Light has always carried more than brightness. In this case, it also carries direction and twist. That mix may open a new path for storing far more data in the same physical space. A research team led by Xiaodi Tan at Fujian Normal University in China has developed a holographic data storage method that packs information into three properties of light at once: amplitude, phase and polarization. This was reported in Optica. The approach pushes beyond the usual one- or two-dimensional encoding used in most holographic storage research. Therefore, it could help address the growing demand for denser, faster storage systems. Holographic data storage already differs from a hard drive or optical disc in a basic way....

The Flex PC rental service didn’t make it clear to customers that it wasn’t a “rent-to-own” program. | Image: NZXT NZXT and its business partner Fragile have agreed to pay $3.45 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the companies of attempting to "scam" consumers through their Flex PC rental service. The preliminary settlement was filed in a California District Court on April 7th to close a civil RICO case against the Flex program over allegations that it defrauded 19,322 customers through deceptive marketing practices and aggressive debt collection.
The settlement was shared on YouTube by Gamers Nexus, with host Steve Burke noting that NZXT and Fragile are still offering PC rental...

Larrea Wealth Management Chief Executive Officer Aquiles Larrea on balancing geopolitics and earnings

Coachella kicked off on Friday, and as usual, it's the place to be for online influencers looking to show off their memorable experiences at the festival. A quick scroll through my social media feeds has already shown me many uncannily attractive figures in glitzy outfits, posing for perfectly staged photographs with celebrities.
Only some of these content creators aren't really there. They don't even exist at all outside of our screens. They're generated using AI tools.
Faking Coachella attendance is nothing new - even real influencers have been doing so in recent years - but generative AI has now progressed to the point where it's become …
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Entrepreneur and investor Robert Herjavec on cyber threats to monitor at Tomorrow’s Titans competition

Lors du délibéré, la présidente du tribunal a établi un lien direct entre ce « partenariat commercial » passé par le cimentier avec des groupes terroristes et les attentats perpétrés par ces derniers.

HumanX Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Stefan Weitz talks ‘mass personalization’ at HumanX conference

The vast majority did not believe Hezbollah or Iran had been severely weakened by weeks of Israeli and US attacks, according to the poll.

The new 'Star Wars' animated series prepares Jedi and planets alike for a reckoning with the dark side.

A cleverly designed academic exercise in beatmatching angst.

Integer Chief Executive Officer and founder Sandra Swirski offers last-minute tax advice for U.S. taxpayers

Nile Chief Executive Officer Pankaj Patel discusses his biggest takeaways from the RSA conference

Après un record historique en 2025, les défaillances sont encore en hausse au premier trimestre, menaçant plus de 75 000 emplois, selon les données du cabinet Altares, publiées lundi.

You can buy the Apple Watch Series 11 for $100 off in multiple sizes and colors. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re still holding onto an older Apple Watch, now might be a good time to upgrade. Right now, the 42mm Apple Watch Series 11 with GPS is on sale for around $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, which is its best price to date. If you prefer a larger size, the 46mm is also $100 off for a limited time, with the base GPS configuration selling for about $329 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target.
Apple Watch Series 11 Where to Buy: $399 $299 at Amazon (42mm) $429 $329 at Amazon (46mm) $399 $299 at Best Buy (42mm)
While it’s not a significant upgrade over the Apple Watch...

Shigella bacteria are increasingly resisting all antibiotics that can easily treat them, a recent report shows.

Just what employees want, a Zuckerberg chatbot serving as their personal Clippy.

After over 1,000 creatives signed an open letter speaking out against the merger, the company issued a swift but not exactly reassuring response.

The frogs were sitting low over dark, slow-moving streams, their bodies bright green against moss, bromeliads, and sandstone. At night, on a plateau in southern Ecuador, they looked almost simple at first glance. Then the details started to matter: yellow fingers and toes, a pebbly back, green bones, and a pale underside that hid some organs while leaving others visible. That combination turned out to belong to something no one had formally described before. In a study published in PLOS One, Mylena Masache of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and colleagues identified the animal as a new species of glassfrog, now named Nymphargus dajomesae, or the Dajomes glassfrog. The species honors Neisi...

