Permanent eave lights that attach to the exterior of your home are becoming more popular. But are they worth the effort and cost?

The conclusion of DESI's first survey marks an important milestone for cosmology, which finds itself in a bind for the best reasons.

Part of the new PS 2026 collection, it's taken the Swedish company 26 years to finally nail inflatable furniture.

The head coach for the Golden State Warriors on his future with the team, his complicated relationship with Draymond Green, and whether he might give politics a try.

A New Yorker food critic responds to a reader’s baking woes.

The author discusses his story “Process of Elimination.”

The night the tip jar went missing, we assumed that it had been stolen by a student, or maybe a professor—an adjunct—who had taken it when we weren’t looking.

The author reads his story from the May 4, 2026, issue of the magazine.

Ductless AC systems get smart tech features—and the growing pains that come with them.

Le président américain a évoqué une réunion avec l’Iran prévue pour « mardi » au Pakistan, après avoir annoncé, samedi soir, l’annulation du déplacement de Steve Witkoff et Jared Kushner à Islamabad pour des pourparlers. Selon l’agence de presse officielle iranienne IRNA, qui cite le ministère des affaires étrangères, Abbas Araghtchi, « doit se rendre à nouveau au Pakistan après avoir achevé son voyage à Oman et avant de se rendre en Russie ».

Here’s how to pick the best mattress for your sleep needs, straight from a professional mattress tester.

L’explosion d’une bombe sur la route panaméricaine, le 25 avril, a fait au moins 14 morts. C’est le point d’orgue d’une importante campagne d’attentats dont beaucoup visent les forces de l’ordre. Les autorités dénoncent une stratégie des groupes armés pour déstabiliser le processus électoral, rapporte la presse colombienne.

After a SpaceX IPO, Musk will have a harder time accessing loans from SpaceX.

Witnesses report clashes in the centre and north, in what has been described as the largest jihadist attack in years.

Le FLA, groupe séparatiste réclamant le territoire de l’Azawad dans le nord du Mali, a assuré samedi contrôler Kidal après des combats dans cette ville.

Vous savez cette télécommande Apple TV de première génération qui traîne dans un tiroir et dont vous ne faites rien ?
Bah y'a enfin un truc à faire avec ! Jinsoo An, alias machinarii sur GitHub, vient de sortir
Hypervibe
, un outil macOS qui transforme la télécommande de l'Apple TV en walkie-talkie comme disent les québecois, pour Claude Code.
Push-to-talk, swipes pour les commandes slash, boutons remappables, le tout pour coder à une seule main pendant que vous mangez vos chips au vinaigre de hipsters de l'autre. Le principe est simple : vous tenez la télécommande comme un talkie, vous appuyez sur le bouton Siri pour parler à Claude Code (dictation Claude doit être activée préalablement),...

If you miss the days when you used Basic on your classic computer or wrote embedded software with a Basic Stamp, then maybe dust off your Arduino UNO or any similar AVR board and try nanoBASIC_UNO from [shachi-lab].
Apparently, the original code was meant for the STM8S, but this port targets the ATmega328P. It is Basic more or less as you remember it. There are enough extensions to deal with GPIO, the analog systems, and so forth. At build time, you can decide if you want 16-bit or 32-bit integers. One thing that is a little odd is how it handles direct mode. In classic Basic, anything without a line number executes immediately. Line numbers simply store your program line until you type RUN. nanoBASIC_UNO...

Nina Hromadska avait 21 ans lors de l’accident du réacteur numéro 4 de la centrale nucléaire de Tchernobyl, le 26 avril 1986. Elle raconte au « Monde » comment elle a fait face à la plus grave catastrophe nucléaire du XXᵉ siècle.

