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She testifies the rapper would often "bash on my head, knock me over, drag me and kick me".

The decision could pave the way for Erik and Lyle Menendez to be released on parole, after being found guilty of killing their parents in 1989.

Long-simmering tension between Silicon Valley and the press that covers it is surfacing during the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust trial against Meta. During a heated cross-examination of the FTC's key economic expert, Scott Hemphill, Meta's lead attorney, Mark Hansen, noted that Hemphill joined Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and former Biden official Tim Wu in pitching regulators on an antitrust probe of the company back in 2019. The pitch deck for the probe that was shown in court included "public recognition" of the company's aggressive acquisition strategy from two reporters: Kara Swisher, who currently hosts two podcasts for The Verge's parent company, Vox Media, and Om Malik, the founder of the...

The US president gets a "lavender-carpet" reception on a whirlwind visit of Gulf countries mainly focused on shoring up investment.

The former guerrilla who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 earned his nickname because of his modest lifestyle.

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For the theme park's 70th anniversary, the snack bucket game receives a fun tech upgrade.

A newly described species from the Burgess Shale had three eyes, clawed limbs, and a tail full of gills—plus internal organs preserved in stunning detail.

Garage doors! You could get out of your vehicle and open and close them yourself, but that kinda sucks. It’s much preferable to have them raise and lower courtesy some mechanical contrivance, and even better if that is controlled via the web. [Juan Schiavoni] shows us how to achieve the latter with their latest project.
The web-based controller is based around a Xiao ESP32 microcontroller board, chosen for its baked-in WiFi connectivity. It’s set up to host its own web interface which you can login to with a password via a browser. If you have the correct authorization, you can then hit a button to open or close the garage door.
To interface the ESP32 with the garage door itself, [Juan] went the easy...

By the time you read these words, it's quite possible that Adorama will be out of stock of the new DJI Mavic 4 Pro. But when I wrote them, the US-based retailer was still selling a drone that wasn't supposed to go on sale in the US at all, with roughly 70 left in stock.
This morning, I wrote how DJI was skipping the US with its most advanced drone yet, citing Trump's tariffs among other reasons for the decision. DJI did not send the drone to US reviewers, and it wouldn't provide US prices when we asked.
But Adorama and B&H, two rival camera stores based in New York City, apparently didn't get the message! @verge It might be a while until you can buy the new DJI Mavic 4 Pro in the US. #dji #mavic4pro #drone...

A number of excellent models are on sale right now, including the SwitchBot S10. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf. Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an affordable way to experience that promised utopia right now. Today’s floor cleaners are also more advanced than ever. In addition to vacuuming, many of the best models can now mop, allowing you to tackle both carpet and hardwood flooring. Some can automatically dispense of their trash and...

A love letter to a small noise in a big Star Wars show.

Une peine de dix-huit mois de prison avec sursis a été prononcée contre l’acteur âgé de 76 ans, jugé pour des gestes commis au préjudice de deux femmes, en septembre 2021, sur le tournage du film « Les Volets verts ».

A California judge slammed a pair of law firms for the undisclosed use of AI after he received a supplemental brief with “numerous false, inaccurate, and misleading legal citations and quotations.” In a ruling submitted last week, Judge Michael Wilner imposed $31,000 in sanctions against the law firms involved, saying “no reasonably competent attorney should out-source research and writing” to AI, as pointed out by law professors Eric Goldman and Blake Reid on Bluesky. “I read their brief, was persuaded (or at least intrigued) by the authorities that they cited, and looked up the decisions to learn more about them – only to find that they didn’t exist,” Judge Milner writes. “That’s scary....

What initially appeared to be a power play by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to take over the US Copyright Office by having Donald Trump remove the officials in charge has now backfired in spectacular fashion, as Trump's acting replacements are known to be unfriendly - and even downright hostile - to the tech industry. When Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden last week and Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter over the weekend, it was seen as another move driven by the tech wing of the Republican Party - especially in light of the Copyright Office releasing a pre-publication report saying some kinds of generative AI training would not be considered fair use. And when...

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VPNSecure’s lifetime plan didn’t survive after new ownership took over. Now customers are hopping mad.

Sur la fin de vie, le chef de l’Etat n’a pas exclu, mardi, un référendum en cas de blocage parlementaire. D’une manière plus générale, il a dit souhaiter saisir les Français « sur des grandes réformes économiques, éducatives ou sociales », même s’il a écarté une consultation sur l’abrogation de la réforme des retraites.