Available only to those who fly private, the new design publication "Private Tour: Extraordinary Homes" tries to soar above criticism. Where’s the fun in that?In the design world, we don’t give enough credit to the haters: The folks who gleefully watch the TikToks about 432 Park Avenue falling apart; the readers who peruse a story from beginning to end trying to find out why an architect made design decisions they find questionable; those who scrutinize client furniture choices or open an issue of AN Interiors just to scoff at yet another house with enormous plate glass windows. The people who cracked jokes about the tiny home movement, who take to Instagram to call out the lack of a privacy partition...

Après avoir largement battu Viktor Orban lors des élections législatives hongroises, Peter Magyar a, lors de sa première conférence de presse, semblé vouloir mettre en œuvre une relation plus apaisée avec l’Union européenne. À rebours des saillies eurosceptiques du Premier ministre sortant.

Illustration par ChatGPT Les recherches s’accumulent sur la capacité de survie des êtres humains face aux températures thermomètre-mouillé. Un problème qui devient de plus en plus concret avec le réchauffement climatique, malgré le déni écologique international actuel. Pendant que nous avons les yeux rivés sur le Moyen-Orient, les USA vient de connaître le mois de mars le plus chaud de leur histoire (sur 132 ans de mesure), qui est aussi le mois individuellement « le plus anormalement chaud » par rapport aux moyennes climatiques. US had hottest March on record as nation faced ‘unprecedented’ heat | US weather | The Guardian
 
‘Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human...

Asha Sharma. | Image: The Verge, Microsoft Microsoft's new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has signaled that Xbox Game Pass pricing is about to change. In an internal memo to Xbox employees, obtained by The Verge, Sharma admits that "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation."
"Game Pass is central to gaming value on Xbox. It's also clear that the current model isn't the final one," says Sharma. "Short term, Game Pass has become too expensive for players, so we need a better value equation. Long term, we will evolve Game Pass into a more flexible system which will take time to test and learn around."
Microsoft hiked the price of Xbox …
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Of Montreal “When”
I say this with the greatest admiration and respect: Kevin Barnes is a messy bitch who lives for drama. Following his career over the long term means you get the highs and lows of his love life as it progresses through stages happiness and despair. He’s exceptionally good at capturing the best and worst feelings in vivid detail, to the extent that the darker records can be very difficult to listen to. The new Of Montreal record finds Barnes in a fairly manic moment – fresh out of a long-term relationship, newly relocated to Brooklyn, and searching for new connections. I initially assumed “When” was about the collapsed relationship because Barnes was singing “I just wanna fuck...

To make the move from Virginia, a couple tapped their architect son to create a board-formed concrete house with curvaceous details and overflowing gardens.It’s never too late to start anew. For Paul and Rachel Vanden Bout, that meant teetering into the unknown and building a new life abroad—at the age of 86. While visiting Oaxaca, Mexico, the couple fell for a hillside lot with sweeping desert views and began to imagine a new way of living. It wasn’t just a whim—their son and daughter-in-law, NV Design Architecture principals Tom Vanden Bout and Brenda Nelson, had designed a home of their own just across the road. Paul and Rachel Vanden Bout recently left Virginia to join their son and...

Italy's prime minister and the US president are close allies, but Trump has refused to apologise to the "very weak" Pope Leo XIV.

The overhauled high-rise home in Jacksonville has a streamlined layout, waterfront views, and a secret door in the kitchen cabinetry.Location: 1560 Lancaster Terrace #1006, Jacksonville, Florida  Price: $475,000 Year Built: 1962 Renovation Designers: Max Sollisch and Courtney Ou Footprint: 1,115 square feet (2 bedrooms, 2 baths) From the Agent: "Our client completely reimagined this unit, relocating the former kitchen out of the galley and into the main living area to open up the layout. This overhaul created an additional bedroom and half bath within the existing footprint, which means their monthly HOA fee remains the same as other 1/1 units in the building. All the bookmatched cabinets were designed and...

The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.

