Pour mieux comprendre la fascination qu’exercent les cristaux sur les humains, des chercheurs ont eu l’idée d’en donner à des chimpanzés… Lesquels ont adoré ces pierres brillantes, aux surfaces lisses et aux arêtes saillantes.

We’ve spent over a year testing the best pillows to support your noggin, whether you snooze on your side, back, or in a tangle of blankets.

Yann Le Bris, procureur de la République en Martinique, souligne l’enjeu la remontée d’informations dans les affaires de corruption.

Pendant que Trump improvise, Nétanyahou veut détruire le régime iranien coûte que coûte. Quitte à provoquer une guerre civile désastreuse pour la région, avertit le journaliste Fareed Zakaria. Il appelle les États-Unis à agir pour éviter ce scénario.

En dépit de liens commerciaux étroits, les relations entre Rabat et Rome traversent une zone de turbulences. Un froid diplomatique qui s’explique notamment par le “rapprochement stratégique” de l’Italie avec l’Algérie. Dans un exercice d’équilibrisme pas toujours évident, Rome tente de préserver de bonnes relations avec les deux pays rivaux, explique le magazine marocain “TelQuel”.

Leadership turnover, restructuring, and weak knowledge management systems can erase organizational memory, forcing companies to relearn the same lessons

Like just about every other industry right now, recycling is betting that AI can change the calculus

Hybrids come at a higher price, but these models will save you money in the long run when you factor in spending less on gas

Discover the best credit cards of 2026 that reward real spending habits like groceries, travel, dining, and even debt management

Tax season is complicated enough. Stay vigilant so you don't fall victim to the many scams out there

Nvidia is getting in on the fad for agentic AI assistant platforms.

The LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click. After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she hoped would be a more stable career in content marketing — only to find AI had automated much of the work. This company was called Crossing Hurdles, and it promised copywriting jobs starting at $45 per hour. Katya clicked and was taken to a page for another company, called Mercor, where she was instructed to interview on-camera with an AI named Melvin. “It just seemed like the sketchiest thing in the world,” Katya says. She closed the tab. But a few weeks later, still unemployed, she...

L’intervention des États-Unis et d’Israël en Iran a déclenché une nouvelle crise majeure de l’énergie. C’est en Europe et en Asie que la flambée des cours du pétrole et du gaz pèsera le plus lourd, explique le “Financial Times”. D’autres pays, comme les États-Unis et le Canada seront plus épargnées parce que producteurs. En revanche, l’ensemble de l’économie mondiale est menacé par un retour de l’inflation.

Cet homme de 52 ans, proche des cercles politiques mais aussi économiques de l’île, a été jugé, en février, pour de multiples chefs d’accusation, allant de la fraude fiscale à l’établissement de fausses factures, en passant par la corruption de marchés publics.

If you think about it, you can’t be sure that what you see for the color red, for example, is what anyone else in the world actually sees. All you can be sure of is that we’ve all been trained to identify whatever we do see as red just like everyone else. Now, think about animal vision. Most people know that dogs don’t see as many colors as we do. On the other hand, the birds and the bees can see into ultraviolet. What would the world look like with extra colors? That’s the question researchers want to answer with this system for duplicating different animals’ views of the world.
Of course, this would be easy if you were thinking about dogs or cats. They can’t see the difference between red and...

Col Randrianirina, who seized power last year, did not give a reason for dissolving his government.

Le trafic dans le détroit d’Ormuz, par lequel transite près de 20 % du pétrole mondial, est très perturbé depuis le 28 février. Les cours ont connu des variations spectaculaires, malgré l’assurance de Donald Trump, qui affirme que la guerre va « se terminer bientôt ». En France, Emmanuel Macron va convoquet un nouveau conseil de défense mardi soir.

« Le Monde » tient à l’occasion des élections municipales un direct quotidien sur les principaux enjeux de la campagne. Pénurie de logements, explosion du nombre des résidences secondaires, réquisition de logements vacants : Véronique Chocron et Claire Ané répondront à toutes vos interrogations.

Ce projet avait déjà été dévoilé lors de la première édition du Besac Antifa Fest le 4 juin 2025, mais c'est le vendredi 16 janvier 2026 que l'OBservatoire de l'EXtrême droite en Franche-Comté (OBEX-FC) a été officiellement présenté publiquement lors d'une conférence à la salle David rue Battant à Besançon. Autour de principes et de méthodologies clairs, sur la base de travaux académiques, journalistiques et de terrain , cette plateforme numérique mise en ligne depuis mi-janvier, a pour (…) -
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La norme dans les Macintosh est d’avoir un lecteur de disquettes, généralement interne (en dehors de quelques Mac portables). Mais dans beaucoup de modèle, il était possible d’en avoir deux… et même trois. Avoir deux lecteurs, c’était pratique : il était possible de démarrer sur un lecteur (pour les Macintosh sans disque dur) et de mettre les programmes sur une seconde disquette, sans devoir changer de disquettes. Pour les amateurs de copie, c’était aussi pratique, pour les mêmes raisons. Un Macintosh LC avec deux lecteurs. Image Reddit.
Dans beaucoup de cas, les Macintosh intègrent un lecteur interne et la possibilité de brancher un lecteur externe, en DB-19. J’avais modifié il y a...

