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by The Verge - about 23 minutes
Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-device AI processing. While the car processor was never finished, as Mark Gurman details in his latest Power On newsletter, it did lead to the development of the Neural Engine, the backbone of Apple's on-device AI processing. The Neural Engine made its debut with the iPhone X and the A11 Bionic. In those early days, it was primarily used for computer vision, powering FaceID, Animoji, and a …
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by Les Décodeurs - about 33 minutes
Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité samedi 11 et dimanche 12 juillet ? Voici ce qu’il s’est passé pendant ces dernières quarante-huit heures.
by BBC - about 42 minutes
He took power in 1996 after staging a bloodless coup against his father, and went on to transform Qatar into the gas-rich power it is today.
by The Brighter Side - about 43 minutes
For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human evolution and birth: humans endure unusually difficult childbirth because large-brained babies must pass through a relatively narrow pelvis adapted for upright walking. The concept became so influential that it earned a name of its own, the “obstetrical dilemma.” A new study suggests the story is not quite so simple. Researchers led by University College London report that humans are not alone in experiencing a tight fit between a newborn’s head and the mother’s birth canal. In fact, several small-bodied primates appear to face an even more constrained passage during birth. The findings point to a broader range of childbirth challenges across the...
by Courrier International - about 44 minutes
Si l’on considère que le Caucase fait partie de l’Europe, c’est l’Elbrouz qui détient ce record. Mais les points culminants des autres continents dépassent tous notre mont Blanc. Ce que nous invite à visualiser le site allemand “Katapult”.
by Courrier International - about 45 minutes
Le nord agricole de la Chine est confronté à une augmentation phénoménale des précipitations qui bouleversent le quotidien des agriculteurs et font moisir les récoltes. Dans le magazine en ligne shanghaïen “Sixth Tone”, une météorologue propose des pistes pour s’adapter à cette nouvelle donne.
by BBC - about 52 minutes
Iranian forces earlier said the Strait was closed and launched wide-ranging attacks at US allies and bases in the region.
by BBC - about 1 hour
Donald Trump paid tribute to the 71-year-old South Carolina senator, calling him a "true American patriot" who will be "greatly missed".
by Courrier International - about 1 hour
Selon un décompte de l’hebdomadaire “Die Zeit”, 80 % des premiers romans parus outre-Rhin au printemps ont été rédigés par des femmes. Le signe des mutations à la fois des habitudes de lecture et de la perception des auteurs par le public, auxquelles s’adaptent les professionnels de l’édition.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro gaming headset. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales SteelSeries has the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless gaming headset on sale for $239.99 (currently between $300 and $350 at other retailers). The Xbox version that supports a host of other platforms including PlayStation, PC, and Switch is available in both black and white. The PlayStation version, which supports the same platforms except for Xbox, is discounted in white. Both versions can also connect to mobile devices via Bluetooth.
SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless
The Nova Pro Wireless gaming headset supports active noise cancellation, swappable batteries, Bluetooth support, and compatibility with PC and most consoles —...
by io9 - about 2 hours
All Nolan wants is for people to see 'The Odyssey' with an open mind and recognize the sincere effort on display.
by The Verge - about 2 hours
A photo of a lightbulb glowing purple. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The state of the smart home can be frustrating, because it is just so obvious how things ought to work. You should be able to control everything from everywhere. Your spaces should adapt to what you're doing and how you're feeling. Making your home smart shouldn't require renovating, and the smarts should be mostly invisible. All of this is, of course, incredibly hard to pull off - but the goal is pretty clear.
Until now, maybe no product has come closer to nailing the smart home than Philips Hue. And on this episode of Version History, we dig into all the things Hue got right. The Verge's David Pierce and Jennifer Pattison...