If you're having trouble deciding on a color for a new MacBook Neo, you might not have to choose just one. The folks over at MacWorld found that Apple doesn't appear to limit the colors of spare parts you can buy for your Neo, potentially allowing you to deck out your indigo laptop with pink-tinted keyboard caps or a citrus green bottom cover.
You'll have to pay for these spare parts on top of the Neo's $599 starting price, though. While the bottom case costs $34.32, the keyboard caps are $39, and the top case is $175.12. A replacement for the entire keyboard is priced at $139.92 (with a $29.40 return credit). The MacBook Neo and its spare …
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Many people in the country had trouble imagining that Viktor Orbán could be defeated. But a philosopher also warned that defeatism can abet authoritarianism.

Cognitive processes are not something that we generally pay much attention to until something goes wrong, but they cover the entire scope of us ingesting sensory information, the processing and recalling thereof, as well as any resulting decisions made based on such internal deliberation.
Within that context there has also long been a struggle between those who feel that it’s fine for humans to rely on available technologies to make tasks like information recall and calculations easier, and those who insist that a human should be perfectly capable of doing such tasks without any assistance. Plato argued that reading and writing hurt our ability to memorize, and for the longest time it was deemed...

La tension est de nouveau montée entre Tel-Aviv et Ankara, qui critique la guerre lancée contre l’Iran. Le gouvernement d’Erdogan montre les muscles tandis que la justice turque a publié un acte d’accusation visant notamment Benyamin Nétanyahou, qui a réagi durement.

Donald Trump a menacé de « destruction » tout « navire d’attaque rapide » iranien forçant le blocus américain des ports de l’Iran entré en vigueur à 16 heures, au lendemain de l’échec des pourparlers entre les deux pays.

Today, iRestore is offering up to $900 off select devices and up to $1,550 off bundles.

À l’approche de l’été, les autorités russes assurent que les plages de la région de Krasnodar, principal poumon balnéaire du pays, pourront accueillir les vacanciers d’ici au 1ᵉʳ juin. Mais à Anapa, de nouvelles traces d’hydrocarbures et l’afflux d’oiseaux mazoutés ravivent les inquiétudes.

C’est lui-même qui diffuse ça !
Et il se dispute avec le Pape qui commente hardiment l’actualité ! Dieu ne bénit aucun conflit. Qui est disciple du Christ, prince de la paix, ne se range jamais du côté de celui qui, hier, brandissait l’épée et aujourd’hui lance des bombes. Ce ne seront pas les actions militaires qui créeront des espaces de liberté ou des temps de #paix, mais…
— Pape Léon XIV (@Pontifex_fr) April 10, 2026 Celui qui prie a conscience de ses limites, il ne tue pas et ne menace pas de mort. Au contraire, est asservi à la mort celui qui a tourné le dos au Dieu vivant, pour faire de lui-même et de son propre pouvoir l’idole muette, aveugle et sourde (Ps 115, 4-8), à...

A sideways flow of hot mantle rock, not a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, may be feeding one of the planet’s most closely watched supervolcanoes. That is the picture emerging from a new study of Yellowstone, where researchers built a three-dimensional model of western North America and traced how magma could form, move and collect beneath the region. Therefore, their conclusion points to a broad eastward “mantle wind” beneath the continent. This wind helps generate melt in the shallow mantle and helps shape the tilted underground system that supplies Yellowstone’s volcanism. The work, published in Science, comes from a team at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy...

Les dirigeants iraniens et la presse locale sont vent debout contre la décision de Washington de bloquer le détroit d’Ormuz. Si certains menacent de mettre le feu à l’ensemble du Moyen-Orient, d’autres tournent en dérision cette initiative, considérée d’abord comme une “menace pour le monde entier”.

Diezani Alison-Madueke is accused of living “a life of luxury” in the UK at properties paid for and refurbished by industry figures.

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

Its owner, a publisher from Boston, brought over their entire archive to create a double-height reading room.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: Boulder, Colorado Architect: Tres Birds / @tresbirdsworkshop Footprint: 2,572 square feet Structural Engineer: Gebau Surveyor: Flatirons Geotechnical Engineer: Triax Engineering Photographer: Mickkail Cain / @mickkail.photo From the Architect: "The Iris Residence is the result of a decade-long collaboration between Tres Birds and Shambhala Publications’ owner and publisher, Ivan Bercholz, rooted in a shared...

