A manual espresso machine proves the best coffee-brewing tech is sometimes analog.

There are some minor drawbacks, but the Rally massager stands out as the lone circular massager in a sea of percussive heads.

Les sept membres du boys band sud-coréen avaient été forcés de mettre leur carrière en pause pour effectuer leur service militaire obligatoire. Ils seront de nouveau réunis le 21 mars à l’occasion d’un concert en plein air dans le centre de Séoul. L’événement suscite l’enthousiasme de la presse locale, alors que les autorités se préoccupent surtout de la gestion de la foule.

Un autocar s’est embrasé, mardi soir, dans une petite ville du canton de Fribourg, dans l’ouest du pays, faisant au moins six morts.

L’essentiel du pétrole et du gaz circulant par le détroit d’Ormuz, aujourd’hui bloqué en raison de la guerre au Moyen-Orient, se dirigeait vers les pays d’Asie, dont les gouvernements multiplient les mesures afin d’atténuer les effets de la hausse des prix à la pompe.

Après avoir battu plusieurs grosses équipes européennes, dont l’Inter Milan, le petit club norvégien de Bodo/Glimt est devenu la sensation de cette édition de la Ligue des champions. Il affronte, mercredi 11 mars, le Sporting de Lisbonne en quarts de finale. Mais, anticipe ce chroniqueur sportif britannique, avec les dizaines de millions qu’il va engranger cette année ce Petit Poucet n’en est déjà plus un.

From mattresses to sateen sheets, these exclusive deals on my personal picks can help you upgrade your sleep for less.

xAI can power data centers at the cost of greenhouse gas pollution. Elon Musk used to speak out against this sort of thing.

Le PNF envisage de poursuivre M. Alexandre et quatre autres personnes à la suite d’une enquête sur l’attribution d’une délégation de service public à la compagnie Air Guyane.

Let’s play a game of “spot the crease.“ The first thing most people seem to do when they try out a foldable phone I'm reviewing is look for the crease in the screen. In the case of Oppo's Find N6, it might take them a while.
Oppo claims that the Find N6, launching in full next week on March 17th, has the world's first "zero-feel crease" foldable display. Let's get one thing out of the way early: "zero" is pushing it. You can feel the crease on this phone, but only barely, and only when you're really thinking about it. You can see it too, but only in the right light, at the right angle, and you sort of have to squint a little to spot it. This is the least obtrusive crease I've f …
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Le centre de la capitale libanaise a également été visé par l’Etat hébreu, selon l’agence officielle de presse. Quelque 760 000 personnes ont été déplacées depuis le début des bombardements israéliens lancés début mars en réponse à des tirs du Hezbollah.

Chaque semaine, “Courrier international” explique ses choix éditoriaux. Dans le magazine en vente le 12 mars, deux dossiers. Le premier est consacré à la guerre en Iran, avec un décryptage de la riposte politique et militaire du régime iranien. La ligne dure semble l’emporter après la nomination du nouveau guide suprême. Autre rendez-vous largement couvert par la presse étrangère : les municipales en France, prélude à la présidentielle de 2027, et notamment la bataille de Paris.

E-readers are an awesome creation allowing you to display digital information in a way that requires little battery life. While there’s plenty of very impressive models to chose from on the commercial market, it’s also possible to build one yourself — which is exactly what [kaos-69] did in his Mimisbrunnur project, creating a truly unique e-reader from scratch.
While looking through old junk at home, [kaos-69] came across a case that held a calculator and pen at one point in the distant past. The pen was gone and the calculator no longer functioned but the case held promise. He removed the calculator and got some parts on order. For the e-paper display he went with a 5.83-inch unit that just fit inside...

« Pour nous les choses sont claires, aucune alliance avec le Rassemblement national ou ses “proxy” », a déclaré le président du Sénat sur France inter, en citant les partis d’Eric Ciotti et d’Eric Zemmour.

For decades, cumbersome CPAP machines have been the primary way to help people with sleep apnea. A range of new options has recently come into focus.

Le FBI enquête sur une activité suspecte touchant un système d’écoutes téléphoniques utilisé dans les enquêtes criminelles et de sécurité nationale.

Une étude révèle comment l’IA peut identifier des comptes anonymes en croisant des données ouvertes et accélérer la désanonymisation en ligne.