Concern has grown for team after one critic called them "wartime traitors" for failing to salute during the Iranian anthem.

La fonte des glaces dans l'hémisphère Nord n'apparaît pas si désavantageuse aux yeux des géants du transport maritime. Et pour cause : passer par le nord de la Russie réduit presque de moitié le temps de navigation entre l'Asie et l'Europe. La Chine compte bien profiter de cette évolution climatique à travers ses “Nouvelles Routes de la soie”, ce qui suscite des tensions dans la partie européenne de cette “route du nord”. L'Arctique, quand un désastre environnemental ouvre la porte à de nouvelles pratiques économiques
Ce n'est plus une surprise, le réchauffement climatique engendré par l'activité humaine provoque une fonte des glaces massive à l'échelle mondiale. La région arctique...

Après le report d’une réunion trilatérale entre l’Ukraine, la Russie et les Etats-Unis, initialement prévue cette semaine, en raison de la guerre au Moyen-Orient, Donald Trump s’est entretenu par téléphone avec Vladimir Poutine, et a salué un « appel positif ».

Le président américain a déclaré lundi aux journalistes que ‌la guerre en Iran était “pratiquement terminée”, avant de menacer un peu plus tard de frapper Téhéran “beaucoup plus fort” s’il “prenait le monde en otage” en bloquant l’acheminement de pétrole dans le détroit d’Ormuz.

Meta’s former chief AI scientist has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language. His new startup, AMI, aims to prove it.

Some PCB corrosion on the bottom of the 1541 drive. (Credit: TheRetroChannel, YouTube)
Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the drive motor continuously spinning. Since the Flash Codes that Commodore implemented and bothered to document start at 2 flashes (for RAM-related Zero Page), this raised the question of what fault this drive had, and whether a single flash is some kind of undocumented error code.
A cursory check showed that the heads were okay and not shorted, ruling out a common fault with the used floppy mechanism. Cleaning up the corrosion on IC sockets...

Graber is shifting to a chief innovation officer role.

« Engagés comme jamais » (4/7). La jeunesse ne se détourne pas de l’action citoyenne, au contraire. A l’approche des élections municipales, rencontre avec six jeunes qui réinventent l’engagement. Arnaud Gilles, ancien porte-parole du WWF, a choisi de devenir matelot pour vivre une « écologie plus radicale et plus humble ».

A l’image des territoires d’outre-mer, la Guyane est davantage vulnérable aux malversations financières liées à l’argent public. La réponse des autorités, notamment judiciaires, s’organise mais se heurte à un manque de moyens.

Enemies can be friends when their interests align.

The US president has tried to soothe nerves over oil and markets, but his comments still lack clarity, writes Anthony Zurcher.

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] decided to create a unique — and sweet — programming language that uses M&M (or, at least, M&M-like) candies as the building block of programs.
If this sounds strange, it is because, honestly, it is. It all started when a packet of GEMS (the Cadbury’s version of M&Ms)  spilled and randomly fell in the shape of an arrow. There are only six symbols corresponding to the colors in a package. You create your program by arranging the candies and creating a digital image of the result. In practice, you’ll probably use ASCII text to represent your candy layout and let the compiler...

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It has been the most volatile day of oil trading in world history, and there is much still to play out.

Finance ministers and the IEA discussed options for stabilising oil prices which surpassed $100.

Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned physicists. Neutron stars, the remnants of massive stars that have exploded as supernovae, cram more mass than the Sun into a sphere barely 20 kilometers wide. Their gravity is billions of times stronger than Earth’s, and their internal matter behaves unlike anything we can directly observe on our planet. For decades, astronomers have speculated about the interiors of these cosmic heavyweights. Protons and electrons may fuse into neutrons under crushing pressure, but theories also suggest layers of heavy elements, free protons, and even exotic phases like quantum superfluids and...

Just your typical backyard cleanroom shed. (Credit: Dr. Semiconductor, YouTube)
Most people see that garden shed as little more than a place to store some gardening tools in, but if you’re like [Dr. Semiconductor], then what you see is a potential cleanroom for semiconductor manufacturing. As ridiculous as this may sound, the basic steps behind the different levels of cleanrooms work just as well for a multi-million dollar fab as they do for for a basic shed.
Key to everything is HEPA filtration along with positive pressure, to constantly push clean air into the cleanroom, while preventing dirty air from flowing in. The shed was also split into two sections, the first room once you enter it being the the...