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
À Ingurtosu, en Sardaigne, des chercheurs exploitent les propriétés de bactéries pour favoriser la croissance de l’hélichryse. Plus connue sous le nom d’“immortelle”, cette plante pourrait recouvrir la roche laissée à nu par l’extraction minière d’autrefois, et ainsi limiter la dispersion des métaux lourds qui demeurent dans l’environnement.
by Courrier International - about 2 hours
Dans un billet publié en amont de la demi-finale de Coupe du monde entre la France et l’Espagne, l'ancien Premier ministre conservateur affirme que la sélection de Didier Deschamps ne compte aucun joueur français dans ses rangs. De quoi déclencher l’ire d’une partie de la presse espagnole, pour qui Mariano Rajoy fait preuve de racisme et d’ignorance.
by The Brighter Side - about 3 hours
Around 252 million years ago, Earth’s oceans became a lethal test of animal physiology. Nearly every marine species vanished, yet some groups survived well enough to dominate the seas ever since. The difference may have come down to how bodies handled heat and oxygen. The Permian–Triassic extinction, often called the Great Dying, eliminated about 96% of marine species and 70% of land animals. Its effects were not evenly spread across the evolutionary tree. Brachiopods, which resemble clams, nearly disappeared. Sea lilies, or crinoids, and other slow-moving seafloor animals also suffered enormous losses. These groups had dominated marine ecosystems for roughly the first 280 million years of animal life....
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
Speaking is much faster than typing, and while it’s an increasingly convenient way to interact with computers, it’s hardly private. Providing speech privacy in a way we haven’t seen before is this prototype tongue-reading system that uses machine learning and ultrasound to read tongue movements and turn them into decoded speech. Not only can a user speak without emitting a sound, since it doesn’t read sound waves it’s completely immune to noisy environments.
Tongues are a far richer source of speech data than reading lip and mouth movements.
It turns out that tongue movements are a very rich source of information about speech, and an ultrasound probe under the chin takes very clear video of a tongue....
by The Verge - about 3 hours
The cross stitch pattern is by NathNolu on Etsy. If you're reading an Oura Ring 5 review at The Verge, you likely fall into one of two camps: newcomers looking for a smartwatch alternative, or Oura users pondering an upgrade. In the case of the former, this is a great casual health tracker and the best smart ring on the market - but not your best choice if you really sweat the fitness details. If you fall into the latter, you don't need to upgrade.
I say this because the Oura Ring 4 came out less than two years ago. The ceramic version, of which I am a big fan, came out less than a year ago. These were major updates over the Oura Ring Gen 3, both in terms of software and in terms of senso …
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by BBC - about 3 hours
The unnamed pair were found semi-conscious with 40% burns after being trapped by the blazes raging through Almeria province, local media reports.
by io9 - about 3 hours
Lifx’s fancy light-up mirror is a one-of-a-kind device, for now.
by Ben Tasker - about 3 hours
Over the years, I've come to use project management systems quite heavily even for things with no code involved.
I maintain projects to track things that need doing round the house, maintaining cars, the LAN and even financial planning. The ability to add comments (a link to previous issues) makes issue management far better than a simple todo list.
However, I've always been a little concerned about longevity: if something were to impact my ability to run JIRA/Gitlab/Forgejo, I could lose access to the information contained within my issue tracker.
For some issues, a failure probably wouldn't actually matter that much - there's not much future value to a completed issue which says "put shelf up in bedroom" -...
by io9 - about 4 hours
Get ready to get scared and educated, because the Horror Show exhibit will have films to watch and materials to pore over.
by The Verge - about 4 hours
My wife and son spent their weekends exploring and piecing together the mansion in Blue Prince. | Image: Courtesy of Raw Fury I've always been the gamer in the family. When my son was born nearly 11 years ago, gaming was one of the things I looked forward to sharing with him. Pulling up a chair next to me, he would watch as I played Sea of Thieves with friends, often wearing the too-big-for-his-head headset to talk with them, instructing me where to go. Now instead of him watching me play through Clair Obscur, I'm sitting next to him and he battles Calamity Ganon in Breath of the Wild. His real gaming passion for years has been Minecraft - he appreciates the rules and order, as well as the calming environment...
by The Brighter Side - about 5 hours
A new look at Earth’s deep past is reshaping how scientists understand the planet’s climate, and it carries a quiet warning about the future. Evidence now suggests that Earth may be closer to its hottest state than once believed, even when compared with hundreds of millions of years of history. Researchers at University of Leeds have used a new method to estimate global temperatures across the Phanerozoic, a period spanning about 540 million years. Their findings challenge earlier ideas that Earth once reached extreme levels of heat far beyond today’s climate. Rethinking Earth’s Ancient Climate For years, scientists believed that parts of Earth’s past were far hotter than today. Some earlier...
by Wired - about 6 hours
Send the pool guy packing. Let one of these robotic buddies maintain your water quality instead.
by HackAdAy - about 6 hours
Preservationists usually take great care to prevent fungi from appearing the world of art, but in the case of [Kexin Wang]’s Funguy project, the fungus itself is the art. It uses a laser diode to repeatedly trace an outline onto a dish of agar gel in which fungus is growing, and the photophobic fungus grows only up to the edge of the laser-traced figure, potentially creating complex designs.