Explosions and gunfire as armed groups launch co-ordinated attacks across Mali
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyx7nnrkqdo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Cas pratique du week-end : ma pote Alex m'a passé son PC familial tournant sous Windows 8, car son fils a changé le mot de passe du Windows et n'a pas la moindre idée de ce qu'il a tapé. Pour
faire sauter ce mot de passe
sans tout réinstaller, j'utilise depuis des années la bonne vieille astuce Sticky Keys, qui consiste à booter sur une clé USB Windows pour accéder au Terminal de récupération via MAJ+F10. Sauf que pour préparer cette clé, j'avais juste mon MacBook sous la main.
Et là, surprise !
Sur Windows,
Rufus
fait ça en deux clics depuis dix ans. Sur macOS, ça reste un sport de combat. Boot Camp Assistant est toujours dans le dossier Utilitaires mais inopérant sur les Mac Apple Silicon,...

Ce matin, j'ai demandé à une IA de me concevoir un baladeur qui lit du FLAC. L'outil m'a alors posé quelques questions puis il m'a sorti le design électronique complet en quelques secondes.
Blueprint.am
, c'est le service de 3E8 Robotics qui transforme une simple phrase en bidule hardware DIY : schéma de cablage, liste de pièces avec liens Amazon, vues 3D, instructions de montage étape par étape...etc.
Vous tapez votre idée bien délirante dans un champ texte, l'outil balance un plan pour décrire l'archi générale ainsi qu'un "wiring diagram" (je pense qu'on peut traduire ça par plan de câblage) avec les connexions GPIO/SPI/I2S qui vont bien + la liste des pièces / composants et une suite...

C’est mon troisième jeu pour Pippin @World, après celui des Power Rangers : j’ai récupéré Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia: @World Edition grâce à Keith. C’est donc un jeu pour Pippin @World, en loose : j’ai uniquement le disque. Ce n’est pas un CD-R, c’est bien la version pressée, mais sans la boîte. L’encyclopédie Compton, c’est un peu l’équivalent d’Universalis en France pour ceux qui connaissent, mais aux États-Unis. Avant Wikipedia et l’avènement d’Internet pour le grand public, c’était important d’avoir une encyclopédie… même si elle ne servait pas souvent. C’est aussi un type d’ouvrage qui tire bien parti du CD-ROM au début des années nonante :...

Cette semaine, dans notre newsletter consacrée à ce que la presse étrangère écrit de meilleur et de pire sur l’Hexagone : une ode au lien social, à la solidarité et à la fête.

If you follow [Maker’s Muse] on YouTube, you know he’s as passionate about robot fights these days as he is about the tools he uses to make the robots. Luckily for us, he’s still got fame as a 3D printing YouTuber, as this has given him the platform to share his trade secrets for strong, robot-combat-worthy prints.
He fights robots in a ‘plastic ant-weight’ division, which restricts not only the weight of the robot but also the materials used. Not only must they be primarily plastic, but only certain plastics are allowed: PLA is in, but engineering filaments, Nylon, and TPU are out. Since necessity is the mother of invention, this has led to strong evolutionary pressure to figure out how to print the...

L’assaillant, aux motivations encore inconnues, a été neutralisé avant de parvenir à la salle de réception, dont le président américain a été évacué.

Donald Trump et son épouse Melania ont été évacués sains et saufs, samedi soir, du dîner annuel des correspondants de la Maison-Blanche à Washington, après qu’un homme a forcé la sécurité et ouvert le feu à proximité de la salle où se tenait l’événement. Le tireur présumé a été arrêté et sera présenté lundi devant la justice.

The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue describes the moment he and others dived for cover as shots rang out at the venue.

Dans sa chronique, Philippe Bernard, éditorialiste au « Monde », dresse les questions posées par l’effondrement de l’écrit et l’essor de l’intelligence artificielle sur nos capacités cérébrales.

Les principales actualités de ces dernières heures vues par la presse internationale.

The 31-year-old engineer and self-described indie game developer is suspected of firing shots at the annual event attended by President Donald Trump, high-profile media figures, and US government officials.

