U.S. stocks rose broadly Thursday afternoon, as investors awaited Apple’s quarterly earnings report after markets close and the monthly jobs report due Friday.Read more...

Moderna stock soared on Thursday after its first-quarter earnings report sailed past Wall Street’s expectations.Read more...

There was an Octopus powerup between 9am and noon. The idea behind powerups is that excess green energy should be absorbed instead of the local operator having solar/wind farms take capacity offline.
So, when there's a powerup, we try and really take advantage of the free electricity - running electric heaters, the tumble dryer etc - shifting any usage that we can into the powerup period.
Normally, we absorb quite a bit of energy
Today though, was by far, the worst that we've had: So, what went wrong?
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"The mattress had a huge blood stain on it. And they give you these thin two sheets, so you're basically laying on bars."View Entire Post ›

Argylle, Mad Max: Fury Road, Napoleon, and a documentary about Billie Eilish are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Apple TV+ this month.

Image: ParamountJust a few weeks after Discovery showed how much confidence it had in taking a Star Trek trope it knew it was good at and damn near perfecting it, this week we get the series diving into another—and not really finding much interest in why it even took it on in the first place.“Filler” has become a dirty word in any discussion of contemporary TV—robbed of its nuance and meaning to essentially denote episodes that did not add Facts to the Canon or directly advance the main plot of a show. Filler episodes, at their very best, are stories that still advance the world of their shows, either by inviting us to consider it from a different perspective, or by allowing characters to sit with each...

Officers in riot gear tore down makeshift barriers and set off flash bangs as they dismantled the site.

Trump Media & Technology Group stock climbed 9% on Thursday afternoon after CEO Devin Nunes made another call to Congress to investigate firms for what he called “potential manipulation” of the company’s stockRead more...

Despite being on the U.S. trade blacklist since 2019, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei has secretly been the sole funder of a research competition involving U.S. universities that is administered by a Washington, D.C.-based foundation, a report found.Read more...

“Scientists have created the world’s thinnest gold leaf, which is just a single atom thick.  The new material, dubbed ‘goldene,’ could have important applications in carbon dioxide conversion and hydrogen generation, the researchers said… Researchers are particularly interested in two-dimensional materials because of their unusual optical, electronic and catalytic properties. The extremely high surface area of these substances relative to their volume means they behave very differently than chemically-identical bulk solids, and numerous examples of 2D materials have been reported since the discovery of graphene in 2004. However, most of these materials are prepared from nonmetals or mixed compounds,...

Prosecutors allege the politician bought assets worth far more than his official income could cover.

Le « Town Hall » organisé jeudi s’est achevé sur un constat de désaccord au sujet des partenariats entretenus par l’établissement parisien avec des institutions israéliennes. Une étudiante du comité Palestine a commencé une grève de la faim.

Sony Pictures and Apollo Global Management have made a $26 billion all-cash offer to buy Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, MTV, and Paramount Pictures, according to a new report.Read more...

The chief economist of the U.N.’s World Food Programme on imminent famine and what’s needed to avoid it.

Présentée jeudi 2 mai, la nouvelle stratégie de l’exécutif tient pour l’essentiel à mieux faire appliquer la loi de 2016, qui avait notamment supprimé le délit de racolage, instauré la pénalisation des clients et créé un parcours de sortie de la prostitution.

Image: Paramount+The Sonic the Hedgehog Cinematic Universe is knocking out the competition on Paramount+ as limited series Knuckles sets a streaming record for the platform.Deadline reports that Sonic the Hedgehog film spin-off series starring Idris Elba (as the voice of Knuckles) and Adam Pally (reprising his role of Wade from the Sonic films)reached four million hours streamed over its premiere weekend. According to the numbers released to Deadline, it’s also “Paramount+’s most watched kids and family title ever.”“The Sonic the Hedgehog fans came out in full-force,” Jeff Grossman, Executive Vice President, Programming, Paramount+, told the trade. “We’re so thrilled with the record-breaking...

