If you think you can help with the puppet performances for DC's 'Dynamic Duo,' Swaybox wants to see what you've got and bring you on board.

It doesn't sound fun being a crypto juror.

Unlike what happened with 'Breaking Bad,' Gilligan wants 'Pluribus' viewers to make their own conclusions on its themes.

There’s a common belief that people pirate content to save money, whether on another streaming subscription or a pricey box office ticket. That said, movie theaters still draw millions of visitors, many of whom may also turn to pirate sites occasionally.
Since piracy isn’t going away, understanding what drives a person to choose the theater over a ‘free’ pirate option, and vice versa, is crucial for the industry.
A new paper aims to take on this task. Through a structural econometric model that relies on real-world data from 2014 to 2019, it tries to quantify the choice between the movie theater and piracy. It considers the quality of piracy releases, but also the price and quality of the movie theater...

From 'Prey' to 'Killer of Killers' and now 'Badlands,' Trachtenberg may be using 'Predator' to drive a point home.

Les trois femmes âgées de 18, 19 et 21 ans auraient évoqué en ligne l’idée d’attaquer des terrasses de cafés ou une salle de concert. Le fait qu’elles se rencontrent a déclenché leur arrestation début octobre.

Deux ans après leur défaite face aux Springboks lors de la Coupe du monde, les Bleus retrouvent les champions du monde, samedi à 21 h 10, au Stade de France. Toujours privés d’Antoine Dupont, les hommes de Fabien Galthié seront menés par Gaël Fickou.

Most of us know that a neon bulb requires a significant voltage to strike, in the region of 100 volts. There are plenty of circuits to make that voltage from a lower supply, should you wish to have that comforting glow of old, but perhaps one of the simplest comes from [meinsamayhun]. The neon is lit from a 9-volt battery, and the only other component is a relay.
What’s going on? It’s a simple mechanical version of a boost converter, with the relay wired as a buzzer. On each “off” cycle, the magnetic field in the coil collapses, and instead of being harvested by a diode as with a boost converter, it lights the neon. Presumably, the neon also saves the relay contacts from too much wear.
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S’il existe dans la stratégie du président américain une tentation impériale, constate la politiste Amy Greene dans un entretien au « Monde », cela ne signifie pas pour autant que les Américains ont cette ambition. Les Etats-Unis veulent être respectés sans user de la force, mais en utilisant en permanence la technique du rapport de force.

The studio says everything it's put out for 'Mass Effect 5' thus far will lead to what awaits the next chapter in its sci-fi saga.

Le Rassemblement national veut profiter des démêlés judiciaires de l’ancien maire, mais aussi de son succès local aux législatives de 2024 pour conquérir la cité héraultaise. A gauche, comme à droite, loin de l’union, les candidatures se multiplient.

It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a time as any to splurge on the pair you’ve been eyeing. The market has come a long way since the early era of true wireless earbuds when we had to deal with mediocre sound quality and unreliable performance, all for the sake of ditching cables. Things are much different now. After several product generations of learned lessons, companies like Sony, Apple, Samsung, and others are releasing their most impressive earbuds to date.  You can get phenomenal noise cancellation and sound quality in the premium tier of earbuds if you’re willing to spend big. But those aren’t...

Un autoportrait de l’artiste mexicaine doit être vendu aux enchères le 20 novembre à New York. Estimé entre 40 et 60 millions de dollars, il pourrait battre le précédent de record de la toile la plus chère jamais peinte par une femme, détenu jusqu’ici par l’Américaine Georgia O’Keeffe.

Overnight, 25 locations including Kyiv were hit, leaving many areas without electricity and heating.

On the surface, the Hungarian PM's trip was exactly what he wanted, but the full picture is more complex, writes the BBC's Nick Thorpe.

