development - but in a way that prevents China from pulling ahead in the race.

Culiacán has seen violence skyrocket since a feud broke out between two rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel.

Over the past two years, rightsholders of all kinds have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models.
Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly infringing activity. This includes a class action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman, which accused Meta of training its Llama models on pirated books, and of sharing those books with other BitTorrent users in the process.
Last summer, Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that the AI training itself was fair use, leaving the BitTorrent distribution claims as the last live part of the case. Earlier this year, Meta added a new line of defense to those claims. In a supplemental interrogatory response, the...

If you had an 8-bit computer in the 1980s and bought a speech synthesiser for it, what you got was invariably an alophone-based synthesiser using the SP0256 or similar. You definitely couldn’t afford DEC’s DECtalk, a high-end standalone speech synthesiser made famous to the masses as the unit used by Stephen Hawking. But now those two worlds can come together, thanks to [Michael Wessel], whose Perfect Paul ][ is a drop-in DECtalk emulator card for the Apple ][.
The PCB includes an RP2040-based Raspberry Pi Zero, plus an I2S DAC and amplifier, speaker, and bus-interface logic. It appears at a set of memory addresses, and interfacing to it is as simple as POKEing DECtalk commands to those addresses. Looking...

I tested soundbars of all shapes and sizes—these are the best for clear dialogue, booming bass, and realistic surround sound.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend plea for regulation. The White House seems unlikely to oblige.

An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women.

On a trip to Liberty Island, the actor chats about his new memoir, “Never Say Die,” which chronicles his journey from refugee to child star in “Indiana Jones” to winning an Oscar, for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

“Dèy,” “Etna,” “Are They Dead Yet?,” and “Unbelonging.”

The city as a blank canvas.

Why are we so obsessed with putting our belongings in metal boxes and then never looking at them again?

Tomb Raider tourne désormais sur une carte de développement équipée d'un ESP32-P4, un microcontrôleur destiné à piloter des appareils électroniques. Le développeur Alejandro Villegas Alonso, connu sous le pseudo alexkid77, y a adapté OpenLara, le moteur libre qui permet de faire fonctionner le premier jeu avec ses données d'origine.
Pas d'émulateur PlayStation ici. Le programme ne cherche pas à reproduire le fonctionnement complet de la console : il exécute une version du moteur adaptée à cette puce, avec le calcul des images assuré par le processeur. Le travail porte donc sur le jeu lui-même et sur son utilisation des ressources disponibles. Charger la vidéo depuis YouTube Ce clic autorise...

Guide : comment avancer sur le projet de mise en conformité NIS2 avec le référentiel ReCyF.

With more than 90% of ballots processed early on Monday, the left-wing bloc was in front by approximately 20,000 votes.

Apple Configurator est un outil gratuit qu'Apple fournit aux écoles et aux entreprises pour préparer des iPhone par paquets de cent. Si ça vous dit quelque chose, c'est parce que c'est aussi l'outil que j'ai utilisé pour mon tuto sur le pair locking . Mais cela ne veut pas dire que vous ne pouvez pas l'utiliser pour votre propre plaisir ! En effet, rien n'empêche de le lancer sur le vôtre, et ce qu'il vous permet alors de faire est plutôt radical : faire disparaître l'App Store de l'écran d'accueil.
Vous branchez l'iPhone sur un Mac en USB, vous le passez en mode supervisé, puis vous vous fabriquez un profil de configuration que vous lui poussez. Cela permet par exemple de limiter la présence de...

La dématérialisation accélère les échanges, mais elle oblige aussi les organisations à mieux protéger les documents sensibles. Contrats, justificatifs, notifications ou courriers officiels peuvent être copiés, altérés ou détournés lorsqu’ils circulent sans garanties suffisantes. La fraude documentaire et l’usurpation d’identité touchent donc autant les pièces physiques que les échanges numériques des entreprises et des collectivités. […]

It would not be at all original to declare that Python is the new BASIC. Like BASIC, it has been the first programming language for a whole generation of coders, and its main advantage is that it’s quick and easy to write in. Like BASIC it is an interpreted language, and thus rather slow to execute.
Thus while CircuitPython can be very useful for beginners and quick projects, it hits the limitations of the hardware far sooner than it needs to — unless you can pre-compile critical parts of the code, which you now can, thanks to CircuitPython Turbo by [Mikey Sklar] with some help from Anthropic’s Claude LLM.
Now if that sounds a lot like MicroPython’s ‘Viper’ and machine-code compiler, that’s...

Un développeur espagnol, Emilio Cano Pérez, vient de publier le SDK de son CanoFlash, un petit boîtier monté sur un XIAO ESP32-S3 qui se branche sur le port Link d'une Game Boy Advance. Cela ne nécessite aucune modification de la console, ni de fer à souder (cool !), et une fois branché, ça permet à la console de récupérer la connexion Wi-Fi qu'elle n'a jamais eue !
Alors comment ça fonctionne ? Hé bien le truc démarre en mode Multiboot et pousse sa propre application dans la RAM de la console. Ensuite c'est lui qui se coltine la gestion de tout le réseau, pendant que la GBA se contente d'échanger avec lui des paquets de taille fixe. En clair, un jeu n'a pas à connaître l'existence du Wi-Fi....

Pluton - Le backup chiffré qui se pilote depuis le navigateur
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