This project evolved out of a research project in which they developed a computer model for fungal growth, then used its predictions and a laser to control a fungus’s growth pattern. The model has two parts: a temporal convolutional neural network which learns fungi growth patterns from a series of images, and a...
by Wired - about 6 hours
Apple has announced several new Child Safety features coming soon to iPhones and other devices. Here’s what’s changing.
by Wired - about 6 hours
We found lots of math-filled and science-rich toys for tiny nerds to assemble, bake, squish—or even tear apart and rebuild.
by New Yorker - about 7 hours
Zoli, which now anchors the sprawling East Williamsburg art space Amant, earns its experimental flourishes by delivering pleasure at every turn.
by Wired - about 7 hours
Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases.
by New Yorker - about 7 hours
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
by New Yorker - about 7 hours
In 1990, three daughters of rock royalty—nepo babies before the term was invented—released “Hold On,” a song so wholesome and unguarded that it could disarm even the angstiest teen.
by New Yorker - about 7 hours
The author reads his story from the July 20, 2026, issue of the magazine.
by New Yorker - about 7 hours
Four decades after her death, her bold innovations are finally coming into focus.
by Wired - about 7 hours
Need an ultrafast drive for video editing or a rugged option to back up your photos in the field? We’ve got a solution for every situation.
by QZ - about 8 hours
From a Utah desert drive-in built among classic cars to a 37,000-acre Montana ranch with hot-air balloon rides and a dedicated kids' camp
by QZ - about 8 hours
From a rum swizzle at the historic Swizzle Inn to a fried fish sandwich on raisin bread that wins over skeptics with every bite
by QZ - about 8 hours
Chip factories have grown into some of the priciest buildings ever constructed. Machines packed inside actually cost more than the walls around them
by QZ - about 8 hours
Discover where travelers should feel confident exploring alone and where they should exercise extra caution
by QZ - about 8 hours
Garden hoses that resist cracking can last for years. Consumer Reports tested five models for flow, strength and kink resistance to find top picks
by io9 - about 8 hours
It's not shocking that people on LinkedIn use AI, but they use it *so much.*
by HackAdAy - about 9 hours
Vehicles long ago began to incorporate electronics and software, to the point that modern vehicles increasingly have a sort of architecture problem. The software end of things evolves ever more rapidly, but vehicles and their centralized architecture are poorly-suited to continuous updates. As a result, the automotive industry is moving away from static, hardware-defined designs and more toward dynamic, software-defined platforms. In short, the era of software-defined vehicles looms nearer every year. There are very good reasons vehicles are the way they are, however inconvenient it may be for pushing updates. A vehicle may be in service for decades, with safety and reliability a prime concern over that...
by daryo Bluesky - about 9 hours
The World Cup, the Knicks, and LeBron James’s Fate: An All-Time Summer in Sports
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-world-cup-the-knicks-and-lebron-jamess-fate-an-all-time-summer-in-sports
by BBC - about 9 hours
Schools, work and outdoor activities have been suspended in Zhejiang province and many transport services cancelled.
by Toute l'Europe - about 10 hours
Après la phase de poules, place à la phase à élimination directe de la Coupe du monde. En France, deux chaînes de télévision se partagent la diffusion des matchs de cette édition 2026. L'intégralité des 104 matchs est disponible sur les antennes du groupe BeIN Sports, nécessitant un abonnement, tandis que M6 retransmet 54 rencontres en clair, dont celles de l'équipe de France, finaliste en 2022. Pour suivre l'ensemble de la compétition, découvrez ci-dessous notre calendrier complet des 104 matchs de la Coupe du monde 2026. Le menu déroulant permet de filtrer les rencontres par groupe ou par phase de la compétition. Par défaut, celui-ci indique l'ensemble des quarts de finale. Le calendrier...
by Le Monde - about 10 hours
Le sénateur républicain de Caroline du Sud, connu pour son engagement en faveur d’un interventionnisme militaire américain, est mort d’une maladie « brève et soudaine », a annoncé son équipe.
