Watch Office Pals John Krasinski and Steve Carell Reunite for If
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Plus de 2 000 vols en Europe ont été supprimés et 1 000 risquent de devoir se dérouter pour éviter l’espace aérien français, selon la principale association de compagnies aériennes.

Beaucoup de versions du Solitaire de Microsoft (je l’ai vu sous Windows 98, Windows 2000 et même Windows Mobile) ont un petit Easter Egg : sur un des jeux de cartes, l’image a un as dans la manche. J’ai testé sous Windows 2000 en anglais, mais il est généralisé. Premièrement, il faut aller choisir un dos spécifique dans les options : celui avec une main qui tient des cartes. Ensuite, au lieu de regarder vos cartes, il faut regarder le dos du tas de cartes en haut à gauche : de temps en temps, un as de coeur sort de sa manche. C’est assez furtif, mais régulier.
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Hamas issues a proof-of-life video of US-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, abducted on 7 October.

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Entre 1 293 et 3 267 postes sur 28 000 en France vont être supprimés dans le groupe de distribution propriétaire des enseignes Casino, Franprix et Monoprix. L’inquiétude règne surtout dans les magasins à vendre, qui, s’ils ne trouvent pas de repreneur, seront fermés.

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Le 13 mars 2024, date désormais gravée dans l'histoire européenne : le Parlement européen a franchi un pas de géant en adoptant l'AI Act, un règlement pionnier visant à encadrer l'utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle (IA). Cette initiative marque non seulement le tout premier cadre juridique complet régissant l'IA au monde, mais elle positionne également l'Europe en tant que leader mondial dans ce domaine en plein développement. Plus qu'une simple réglementation, l'AI Act représente une manifestation clé du soft power européen, renforçant encore un peu plus l'influence de l'Europe sur la scène mondiale. L'adoption de l'AI Act survient à un moment crucial où l'IA offre des opportunités...

[samsuksiri] frequently uses a laptop and has an external drive to store projects. The drive flops around on the end of its tether and gets in the way, so they repurposed their old iPod pouch and attached it to the laptop lid with double-sided tape. You can guess how that went — the weight of the drive caused the pocket to sag and eventually detach over time.
Then [samsuksiri] remembered that they had LEGO DOTS patch stashed somewhere. It’s an 8×8 plate with adhesive on the back so you can build almost anywhere. Then the problem was this: how to attach LEGO to the drive itself? You’d think this is where the hot glue comes in, but that didn’t work because the drive is too slippery.
Nothing worked,...

Dans une décision-cadre inédite, au terme de deux ans d’instruction, la Défenseure des droits dénonce des violations « systématiques » des droits des personnes par les autorités françaises, en particulier des demandeurs d’asile et des mineurs isolés. Des privations de liberté « arbitraires » et « indignes » sont aussi épinglées.

The US has previously warned that Russia is trying to develop a space-based, anti-satellite weapon.

Les premiers clients de Tesla étaient des démocrates. Ils se sont détournés de la marque à cause des prises de positions d’elon musk. D’où une chute abyssale des ventes et du bénéfice.
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Le Local libertaire de Mâcon a une nouvelle fois subit l'attaque de militants d'extrême droite d'Active Club, mais cette fois-ci en s'en prenant à un bénévole -
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Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images Here’s a roundup of all the news about a new law requiring parent company ByteDance to sell off its platform. Continue reading…

Blinken's trip is a sign of improved US-China ties, but it's a relationship that still crackles with tension.

Because nothing says "I love you, Mom" like a Golden Girls magnet set.View Entire Post ›

Volodymyr Zelensky s’est réjoui mercredi que l’Ukraine reçoive le soutien dont elle « a besoin », après la promulgation, par son homologue américain, Joe Biden, d’un plan d’assistance de 60,84 milliards de dollars (56,9 milliards d’euros).

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Le président américain Joe Biden a promulgué mercredi un vaste plan d’assistance à l’Ukraine qui comprendra notamment des missiles longue portée. Son administration a toutefois reconnu que l’aide américaine ne résoudrait pas tous les problèmes sur les fronts.

