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by New Yorker - about 1 hour
The editor-in-chief and president of the Yale Daily News reports on the arrest of fellow-students on campus this week.
by Buzzfeed - about 2 hours
All of the perks of this viral "instant awake" eye brightener and dreamy hair mist, and none of the hassle of watching a zillion TikToks to find it.View Entire Post ›
by The Verge - about 3 hours
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...
by io9 - about 3 hours
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...
by BBC - about 3 hours
Missiles delivered this month have been used to strike Russian targets in Crimea, US media say.
by HackAdAy - about 3 hours
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...
by QZ - about 4 hours
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...
by io9 - about 4 hours
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,...
by QZ - about 4 hours
Chipotle’s solution for cutting avocados may be coming to a store near you as early as this year.Read more...
by BBC - about 4 hours
It was the third attempt to take up repealing the near-total ban, which was recently resurrected by a state court.
by BBC - about 4 hours
While the Speaker visited Columbia, police confronted Pro-Palestinian protesters at campuses in Texas and California.
by Hiram - about 4 hours
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by QZ - yesterday at 23:54
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...
by QZ - yesterday at 23:51
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...
by QZ - yesterday at 23:44
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by The Verge - yesterday at 23:40
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...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 23:38
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.
by Wired - yesterday at 23:30
Meet Thermonator. It blasts fire up to 30 feet and has Bluetooth.
by io9 - yesterday at 23:20
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....
by The Verge - yesterday at 23:12
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...
by New Yorker - yesterday at 22:45
How the viral TikToks of a Chinese glycine factory elucidate our increasingly chaotic digital environment.
by io9 - yesterday at 22:30
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....
by The Verge - yesterday at 22:25
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...
by Wired - yesterday at 22:05
Atlus promises its next game, out later this year, will be a culmination of all of its beloved RPGs.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 22:00
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...
by The Verge - yesterday at 21:43
Photo by Urbanandsport / NurPhoto via Getty Images The Department of Transportation (DOT) finalized rules that will soon require airlines to quickly refund passengers if they cancel or delay flights or make significant changes. Airlines must pay passengers back either in cash or in the original form of payment, no matter the reason they cancel their flight. Alternatively, passengers can choose to accept travel credit, other kinds of transportation, or another flight offered by the airline.
Airlines must also refund passengers if their flight itinerary is “significantly changed” and they don’t accept the airline’s alternative travel options. Specifically, this means that you can get your money back if...
by BBC - yesterday at 21:36
In this war, it is a huge challenge to find out how people whose bodies were exhumed at Nasser hospital died.
by BBC - yesterday at 21:32
Pedro Sánchez says he will "stop and reflect" on whether to remain in the job.
by Courrier International - yesterday at 21:10
Jeudi 24 avril, le dirigeant socialiste a publié une lettre sur les réseaux sociaux dans laquelle il annonce suspendre son agenda politique jusqu’au 29 avril, afin de réfléchir à une éventuelle démission. Cette déclaration fait suite à l’annonce de l’ouverture d’une enquête contre son épouse pour trafic d’influence et corruption.
by Torrentfreak - yesterday at 21:09
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...
by KCRW - yesterday at 21:00
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...
by KCRW - yesterday at 21:00
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.
by KCRW - yesterday at 21:00
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.
by KCRW - yesterday at 21:00
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.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 20:34
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.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 20:31
Cette enquête préliminaire contre Begoña Gomez porte sur « des délits présumés de trafic d’influence et de corruption », a annoncé mercredi la justice espagnole.
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 20:30
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...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 20:00
Il est des situations cruciales que tu ne dénoueras qu’en donnant le meilleur de toi-même.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 20:00
Dans un arrêté du 19 avril, le préfet du Gard a mis en demeure l’entreprise de « suspendre sans délai » l’exploitation de l’un de ses sept captages de Vergèze, dans le Gard.
by Korben - yesterday at 20:00
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...
by Wired - yesterday at 20:00
The far-traveled space probe is once again transmitting usable data, after a glitch caused months of gibberish.
by Korben - yesterday at 19:42
Vous pensiez connaître Castlevania sur le bout des doigts ? Eh bien 25 ans après la sortie de Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness sur notre bonne vieille Nintendo 64, des petits malins ont déniché un tout nouveau code Konami planqué dans les entrailles du jeu. Ce code Konami est une vraie petite bombe puisqu’il déverrouille d’un coup TOUS les personnages et leurs costumes alternatifs, et ce dès le début de l’aventure ! Fini de devoir se farcir le jeu deux fois pour accéder à Henry et Carrie. Là c’est open bar direct, et ça change complètement la donne ! Moises et LiquidCat, deux fans passionnés du jeu, ont également déniché deux autres codes bien sympathiques. Le premier remplit...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 19:40
Mercredi 24 avril, Tsahal a annoncé que 40 cibles situées dans le sud du Liban avaient été frappées par son aviation et son artillerie, tuant la moitié des commandants du Hezbollah opérant dans ce secteur.
