A new analysis reveals which large counties face the highest weather risk based on storm frequency, disaster declarations, and insurance-related search trends

From mental health days to profit sharing, these standout company benefits help retain top talent and build long-term loyalty

Employee turnover remains a persistent and frustrating problem for organizations. Here's one way to solve it

Selon les calculs du « Monde », depuis 2010, en moyenne treize entraîneurs sont remerciés ou démissionnent chaque année en Ligue 1. Ils sont considérés comme des fusibles que les clubs n’hésitent plus à les faire sauter en cas de contre-performances.

P.S. Je vous proposerai d’ici quelques jours, sous la forme d’un feuilleton, ce qui me semble être la douzaine de propositions véritablement neuves contenues dans Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds. Towards Harmonious Human-AI Coexistence and Co-Evolution (à paraître chez Palgrave-Macmillan).

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Documents seen by the BBC suggest he was part of a special forces unit who worked with the British in Afghanistan.

Après trois ans de négociations, dix jours de pourparlers à Genève et une nuit supplémentaire de tractations, la planète a échoué à s’accorder sur un traité mondial contre la pollution plastique. Aucun consensus n’a pu être trouvé entre deux groupes de pays aux positions radicalement opposées.

Crème solaire inutile pour les peaux mates, coups de soleil bénéfiques pour le bronzage, baignade comme remède contre les brûlures… Chaque été, les idées reçues sur l’exposition à l’astre du jour perdurent en dépit de la réalité scientifique.

Lelo’s Sona 3 Cruise remains a great vibrator, but there’s not much new here to excite.

Le ralentissement économique chinois ainsi que le durcissement de la politique de sécurité sociale frappent de plein fouet les travailleurs les plus modestes, entraînant plusieurs grèves en ce début d’août.

The latest round of UN-led talks have ended in deadlock, with disputes over plastic production and recycling.

Copyright holders have made numerous attempts in recent years to deter people from visiting pirate websites.
Simply stating that piracy is illegal doesn’t appear to work very well, so anti-piracy messaging often tries to appeal to other emotions too.
Anti-piracy campaigns frequently warn of the malware and security risks posed by some pirate operations, for example. These concerns are warranted as some sites and services have been associated with severe security risks. The ultimate goal of these campaigns is to convert pirates into legitimate subscribers.
“You Get Pirated Football, They Get You”
A few days ago, Spain’s top football league, LaLiga, launched a new PSA, coinciding with the start of the...

The latest film releases include Highest 2 Lowest, Nobody 2, The Knife, and Went Up the Hill. Weighing in are Christy Lemire, film critic for RogerEbert.com and co-host of the YouTube channel Breakfast All Day, and Shawn Edwards, film critic for FOX4 News in Kansas City and co-founder of the African American Film Critics Association.

President Trump takes on crime in DC and negotiations with Russia. Plus, KCRW discusses whether presidential power can drive a cultural shift?

Cliquer sur l'image pour l'afficher dans une nouvelle fenêtre À LIRE AUSSIBulgarie : fiche pays détailléeL’article Infographie : la Bulgarie en un clin d'œil est apparu en premier sur Touteleurope.eu.

As the new school year begins, LAUSD is creating patrols and expanding bus routes to protect immigrant families.

The French national is accused of working "on behalf of the French intelligence service" in Mali.

Les travailleurs étrangers, principalement originaires d’Afrique de l’Est et d’Asie du Sud, représentent plus de la moitié de la population de Mascate, la capitale du sultanat d’Oman. Une nouvelle donne démographique qui transforme la structure urbaine de la ville et son identité, explique “Arab Digest”.

C’est un cas un peu particulier, mais j’utilise des SSD externes pour mes archives, et ils sont sauvegardés par Time Machine. De temps en temps, quand il y a des promotions et qu’ils sont remplis (ou presque), je remplace les SSD par des modèles de plus grande capacité. Récemment, je suis passé de 2 à 4 To pour les archives du site, en copiant tout le contenu de l’ancien sur le nouveau. Et par défaut, si vous faites ça, Time Machine tend à (re)sauvegarder le contenu. En dehors du fait que ça prend du temps, ça implique probablement la suppression d’anciennes sauvegardes. Et si jamais vous avez un disque de sauvegarde avec une capacité trop faible, la sauvegarde peut même ne pas...

The city of Anchorage is set to host a meeting that could re-shape Europe and global security.