The federal government announced a new pilot program designed to get new kinds of ultralight vehicles and “eVTOLs” up and running around the country—even if they're not fully FAA-certified.

The rumored "HomePod with a screen" we've heard so much about was reportedly lined up for launch in 2025, and then this spring, and now, according to the latest updates, it's on the shelf until this fall. Leaker Kosutami posted as much on X last week, and today, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman followed up with similar information, saying its robot arm-equipped cousin is now planned for launch in 2027. According to Gurman, the J490 smart home display / HomePad is waiting for Apple to finish work on its chatbot-style AI update for Siri.
That was supposed to be ready by now, but it is now predicted to arrive later this year, along with the iP …
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Despite Disney's recent big-screen success with live-action adaptations, 'Tink' will bring its tales of the 'Peter Pan' fairy to streaming.

Department of Homeland Security. | Image: The Verge Chaos reigned at airports across the country last weekend, with thousands of travelers reportedly waiting in hours-long security lines thanks to staffing shortages. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Coast Guard workers have turned to food banks for assistance after weeks without pay. But amid a partial government shutdown aimed at curtailing the Department of Homeland Security's mass arrests and deportations, federal agents have continued their anti-immigrant crackdown unabated - and for now, there's not much anyone can do.
DHS has gone without funding for four weeks in a standoff over immigration enforcement. Congressional D …
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Kalshi is facing backlash from its own users after a class action lawsuit was filed last week alleging it failed to pay out as promised for wagers regarding when Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah ​Ali Khamenei would leave or be removed from office. Khamenei was killed in strikes on Iran last month, but according to the lawsuit, Kalshi didn't implement a "death carveout" until after Khamenei had died. Meanwhile, Kalshi is reportedly working to attract more women to its platform in an effort to grow its user base. As the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, the percentage of women using Kalshi has doubled over the past ten months, growing …
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Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk, warning that the fallout could cause a major revenue hit.

On Monday, Anthropic filed its lawsuit against the Department of Defense over being designated as a supply chain risk. Hours later, nearly 40 employees from OpenAI and Google - including Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and Gemini lead - filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic's lawsuit, detailing their concerns over the Trump administration's decision and the technology's risks and implications.
The news follows a dramatic few weeks for Anthropic, in which the Trump administration labeled the company a supply chain risk - a designation typically reserved for foreign companies that the government deems a potential risk to national …
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The growing crop of hi-fi lounges seems to be providing a salve to America’s loneliness epidemic and deepening our connection to audio in the shallow streaming era, too.I’m not totally sure how to listen to music anymore. Putting on my bluetooth headphones and pressing play on Spotify—I can’t tell if this is music I chose, or that was selected for me by some algorithm; I’m not certain if I'm enjoying the music, or if it just creates a comfortable cocoon to tune out the noise of the world and other people. With music in my ears, I’m exempted from making eye contact with strangers. It’s a relief, in some ways, but also a loss. I miss the days where crowds would gather around buskers, when a guy...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a familiar household chemical: acetic acid, the main ingredient in vinegar. At the University of Waterloo, engineers have developed a process that transforms plastic waste into something useful using sunlight and a specially designed catalyst. “This method allows abundant and free solar energy to break down plastic pollution without adding extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere,” said Dr. Yimin Wu, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering and the Tang Family Chair in New Energy Materials and Sustainability. The research team, led by Wu and PhD student Wei Wei,...

What hardware hacker doesn’t have a soft spot for transparent cases? While they may have fallen out of mainstream favor, they have an undeniable appeal to anyone with an interest in electronic or mechanical devices. Which is why the Orbigator built by [wyojustin] stands out among similar desktop orbital trackers we’ve seen.
Conceptually, it’s very similar to the International Space Station tracking lamp that [Will Dana] built in 2025. In fact, [wyojustin] cites it specifically as one of the inspirations for this project. But unlike that build, which saw a small model of the ISS moving across the surface of the globe, a transparent globe is rotated around the internal mechanism. This not only looks...

Dust swirls around scaffolding. Cranes swing massive beams. On paper, the schedule says everything should move smoothly, but somewhere, a delayed delivery or an overlooked safety hazard is quietly threatening the plan. Now, imagine if the construction site could respond on its own, adjusting timelines the moment a problem appears. That’s the vision outlined in a new study by researchers at the University of East London (UEL), suggesting artificial intelligence could connect warning signals to planning software in real time. Construction projects already generate an enormous amount of data daily—alerts from safety monitoring, notes on design clashes, updates about supply deliveries. Yet most of this...