Mauvaise nouvelle, Microsoft vient de mettre en lumière une faille bien vicieuse qui se planque dans un paquet d’applications Android… enfin, quand je dis un paquet, je parle quand même de plus de 4 milliards d’installations concernées. Cette saleté, baptisée « Dirty Stream« , permet à une app malveillante d’écrire tranquillou dans le répertoire d’une autre app et d’exécuter du code comme bon lui semble. Mais comment c’est possible ce bazar ? Eh bien figurez-vous que sous Android, les apps peuvent partager des données entre elles grâce à un système de « fournisseur de contenu ». Jusque là, tout va bien, sauf que certains petits malins ont trouvé le moyen de contourner les...

L’eurodéputé socialiste avait dû être exfiltré d’une manifestation à Saint-Etienne à l’occasion du 1ᵉʳ-Mai après avoir été hué aux cris de « Cassez-vous », « Glucksmann casse-toi » ou encore « Palestine vivra » par des manifestants.

Over the last quarter-century the piracy landscape has regularly received major blows from which many believed it could never recover. While in most cases the doomsday scenario never materialized, not all niches are created equally. Those that require a very specific set of skills usually face more complex challenges.
When Nintendo sued the company and ultimately the developers of the Yuzu emulator in February, that was a significant event. When the team settled the lawsuit just a week later, that was not just unexpected. The speed of the settlement seemed to suggest some type of vulnerability beyond the paperwork, and real enough – whatever it was – for Yuzu’s developers to submit. Comebacks aren’t...

The Ecobee Smart Thermostat will lose its smarts on July 31st. | Image: Ecobee Ecobee is discontinuing support for the very first smart thermostat. As of July 31st, 2024, the Ecobee Smart Thermostat and the Ecobee Energy Management System (EMS) thermostats will no longer be able to be controlled remotely or use any smart integrations. Basically, anything that requires an internet connection will stop working. They will still continue to control your HVAC in the same way a non-smart device does — by you controlling it on the device. The company is offering affected users a 30 percent discount on a new Ecobee thermostat, valid for up to 15 thermostats. Customers should have received an email with the offer,...

iPads go on sale quite frequently, but some discounts are getting harder to find as new models approach. | Image: Dieter Bohn / The Verge While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Amazon’s various Prime Days, many of the best iPad deals from the holiday season have persisted into 2024. The discounts come and go like changing winds, but you can still take advantage of sales on many models today, particularly on the more affordable iPads. What’s more, prices are likely to drop even further when Apple ushers in a new slate of iPad Pro and iPad Air models, Forthcoming models aside, it’s difficult to know where exactly you can find the most notable...

Le texte controversé a été adopté en deuxième lecture par le Parlement mercredi, malgré des semaines de mobilisation massive de ses détracteurs.

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Apple Watch’s atrial fibrillation (AFib) history feature, which records and alerts the wearer’s relevant heart events, has been qualified to join the FDA’s Medical Device Development Tools (MDDT) program — a first for a “digital health technology.” That means the Apple Watch is now usable in clinical studies that need estimated data on how much time the wearer spent in atrial fibrillation while wearing the device, 9to5Mac reports. The FDA announcement describes using it as a noninvasive way to collect the data both before and after treatment:
Designed to be used as a biomarker test to help evaluate estimates of AFib burden as a secondary effectiveness endpoint...

Image: Hot ToysLast week Hot Toys surprised Star Wars fans with a two-for-one reveal that the toymaker would start to dip into the world of Star Wars “Legends”—the contemporary name for the galaxy far, far away’s former canon in the Expanded Universe. Now, it’s somehow topping that surprise even further, with this: Dark Empire merchandise in the year of our lord, 2024.Today Hot Toys revealed that its next Luke Skywalker figure pulls from the iconic cover artwork of the legendary Dark Empire comic series by Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy—depicting Luke as he grapples with the pull of the Dark Side, having come face to face with the returned clone of Emperor Palpatine. The figure depicts Luke in striking...

