From the steadiest mid-ship cabins for seasick cruisers to the noisiest spots light sleepers should avoid, how to pick the right cabin

Officials say another three people were injured, and an 18-year-old male suspect shot and arrested.

'Arrival' writer Eric Heisserer joins Chris Yost in showrunning the upcoming literary adaptation.

Limping that starts mid-walk, licking that won't stop, blisters that don't show up until hours later — the specific signs of pavement burn, and what to do the moment you notice one

From a family-focused voyage through Guimarães to an intimate wine-immersion cruise through centuries-old quintas, the best Douro River cruises

From a dog-friendly Brooklyn boutique to a Manhattan hotel above the city's trendiest downtown corridors, six affordable New York hotels

The prolific director behind 'Ichi The Killer' and 'Audition' deserves his flowers as a master of live-action adaptations of video games, anime, and manga most directors wouldn't dare attempt.

NASA scientists studied how five Earth microbes might fare on the Moon, including one that already survives outside the International Space Station.

With a new Xavier coming in, this 'Avengers: Doomsday' Hot Toys figure takes on some new meaning.

At least 130 people, including 23 children, were also injured when the shopping centre was hit, according to the regional head.

Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include "largely shutting down" a Vision Pro gaming team and "reducing the size" of the team that makes Vision Pro immersive content, the publication says. More than 200 jobs were cut.
Apple said in a statement to Bloomberg it was making the changes to "to evolve our business to deliver the best experiences for our users," though it will be making new roles. The company didn't immediately reply to a request for comment from The Verge.
The Vision Pro launched in early 2024 as Apple's big bet on "spatial computing," but the $3,499 headset doesn't …
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Cicadas that wait 17 years for a few weeks of noise, mayflies that live and die in a single day — the species whose biology has no backup plan for any other season

Celebrate the beauty of nature—and the science that teaches us about it—with winning photography from the researchers themselves.

[Makestreme] had always wanted to own a nice telescope, but found that budget would not stretch to anything above a cheap model with a limited 50 mm aperture. Wanting a better view of the heavens, the way forward was obvious—it was time to build a better telescope, instead!
The build is based around a 114 mm diameter mirror sourced from Amazon. It’s assembled inside a length of 5-inch PVC pipe of just under a meter to suit the 900 mm focal length of the concave reflector. 3D printed components are used to mount the mirror and control its position for proper focus and collimation. Traditionally, a reflector based telescope would use a mirror and eyepiece to provide a view to the user. However, [Makestreme]...

Tarlov occupies the hot seat on a panel of diehard conservatives, arguing for liberal values and rousing the ire of the President, who has encouraged Fox to fire her.

The “Pod Save America” host answers listeners’ questions about the 2026 midterm elections and what they tell us about the 2028 Presidential race.

The best gift card deal we’ve spotted this year is happening Saturday, August 22nd, at Best Buy stores for one day only. In celebration of the retailer’s 60th anniversary, you can purchase a $100 Best Buy gift card for $60. The deal is only good for as long as supplies last at your local store, so you might want to plan on getting there no later than opening time to boost your chance of getting one. There are some limitations on how you can use the gift card. You can’t use them to buy other gift cards, like iTunes or Google Play credit, and they also can’t be used to buy prepaid or open-loop debit cards. However, they can be used in combination with other discounts or promotions on products from Best...

Quelques jours après la rentrée scolaire suédoise, une grave attaque à l’arme blanche a eu lieu dans un établissement scolaire du centre du pays. D’après la presse internationale, un suspect a été arrêté par les forces de l’ordre.

Pour sortir du bourbier iranien, Donald Trump entend lancer une vaste offensive économique contre Téhéran et ses alliés. Pour la presse américaine, il s’engage ainsi dans un bras de fer qu’il n’est pas certain de gagner.

Début août, le maire de la commune de Côme, Alessandro Rapinese, a interdit la circulation à vélo dans certaines rues du centre-ville. Problème, cette décision aurait été prise à la suite d’un accident arrivé à l’édile, qui s’était fait percuter par un vélo électrique.

Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it's going to bring tap-to-pay capabilities to "select" Walmart and Sam's Club locations starting August 24th, before rolling out support to all US stores by the end of 2026 and gas stations by mid-2027.
This launch has been a long time coming, as Walmart was one of the last major retailers not to support Apple Pay or Google Pay. The retail giant even backed the launch of the short-lived CurrentC mobile payment service before rolling out Walmart Pay in 2016, which lets you quickly check out with a QR code at its stores. …
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In this week’s episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by getting excited about the recently announced 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge. From there the conversation will cover efforts to improve desktop 3D printing with lasers, an expensive grill with an ESP32 controller and an open source firmware, open source tools underground, and some impressive techniques to squeeze a bit more utility out of the common QR code.
You’ll also hear about turning PVC pipes into flat stock, old school Radio Shack electronic kits, and VR soldering demos. Stick around to the end of the episode learn about the latest developments in over-the-counter hearing aids and the 1-bit CPU that’s enjoying...

Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that "infringes copyrights" held for the game, Kotaku reports. In the subpoenas, filed on Thursday, Take-Two says copyrighted material includes "audiovisual content, artwork, images, dialogue, or other creative elements" and it is looking to identify "alleged infringers at issue." The subpoenas give Microsoft and Discord until September 4th to produce the requested information. The leaked clips have been watermarked by a person or group going by "CyberLeek," and they have shown what appears to be GTA VI prot …
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Quatre personnes, dont trois mineurs, ont également été tuées dans une attaque séparée dans la région de Mykolaïv (sud) qui a causé un incendie dans un magasin, une pharmacie et un bureau de poste, selon le ministère de l’intérieur ukrainien.

I recently looked back at a photo I'd taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The details were soft, the shadows were dark. It was the kind of photo I felt like I hadn't seen out of a phone in years. That might be changing, though. The Pixel 11 includes a suite of new photography features called Camera Looks that allow those who really care about those things (hi, it's all of us) to dial in their preferences and get rid of that modern over-processed look.
On today's episode of The Vergecast, David Imel joins us to discuss his time reviewing the Pixel 11 Pro and how he's thinking about its new approach to …
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Escape Data ZATAZ 2.0 mêle escape game, OSINT, observation et réflexes cyber dans une enquête numérique estivale.

Pendant que l’inflation réduit le pouvoir d’achat de nombreux ménages, l’engouement pour l’intelligence artificielle est en train d’enrichir encore davantage les couches les plus aisées de la population, relève la presse américaine.

Palme d’or du Festival 2026, « Fjord » est disponible dans les salles françaises depuis le 19 août. Dans cette vidéo, son réalisateur, le roumain Cristian Mungiu, décrypte pour « Le Monde » comment il a construit la première scène du film.

Seven World Central Kitchen workers were killed in the Israeli strike on their convoy in 2024.

Cyberattaque : des données de clients Pokémon Center exposées et certaines précommandes annulées en Europe.

Le rover Curiosity, toujours actif à la surface de la planète rouge, a malencontreusement écrasé de petits rochers, qui ont révélé un intérieur jaunâtre. Leur examen a permis de découvrir un dépôt de soufre inattendu, relate la revue américaine “Science”.

Un pirate renvendique le vol de codes sources à un géant de la grande distribution, sur fond d’une précédente fuite interne.

These days, modems are pretty fancy bits of kit, what with to keep up with the speeds of cable, VDSL, and fiber connections. At lower speeds, though, it’s entirely possible to build a modem out of simple discrete components. [sv3ora] did just that, building a simple modem for the CB2 Micro.
It’s a remarkably simple build.
The project takes advantage of the fact that the V1.54 firmware for the CB2 Micro enabled 75 baud serial communication. Thus, it made sense for [sv3ora] to build a 75 baud modem to suit. As was the way in the days of dial-up internet, the modem modulates data into audio, demodulates audio back into data, allowing the CB2 Micro to send and receive data over telephone lines, ham radio...

Le corps de Sonia Bellina a été retrouvé, partiellement calciné, à proximité de Nîmes, le 12 août. Un suspect de 32 ans, déjà connu pour des faits de violences conjugales, a été placé en détention provisoire vendredi. L’avocat de la famille dénonce les commentaires injurieux qui ont fleuri sur les réseaux sociaux à la suite du drame, et que la famille entend poursuivre.

Un vendeur propose des bases de joueurs de casino européens contenant coordonnées, téléphones et données de dépôt.

Checker max analyse Solana par lots de 1 000 adresses, une capacité sensible pour le triage de portefeuilles proposé sur un forum de pirates.

Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time it’s a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.

Le parquet de Marseille a élargi les investigations déjà ouvertes à l’encontre du président du musée, Pierre-Olivier Costa, suspendu fin juin, notamment pour des soupçons de favoritisme lors de l’attribution de marchés publics.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Summary: Wealth creation is not inherently zero-sum: fortunes can grow through innovation, investment, and expanding prosperity rather than by taking from others. Yet human psychology remains highly sensitive to relative status, often valuing rank over absolute gains and even accepting personal losses to reduce perceived inequality. This tendency can misclassify productive success as exploitation, turning economic comparisons into moral and political conflict. This summer Elon Musk became the first trillionaire in history. Supporters celebrated the trillions in market value and the thousands of jobs he helped create pioneering electric cars and reusable rockets. Critics treated the milestone as a referendum on...

Apple has started sending some users push notifications warning that they have been targeted with specific malware. No specific information about the threat Apple detected is available. While multiple iOS attacks were released in spring of 2026, they all target much older versions of iOS and older hardware versions.
Users in 110 countries have received notifications recently, warning them they may have been targeted or already impacted by malware such. Apple typically uses the crash reporting mechanism for system apps to track new attack trends. The majority of users will likely never see an alert from Apple because malware with state-level capabilities like the Pegasus family is extremely expensive to...

GitHub is home to hundreds of millions of code repositories, including some repositories that rightsholders would rather not see online. For Nintendo, Switch emulators have become the main challenge, one that keeps rearing its head. Most of these emulators were killed off long ago. Yuzu settled in February 2024, for example, Ryujinx shut down that October, and the successors that tried to keep edited versions online have been targeted in waves ever since. These waves keep coming. Earlier this week, Nintendo filed seven separate DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub, all on the same day, targeting a variety of Switch emulator repositories and their forks. The combined reach is substantial. In the seven...