by Korben - yesterday at 19:13
Figurez-vous qu’Elektrobit, le géant allemand de l’électronique automobile, vient de nous pondre un truc qui va faire plaisir aux fans de libre : EB corbos Linux, le premier système d’exploitation open source qui respecte les normes de sécurité les plus pointues du monde de la bagnole. En gros, les constructeurs en ont marre de se trimballer des kilomètres de câbles et des centaines de boîtiers noirs dans leurs caisses-. L’idée, c’est de tout centraliser sur quelques « super ordinateurs » qu’ils appellent des « plateformes de calcul haute performance ». Et chacun gère son domaine : la conduite, l’info-divertissement, les aides à la conduite… Bref, ça simplifie le bordel et ça...
by HackAdAy - yesterday at 19:00
The average Hackaday reader hardly needs to be reminded of the incredible potential of the modern microcontroller. While the Arduino was certainly transformative when it hit the scene, those early 8-bit MCUs were nothing compared to what’s on the market now. Multiple cores with clock speeds measured in the hundreds of megahertz, several MB of flash storage, and of course integrated WiFi capability mean today’s chips are much closer to being fully-fledged computers than their predecessors.
It’s not hard to see the impact this has had on the electronics hobby. In the early 2000s, getting your hardware project connected to the Internet was a major accomplishment that probably involved bringing some hacked...
by Le Monde - yesterday at 18:59
Examiné dans le cadre d’une procédure d’urgence, le texte a été adopté mercredi sans avoir fait l’objet d’aucun débat en séance plénière.
by Wired - yesterday at 18:46
TikTok says it plans to challenge the law that could ban it in the US in court. Experts think it's got a fighting chance.
by New Yorker - yesterday at 18:43
“Objection, Your Honor! The witness is using a Trump Bible!”
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:42
Cinq chevaux surpris par un bruit près du palais de Buckingham se sont débarrassés de leurs cavaliers avant de courir à travers Londres, causant de multiples blessés, ce mercredi 24 avril. La presse britannique a suivi de près leur divagation à travers la capitale.
by Le Monde - yesterday at 18:40
Agés entre 21 et 23 ans, très peu expérimentés, les dix militaires en formation devront encore passer plusieurs mois sur le Vieux Continent avant d’acquérir les connaissances et l’expérience nécessaires pour l’aviation de combat.
by Toute l'Europe - yesterday at 18:38
Evolution générale Le niveau d’accès à internet a augmenté dans tous les États membres sur les 15 dernières années, même si quelques écarts subsistent. L’accès des ménages à internet varie ainsi de 87 % en Grèce à 99 % au Luxembourg. En moyenne, 93 % des ménages de l’UE à 27 ont eu accès à internet chez eux en 2023, contre 80 % en 2014. Longtemps en retard par rapport aux pays d’Europe de l’Ouest, leurs homologues d’Europe centrale et de l’Est ont enregistré une forte hausse en matière d’accès à internet au cours des dix dernières années. En Bulgarie, la part des ménages disposant d’un accès à internet à leur domicile est passée de 25 % en 2008 à 89 % en 2023,...
by Le Monde - yesterday at 18:37
Dans son arrêt du 24 avril, la Cour de cassation a définitivement reconnu la culpabilité de François Fillon et de son épouse, mais a ordonné une nouvelle audience sur les peines prononcées en appel à l’encontre de l’ex-premier ministre et sur le versement des dommages et intérêts.
by Toute l'Europe - yesterday at 18:21
Découvrez les têtes de liste pour les élections européennes 2024 au niveau de l’UE - Crédits : Commission européenne, Parlement européen, compte X @fdp_nrw, Ferran Cornellà CC BY-SA 4.0 Qui prendra les rênes de la prochaine Commission européenne ? Après le scrutin qui se tiendra du 6 au 9 juin 2024 dans les 27 Etats membres de l’Union, les eurodéputés fraichement élus devront, entre autres, adouber le nouveau président de la Commission européenne. Les Etats membres réunis au sein du Conseil européen proposeront au vote des parlementaires un ou une candidate pour ce poste à hautes responsabilités. Pour cela, ils devront “tenir compte” des résultats du scrutin, selon les traités...
by Courrier International - yesterday at 18:09
Contrairement aux Français, qui adorent partir en vacances et profiter des ponts du mois de mai, de plus en plus de Chinois protestent contre les congés imposés lors de la “semaine d’or” du 1ᵉʳ mai. La raison est simple, les jours non travaillés doivent être rattrapés.
by Toute l'Europe - yesterday at 18:00
Le ministre délégué chargé de l’Europe, Jean-Noël Barrot, appelle de ses vœux un taux de participation d’au moins 50 % lors des élections européennes du 9 juin 2024 - Crédits : Hugo Palacin / Toute l’Europe Objectif : participation maximale. Ce mercredi 24 avril, le ministre délégué chargé de l’Europe, Jean-Noël Barrot, a dévoilé la campagne de communication et d’information réalisée par le gouvernement dans le cadre des élections européennes. Ce dispositif vise à bien informer l’ensemble des 49,7 millions d’électeurs français des modalités de ce scrutin qui se déroulera le dimanche 9 juin en France. Si la grande majorité des électeurs français se rendront aux urnes le...
by Wired - yesterday at 18:00
Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.
by Toute l'Europe - yesterday at 17:46
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