by Toute l'Europe - about 11 hours
Les infos à retenir de la trente-et-unième journée de la Coupe du monde 2026 - Crédits : Wikidasher / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 La Coupe du monde de football 2026 organisée aux États-Unis, au Canada et au Mexique continue, avec la suite et fin des quarts de finale. Trois équipes européennes étaient concernées entre cette nuit et ce matin à l'aube (heure française) : la Norvège, l'Angleterre (qui s'affrontaient à Miami) et la Suisse, opposée à l'Argentine, championne du monde en titre, à Kansas City. Dans la première rencontre, les Three Lions ont décroché leur ticket pour le dernier carré grâce à Jude Bellingham, auteur d'un doublé (2-1 a.p), tandis que l'Albiceleste l'a encore une...
by Journal du Lapin - about 11 hours
Je parlais récemment du fait que je découvre assez régulièrement des jeux Pippin qui ne font pas partie des listes officiels. Et je suis tombé sur un autre disque que je connaissais pas, cette fois un disque de bundle. Même si Bandai n’a pas vendu la console très longtemps, il y a quand même plusieurs versions de certains disques, pour corriger des bugs ou ajouter des fonctions. TV Works, le navigateur, etc. existent dans plusieurs variantes. Le disque vu dans une annonce pour une console est une variante du disque WebViewer. C’est donc une version Pippin d’Internet Explorer, pour se connecter à Internet. C’est un disque fourni par J-DATA (un FAI japonais) qui diffère des deux miens. Le...
by Korben - about 11 hours
Vous avez peut-être remarqué un petit point rouge tout en bas de mon site, avec un nombre à côté. Il s'agit du nombre de personnes passées sur le site durant la dernière heure.
Je voulais remettre ce truc depuis un bail, bien à l'ancienne comme dans les années 2000 mais sur un site statique, qui plus est sans tracker de stats JS type Google Analytics ou Matomo, et sans cookies de tracking, c'était pas franchement une option... jusqu'à maintenant ! Le compteur, en vrai, tout en bas de korben.info.
La solution évidente sur des sites statiques, c'est souvent un petit Worker Cloudflare qui compte les visiteurs et servirait le chiffre, mais ça se facture à chaque requête. À 390 000 pages vues par...
by Toute l'Europe - about 11 hours
Kylian Mbappé et Lamine Yamal vont s'affronter dans un choc très attendu entre la France et l'Espagne en demi-finale du Mondial 2026 - Crédits : Bryan Berlin / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 | Oleksii Liskonih / iStock (montage Toute l'Europe) Le rêve bleu continue. Victorieuse avec la manière face au Maroc en quart de finale (2-0), l'équipe de France se rapproche encore un peu plus d'une troisième étoile, après les titres décrochés en 1998 et 2018. Portés par un Kylian Mbappé étincelant depuis le début de la compétition (8 buts, 3 passes décisives), sans oublier Ousmane Dembélé (5 buts) et Michael Olise, meilleur passeur du tournoi (5), les Tricolores font peur à leurs adversaires. Le...
by Toute l'Europe - about 11 hours
Elles étaient 48 au départ de cette Coupe du monde et voient leur nombre désormais nettement réduit. Après un mois de compétition, les quatre dernières nations encore en lice, dont trois européennes, ont désormais rendez-vous pour les demi-finales, prévues les 14 et 15 juillet. Dans le premier match, la France affronte l'Espagne, championne d'Europe en titre, qui a éliminé la Belgique (2-1), le mardi 14 juillet à 21 heures (heure française) à Dallas. Le second duel oppose l'Angleterre, autre nation européenne et victorieuse de la Norvège en quarts (2-1 a.p), à l'Argentine, championne du monde en titre, le 15 juillet à 21h (heure française) à Atlanta. L'enjeu : une place en finale de la 23e...
by Le Monde - about 11 hours
Dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche, les gardiens de la révolution ont décrété une nouvelle fermeture du détroit d’Ormuz. L’armée américaine a répliqué peu après.
by HackAdAy - about 12 hours
Targeted towards refined female gamers unlike the savagery of the mainstream game consoles of the era, 1995’s Casio Loopy was a bit of an oddity of a game console. Despite being standard enough in its design and backed by the might of Casio, it saw only one year of active software development and hardware manufacturing ceased by the end of 1998. With only eleven titles released for the system, with none of them being Doom, this obviously terribly upset [Throaty Mumbo], who set out to right this egregious wrong.