'I just want to be able to sleep': Attacks in Iran rock cities and cut power
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Quand j’ai parlé de la Super NES Mini, je me suis demandé si la NES Mini (pardon, la Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System) se trouvait finalement à un prix correct. Elle est sortie fin 2016 en Europe et elle a été en rupture rapidement, avec des prix élevés. En 2026, on en trouve pour quelques dizaines d’euros, ce qui est cher (elle valait 60 €) mais ça reste envisageable. Donc j’ai fait la même chose qu’avec la Super NES Mini : j’ai testé une manette de NES du Nintendo Switch Online en Bluetooth, avec l’adaptateur de 8BitDo. Premier point, la console. C’est une version réduite de la NES originale, beaucoup (beaucoup) plus petite. Elle s’alimente en Micro USB,...

La pandémie de Covid-19 a mis en lumière une dégradation profonde de la santé mentale des jeunes en Europe, révélant et accentuant des inégalités sociales déjà existantes. La santé mentale des jeunes interroge la capacité de l'Union à construire des réponses communes face à une crise qui dépasse les frontières. Une dégradation marquée de la santé mentale des jeunes, amplifiée par la pandémie
La crise sanitaire provoquée par la pandémie de Covid-19 a profondément bouleversé les sociétés européennes, affectant à la fois les systèmes de santé, l'économie et les parcours éducatifs. Les mesures de confinement ont provoqué une restriction des interactions sociales, générant un...

Un appel de l'Assemblée antifasciste autonome Lyon à former un cortège lors de la marche antiraciste et antifasciste du 14 mars -
Initiatives / Lyon, Manifs et rassemblements

Police do not yet know the cause of the fire in the western Fribourg canton, which also injured a number of people.

Vous êtes en terminale ou en première spécialité histoire-géographie, géopolitique et sciences politiques (HGGSP) ? Chaque semaine, Benjamin Daubeuf, professeur agrégé d’histoire-géographie, vous conseille la lecture d’un article d’actualité qui résonne avec votre programme. Ce mercredi, un spécialiste de l’Iran revient sur le rôle qu’a joué l’ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tué par une frappe israélienne le 28 février, dans la survie de la République islamique d’Iran.

At this point in time it can be safely stated that the question ‘Does it run Doom?’ defaults to a resounding ‘Yes’. This raises the question of what next games should be seen as some kind impressive benchmark, with [Game of Tobi] gunning heavily for Nintendo 64 titles. Most recently he ported Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to the Apple Watch, with the port almost ready for release along with Super Mario 64 after a few more issues are fixed.
Although there are a few approaches when it comes to porting Nintendo 64 games to other systems, if the target system is effectively a small PC with all of the amenities such as rendering APIs, then using the Ship of Harkinian project as the basis is a good...

Les États-Unis ont détruit mardi 16 bateaux iraniens poseurs de mines près du détroit d’Ormuz, après avoir menacé Téhéran de représailles “sans précédent” en cas de minage de la zone, où transite un cinquième du pétrole mondial. Le contrôle du détroit reste le “dernier atout majeur” de l’Iran dans le conflit, relève la presse internationale.

Le gouvernement japonais investit de gros moyens pour que la population revienne dans la zone irradiée après l’accident provoqué par le séisme et le tsunami du 11 mars 2011. Malgré les efforts de décontamination et les incitations financières, seuls 17 % des habitants sont revenus.

Where to lock in, power down, and actually enjoy your business trip.

The woman posted about the singer online prior to the attack, the BBC's US news partner CBS reports.

[Michel Jean] asked a question few others might: what exactly is going on under the hood of a classic HP scientific calculator when one presses the ∫ key? A numerical integration, sure, but how exactly? There are a number of useful algorithms that could be firing up when the integral button is pressed, and like any curious hacker [Michel] decided to personally verify what was happening.
[Michel] implemented different integration algorithms in C++ and experimentally compared them against HP calculator results. By setting up rigorous tests, [Michel] was able to conclude that the calculators definitely use Romberg-Kahan, developed by HP Mathematician William Kahan.
Selected by HP in 1979 for use in their...

According to a new job listing, Elon Musk's company town needs some law and order.

"AI is helping so much that we don't need people," is the go-to narrative. But did Oracle convince investors?

Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke administer Epstein’s estate - court filings allege complicity in his crimes.

Democratic senators have pitched the Gas Prices Relief Act.

IBM Selectric typewriters have a lot of unique parts that can be tricky to source, but one we didn’t think of was the clear acrylic(?) dust covers, that are apparently very hard to find in good shape. [Eric Strebel] has a few Selectrics that all have issues with these parts. While you could come close to recreating this piece with acrylic sheeting carefully bent to match the original shape, [Eric] has a different hammer to try in a new video: replicating it with a resin casting.
He uses de-gassed tin-cure silicone to create a mold for the original, with a bit of 3D printed PLA and foam board to hold the silicone to create the mold. That’s done in two steps to create a two-part mold, which is separated and...

A commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai, on March 2nd, 2026. Increased maritime traffic led to a buildup of vessels waiting near Dubai, highlighting the strategic importance of the strait, which handles 20 percent of global energy trade. | Photo: Getty Images Soon after the Trump administration launched its war on Iran, I called up Reed Blakemore, director of research and programs at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, to talk about the consequences. While oil and gas prices were already on the rise, there was still more hope then that the impact of the conflict might be short-lived. At the end of our conversation, Blakemore said...

'Samurai Champloo' is getting a live-action adaptation from the team behind 'One Piece' and 'Cowboy Bebop,' with more Watanabe input this time around.

Though the live-action Cowboy Bebop was a big disappointment, Shinichirō Watanabe is ready to give it another go with one of his other iconic pieces of IP.
Variety reports that Watanabe has given his blessing and agreed to work on a new live-action Samurai Champloo adaptation from Tomorrow Studios, the same production house behind Netflix's Cowboy Bebop (which Watanabe wasn't directly involved in) and the streamer's surprisingly excellent take on One Piece. The project is in its earliest stages of development and is not attached to a distributor. After Cowboy Bebop, this all feels a little iffy, but Tomorrow Studios heads Marty Adelstein an …
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Was it a threat or a reality check? That's a key question in the government's anti-monopoly case against Live Nation, which is currently in limbo after the Justice Department reached a settlement with the company and as dozens of states push ahead.
The Verge obtained the audio of a 2021 call at the center of the case. The recording, a public exhibit that was played for jurors in the first week of trial, features then-CEO of Barclays Center John Abbamondi and Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino arguing over a ticketing deal for Brooklyn's Barclays Center arena. A transcript of the call was previously posted to the docket, but the audio gives a be …
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Ford announced a new AI-powered service for its commercial fleet and telematics software customers called Ford Pro AI. The generative AI system analyzes data generated by commercial vehicles - including vehicle speed, seat belt activity, and engine health - and converts it into actionable items for fleet managers.
The new system manifests as - what else? - an AI chatbot within Ford's Telematics software that customers can ask questions about their fleets or delegate tasks. Managers can ask the chatbot for recommendations to lower fuel costs, insight about specific vehicles in their fleets, or even to draft emails to a supervisor summarizing …
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Le site antifasciste Ripostes publie trois brochures et les met à disposition en différents formats afin de faciliter la diffusion. Le fond de l'air est de plus en plus brun Comment par petites touches ou par grandes accélérations, la banalisation du projet brun s'effectue sous nos yeux. Le RN et l'argent Front national, Rassemblement national, que ce soit en Europe, au plan national ou municipal, ils ne peuvent pas s'empêcher de plonger dans la caisse, de confondre argent public et (…) -
Repères / Rassemblement national (RN), Argumentaires

This unusual clock by [Moritz v. Sivers] looks like a holographic dial surrounded by an LED ring, but that turns out to not be the case. What appears to be a ring of LEDs is in fact a second hologram. There are LEDs but they are tucked out of the way, and not directly visible. The result is a very unusual clock that really isn’t what it appears to be.
The face of the clock is a reflection hologram of a numbered spiral that serves as a dial. A single LED – the only one visibly mounted – illuminates this hologram from the front in order to produce the sort of holographic image most of us are familiar with, creating a sense of depth.
The lights around the circumference are another matter. What looks like a...

President Putin pits himself as a potential mediator but that's not an easy sell, writes the BBC's Russia editor.

“Rodney Gorham recently passed a milestone that few people have reached. He’s had a brain-computer interface implanted for five years. Made by startup Synchron, the experimental implant allows him to control a computer and other digital devices around his home using just his thoughts. It’s been a lifeline for 65-year-old Gorham, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and can no longer walk, talk, or move his hands. Synchron is among several companies, including Elon Musk’s Neuralink, aiming to commercialize brain-computer interfaces to help individuals with paralysis. Over the past five years, Synchron’s software and hardware have gone through many iterations, with Gorham helping to shape the...

“The Department of Energy has made public a set of new rules that slash environmental and security requirements for experimental nuclear reactors. Last month, NPR reported on the existence of the rules, which were quietly rewritten to accelerate development of a new generation of nuclear reactor designs. The rule changes came about after President Trump signed an executive order calling for three or more of the experimental reactors to come online by July 4 of this year — an incredibly tight deadline in the world of nuclear power. The order led to the creation of a new Reactor Pilot Program at the Department of Energy.” From NPR.
The post Nuclear Safety Rules Rewritten to Accelerate Development appeared...