Dans les colonnes du “Guardian”, la scientifique et autrice Helen Pilcher écrit regretter que sciences et humour ne soient pas plus souvent associés. Car en adoptant une approche plus ludique, les experts pourraient limiter la contestation des études scientifiques, et rendre des sujets en apparence techniques accessibles au grand public.

A lot has been made about a post-quantum computer future in which traditional encryption methods have suddenly been rendered obsolete. With this terrifying idea in mind, it’s reassuring to see some recent pushback to the idea with some factual evidence. In a recent blog post by [Filippo Valsorda] – a cryptography engineer – the point is raised that 128-bit symmetric keys like AES-128 and SHA-256 are at risk of being obliterated in a post-quantum future.
Rather than just taking [Filippo]’s word for it, he takes us through a detailed explanation of the flawed understanding of Grover’s algorithm that underlies much of the panic. While it’s very true that this quantum search algorithm can decrease the...

The Israeli PM's directive comes as six people were killed by strikes in Lebanon despite a ceasefire being extended by three weeks.

The future of Xbox might lie in its roots.

As it prepares to enter its endgame, 'Strange New Worlds' wants to emphasize the boldness in boldly going.

Although 3D printing it a great tool for making all sorts of things, the nature of the plastics used in most desktop FDM printers means it isn’t the first tool most would think of to build an internal combustion engine. [Alexander] is evidently not most people, as he’s on his third generation 3D printed engine.
There are 3D printed pumps to distribute coolant water and oil, plus some clever engineering in the head to make sure they don’t mix — a problem with a previous iteration. As you probably guessed, the engine isn’t fully printed. Assembling it requires add-on hardware for things like bearings, belts, and filters.
But it’s still impressive just how much of this beast is actually made of...

Iran had earlier said there were no plans for a direct meeting with a US delegation led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

A new, but familiar story lies at the heart of 'Invincible VS,' and with some slightly different actors along for the ride.

Have you ever looked out across the rooftops of a city and idly gazed at the infrastructure that remains unseen from the street? It seems [varunsontakke80] has, because here’s their project, harvesting energy from the rotation of a rooftop ventilator.
The build is a relatively straightforward one, with a pair of disks with magnets attached being mounted on the ventilator shaft inside its dome. A third disk sits between them and is stationary, with a set of coils in which the magnets induce current as they move. A rectifier and charge circuit completes the picture.
This appears to be part of a college project, but despite searching, we can’t find any measure of how much power this thing generates. We’d be...

Multiple sources are reporting that the Trump administration has dismissed the entire National Science Board (NSB). The NSB advises the president and Congress on the National Science Foundation (NSF), which has already been funding research at historically low levels and has seen significant delays in doling out that funding. The NSF has been fundamental in helping develop technology used in MRIs, cellphones, and it even helped get Duolingo get off the ground. In a statement, Zoe Lofgren, the ranking Democrat on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, said: "This is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Part of what has held back electric cars has been the cost. But an influx of used vehicles over the next three years could bring prices down dramatically. In 2025, just 123,000 leases on EVs expired. That is expected to more than double to 300,000 in 2026, and double again to 600,000 in 2027 and 660,000 in 2028, according to Cox Automotive. Most leased vehicles end up entering the used market. This means more than a million used EVs could become available over the next few years, making them far more accessible. The vast majority of cars sold in the US are used - some 76 percent as of 2024, according to Consumer Affairs. A large part of th …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Illustration par ChatGPT
Je profite du fait qu’on soit un samedi et que personne ne regarde pour le glisser en vitesse : j’ai le sentiment d’avoir été présent lors du sommet de la civilisation humaine.
Je suis d’accord, ça n’a pas duré, mais je suis content d’avoir été là, d’avoir été conscient qu’il s’agissait d’un moment privilégié et d’en avoir tiré le maximum – mes copines, mes copains et moi.
Est-ce que j’ai cru que cela pouvait durer ? Je ne me suis sans doute pas posé la question.
C’était il y a soixante ans. On en est loin aujourd’hui. Et, malheureusement, à chaque jour qui passe, de plus en plus loin.
Si vous ne viviez pas à cette époque-là, je suis...