Now that you've got a tabletop s'mores fire pit and heart-shaped bowls, movie night will never be the same.View Entire Post ›

"The first time my mom and I were alone after meeting her, she turned to me and said, 'You must be really good in bed.'"View Entire Post ›

Sept ans après avoir défendu une « Europe souveraine », le chef de l’Etat doit formuler, jeudi 25 avril, de nouvelles propositions pour une « Europe puissance ». Si l’influence française sur la scène européenne a été une réalité ces dernières années, elle devrait être en perte de vitesse après le scrutin du 9 juin.

Ce jeudi 25 avril, lors de son discours sur l’Europe, le président français cherchera à retrouver le souffle de celui qu’il avait prononcé au même endroit à l’automne 2017, au début de son premier mandat. Mais que reste-t-il de la figure du renouveau qu’Emmanuel Macron avait alors réussi à incarner ? se demande ce quotidien allemand.

Si la société israélienne reste profondément traumatisée par les attaques sans précédent du Hamas sur son sol, les critiques qui se sont abattues sur l’État hébreu dans sa conduite de la guerre à Gaza ont exacerbé son sentiment d’isolement, explique le site américain “The Christian Science Monitor”. Le sursaut peut-il venir de la société civile ?

In the world of software development the term ‘optimization’ is generally reason for experienced developers to start feeling decidedly nervous, especially when a feature is marked as an ‘easy and free optimization’. The final keyword introduced in C++11 is one of such features. It promises a way to speed up object-oriented code by omitting the vtable call indirection by marking a class or member function as – unsurprisingly – final, meaning that it cannot be inherited from or overridden. Inspired by this promise, [Benjamin Summerton] figured that he’d run a range of benchmarks to see what performance uplift he’d get on his ray tracing project.
To be as thorough as possible, the tests were run...

The editor-in-chief and president of the Yale Daily News reports on the arrest of fellow-students on campus this week.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The generative AI gold rush is underway — just don’t expect it to create profits anytime soon.
That was the message from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to investors during Wednesday’s call for the company’s first-quarter earnings report. Having just put its ChatGPT competitor in a bunch of places across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, much of the call focused on exactly how generative AI will become a money-making endeavor for Meta. The company is already quite profitable, having grown net income to more than $12 billion on $36.5 billion in revenue in the last quarter alone. But its revenue growth is expected to slow going forward. At the same time, it’s spending...

Audrey Tautou in Amélie.Image: MiramaxTry putting pure joy into words. The English language has plenty of worthy adjectives and beautiful metaphors but nothing quite comes close to actually, perfectly capturing what it feels like to be completely filled with happiness. To reverberate with delight. To float on cloud nine. No, to adequately capture that feeling, you need more than just words. You need pictures, you need sounds, you need story. You need... Amélie.Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the 2001 fantasy romance recently got a limited edition Blu-ray steelbook release, and it felt like the perfect opportunity to revisit a film that has long been one of my personal favorites. I saw Amélie in theaters...

Missiles delivered this month have been used to strike Russian targets in Crimea, US media say.

Over the past century or so we’ve come up with some clever ways of manipulating photons to do all kinds of interesting things. From lighting to televisions and computer screens to communication, including radio and fiber-optics, there’s a lot that can be done with these wave-particles and a lot of overlap in their uses as well. That’s why you can take something like a fairly standard Wi-Fi antenna meant for fairly short-range communication and use it for some other interesting tasks like downloading satellite data.
Weather satellites specifically use about the same frequency range as Wi-Fi, but need a bit of help to span the enormous distance. Normally Wi-Fi only has a range in the tens of meters, but...

A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person’s political orientation by simply looking at that person’s blank, expressionless face. Read more...