For the two dozen people or so who have one of these systems, you can experience the fruits of his labor yourself via the GitHub repository and something like the FloopyDrive cartridge.. Despite the...
by Korben - about 12 hours
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Les attaques Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) représentent l'évolution sophistiquée des classiques attaques Man-in-the-Middle. Contrairement à l'écoute passive, l'attaquant s'insère activement entre la victime et le service légitime, usurpant les deux parties pour intercepter, modifier et rediriger les communications. Ces attaques permettent de voler des identifiants, de contourner l'authentification à deux facteurs (2FA) en capturant les cookies de session, et même de manipuler les transactions financières en temps réel. Des outils facilitent grandement la mise en place de ces attaques et l'une des protections valables repose sur le chiffrement des...
by Le Monde - about 12 hours
Face à l’affirmation de la puissance chinoise dans l’Asie-Pacifique et à un ordre régional fragmenté, le spécialiste australien plaide pour que Canberra se dote d’une capacité de défense indépendante à l’égard de Washington et renforce ses liens diplomatiques avec les puissances de la région.
by Le Monde - about 12 hours
Tout comme Harry Kane et ses partenaires, face à la Norvège, Lionel Messi et ses coéquipiers ont éprouvé bien des difficultés à se défaire de la Suisse, samedi. L’issue de ces deux rencontres s’est jouée lors des prolongations.
by Korben - about 13 hours
Simon Willison, le créateur de Datasette et co-créateur de Django, vient de porter un modèle d'inpainting d'image directement dans le navigateur.
Sa démo
vous permet de choisir une photo, de peindre sur la zone à faire disparaître et ensuite le modèle IA reconstitue ce qu'il manque. Et ce qui est merveilleux avec cette appli c'est que tout tourne sur votre carte graphique en local, comme ça vos données restent chez vous. Le modèle s'appelle Moebius, dispose de 0,22 milliard de paramètres, et a été développé par une équipe de l'université Huazhong en Chine. À l'origine c'est un modèle PyTorch, que Willison a converti au format ONNX pour le faire tourner via ONNX Runtime Web sur le backend...
by Le Monde - about 13 hours
Les volumes consommés ont progressé de 10 % à 50 % en juin par rapport à la même période en 2025, contraignant les infrastructures fragilisées à tourner à plein régime, tandis que les réserves souterraines et les rivières s’affaiblissent.
by Les Décodeurs - about 14 hours
Trouver un hôtel bohème à Majorque, une cabane de trappeur en Dordogne, une grande maison d’hôte avec piscine en Bourgogne… Une sélection d’hébergements à fort supplément d’âme, déclinés par styles, budgets et capacités d’accueil. Pour des vacances à la carte.
by HackAdAy - about 15 hours
As unique the Nintendo Wii U Gamepad may appear to be, at its core it’s pretty much just a tablet with game controls stuck on it. Now that the communication between the Wii U and the Gamepad have been fully reverse-engineered and poured into easy to use software, this opens the possibility of using other tablets with suitable controls on them for Wii U Gamepad purposes, like the Windows-capable Samsung tablet that [Bringus Studios] decided to experiment on.
Originally designed to run Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, the Samsung Q1 series of ultra-mobile PCs (UMPC) was first released in 2007, featuring a 900 MHz Celeron M CPU. Amusingly [Bingus] mixes up mAh and mWh when comparing battery capacities, as the...
by Toute l'Europe - about 18 hours
Kylian Mbappé, Lionel Messi et Erling Haaland se livrent depuis le début du Mondial 2026 un impressionnant duel à distance et peuvent encore tous les trois terminer meilleur buteur de la compétition - Crédits : Bryan Berlin / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 | Tasnim News Agency / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 4.0 | Oliver Hasselluhn / iStock (montage Toute l'Europe) Tous les quatre ans, une bataille passionne les supporters de football : celle du classement des buteurs. À mesure que la compétition avance, chaque réalisation peut bouleverser la hiérarchie et rapprocher un joueur du prestigieux Soulier d'or, récompensant le meilleur buteur du tournoi. Le tenant du titre se nomme Kylian Mbappé, auteur de 8...