In 1900, the U.S. Census recorded a total population of 76.3 million, including 11 million farmers. Today, with a population nearing 340 million, the number of farmers has dropped to just 2.72 million. At the turn of the century, each farmer fed 6.94 people. Today, that number has risen to 125. While the U.S. population grew by 346 percent, farmer productivity soared by 1,702 percent. Each one percent increase in population corresponded to a 4.92 percent increase in farmer productivity. In 1900, life expectancy was just 47 years. Today, it’s around 77. Medicine and sanitation played a role, but the abundance of food made possible by farmers discovering and applying new knowledge was a foundational driver of...

Season 2 of Marvel's Daredevil revival will see the former Netflix Defender return.

The United States could see a hemorrhaging hospitality industry lose up to $12.5 billion in international travel tourism dollars this year, collapsing to $169 billion from $181 billion in 2024, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.Read more...

Robyn Denholm, the chair of Tesla’s (TSLA) board of directors, sold nearly $200 million worth of Tesla stock in the past six months, per an New York Times analysis of recent SEC filings. Read more...

[Project 326] is following up on his thermal microscope with a thermal telescope or, more precisely, a thermal monocular. In fact, many of the components and lenses in this project are the same as those in the microscope, so you could cannibalize that project for this one, if you wanted.
During the microscope project, [Project 326] noted that first-surface mirrors reflect IR as well as visible light. The plan was to make a Newtonian telescope for IR instead of light. While the resulting telescope worked with visible light, the diffraction limit prevented it from working for its intended purpose. Shifting to a Keplerian telescope design was more productive. One of the microscope lenses got a new purpose, and he...

Spirit Airlines, long known for its low prices and no-frills airfare, is suddenly leaning into passenger comfort.Read more...

The Federal Reserve has been playing a waiting game for months. A lot has changed this week. And the Fed will probably just keep playing the waiting game.Read more...

L’ex-guérillero était devenu l’un des leaders les plus respectés d’Amérique latine. Membre du parti de gauche Frente Amplio, il avait dirigé le pays de 2010 à 2015. Issu d’une famille de paysans, réputé pour son intégrité, il avait fait don de 90 % de sa rémunération présidentielle à des associations.

Israel's military said it was targeting a Hamas command centre which it said was beneath the hospital.

Bringing an aesthetic eye to the work of securing a shoreline devastated by Hurricane Sandy, Sam Fleischner’s film highlights the beauty of social responsibility and civic trust.

The Cannes Film Festival kicks off today. There’s a new “Mission: Impossible” and films from Spike Lee, Ari Aster, and Lynne Ramsay.

“Uptown Girl” Christie Brinkley is out with a new biography about becoming the biggest model of the 1980s.

Qatar plans to give President Trump a plane to use as Air Force One, which even some supporters say crosses a line. But the appearance of corruption doesn’t stop there.

The white South Africans were granted refugee status by the Trump administration, despite no evidence they face more danger than Black South Africans.

Conan O’Brien Must Go, The Last of Us, and The Rehearsal are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on Max this month.

A new extra-secure mode for Android 16 will let at-risk users lock their devices down.

Le locataire de la Maison-Blanche a pris un décret qui permettra selon lui de réduire drastiquement le tarif des médicaments, très élevé aux États-Unis. Il s’empare ainsi d’un sujet politique fort mais son texte, flou, n’offre aucune garantie, souligne la presse aux États-Unis.

We’ve seen quite a few delta 3D printers, and a good number of toolchanging printers, but not many that combine both worlds. Fortunately, [Ben Wolpert]’s project fills that gap with a particularly elegant and precise delta toolchanger.
The hotend uses three steel spheres and triangular brackets to make a repeatable three-point contact with the toolhead frame, and three pairs of corresponding magnets hold it in place. The magnets aren’t in contact, and the three magnets on the toolhead are mounted in a rotating ring. A motorized pulley on the printer’s frame drives a cable which runs through a flexible guide and around the rotating ring.
The whole setup is very reminiscent of the Jubilee toolchanging...

CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.

Washington et Pékin sont convenus le 12 mai d’une réduction des droits de douane mutuels pendant quatre-vingt-dix jours. La preuve, souligne le magazine “The Atlantic”, très critique envers Trump, que s’opposer au président américain, comme l’a fait Harvard dans le domaine de l’éducation, porte ses fruits. Mais sans pour autant déboucher sur une victoire : le président américain crée uniquement des relations perdant-perdant.