“Indian officials have been in a boastful mood lately. A government report in December argued that judging by real-time economic indicators, India had overtaken Japan as the world’s fourth-biggest economy. This was to become economic fact once the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation updated how it calculates GDP. So in one sense, the new numbers released on February 27th are a disappointment: GDP was 3.3% smaller than previously thought. In other ways, though, they are a cause for celebration. The methodological update, the first since 2015, reset the ‘base year’—which sets the weights for different parts of the economy—to 2022. It also added new data sources that capture a clearer...

“In 2024, Eon senior scientist Philip Shiu and collaborators published in Nature a computational model of the entire adult Drosophila melanogaster brain, containing more than 125,000 neurons and 50 million synaptic connections, built from the FlyWire connectome and machine learning predictions of neurotransmitter identity. That model predicted motor behavior at 95% accuracy. But it was disembodied: a brain without a body, activation without physics, motor outputs with nowhere to go. Now the brain has somewhere to go. Building on previous work, including Shiu et al.’s whole-brain computational model, the NeuroMechFly v2 embodied simulation framework, and Özdil et al.’s research on centralized brain...

“Twenty years after they were first created in Japan, extraordinarily versatile stem cells made from the body’s own cells may finally realize their promise for regenerating diseased tissue. Last month, an advisory panel to Japan’s health ministry recommended limited marketing approval for therapies using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for heart failure and Parkinson’s disease. In a controversial arrangement, their makers will be able to sell the products for 7 years while continuing studies to determine just how well the therapies work. IPS cells are moving closer to medical use in other countries as well, with dozens of potential therapies in clinical trials… One of the new therapies, intended...

À l'appel de la CGT06, rendez-vous à 18h devant la mairie de Nice. -
Initiatives / Rassemblement national (RN), Manifs et rassemblements, Eric Ciotti

À 18h à la Base pour une projection de courts-métrages, suivie d'une discussion. -
Initiatives / Marseille, Initiative culturelle, Rencontres et débats

À 18h devant la Mairie de Pau, contre le RN et ses idées. -
Initiatives / Rassemblement national (RN), Manifs et rassemblements

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Ce que vous appelez « la manière honnête » est toujours celle des louseurs ! Nous devons éliminer cette sous-estimation de 22 % ! La décomposition linéaire ne fonctionne pas, mais à quoi vous attendiez-vous ? Que le couplage Φ_coupling ne présente aucune complexité alors que nous soupçonnions déjà qu’il y avait quelque chose de géométrique là-dedans ? Testons quelques formules plausibles pour le couplage Φ_coupling en recourant à la métaphore du « rejeton ». Un enfant 1) ajoute quelque chose à l’apport des parents, par exemple l’apport des grands-parents, 2) il arrive après les parents dans le devenir du monde, 3) il est sensible à l’impact...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Αθήνα • Ελλάς • November 2021 📷 #flashes

Images de jeux vidéo ou d’explosions sans rapport avec le conflit en cours, vidéos générées par intelligence artificielle… Depuis le début de l’attaque israélo-américaine sur l’Iran, de nombreux contenus trompeurs glorifient la puissance de feu iranienne.

Through its non-profit organization, the Internet Archive (IA) aims to preserve digital history for generations to come.
The Archive’s popular Wayback Machine has archived decades of web history, and it also aims to preserve content directly: by scanning physical books or recording old gramophones, for example.
One of the more unique preservation projects centers around Myspace, which was the leading social network twenty years ago. The site was particularly popular among musicians, but today it’s a shell of its former self with virtually no new activity. In fact, quite a bit of content was permanently lost.
The Myspace Dragon Hoard
In March 2019, Myspace publicly announced that all music uploaded to the...

Iranians in Tehran and Karaj tell the BBC they are exhausted and struggling to sleep after 10 days of Israeli and US attacks.

Où l’on parle de non-réciprocité : l’adversaire est une vermine dont il faut débarrasser la terre.

Dans le désert égyptien, les mariages inter-tribus ont engendré au fil des générations une explosion de cas de surdité. Pour assurer la survie du groupe et sa cohésion, les Bédouins ont créé leur propre langue des signes, devenue pour tous une seconde langue maternelle. Une opportunité extraordinairement rare pour la recherche d’étudier la naissance d’une langue, qu'on vous racontait dans le numéro d'automne 2024 de FUTUR, le magazine d'Usbek & Rica. L'article figure parmi les finalistes du prix international True Story Award 2026.

It totally screams “Maya,” because she’s within driving distance, last I heard, so I probably won’t have to pay for shipping.