Gif: LucasfilmWhen we first met General Grievous 20 years ago this month in Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars microseries, it gave him an immediate, chilling presence. But then Revenge of the Sith, and with it the Clone Wars 3DCG series, constrained what could be done with the character. Grievous took on the air of a Saturday morning cartoon villain—twirling lightsabers rather than mustaches. Tales of the Empire is keeping the twirling lightsabers, but it might just bring back a little of that original menace, too.Today Lucasfilm released the first clip from the upcoming anthology series Tales of the Empire—its spiritual successor to Tales of the Jedi, this time focusing on stories of the Dark Side,...

Chipotle’s solution for cutting avocados may be coming to a store near you as early as this year.Read more...

While the Speaker visited Columbia, police confronted pro-Palestinian protesters at campuses in Texas and California.

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders sent letter on Wednesday to Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen announcing that the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, which Sanders chairs, has launched an investigation into the high prices the company charges for its blockbuster diabetes and weight loss dugs.Read more...

One of the Transportation Safety Administration’s “bomb-sniffing” dogs at Reagan National Airport was thrown a retirement party last week after working his final shift and leaving the force after long years in public service. The golden retriever named Messi has been diligently working for nearly a decade, and now…Read more...

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Image: The Verge Threads is testing the option to automatically hide your old posts. Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the feature is only available to a “small number” of users for now, but it will let you choose to archive individual posts manually or have them automatically archived after a certain amount of time.
You can see an example of how the feature might look in Mosseri’s post on Threads. Users with access to the test should be able to manually archive their content by hitting the three dots in the top-right corner of a post and selecting “Archive now.” This will give users the option to hide certain posts on their profiles, similar to the archive option on Instagram. Mosseri says that users...

At his criminal trial, the ex-President has to sit there while potential jurors, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses, and even his own lawyers talk about him as a defective, impossible person.

Meet Thermonator. It blasts fire up to 30 feet and has Bluetooth.

Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer and Aaron Taylor-Johnson will star in 28 Years Later.Photo: Theo Wargo, Joe Maher, Gareth Cattermole (Getty Images)Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are not screwing around when it comes to their upcoming zombie film, 28 Years Later. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes are the first three actors who’ve joined the film, a follow-up to the cult classics 28 Weeks Later and 28 Days Later.Deadline broke the news of the casting but there’s no word on who anyone is playing or what the movie is even about. Still, casting three recognizable, famous actors is a marked change from the first two films, which went with relatively (at least at the time) unknowns....

BattleGC Pro in limited-edition crystal. | Image: Retro Fighters This new BattlerGC Pro controller looks like it could be the ultimate GameCube gamepad — one with drift-resistant Hall effect joysticks, hybrid analog / digital triggers, programmable back buttons, a rechargeable battery with a USB-C port, and the ability to use it across different consoles and systems thanks to Bluetooth support. And of course, it’s the latest controller to host the best face button layout ever, and I will fight to the Final Destination defending it!
I do, however, acknowledge the GameCube controller layout is not everyone’s favorite, so it’s no surprise there aren’t a lot of great modern GameCube controller options...

How the viral TikToks of a Chinese glycine factory elucidate our increasingly chaotic digital environment.

John Krasinski and Steve Carell on The Office.Image: NBCMany of us watch The Office more often than we care to admit. We’ve spent so much time with the series that, over the years, the characters and the actors who portray themhave almost become family. So when a video like this comes online, it’s more than just delightful. It’s cathartic.Two of the biggest actors to come off The Office, John Krasinski and Steve Carell, are soon teaming back up for Krasinski’s new movie, If. It’sa family movie about a child who can see the imaginary friends adults have long left behind. Krasinski wrote and directed the film and Carell provided his voice— which meant, at some point, the two had to meet up again....

Photo by Prince Williams / Wireimage While Drake’s fans have been having a ball with the Canadian rapper’s recently released track dissing fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar, the legal team representing Tupac Shakur is threatening to take legal action if the song isn’t pulled off the internet.
Billboard reports that late rapper Tupac’s legal team is ready to take Drake to court over the release of “Taylor Made,” Drake’s recently released song featuring the AI-generated voices of Shakur and Snoop Dogg. In a statement about Drake’s creation of “Taylor Made,” litigator Howard King called the song a “blatant abuse of the legacy of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time” and said the...