Inflation is cooling, with the year-over-year rate in April at 2.3%, the lowest since February 2021.Read more...

“As a new type of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT is becoming widely used in learning. However, academic consensus regarding its efficacy remains elusive. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of ChatGPT in improving students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking through a meta-analysis of 51 research studies published between November 2022 and February 2025. The results indicate that ChatGPT has a large positive impact on improving learning performance (g = 0.867) and a moderately positive impact on enhancing learning perception (g = 0.456) and fostering higher-order thinking (g = 0.457).” From Nature.
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You often hear that Bill Gates once proclaimed, “640 kB is enough for anyone,” but, apparently, that’s a myth — he never said it. On the other hand, early PCs did have that limit, and, at first, that limit was mostly theoretical.
After all, earlier computers often topped out at 64 kB or less, or — if you had some fancy bank switching — maybe 128 kB. It was hard to justify the cost, though. Before long, though, 640 kB became a limit, and the industry found workarounds. Mercifully, the need for these eventually evaporated, but for a number of years, they were a part of configuring and using a PC.
Why 640 kB?
The original IBM PC sported an Intel 8088 processor. This was essentially an 8086 16-bit...

Android’s “Scam Detection” protection in Google Messages will now be able to flag even more types of digital fraud.

Léa, rabbine de la synagogue libérale de Strasbourg, est l’héroïne du “Sens des choses”. Dans la presse américaine, les échos sont positifs sur cette libre adaptation d’un livre de Delphine Horvilleur, qui propose des réflexions sur le judaïsme contemporain. Le dernier épisode de la série a été diffusé sur Max le 9 mai.

D’après des chiffres arrêtés fin 2024, la Russie aurait besoin de 2,6 millions de travailleurs pour pallier sa pénurie de main-d’œuvre, qui s’avère particulièrement marquée dans les secteurs de l’industrie, du commerce et des transports.

Le président américain a fait cette annonce d’Arabie saoudite, où il se trouve, mardi, dans le cadre de sa tournée au Moyen-Orient. Il doit « saluer » le président syrien, Ahmed Al-Charaa, mercredi, à Riyad, selon un haut responsable américain.

Arrivé en tête au premier tour, le nationaliste George Simion (à droite) devra se défaire du maire centriste de Bucarest, Nicușor Dan (à gauche), pour être élu président de la Roumanie - Crédits : AUR Alianța pentru Unirea Românilor / Flickr PDM 1.0 La Roumanie sera-t-elle le prochain État membre de l'Union européenne à porter l'extrême droite au pouvoir ? Les nationalistes roumains, rangés derrière leur candidat, George Simion, sont en tout cas en pôle position pour remporter l'élection présidentielle, dont le deuxième tour se tiendra ce dimanche 18 mai. Chef de l'Alliance pour l'unité des Roumains (AUR), une formation ultraconservatrice et eurosceptique affiliée aux Conservateurs et...

D’ordinaire très présente sur la scène internationale, Giorgia Meloni ne s’est pas rendue à Kiev avec les dirigeants de la “coalition des volontaires”, samedi 10 mai. Une absence remarquée en Italie, où la presse craint que les atermoiements de la présidente du Conseil ne laissent le pays “en marge des grandes dynamiques internationales”.

“The Trump administration is considering several executive orders aimed at speeding up the construction of nuclear power plants to help meet rising electricity demand, according to drafts reviewed by The New York Times. The draft orders say the United States has fallen behind China in expanding nuclear power and call for a ‘wholesale revision’ of federal safety regulations to make it easier to build new plants. They envision the Department of Defense taking a prominent role in ordering reactors and installing them on military bases. They would also set a goal of quadrupling the size of the nation’s fleet of nuclear power plants, from nearly 100 gigawatts of electric capacity today to 400 gigawatts by...

Le siège de la Banque centrale européenne est situé à Francfort, en Allemagne - Crédits : Firn / iStock Créée par le traité sur l'Union européenne de 1992, la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) a été mise en place le 1er juin 1998 à Francfort, en Allemagne. Elle a remplacé, à compter du 1er janvier 1999, l'Institut monétaire européen (créé en 1994). La BCE est présidée depuis le 1er novembre 2019 par la Française Christine Lagarde, jusqu'alors à la tête du Fonds monétaire international, succédant ainsi à l'italien Mario Draghi, en poste de 2011 à 2019. Avec le traité de Lisbonne, entré en vigueur fin 2009, la Banque centrale européenne devient une institution de l'Union...