Alors que la crise s’aggrave, un Allemand installé à La Havane détaille son quotidien dans “Der Spiegel”. Entre débrouille et solidarité, il refuse pourtant de quitter l’île.

With almost ten years of hands-on testing, WIRED knows what separates the best fitness trackers from the rest.

Moon missions are hot again for the first bit since the space race. While the previous period had us land on the big lunar rock, the missions of tomorrow have us living on it. The initial problem of landing in one piece has been solved, but there are many more puzzles to solve. One major issue of living in the vacuum of space is the lack of breathable air, because, ya know, it’s space.
This brings us to today, where [Blue Origin] has announced a prototype method of turning Moon dust into the valuable gas we call oxygen. [Blue Origin] hasn’t posted much about the actual process behind this feat, terming the system “Air Pioneer”. What we do know is that it requires melting the regolith and then passing...

Le groupe de hackers ShinyHunters affirme avoir piraté Rockstar Games. Ils menacent de publier tous les documents confidentiels volés sur le dark web si le studio ne leur verse pas de rançon. Le message des hackers est clair : "Pay or leak."
Les pirates ne sont pas entrés chez Rockstar par la grande porte. Ils sont passés par Anodot, un outil que le studio utilise pour analyser ses factures cloud. Une brèche chez Anodot début avril leur a donné des identifiants qui ouvraient aussi les bases Snowflake de Rockstar, là où dormaient une bonne partie des documents internes.
C'est la même méthode qu'en 2024, quand un autre pirate avait vidé les comptes Snowflake de Ticketmaster, AT&T et Santander en...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Mark Zuckerberg veut que ses salariés puissent lui parler même quand il n'est pas là. Meta travaille sur une version IA photoréaliste et animée de son patron, entraînée sur sa voix, son image, ses manies et ses déclarations publiques.
Le projet est encore au stade précoce, mais Zuck s'implique à fond : il supervise personnellement l'entraînement et les tests de son double numérique, et passerait même cinq à dix heures par semaine à coder sur les différents projets IA du groupe.
L'avatar doit pouvoir tenir une conversation en temps réel avec les employés et leur donner du feedback, comme si Zuckerberg passait lui-même dans le bureau. Il est nourri aux images, à la voix et aux réflexions...

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that appeared to look like an octopus, complete with what were described as arms, fins and no visible shell. It was so important that it helped push the origin of octopuses far deeper into Earth’s past than many scientists had expected. Now that story has collapsed. A new reexamination of Pohlsepia mazonensis, a famous fossil from Illinois, has found that the supposed “oldest octopus” was not an octopus at all. Instead, researchers say it belonged to a nautiloid, a group related to today’s Nautilus, the shelled marine animal often called a living fossil. The real clue came from tiny teeth...

A crew lives on a station in a hostile environment. Leaving that environment requires oxygen tanks and specialized gear to deal with pressure differentials. A space station? Nah. A base built on the ocean floor. The US Navy was interested in such a base in the 1960s, and bases like this are a staple of science fiction. But today, we see more space stations than underwater bases. Have you ever wondered why?
Diving deep underwater is a tricky business. At a certain depth, the pressure forces gas like nitrogen to dissolve into your body. By itself, this isn’t a problem, but when you ascend, it is a big problem. If the gas all comes out at the same time, you get bubbles, which can cause decompression sickness,...

The viral infection leaves millions with chronic pain, increased stroke risk, and lifelong nerve damage—yet vaccination rates remain dangerously low.