The two Americans who reportedly worked for the CIA died in a car crash after a Mexican-led operation to destroy a drug lab.

Accusé d’avoir rémunéré des informateurs liés à des groupes suprémacistes et néo-nazis, le SPLC est devenu la cible d’un raccourci trumpiste grossier.

Depuis quelques jours, plusieurs médias français ressortent cette merveilleuse histoire de la carte bancaire à empreinte digitale comme s'il s'agissait d'une révolution imminente ! Par exemple
l'Indépendant
titre carrément "le code à quatre chiffres c'est bientôt fini". Toudoum !!
Sauf que la techno, conçue par
Thales
et
IDEMIA
, est commercialisée en Europe depuis 2021 quand même. Et plus drôle encore, c'est que
BNP Paribas
a fermé la commercialisation de sa première version le 8 décembre 2025, soit bien avant que la presse en fasse un sujet d'actualité "frais". La carte F.CODE d'IDEMIA, l'un des deux principaux fabricants de cartes biométriques en Europe avec Thales (crédit : IDEMIA).
Donc...

Nobody is talking. | Image: Metrograph Pictures Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Arizona say that between 2005 and 2019, the number of words we speak out loud to another human being fell by nearly 28 percent. And that has likely only gotten worse following the pandemic.
The researchers actually counted the number of words we were speaking on average (16,632 in 2005). They looked at data from 22 studies in which over 2,000 people recorded audio of their daily lives. Over time, as ordering through apps became the norm, texting increased, and our lives became increasingly online, they found that number had dropped dramatically. By 2019, we were onl …
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The Icemag 3’s kickstand allows you to prop up your phone as it recharges. | Image: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge I’ve been testing compact, magnetic Qi2 power banks that can snap onto your phone for an upcoming buying guide. They make recharging much easier than bringing along a huge battery that weighs down your bag. One of my favorites so far is the Sharge Icemag 3, a 10,000mAh model that can wirelessly output 25W to iPhone 16-series phones and newer models. It also offers a built-in kickstand and a 35W USB-C cable that doubles as a lanyard, plus a USB-C port for passthrough charging. For a limited time, Amazon Prime subscribers can get it in either white or black for $69.90 ($10 off), and Sharge will...

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. Joining me today is economist Samuel Gregg, the President and Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of seventeen books, including The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, which will form the basis of our discussion today. So, tell me about why you chose to write this book and why it is, perhaps unfortunately, more relevant today than ever? In around 2016, the way that Americans thought about the nature of their economy started to shift. Since the early 1980s, America had moved back towards markets, free enterprise, and limited...

The post Samuel Gregg: America’s Turn Against Markets appeared first on Human Progress.

I knew things were not quite right when I had to throw a towel over a broken Ikea lamp to block out its light. How did I get here? I cover fancy and capable tech for a living, and yet, it took me two years to get rid of a pair of old, broken Ikea lamps in my bedroom. Then I got some floor lamps from Govee that changed everything.
Those Ikea lamps were around for two years after I moved from Orange County to Los Angeles. Soon after that move, my mom's Parkinson's disease - a neurodegenerative condition with no cure - progressed quickly, my mental health took a hit, and most of my own to-do list quietly slid to the back burner as she lost mob …
Read the full story at The Verge.

October 2018 📷 Lensball • ○ ◯

Voici l'histoire de Neukgu, un loup coréen de deux ans qui s'est fait la malle d'un zoo de Daejeon le 8 avril dernier, et qui a tenu en haleine toute la Corée du Sud pendant neuf jours.
Sauf que dans la foulée de l'évasion, un homme de 40 ans génère une fausse photo IA du loup en train de traverser un carrefour, la diffuse en ligne, et l'image finit par remonter jusqu'aux autorités qui n'y voient que du feu.
La séquence qui suit est assez improbable. La municipalité de Daejeon envoie une alerte d'urgence par SMS à la population, signalant un loup au niveau du carrefour en question. Les autorités présentent même l'image en conférence de presse officielle sur l'évasion.
Toute l'opération de...