J’sais pas vous, mais moi, je perds tout le temps des trucs… Où sont mes chaussures ? Où est mon téléphone ? Mais il est où encore cet aspi robot ? Et mes clés ? J’lai garé où déjà la voiture ? Mais où est ce que j’avais noté ce truc ? T’as pas vu les enfants ?????
That’s my life comme dirait Jean Claude ! Alors je me prépare à perdre d’autres trucs. Par exemple comme le curseur de ma souris. Ça m’arrive aussi parfois j’avoue, surtout quand j’ai 42 onglets ouverts et 3 écrans connectés. Heureusement, sous macOS, suffit de secouer la souris comme un shaker à cocktails et le curseur grossit pour mieux le voir. Et sous Windows, y’a Ctrl + cherche-toi-même-pauvre-fou.
Mais...

Présenté au milieu de la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, un nouveau texte de compromis comportait encore plus d’une centaine de points à clarifier. Après dix jours d’intenses négociations, les chefs de délégation n’ont pas réussi à se mettre d’accord.

Le risque d’incendies sera élevé dans les prochains jours dans le Sud et le Centre-Ouest, en raison de la sécheresse et des vents. L’Ile-de-France n’est plus en vigilance orange.

There has been a huge proliferation in AI music creation tools of late, and a corresponding uptick in the number of AI artists appearing on streaming services. Well before the modern neural network revolution, though, there was an earlier tool in this same vein. [harke] tells us all about Microsoft Music Producer 1.0, a forgotten relic from the 1990s.
The software wasn’t ever marketed openly. Instead, it was a part of Microsoft Visual InterDev, a web development package from 1997. It allowed the user to select a style, a personality, and a band to play the song, along with details like key, tempo, and the “shape” of the composition. It would then go ahead and algorithmically generate the music using MIDI...

Première déclinaison sur petit écran de l’univers culte imaginé par Ridley Scott voilà bientôt un demi-siècle, la série Alien : Earth est diffusée depuis ce mercredi 13 août sur la plateforme Disney +. Chronique des deux premiers épisodes, plutôt prometteurs.

Whether you’re switching from springs to memory foam or just want to sleep cooler this summer, these Sealy mattress deals will have you waking up refreshed—and with cash left in your wallet.

La fête de l’Assomption, dite aussi « Dormition de la Vierge », célèbre la montée au ciel de Marie, mère de Jésus. Elle n’est pas commune à toutes les confessions chrétiennes, puisque les protestants la récusent.

Le ministre israélien d’extrême droite Bezalel Smotrich a appelé, jeudi, à accélérer un projet de construction de plus de 3 000 logements en Cisjordanie et à annexer ce territoire palestinien occupé par Israël. Il a présenté cette décision comme une riposte aux annonces de plusieurs pays disant vouloir reconnaître un État de Palestine.

Les Etats-Unis dominent toujours le palmarès, avec huit des dix premières places. Outre Paris-Saclay, trois universités françaises figurent parmi les cent premières : Paris Sciences et lettres, Sorbonne Université et l’université Paris Cité.

Le président américain nourrit depuis près de vingt ans une fascination manifeste pour son homologue russe, qu’il doit rencontrer lors d’un sommet consacré à l’Ukraine vendredi, en Alaska. Son empire immobilier a largement bénéficié de capitaux privés russes.

Do you calibrate your digital meters? Most of us don’t have the gear to do a proper calibration, but [Mike Wyatt] shares his simple way to calibrate his DMMs using a precision resistor coupled with a thermistor. The idea is to use a standard dual banana plug along with a 3D-printed housing to hold the simple electronics.
The calibration element is a precision resistor. But the assembly includes a 1% thermistor. In addition to the banana plugs, there are test points to access the resistor and another pair for the thermistor. In use, you plug the device into the unit you want to test. Then you clip a different temperature sensor to the integrated thermistor. Because the thermistor is in close proximity to the...

Q Tha Hero “Hero 4 Hire!”
I’ve listened to a lot of Q Tha Hero recently, and I love everything he’s released so far but struggle to find an angle on his work as a writer. Like, he’s a very good rapper with strong lyrics and excellent taste in production? This is high but totally non-specific praise, and in aesthetic terms, he’s a type of rapper that could exist comfortably anywhere between 1992 and the present. He’s an underground rap traditionalist but not quite retro, though I’d place him much closer to Earl Sweatshirt or Curren$y than, say, J. Cole. He’s the kind of rapper who’d thrive on an Alchemist or Madlib beat, but I’d be more excited for him to land on a more ambitious Tyler the...