La guerre en Iran a fait s’envoler le cours du pétrole et commence à peser sérieusement sur les prix à la pompe. Le gouvernement a estimé, lundi, qu’« il est trop tôt » pour parler de nouvelles aides.

La guerre en Iran a fait s’envoler le cours du pétrole et commence à peser sérieusement sur les prix à la pompe. Le gouvernement a estimé, lundi, qu’« il est trop tôt » pour parler de nouvelles aides.

Simple Architecture stripped the ’60s apartment down to its raw structure to give a family a fresh slate.The district of Novi Zagreb, located south of the Sava River in Zagreb, Croatia, teems with midcentury, socialist-era housing. Musician Josh Nalis, a producer of classical music concerts and festivals, grew up in such working-class developments, and once he anchored himself in the center of the Croatian capital, he vowed he’d never return to the sleepy residential area. "I’m shocked by how I changed my mind," he says. When his mother died a few years ago, the old neighborhood tugged at him. She had resided in one of these buildings, and while he considered merely sprucing up her "practical and not...

Writer Susan Orlean and her husband, John Gillespie, tapped architects Jeff Fink and Barbara Bestor to restore the landmark Studio City residence, which was featured in Dwell’s May/June 2019 issue.Location: 3580 Multiview Drive, Los Angeles, California Price: $6,995,000 Year Built: 1946 Architect: Rudolph Schindler Renovation Date: 2022 Renovation Architects: Barbara Bestor and Jeff Fink Footprint: 3,549 square feet (4 bedrooms, 3 baths) Lot Size: 0.39 Acres From the Agent: "Designed in 1946 by renowned architect Rudolph Schindler, the Kallis-Sharlin Residence is a striking example of site-driven modernism, dramatically set into a steep hillside with expansive views over the San Fernando Valley. Originally...

In Top Gun: Maverick, fighter pilots remind each other of a simple rule when the going gets tough: don’t think, just fly. Overthinking can lower your ability to concentrate right at that critical moment and elite athletes are no exception. A gymnast might be doing a flip. A quarterback scanning the defense or a football player preparing to take a penalty kick must all react quickly and with little thought. If they have locked up mentally, everything they trained for over the years may all of a sudden seem unreliable. This concept is becoming more obvious as time goes on. An example of this was seen during the Tokyo Olympics when U.S. gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from five of the six event finals because she...

Il fait partie d’un triptyque de pirates informatiques qui, depuis plusieurs mois, bousculent la cybersphère hexagonale. Sous le pseudonyme HexDex, ce pirate revendique des dizaines d’intrusions, de piratages et de fuites de données.

Memories rarely arrive as an unbroken stream. The brain quietly divides life into segments: entering a room, starting a conversation, or watching a new scene unfold. Each shift creates a mental boundary, separating one experience from the next. Scientists increasingly believe those boundaries shape how well people remember events, especially as they age. A research team led by Audrey Duarte, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Austin, has explored whether strengthening those natural divisions might improve memory. Their study introduces a simple method called “event tagging,” which asks people to briefly summarize what just happened using a few keywords. The approach may sound trivial....

Il n’existe pas de date limite officielle pour établir une procuration. Mais plus vous repoussez le moment de la réaliser, plus le risque augmente qu’elle ne soit pas validée à temps.

Le groupe hacktiviste Iranien Handala revendique une série de cyberattaques contre Israël, visant infrastructures critiques et organisations stratégiques.

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L’intelligence artificielle ne détruira peut-être pas l’humanité.
Elle décidera peut-être simplement que l’humanité ne mérite plus qu’on lui parle.
Le débat sur l’intelligence artificielle s’est concentré au cours des années récentes sur quelques questions désormais familières : les machines vont-elles entièrement remplacer les travailleurs humains ? vont-elles constituer pour nous un péril mortel ? faut-il strictement les réglementer ? sont-elles en train d’accéder à la conscience ?
Ces questions sont sans doute légitimes mais elles sont périphériques dans la mesure où elles restent fondées sur un « eux / nous » aussi dépassé dans le débat...

The renovated 18th-century estate offers small, affordable rooms, plus plenty of extra shared space for socializing.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: Antwerp, Belgium Architect: TV Polygoon / @polygoonarchitectuur Architect: Rooilijn Architect: Steenmeijer Architecten / @steenmeijerarchitecten Footprint: 12,152 square feet Builder: Renotec Structural Engineer: Macobo Photographer: Nick Claeskens / @nickclaeskens Photographer: Lucid / @lucid.lucid From the Architect: "Boekenberg Castle, a listed monument set within a historic landscape, was designed...