Paramount Faces DMCA Whac-a-Mole as Leaked Avatar: Aang Movie Thrives on Pirate Sites
https://torrentfreak.com/paramount-faces-dmca-whac-a-mole-as-leaked-avatar-aang-movie-thrives-on-pirate-sites/

ResEdit est un programme Apple que l’on trouve dans beaucoup de Mac (et qui est pratique). Le programme d’Apple a plusieurs Easter Egg, et voici le premier. Pour simplifier les choses, il faut lancer ResEdit, cliquer sur le clown qui sort de sa boîte puis faire Cancel.
Le clown
La fenêtre à fermer
Ensuite, il faut aller dans le menu  et choisir About ResEdit tout en pressant command et option. Une fenêtre avec des crédits va apparaître. Sans les deux touches, vous verrez juste l’image du clown.
L’Easter Egg

L’analyse du groupe de réflexion Geonexio relève l’inadéquation entre l’organisation administrative et l’échelle des déplacements quotidiens, bien plus large.

“A powerful light source bigger than a London double-decker bus has set a record: it can create structures on a silicon wafer that are just 8 nanometres (nm) wide. Those are thought to be the smallest ever made in a single step by a commericial chip-patterning system. According to the system’s manufacturer, it could be used to make computer chips patterned with 2.9 times more transistors than chips produced with the previous generation of the light sources used for this purpose.” From Nature.
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“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever gene therapy for inherited deafness. The therapy, called Otarmeni, is approved to treat a form of hearing loss caused by mutations in the OTOF gene, which codes for a protein called otoferlin. Cells in the inner ear need otoferlin to translate vibrations into signals that can be interpreted by the brain. When people carry two defective copies of the OTOF gene — one from each parent — this line of communication between the inner ear and brain is cut, resulting in severe-to-profound hearing loss. Otarmeni is a one-time treatment that uses harmless viruses to deliver working copies of OTOF into the ear. In a trial including 20...

“Forty years after China launched the ‘Wild Horse Return Program.’ the Przewalski’s horse — the world’s only surviving wild horse species — has completed a historic transition from being on the brink of extinction to there being self-sustaining wild herds in Northwest China. The population of Przewalski’s horses in China has surpassed 900 individuals, accounting for approximately one-third of the global total, according to figures released during an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the species’ reintroduction.” From China Daily.
The post China’s Przewalski’s Horse Population Rises Above 900 appeared first on Human Progress.

Alcova announces a Mexico City edition, a famous landscape from an iconic Andrew Wyeth painting opens to visitors, and more.Bonhams’s four-part auction of Diane Keaton’s eclectic trove of personal belongings will feature a sale devoted entirely to home furnishings. At Home with Diane, running online June 1 through June 10, is set to include more than 150 pieces from multiple properties belonging to the late actress, including a pre-styled metal step ladder expected to fetch upwards of $1,000. (Artnet) A mainstay of Milan Design Week, Alcova, a platform with a focus on emerging design, is heading to Mexico City for Art Week 2027. The itinerant showcase will unfold across a restored 1930s building in...

Inspired by Usonian homes, the 1957 residence by Herbert Fritz Jr. has wooden built-ins, concrete blocks, and…purple carpet?Location: 852 N. Cedar Street, Richland Center, Wisconsin Price: $379,900 Year Built: 1957 Architect: Herbert Fritz Jr. Footprint: 1,878 square feet (4 bedrooms, 3 baths) Lot Size: 0.44 Acres From the Agent: "852 N. Cedar Street is a 1957 commission from Herbert Fritz Jr.—son of a Taliesin survivor, heir to a tradition that believed a house should belong to its land. The vaulted ceiling opens the living room far beyond its footprint. Band windows frame a panoramic hillside view that feels, from inside, like it was always part of the plan. The cantilever pushes the bedroom wing out...