At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden’s weakness and confusion. Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the public and campaign for reëlection?

[ApprehensiveHawk6178] reports that they have made the world’s longest range LED flashlight! While technically “handheld”, you’re gonna need both hands for this monster. According to the creator, it draws 1.2 kW (20 A @ 60 V) to deliver 100,000 lumens and approximately 20,000,000 candelas.
This spotlight is made from 48 white LEDs, wired in 16S3P configuration, and is powered by a similarly beefy 20S2P battery pack. That 1.2 kW power draw generates a lot of heat which is dissipated with an array of heat sinks and five cooling fans. Total cost was in the order of $2,000 USD.
It can be controlled via Bluetooth, and can run from its batteries for 30 minutes at full power. If you’d like to geek out over...

Les "pratiques de conversion" ont été qualifiées de torture par les Nations unies et sont aujourd'hui interdites dans de nombreux pays - Crédits : Philippe Stirnweiss / Parlement européen Depuis quelques jours, une initiative citoyenne européenne (ICE) visant à interdire les thérapies de conversion dans l'Union européenne fait le tour des réseaux sociaux. Elle a été relayée par de nombreuses personnalités, telles que les chanteuses Angèle et Hoshi, ainsi que le réalisateur Cédric Le Gallo, qui ont appelé leurs abonnés sur Instagram à soutenir cette ICE. "Nous invitons la Commission européenne à proposer une interdiction légale contraignante des pratiques de conversion ciblant les...

“A startup using AI to guide geologic exploration believes it has found a major Australian deposit of indium, a rare metal used in solar panels, LCD screens and semiconductors… The company, which recently raised a $20 million Series B round, told Axios exclusively that it located signs of a deposit on an outcropping roughly 310 miles northwest of Sydney. Some assays show up to 117 parts per million and multiple samples show over 20 ppm. ‘Ore grades for Indium typically begin at 1 ppm In, underscoring the high-grade nature of this outcrop,’ the announcement states.” From Axios.
The post Startup Makes AI-Driven Minerals Find Down Under appeared first on Human Progress.

“An upgraded version of Google’s medical chatbot can use smartphone photos to diagnose rashes and can evaluate a host of other types of medical imagery — improving the bot’s ability to pinpoint the cause of ailments. An earlier version of the artificial-intelligence (AI) system outperformed physicians in diagnostic accuracy and bedside manner. The upgrade also did better than human doctors at interpreting images such as electrocardiograms and PDFs of laboratory results. The latest version of the system, which is called the Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE) and is still purely experimental, was described in a paper1 posted to the arXiv preprint server on 6 May.” From Nature.
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Les artistes du hip-hop francophones explosent les compteurs de nombre d’écoutes et d’albums vendus depuis une dizaine d’années. Pourtant, ce genre musical reste faiblement représenté dans les cérémonies et sur les canaux de diffusion traditionnels.

La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (CEDH) siège à Strasbourg - Crédits : SteveAllenPhoto / iStock La Convention européenne des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales (ou Convention de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales) a pour objectif de garantir un certain nombre de droits fondamentaux et de libertés individuelles dans les États l'ayant ratifiée. Elle se réfère à la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme de 1948. Adoptée par le Conseil de l'Europe en 1950, elle est entrée en vigueur en 1953 après avoir été ratifiée par dix États. Elle est aujourd'hui ratifiée par les 46 États membres de cette organisation, dont les 27 pays de l'UE....

REACT-EU, un instrument visant à faciliter la reprise économique post-Covid, a notamment permis de financer des projets dans le secteur médico-social - Crédits : Région Occitanie | Centre Hospitalier de Bastia | Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | Blanchisserie territoriale de Moselle Est Le rapport d'évaluation de REACT-EU ("Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Territories of Europe") est disponible sur le site de l'Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires. La France est le troisième pays bénéficiaire du dispositif REACT-EU, lancé en décembre 2020 par l’Union européenne pour répondre à la crise sanitaire et initier la relance post-Covid. C'est ce qu'indique le rapport d'évaluation...

France • August 2018 📷 #flashes