Fortnite players are able to hop into matches following a login issue that Epic Games described as preventing users from “getting in reliably.” “This log-in outage is resolved; all players are able to log-in again across all platforms,” Epic said at 8:54PM ET. “We’ll continue monitoring our services to ensure there are no other issues.” Epic posted its initial status message about the issue at 6:39PM ET, and shared that things were mostly fixed with the exception of PlayStation at 8:02PM ET. While the login issue was happening, I wasn’t able to get into the game on my Nintendo Switch 2. When I tried, the game showed a message that says “unable to sign in to your account for online services”...

Sparring saigas, a leaping whale, and a motherly beetle are some of this year’s coolest wildlife photos.

Science Saru's bias toward Momo and Okarun's budding romance is showing.

[mircemk] has been working on wireless power transmission. Using a Class-E Tesla coil with 12 turns on the primary and 8 turns on the secondary and a 12 volt input he can send a few milliwatts to power an LED over a distance of more than 40 centimeters or power a 10 watt bulb over a distance of about 10 centimeters. With the DC input set at 24 volts the apparatus can deliver 5 watts over a distance of a few centimeters and a light is still visible after separating the primary and secondary coils by more than 30 centimeters.
There are many types of Tesla coil and we can’t go into the details here but they include Spark-Gap Tesla Coils (SGTC) and Solid-State Tesla Coils (SSTC), among others. The Class-E coil...

The director of the internationally acclaimed crossover epic 'RRR' is set to unleash a new hero.

The San Francisco rescue’s Instagram-ready new HQ speaks to the growing "barkitecture boom" driven by a widening cultural obsession with our pets.The carpet is Missoni. That’s what Sherri Franklin, founder and CEO of San Francisco’s Muttville dog rescue, tells me as we walk up a set of stairs with pink zigzag upholstering to the second level of the Adoption Center, one of three overhauled industrial buildings in the nonprofit’s recently renovated headquarters. If designer carpet is the most atypical shelter feature I’ve noticed so far on my visit, a round light that looks suspiciously like an Astro Lighting Eclipse wall sconce also catches my eye. Later, I notice the same sconces decorating the...

Peak has sold millions of copies and is Aggro Crab’s biggest hit to date. That makes it a prime target for cloning.

The U.S. government acknowledged in federal court for the first time that the Internal Revenue Service is sharing taxpayer data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement

The Supreme Court will let Mississippi’s social media age verification law take effect while the case is being argued in court. In an unsigned ruling on Thursday, the court declined to block the law after an emergency petition from trade association NetChoice. The order offers no explanation, but in a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the law was “likely unconstitutional” — but that NetChoice hadn’t “sufficiently demonstrated” a risk of harm. The law, HB 1126, requires social media platforms to verify the age of the person creating the account, while blocking users under 18 unless they have permission from a parent. It also states that social media sites must protect underage...

'The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail' provides the crucible that 'Strange New Worlds' has been building towards since before it even existed: the forging of the team that made 'Star Trek'.

The Treasury Secretary said the U.S. is "not going to be buying" Bitcoin for its strategic reserve, and cryptocurrency's value slumped

The film company say it's not out of the game yet.

We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from even one console generation ago. If you play games on an Xbox Series X or Series S (or a Windows PC), you have the unenviable task of choosing between several high-quality controllers from Microsoft as well as a plethora of great options from the likes of 8BitDo, PowerA, Razer, Scuf, Nacon, and Turtle Beach. Some of them have drift-resistant Hall effect or TMR-based joysticks for improved longevity, yet all of them are good for one reason or another. The days of the cheap “little sibling” controller that looked cool, but barely worked, are over. We’ve...

[Electronoobs] is using some brushless motors to make a DIY wind turbine. His recent video isn’t about the turbine itself, but a crucial electronic part: the three-phase rectifier. The reason it is so important is due to the use of brushless motors. Normal motors are not ideal for generating power for several reasons, as explained in the video below.
The brushless motors have three windings and generate three outputs, each out of phase with the others. You can’t just join them together because they are 120 degrees out of phase. But a special rectifier can merge the inputs efficiently and output a low-ripple DC voltage. The rectifier will have to handle a lot of power, so it uses beefy devices with heat...

Nvidia struck a surprising deal after convincing the president that H20 chips aren’t a national security risk. But whether the reversal is good or bad depends on who you ask.

MicroSD cards are tiny but slow; the M.2 storage sticks in your PC are blazing fast but bigger and fully enclosed. Now, a new type of SSD out of China could be the best of both worlds — and it’s already set to appear in two cutting-edge gaming portables. Chinese storage manufacturer Biwin is calling it the “Mini SSD,” though another manufacturer refers to it as the “1517”; it measures just 15mm x 17mm x 1.4mm thick, smaller than a U.S. penny and just slightly larger than MicroSD. Despite that, it offers maximum sequential read speeds of 3,700 megabytes per second (or 3,400MB/s writes) over a PCIe 4×2 connection, and offers 512GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities. To put that in context, the new MicroSD...

Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich announced approval for 3,401 new homes in the controversial E1 area project in the occupied West Bank.

What really motivated the US government to ban Nvidia from selling powerful computer chips to China?

Nanoleaf’s Lines let you unleash your creativity as you can arrange them in all kinds of fun patterns. Some cool decor can help a new dorm or apartment feel like home, which is why Nanoleaf’s back-to-school sale is worth checking out.  The company’s offering all-time low prices on a wide range of its modular smart light gear, from skylights to smart light display cases. Some of our favorite deals include Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL, which Amazon, Nanoleaf, and Best Buy are selling for $179.99 ($20 off). The Nanoleaf Lines is another highlight that’s down $20 to $139.99 (Amazon, Nanoleaf, Best Buy). For those on tighter budgets, Nanoleaf’s Essentials Matter smart bulbs are $23.99 ($6 off) at Amazon...

Who doesn’t love noodles? Whether slicked with saucy tomatoes or doused in a soy-sesame base, with bouncy long noodles or short and easy-to-fork-up shapes, they will always be welcome on the table. Let’s get one thing out of the way. Let me rant. Fusilli. He’s great in a New Yorker cartoon , but as an edible item, I hate fusilli. The outside of the spiral gets flabby too quickly, while the center spine remains undercooked. On the fork, it bends in a sad way. No one over 10 years old should be eating fusilli. Instead, use small shells if you’re looking for a shape that collects your chopped ingredients. First up: tomato-based cold pasta. In Italy, too many years ago to count (sometime in the 1970s), at...

The Dodgers hit a rough patch, losing to the Angels and slipping to second place in the NL West. LAFC made headlines by signing soccer star Son Heung-Min. Tennis legend Venus Williams returns to the US Open at 45.

If you want to blink an LED once every second, you could use just about any old timer circuit to create a 1 Hz signal. Or, you could go the complicated route like [Anthony Vincz] and grab 1 Hz off a radio clock instead. 
The build is an entry for the 2025 One Hertz Challenge, with [Anthony] pushing himself to whip up a simple entry on a single Sunday morning. He started by grabbing a NE567 tone decoder IC, which uses a phase-locked loop to trigger an output when detecting a tone of a given frequency. [Anthony] had used this chip hooked up to an Arduino to act as a Morse decoder, which picked up sound from an electret mic and decoded it into readable output.
However, he realized he could repurpose the NE567 to...

“U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to streamline federal regulation governing commercial rocket launches, a move that could benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other private space ventures. Trump’s order, among other things, directs the U.S. transportation secretary to eliminate or expedite environmental reviews for launch licenses administered by the Federal Aviation Administration, the White House said in a statement.” From CNBC.
The post Executive Order Signed to Ease US Commercial Spaceflight appeared first on Human Progress.

“Blue whales sing less when they are starving and sing more when food is plentiful, a recent study revealed. Researchers listened to whales off California for six years and found that their singing increased following a marine heatwave — despite multiple news outlets claiming that blue whales are going silent.” From Live Science.
The post No, Blue Whales Aren’t Going Silent off California appeared first on Human Progress.

“Current predictions of climate change impacts rely on conservative assumptions about a lack of adaptation, projecting significantly increased heatwave mortality. However, long-term studies have shown a decline in actual heatwave deaths, raising questions about the underlying mechanisms. We combined Eurostat weekly mortality data (baseline extracted via Seasonal-Trend decomposition by Loess and smoothed through Principal Component Analysis dimension reduction and reconstruction) with economic indicators, Copernicus temperature data since 1950, and ENTSO-E electricity demand data. Panel regression analyzed mortality patterns during weeks with daily temperatures exceeding 22 °C for 2000–2022. During the...

The convicted sex offender is raising an important legal question—about whether an agreement by one federal prosecutor binds his colleagues across the country.

Set in a 19th-century Westend building, the flat is a minimalist oasis with shoji screens, tatami floors, and soothing neutral tones.Location: Westend, Frankfurt, Germany Price: €1,950,000 (approximately $2,282,865 USD) Year Built: 1900 Footprint: 2,153 square feet (6 rooms, 2 baths) From the Agent: "The completely renovated Grand Etage is located in a classic old building of the Wilhelminian period in one of the most sought-after locations of the southern Westend. It extends over the entire first floor of the house with beautiful views into the picturesque courtyard with old, magnificent trees. The floor plan is characterized by large, light-flooded, loft-like rooms and extra-high ceilings—the perfect...