Atlus promises its next game, out later this year, will be a culmination of all of its beloved RPGs.

Lasers are pretty much magic — it’s all done with mirrors. Not every laser, of course, but in the 1980s, the most common lasers in commercial applications were probably the helium-neon laser, which used a couple of mirrors on the end of a chamber filled with gas and a high-voltage discharge to produce a wonderful red-orange beam.
The trouble is, most of the optical power gets left in the tube, with only about 1% breaking free. Luckily, there are ways around this, as [Les Wright] demonstrates with this external passive cavity laser. The guts of the demo below come from [Les]’ earlier teardown of an 80s-era laser particle counter, a well-made instrument powered by a He-Ne laser that was still in fine...

The joint press release issued Monday by the Premier League and Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) was unusual right from the start.
Published early on Monday, even the timing was a break from the norm, but the content was even more surprising. Following criminal referrals by the Premier League and ACE, an operator of BestBuyIPTV – a platform that has appeared on the USTR’s Notorious Markets report for the past five years – had been convicted at the People’s Court of Hanoi. For a country where criminal referrals have traditionally disappeared into the ether, that could be a very big deal.
Sentencing Details Are Somewhat Puzzling
The press release clearly identifies Le Hai Nam as “the...

Fava beans, also known as broad beans, are eaten nearly every day in some cultures and almost never in others. Throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East, the bean is embedded in food cultures, with certain dishes and ways of serving that feature both the fresh and dried varieties, which have different characteristics. I’m going to focus on the fresh beans since they’re in season now. Favas are one of the most ancient plants. According to Wikipedia, “scientists now believe that the domestication of the crop may have begun as early as 8,250 BCE.” It is also one of the easiest crops to grow. They are extremely hardy, can overwinter, and being a legume are often used as a cover crop to fix nitrogen in...

Today, the Supreme Court heard an Idaho abortion case, revealing deep ideological and gender divides. Idaho's law nearly bans all abortions except for cases of rape, incest, or when the mother's life is at risk.

Biden’s new legislation is forcing TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the social giant to a U.S. company. TikTok plans to challenge this in court.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author David Sanger’s new book chronicles America’s plunge into simultaneous confrontations with two very different adversaries — China and Russia.

Donald Trump has spent years arguing that mail-in voting is fraudulent and corrupt. Now the Republican National Committee, which sees mail-in voting as essential, must persuade his base to embrace it.

There is something about wooden crafts that when combined with electronics, have a mesmerizing effect on the visual senses. The Gesture Controlled DNA Wooden Desk Lamp by [Timber Rough] is a bit of both with a nice desk piece that’s well documented for anyone who wants to build their own.
Construction starts with a laser cutter being employed to add kerfs, such that the final strips can be bent along a frame tube to form the outer backbone of the DNA helix structure. Add to the mix some tung oil, carnauba wax, and some glue — along with skill and patience — and you get the distinct shape of sugar-phosphate backbone.
The electronics include an ESP8266 with the PAJ7620 gesture sensor that controls two...

The far-traveled space probe is once again transmitting usable data, after a glitch caused months of gibberish.

Imaginez un monde où les ordinateurs pourraient prédire ce que vous allez faire avant même que vous ne le fassiez. Ça peut sembler tout droit sorti d’un film de science-fiction du style de Minority Report, mais les chercheurs du célèbre MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) sont en train de rendre ça possible ! En effet, ils ont mis au point un modèle d’IA (intelligence artificielle) qui est capable d’analyser les limitations d’un agent, qu’il soit humain ou artificiel, pour en déduire ses actions futures les plus probables. Dingue, non ? Mais comment ce modèle s’y prend-il pour jouer les madame Irma ? En fait, tout est une question de limites. Nan, je ne parle pas des limites de...