Plus de 230 millions de dollars. C'est ce qui a été misé sur le climat et la météo via Kalshi depuis juillet 2021, dont plus de la moitié rien que sur les neuf premiers mois de 2025.
La plateforme américaine de marchés de prédiction laisse ses utilisateurs acheter des contrats "oui" ou "non" sur la température de demain à Chicago, le passage d'un ouragan sur la Floride, ou encore la probabilité que la planète franchisse les 2°C avant 2050.
Le fonctionnement est simple. Vous pariez 15 cents sur "il fera 78°F à Los Angeles demain", s'il fait bien 78°F vous récupérez un dollar. Profit : 85 cents. C'est rapide. Derrière, Kalshi s'appuie sur les données officielles du NOAA et du National...

Gros chantier IA au Japon. SoftBank a pris la tête d'un consortium qui réunit sept autres poids lourds nationaux : NEC, Honda, Sony, trois banques (MUFG, Sumitomo Mitsui, Mizuho) et deux sidérurgistes (Nippon Steel, Kobe Steel).
L'objectif : monter une nouvelle société dédiée à la construction d'une IA entièrement japonaise, sans dépendance étrangère. Le spécialiste tokyoïte Preferred Networks rejoindra l'aventure un peu plus tard, en renfort technique.
L'objectif est clair. Rattraper les Américains et les Chinois. Le modèle visé ambitionne d'atteindre environ 1 000 milliards de paramètres d'ici la fin de la décennie, soit l'ordre de grandeur des plus gros modèles d'OpenAI ou d'Alibaba. Il...

A cloud of fruit scent or mint can hide what matters most: what happens after the aerosol hits living tissue. That question sits at the center of a new review led by UNSW Sydney, which argues that nicotine-based e-cigarettes are likely to cause cancers of the lung and oral cavity. Published in Carcinogenesis, the paper pulls together clinical findings, animal experiments and laboratory research to ask a narrower question than many earlier debates about vaping. Not whether vaping is better than smoking, but whether it may cause cancer in its own right. “To our knowledge, this review is the most definitive determination that those who vape are at increased risk of cancer compared to those who don’t,” said...

Il y a maintenant un siècle, le microbiologiste allemand Robert Koch prédisait que le bruit serait l'une des prochaines grandes batailles sanitaires du siècle. À raison, puisque les nuisances sonores engendrent chaque année 66 000 décès prématurés dans l’Union européenne. Mais ce péril est loin d'être une fatalité...

9 kilos en moins. Ses meilleurs chronos de sa vie sur 5 et 10 km. Et la meilleure forme depuis au moins une décennie. Voilà le bilan que Derek Wallbank, rédacteur en chef chez Bloomberg, affichait à la veille du marathon de Paris, qu'il a couru hier. Son coach pendant ces douze mois de préparation ? ChatGPT, et rien d'autre.
Wallbank avait déjà tenté un marathon il y a une bonne dizaine d'années, expérience qu'il qualifie de "catastrophe complète". Cette fois, plutôt que de payer un coach humain ou de télécharger un plan générique, il a passé environ une heure à nourrir ChatGPT de son historique complet de coureur : courses passées, allures de référence, blessures, objectifs, contraintes...

Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule is over, defeated by a 45-year-old ex-party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians to oust him.

After some water intrusion apparently killed one of [electronupdate]’s Amazon Blink Gen 3 cameras he took this opportunity to do a full teardown and analysis of all the major components. Spread across its three PCBs there are no fewer than two wireless ICs and a custom ASIC for all the major processing. There’s also a blog post with easy-to-ogle pictures.
The most basic PCB is effectively just a PCB antenna for the Silicon Labs EZR32 IC on the main PCB, using which the ~915 MHz connection with the central hub is maintained. The other smaller PCB is a bit surprising in that it contains a Cypress CYW43438 W-Fi b/g/n and BT 5.1 chip. This would seem to be used for the setup process, but considering that it...

The screenwriter’s latest film, “The Christophers,” stars Ian McKellen as a lapsed artist. While gallery-hopping, Solomon reflects on his relationship with his painter mother, who recently put down her own paintbrush.

“Safe Passage,” “Cave Mountain,” “See You on the Other Side,” and “Almost Life.”

It’s not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.”

Léon XIV est arrivé lundi matin en Algérie pour une visite de deux jours hautement symbolique, la première d’un pape dans ce pays à majorité musulmane, terre natale de saint Augustin.