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Follow along as websites, apps, and services adopt passkeys in preparation for a passwordless future. Continue reading…

The iPad is kind of a computer... but kind of not. | Image: Dan Seifert / The Verge When Apple CEO Tim Cook and a bunch of his deputies take the virtual stage next week to announce new iPads, they’re going to spend a lot of time talking about specs. If the rumors are true, we’re going to get new iPad Pros with OLED screens and thinner bodies, new Airs with faster chips and a correctly placed front camera, and a couple of new accessories. Before they even launch, I feel confident telling you these are the best iPads ever. But after all these years, I still don’t know how to tell you whether you should want an iPad. Or what you’d want to do with it. This has been true forever, of course. The iPad is the...

Benjamin Netanyahu has called reports of possible International Criminal Court action "an outrage".

Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer (Getty Images); Arturo Holmes (Getty Images)It’s been over a decade since the final Twilight movie, so the timing feels just right for Kristen Stewart to enter her second vampire era with Flesh of the Gods. Things are going to be quite a bit different this time around though, with Oscar Isaac as her co-star and Mandy director Panos Cosmatos at the helm.The story—written by Se7en’s Andrew Kevin Walker from a story by Walker and Cosmatos—sounds about as far from supernatural teen romance as you can get. As the Hollywood Reporter describes it, “vampire thriller” Flesh of the Gods “follows a married couple, Raoul (Isaac) and Alex (Stewart), who descend each evening from their...

Attention, arnaqueurs et fraudeurs de crypto en tout genre, Big Brother Bercy vous surveille ! Le ministère de l’Économie s’apprête à dégainer un nouveau texte de loi antifraude, avec un focus particulier sur ces fameux crypto-actifs qui font tant fantasmer. Le problème, c’est que visiblement, pas mal de petits malins se croient plus intelligents que l’administration fiscale. Sur les quelques 5 millions de Français qui joueraient avec des cryptos selon la BCE, seuls 150 000 auraient daigné le déclarer au fisc. Oups, il y a comme qui dirait un petit décalage… Selon Thomas Cazenave, ministre délégué chargé des Comptes publics, environ 400 millions d’euros de fraudes ont été...

L’hebdomadaire britannique consacre sa une au président français, qu’il a interviewé quelques jours après son discours de la Sorbonne sur l’avenir de l’Europe. Emmanuel Macron y revient sur les diverses menaces qui planent sur le Vieux Continent, et notamment sur celle que représente la Russie de Vladimir Poutine.

Vous savez, ce bon vieux Windows 11, c’est vraiment un super OS ^^… Mais ces satanées pubs qui s’incrustent partout, ça commence à être bien relou. Vous ouvrez le menu Démarrer pour lancer un programme, et PAF ! Une pub sauvage apparaît ! Vous farfouillez dans l’explorateur de fichiers, et re-PAF ! Encore une pub ! C’est à se taper la tête contre les murs (non, ne faites pas ça ^^). Mais attendez, ne sortez pas encore vos tronçonneuses pour détruire de rage votre PC car je vous ai dégoté un petit outil qui va nous sortir de cette misère : OFGB, pour « Oh Frick Go Back ». Ce p’tit logiciel magique, c’est la solution qui va exaucer votre vœu de retrouver un Windows tout beau,...

Imaginez… Vous vous pointez tranquillou au bar du coin pour siroter une petite mousse entre potes et là, surprise ! Pendant que vous trinquez gaiement, une borne de reconnaissance faciale vous scanne en douce pour vérifier si vous avez bien l’âge légal, que vous n’êtes pas accro aux machines à sous et encore moins Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès. Sympa l’ambiance, non ? C’est exactement ce qui se passe depuis quelque temps dans certains bars et clubs en Australie, grâce (ou à cause, c’est selon) de la société Outabox et de ses bornes biométriques magiques. Le hic, c’est qu’un méchant pirate a visiblement réussi à mettre la main sur la base de données des joyeux fêtards, avec au menu...

La volonté des Britanniques d’expulser certains migrants vers le Rwanda conduirait à une hausse des arrivés en République d’Irlande, fustige le gouvernement de l’île d’Émeraude. Déjà abîmés par le Brexit, les rapports entre les deux voisins se détériorent à nouveau.