How small will Apple’s affordable MacBook be? Rumor has it, Apple is working on a low-cost MacBook. And not "low-cost for a Mac," but a proper cheap laptop, possibly as low as $599. For a company that traditionally targets the more premium end of the market, this would be something of an about-face. Of course, Apple takes great pride in its design and aesthetics. So the company isn't going to simply take the innards of a MacBook Air, slap them in a cheap plastic case, and call it a day. Instead, Apple is supposedly building a smaller laptop, with a lower-resolution screen and an "entirely new design" around an iPhone processor.
That chip could be some version of the A19 found in the …
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Correspondant en France du “Corriere della Sera” depuis quinze ans, Stefano Montefiori était en terrasse à Paris le soir du 13 novembre 2015. Il raconte son souvenir des attentats : ses réflexes de journaliste sur place, cette longue nuit à écrire pour sa rédaction en Italie et son émotion en tant qu’habitant de la capitale.

Last weekend was Supercon, and it was, in a word super. So many people sharing so much enthusiasm and hackery, and so many good times. It’s a yearly dose of hacker mojo that we as Hackaday staff absolutely cherish, and we heard the same from many of the participants as well. We always come away with new ideas for projects, or new takes on our current top-of-the-heap obsession.
If you didn’t get a chance to see the talks live, head on over to the Hackaday YouTube stream and get yourself caught up really quickly, because that’s only half of the talks. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be writing up the other track of Design Lab talks and getting them out to you ASAP.
If you didn’t get to join us because...

The Sims 4 community is in turmoil. Its biggest stars are distancing themselves from the game with the support of their millions of subscribers. Then there are creators in the middle: those big enough to be known, but not big enough to be insulated. And they are struggling with a difficult choice of whether or not to keep playing the game they love and, in some cases, depend on.
Last month, The Sims' publisher EA announced that it would be acquired for $55 billion dollars by a combination of investors including the Saudi Arabia Private Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners, an investment firm founded by President Trump's son-in-law Jared K …
Read the full story at The Verge.

An experimental gene-editing therapy developed by Crispr Therapeutics is showing promise for treating heart disease.

Lior Rudaeff died defending Nir Yitzhak kibbutz during the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, the Israeli military said.

The Apple Watch SE 3 has dropped to its best price to date in several configurations. Hey, all! The first week of November ushered in dozens of early Black Friday deals, and many of the best ones are still available as we delve further into the weekend. Some of our favorite fitness trackers have already plunged to new lows, for instance, and we’re even seeing early discounts on holiday decor. We’ve already published a full list of early Black Friday deals, which we aim to update on a weekly basis, but below is a quick overview of this week’s cream of the crop — including a few standouts that have nothing to do with the annual shopping event. It’s possible that the Apple Watch SE 3 will drop further...

Meet my new best friend. Robot vacuums are amazing machines, but they can also be a pain in the arse. In my home, testing a new robot vacuum often means digging it out from under my living room couch or unhooking it from the legs of my lounger. Then there's being woken at 3AM by a cheery "resuming cleaning," getting down on my hands and knees to retrieve a pencil from their brushes or scrub the gunk out of the "self-cleaning" dock. And - my favorite - holding my nose while dumping the contents of a giant dirty water tank into the toilet.
Then I met Matic. It's a complete rethink of the household robot. From design and navigation to cleaning performance and mobili …
Read the full story at The Verge.

Avec 176 voix pour et 161 contre, les députés viennent d’adopter la partie recettes du projet de loi de financement de la Sécurité social (PLFSS), qui a été largement remanié. Le débat sur la suspension de la réforme des retraites pourra avoir lieu.

Prises sur le vif, parfois en secret, les images du photographe soudanais Mosab Abushama documentent les réalités de la guerre dans la ville d’Omdourman. Ainsi que la vie quotidienne avant l’éclatement du conflit, en avril 2023. Une façon de se souvenir, mais aussi de sonner l’alerte, pour l’auteur de la série “Tadween”.

“The Economist” alerte sur une “récession des relations” : les jeunes adultes délaissent le mariage et les rencontres, et le nombre de personnes seules augmente dans 26 pays riches sur 30, transformant profondément nos sociétés.

While it sounds like the start of a joke, Australian shipmaker Incat Tasmania isn’t kidding around about electric ships. Hull 096 has started charging, although it has only 85% of the over 5,000 lithium-ion batteries it will have when complete. The ship has a 40 megawatt-hour storage system with 12 banks of batteries, each consisting of 418 modules for a total of 5,016 cells. [Vannessa Bates Ramierz] breaks it down in a recent post over on IEEE Spectrum. You can get an eyeful of the beast in the official launch video, below. The Incat Tasmania channel also has other videos about the ship.
The batteries use no racks to save weight. Good thing since they already weigh in at 250 tonnes. Of course, cooling is a...

Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car, period.

Plus: Motorola has new Moto G phones, Canon’s R6 III mirrorless has a 32-MP sensor, and Teenage Engineering’s Riddim n’ Ting looks gorgeous.

The Witcher, Boots, and House of Guinness are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month.

Frankenstein, The Twits, and The Running Man are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.

Paolo Roversi’s studio portraits push the Polaroid process to its limits.

Mayor Eric Adams’s administration has wrapped an expansion of invasive surveillance in the apolitical packaging of saving teen-agers from their addled selves.

The food-assistance program serves around forty-two million Americans. In Texas, even people with decent jobs are feeling the pain.

These 15 state fairs celebrate regional identity through bold flavors and irresistible travel-worthy food

Take a walk down memory lane with eight of the best Saturday Night Live monologues of all time, from Eddie Murphy to Adam Sandler

After years of playing the noble nonprofit saving humanity from rogue AI, the $500 billion company is suddenly fine with ChatGPT talking dirty

A shift toward round-the-clock trading represents the most fundamental change to market structure since electronic trading replaced the trading floor

The pair were reportedly bundled into a car by masked men after attending an event to support Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine.

Old parts such as EPROMs will often find themselves for sale on sites such as eBay, where they are sometimes snapped up by retrocomputing enthusiasts in search of interesting code. Vintage Computer Federation forum member [GearTechWolf] picked up a clutch of IBM-labelled chips, and as int10h reports, stumbled upon a previously unknown PC-AT BIOS version which even hints at a rare PC model as yet unseen.
The IBM AT and its various versions are extremely well known in the retro PC world, so while this was quickly identified as an IBM BIOS from 1985 and narrowed down to a member of the AT family, it didn’t fit any of the known versions which shipped with the ubiquitous 1980s computer. Could it have been from an...

« Le soja est indispensable à la sécurité alimentaire mondiale ». Entretien avec Olivier Antoine
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The delivery companies confirm MD-11 planes have been temporarily grounded as the death toll in Louisville rises to 14.

Le jeu Rise of the Triad, qui utilise une version améliorée du moteur de Wolfenstein 3D, intègre un petit Easter Egg moqueur (pour les joueurs). Il faut se rendre dans les Options, puis dans User Options et enfin dans Screen Size. Là, il faut mettre le curseur à gauche sur Small. Une fois la partie lancée, sous la (petite) fenêtre, vous verrez Buy a 486! :). C’est lié au fait que le jeu est un peu plus gourmand que Wolfenstein 3D et que la seule raison qui peut pousser à réduite la taille de la fenêtre est un processeur trop lent (le 486 est le processeur haut de gamme du début des années nonante). Dans la pratique, ce n’est pas tout à fait vrai : comme Wolfenstein 3D ou Doom, Rise of the...

Rassemblement de soutien à Zaïd devant le Palais de justice à l'occasion de son audience à la cour d'appel de Paris. -
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Over on Hackaday.IO our hacker [bornach] has his entry into the Component Abuse Challenge: Inductors are Wireless Power Sources.
Some time back [bornach] was gifted a Qi wireless charging base station but didn’t own any compatible devices. He had a dig around in his junk box for inductors to attempt coupling to the wireless charger and lucked out with an inductor salvaged from his old inkjet printer.
There are actually open standards, known as the Qi standards, for how to negotiate power from a Qi device. But [bornach] ignored all of that. Instead he leveraged the fact that the Qi base station will periodically send out a “ping” containing a small measure of power to let compatible devices know that...

À l’occasion des 10 ans des attentats du 13 novembre, Usbek & Rica s’est entretenu avec Marc Hecker, directeur exécutif de l'Ifri et spécialiste des questions de terrorisme, pour faire un point sur la notion de déradicalisation.

How might this week’s election results shape the next year of American politics?