Plus les IA conversationnelles s’installent dans notre intimité, plus elles affaiblissent nos relations et notre santé mentale. Daniel Barcay en est convaincu, mais cet ancien ingénieur chez Google et ex-dirigeant du Center for Humane Technology n’y voit aucune fatalité : il est encore temps de penser une intelligence artificielle qui renforcent nos liens, et reste à sa place de machine. De passage à Paris, on l’a rencontré.

The puzzling rise in high-level science books for infants and toddlers.

Pack up your pool cleaning supplies. Let one of these robot buddies maintain your water quality instead

[xssfox] recently found a Cricut Maker in an e-waste disposal. A quick scan over the device indicated it was in moderately good condition, with merely some perished rollers to contend with. The device was salvaged, with the awareness that Cricut is plenty good at disabling and locking down machines when it wishes. However, those measures didn’t stop [xssfox] from bringing it back to life.
The suspicion was that the machine had been locked out after the original owner received a warranty replacement or similar. Whatever the reason, the rollers would have to be repaired and the machine unlocked if it were ever to cut (Cricut?) again. Hooking the machine up to Cricut software showed that it was...

The Nyrius Phoenix Home True 4K60 can wirelessly transmit games, TV shows, movies, and more across your home (even through walls).

Lindsay Clancy’s defense argues she killed her three kids because of postpartum psychosis. But armchair detectives, including many fed-up mothers, are laying blame with her ex-husband.

France • May 2019 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

After two years of testing, these are the electric toothbrushes that impressed WIRED staffers the most.

A roundup of bars on boats and at the beach.

Le géant japonais de la photographie Daido Moriyama est exposé à la Fondation Cartier-Bresson jusqu’au 4 octobre. Une exposition et une traduction originale de ses écrits à ne pas manquer, commentées par le commissaire de l’exposition, Clément Chéroux, directeur de la Fondation Cartier-Bresson.

Foldable OLED Displays and the Bane of Dust
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/foldable-oled-displays-and-the-bane-of-dust/

Apple, avec l’iPhone 12, avait proposé un drôle d’accessoire : la housse en cuir. Ce n’était pas une coque de protection, mais réellement une housse dans laquelle il fallait glisser l’iPhone. Elle intégrait un porte-cartes et une petite fenêtre qui permettait de voir l’heure. Et ce qui m’intéresse quelques années après, c’est qu’elle est encore compatible avec les iPhone récents. Le mot compatible peut sembler étonnant, mais il est important : la housse intègre une puce NFC qui active un mode précis qui va afficher l’heure, si le téléphone charge, etc. La rétrocompatibilité pour ce genre d’accessoires n’est pas systématique : quand j’avais parlé du fait qu’iOS 26...

Three activists were accused of inciting others to subvert state power under the China-introduced law.

Thirty "pioneer families" have arrived on a wave of nationalism driven by Israel's government, but the rapid change has left nearby Palestinian residents fearful.

Depuis la fin des années 1980, la palourde a fait la fortune de cette région pauvre du sud de la Vénétie. Elle est aujourd’hui décimée par un crabe bleu venu d’Amérique du Nord, dont la prolifération menace toute l’économie de la lagune. Entraînant une baisse de revenus pour les pêcheurs et un retour pour les femmes à des métiers précaires qu’elles pensaient avoir définitivement abandonnés.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard “Level 5”
I’ve noticed that when King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard make their most radical genre shifts, like their album-length forays into metal and electronic music, they stick closer to their recurring lyrical obsession with manmade disasters. This could just be a response to the extremity of the sound – it makes some sense to pair metal with lyrics about environmental catastrophe, and for that to extend that into techno-based meditations on extinction. In any case, this does some favors in providing a through line in their body of work. Even when they don’t obviously sound like themselves, they’re still very much being themselves. Alien Metal is the band’s...

“More than 600,000 artworks and other cultural objects, mostly owned by Jews, were stolen by the Nazis leading up to and during World War II… But reclaiming these artifacts is often a long and fraught process. 'There's no central repository, no database that's telling you where that art is,' said Joel Greenberg, founder of Art Ashes, a nonprofit that helps families track down and recover art looted by the Nazis… A team at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley is aspiring to do just that, with a new AI chatbot that could help streamline the complicated process of getting these works back to their owners… Right now, the tool is only scraping records from one database — that of the Jeu de Paume...

“Chinese companies control two-thirds of the global market for air conditioning, according to researcher Euromonitor International. And they’re growing fast, particularly in Europe. Exports of AC units from China to the European Union hit $3.8 billion in the first half of 2026, up 43% from a year earlier, customs data show. TCL says orders from Europe climbed more than two-thirds in the first half from the same period last year, with sales of portable units surging by more than 90%. Haier reports its sales in France, Germany and the UK more than doubled in June from the same month last year. And Midea says AC revenue in four key European countries rose more than 70% in the first half.” From...