Image: LucasfilmTwo years ago, Star Wars stepped into a new animated format with Tales of the Jedi, examining the stories of two characters ostracized by the titular order in Dooku and Ahsoka Tano. Now, in celebration of Star Wars Day this weekend, it’s trying again—this time with a touch of the Dark Side. But while Tales of the Empire finds stronger success than its predecessor, it manages to do so rather unevenly.Tales of the Empire’s big questions are a mirror to Tales of the Jedi’s—more on the personal scope of its central characters, rather than questions of the institutions that tie them together. If Jedi asked its characters what it means to feel like the Jedi Order had left them behind,...

Philosopher Nick Bostrom popularized the idea superintelligent AI could erase humanity. His new book imagines a world in which algorithms have solved every problem.

Épinglé sur la scène internationale pour ses investissements dans les centrales à charbon, le Japon semble désormais isolé dans le G7 après l’engagement de celui-ci en faveur de la suppression des centrales à charbon à l’horizon 2035.

In the aftermath of the Capitol riot, far-right militia groups are using Facebook to organize—and they’re not worried about getting banned by Meta.

Le comité d’experts mandaté par Emmanuel Macron pour interroger la place des écrans dans le quotidien des jeunes a rendu son rapport le 30 avril. Son travail souligne la responsabilité des réseaux sociaux et se prononce en faveur d’une réglementation. Une approche dont la portée est limitée, analyse la presse internationale.

“In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the immune system to attack glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal brain tumor… Reported May 1 in the journal Cell, the discovery represents a potential new way to recruit the immune system to fight notoriously treatment-resistant cancers using an iteration of mRNA technology and lipid nanoparticles, similar to COVID-19 vaccines, but with two key differences: use of a patient’s own tumor cells to create a personalized vaccine, and a newly engineered complex delivery mechanism within the vaccine.” From Medical Xpress.
The post New Vaccine Triggers Immune...

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« Overdose, chapitre 3 ». La livraison de stupéfiants à domicile s’est développée presque partout en France. Service après-vente, franchises, innovations marketing : les méthodes de ces « plates-formes » sont calquées sur celles des entreprises légales.

Diffusée sur la plateforme Disney+ depuis le 1ᵉʳ mai, cette série britannique se déroule dans l’Angleterre du XVIᵉ siècle, époque de bouleversements politiques et religieux. “Shardlake” est avant tout une série policière au sein d’un monastère dont l’ambiance est bien rendue, avec des acteurs talentueux, salue la presse d’outre-Manche.

“Also known as kala-azar, visceral leishmaniasis is the world’s deadliest parasitic killer after malaria. It causes fever, weight loss, spleen and liver enlargement, and, if not treated, death. Kala-azar is transmitted by the bite of infected sandflies and is endemic in 80 countries, mainly in Eastern Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. One billion people are at risk globally and Eastern Africa has currently the highest number of cases. As for other vector-borne diseases, climate change is changing the epidemiology of leishmaniasis and could lead to its expansion to new areas. An estimated 50,000 to 90,000 new cases occur worldwide annually, and half are children under 15 years of age. In Africa, the...

Wheels do a great job at rolling over all kinds of terrain, particularly if you pair them with compliant tires. However, they’re not perfect, and can get stumbled by things like large vertical steps. Enter the PaTS-Wheel — a compliant mechanism that can tackle such obstacles with ease.
The PaTS-Wheel takes advantage of printable flexural hinges. Under regular conditions, it exists as a simple round wheel. However, when presented with a step obstacle, its individual segments can bend and flex to grab on to the step and hoist the vehicle up. It all happens passively as a result of the wheel’s structure, no actuators or control system are needed to achieve this action.
The video below does a great job of...

When it rains, it pours. Here are our picks for cold, wet days—plus expert tips on deciphering product specs.

Plic, ploc, plic, ploc… Vous entendez ce bruit ? C’est celui de nos libertés qui s’érodent, goutte après goutte, sous les assauts répétés de la surveillance généralisée. Et le dernier tsunami en date n’est autre que la vidéosurveillance algorithmique (VSA), ce monstre tentaculaire qui s’apprête à transformer nos rues en un gigantesque panoptique à ciel ouvert. Mais heureusement, tel un David numérique face au Goliath de la Technopolice, La Quadrature du Net sort sa fronde et ses plus belles pierres pour contre-attaquer ! Première salve : le lancement d’une grande campagne de sensibilisation et de mobilisation citoyenne. L’idée est d’informer le grand public sur les dangers de ce...

Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data.

It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.

“Under the program, the DOE will coordinate efforts across eight other agencies to prepare a single environmental review document for transmission developers seeking federal approvals. The program also establishes a two-year timeline for the permitting process. ‘The CITAP program gives transmission developers a new option for a more efficient review process, a major step to provide increased confidence for the sector to invest in new transmission lines,’ the DOE said in a fact sheet. A second final rule creates a categorical exclusion — the simplest form of review under the National Environmental Policy Act — for transmission projects that use existing rights of way, such as reconductoring projects,...

Dans son livre Vivre pour les caméras (JC Lattès, 2024), en librairie ce jeudi 2 mai, la journaliste Constance Vilanova, collaboratrice occasionnelle d’Usbek & Rica, s’interroge sur « ce que la téléréalité a fait de nous ». Dans cet extrait, que nous publions avec son accord, elle montre comment ces programmes mettent en avant le mariage et la famille, dans une forme de « retour aux traditions ».

“Scientists have experimented with enzymes, biological molecules that facilitate biochemical reactions, to remove A and B antigens to make O-type blood for decades. But enzyme-treated blood can still be incompatible. Writing in Nature Microbiology on April 29th, Martin Olsson, a transfusion-medicine consultant at Lund University in Sweden, and Maher Abou Hachem from Denmark’s Technical University argue that the problem could stem from lengthened antigen sugar chains, called extensions, that are not targeted by current enzymes. That led the team to hunt for enzymes capable of removing the antigens as well as their extensions. They settled on enzymes from Akkermansia muciniphila, a bacterium that feasts on...

A little while ago, we talked about the concept of timezones and the Moon. It’s a complicated issue, because on Earth, time is all about the Sun and our local relationship with it. The Moon and the Sun have their own weird thing going on, so time there doesn’t really line up well with our terrestrial conception of it.
Nevertheless, as humanity gets serious about doing Moon things again, the issue needs to be solved. To that end, NASA has now officially been tasked with setting up Moon time – just a few short weeks after we last talked about it! (Does the President read Hackaday?) Only problem is, physics is going to make it a damn sight more complicated! Relatively Speaking
You know it’s serious when...

“Of course, the technology has the potential to destroy mankind, but, on the plus side, it could make a few lucky early investors billions.”

Iran’s judiciary rejects as “fake” a BBC report that alleges security forces killed Nika Shakarami.

This color-adaptive under eye brightener works so fast that your eyeballs will be like 👀👀👀 in disbelief.View Entire Post ›

Au cœur de la forêt brésilienne, le jeune Patpro sillonne trois époques de l’histoire de son peuple indigène, les Krâho. Un récit stupéfiant, à la frontière du documentaire et de la fiction, en salles ce mercredi 1er mai.

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You might be under the impression that machine learning costs thousands of dollars to work with. That might be true in many cases, but there’s more to machine learning than you might think. For instance, what if you could shower anything with a network of cheap machine-learning-enabled sensors? The 1 dollar TinyML project by [Jon Nordby] allows you to do just that. These tiny boards host an STM32-like MCU, a BLE module, lithium ion power circuitry, and some nice sensor options — an accelerometer, a pair of microphones, and a light sensor.
What could you do with these sensors? [Jon] has talked a bit about a few commercial and non-commercial applications he’s worked on in his ML career, and tells us that...

Dans l'univers du mockumentaire (documentaire parodique), la nouvelle série Netflix d'Igor Gotesman (Five, Family Business) séduit avec une audace qui rappelle les premiers jours de "The Office". Utilisant la maladresse et le malaise social comme ressorts humoristiques, "Fiasco" tente d'apporter sa propre saveur à ce genre déjà bien établi.Raphaël Valande, protagoniste principal de la série (joué par Pierre Niney), est un novice dans le monde de la réalisation. Son premier film, "Une Femme Défiante", est ambitieux, couvrant les actions héroïques de sa grand-mère pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Mais Raph n'est pas seulement novice dans la direction d'acteurs, il l'est également sur un plateau...