Kent Smetters, who runs the Penn Wharton Budget Model, has a forecast for when the economy's breaking point could arrive

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Dans GENESIS – Petit intermède pour seuls geeks – où était présenté un programme générant la suite de Fibonacci en tant que lignée reproductive, sans boucle « FOR… NEXT », remplacée par un « cycle de libido », la reproduction se poursuivant jusqu’à ce que la lignée ait atteint une profondeur cible – j’introduisais « C1 », une compression de premier type, pouvant être opérée lors d’un couplage.
J’explique : si lors du couplage de deux instances de même nature a et b, elles possèdent des éléments en commun (en termes ensemblistes : si leur intersection n’est pas vide) la description la plus courte (MDL = minimal description length) de la...

After the fall of El Fasher to the R.S.F., observers fear for the next target in the war.

“For Solomon, a freight driver based in Hawassa, the journey north to Modjo used to take close to five hours—often longer, depending on road conditions. ‘You’d leave early and still arrive late,’ he recalls. ‘The road was narrow, always crowded, and sometimes unpredictable.’ Today, as Ethiopia moves toward the completion of the Modjo–Hawassa Expressway, Solomon’s experience is already changing. Travel times have dropped, driving conditions have improved, and the route now offers more reliable movement for freight operators and passenger vehicles alike. The Modjo–Hawassa Expressway is Ethiopia’s second major toll road and the first expressway built to international standards, extending...

“On Monday [11/3/25], Waymo said it’s bringing its ride-hailing service to three new cities: Las Vegas, San Diego and Detroit.” From CNET.
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Par une décision du 19 septembre 2025, le Conseil d’Etat rejette un recours pour excès de pouvoir formé contre le décret du 8 juillet 2024 pris pour l’application de l’article 70 de la loi du 26 janvier 2024 pour « contrôler l’immigration, améliorer l’intégration ». Rejetant l’ensemble des moyens, la Haute juridiction administrative conforte le dispositif faisant de la collégialité devant la CNDA l’exception et valide les dispositions dispensant de mentionner certaines notes en délibéré dans les visas de ses décisions. CE, 19 septembre 2025, n° 497816, Inédit. Une dizaine d’associations ou syndicats ont formé un recours pour excès de pouvoir afin que soit annulé le décret...

“Wagner discovered the benefits of creating winter bird habitat by accident. After one wet growing season, his fields were getting badly rutted by machinery. So the farm just plugged up the drains and let a little water sit on the field through the winter… That year, ducks and geese arrived in abundance. Ahead of the next growing season, when the farm drained off the water, Wagner found that the soil was ready to be planted. The birds’ feet, along with the movement of the water, had done the same task of mixing and flattening out the soil that his farm team would usually do with heavy machinery… While Wagner figured out his process through trial and error, research backs it up. A study on Two Brooks...

“Seabird populations are bouncing back and native florea is recovering as Tonga’s ongoing efforts to restore island ecosystems and build climate resilience have reached another major milestone. A massive effort to remove invasive rats and feral pigs from Kelefesia and Tonumea in the Ha’apai Group was successful, as conservationists from the Government of Tonga, the Pacific Regional Invasive Species Management Support Service (PRISMSS), and Island Conservation have confirmed. When conservationists visited the two islands to confirm the success of the 2024 restoration campaign, the ecological benefits of the success were already evident. Ground-nesting birds such as Herald Petrels, which had never before...

“The world has spent much of the past two decades in an increasingly bad mood. Levels of anger, sadness and stress crept up year after year according to polls; the pandemic pushed them higher still. Yet the latest global survey on emotional health by Gallup, a pollster, shows something unexpected: people are cheering up. Negative emotions have fallen back to roughly their pre-pandemic levels, well below where they would be if the earlier trend had continued. The Economist’s analysis of the data, however, shows that the recovery is far from even.” From The Economist.
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Le retour à la Maison Blanche de Donald Trump en janvier dernier soulève de nombreuses questions sur le soutien que Taïwan aurait ou non des États-Unis si Pékin devait ouvrir les hostilités pour s’en emparer, mais son entourage rapproché s’emploie, tant bien que mal, à rassurer sur le fait que Washington n’a aucune intention d’abandonner l’île en cas de conflit.

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