Mairie du 5è arrondissement de Paris, 21 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris La mairie du 5ème arrondissement de Paris et l'Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique (AFIS) vous invitent jeudi 23 novembre 2023, 18h45 A quoi bon mourir ? Le point de vue de l'évolution sur le vieillissement Le vieillissement et la mort peuvent sembler l'aboutissement naturel et inévitable de toute vie. Mais la réalité est un peu plus complexe. Certaines espèces meurent brutalement juste après (...) Agenda de l'Afis

La MJC Sainte Foy lès Lyon et l'Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique de Lyon (AFIS Lyon) vous propose une après-midi ludique et sportive autour des sciences. Samedi, 7 octobre 2023 de 14h00 à 18h00 Fête de la Science 2023 - Muscle ta science. Nous vous proposons une après-midi ludique et sportive autour des sciences. De 14h à 15h, Aymeric GUILLOT, chercheur en neurosciences, viendra vous parler sport et cerveau) ▶ Comment venir à la MJC ? TCL : Arrêt Chavril - Bus (...) Agenda de l'Afis

Mairie du 5e arrondissement de Paris, 21 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris La mairie du 5ème arrondissement de Paris et l'Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique (AFIS) vous invitent à la conférence Jeudi, 5 octobre 2023 à 18h45 L'Atlantide : Mythes et réalitéPar Alexis Seydoux Historien et Archéologue Membre de l'ALDHHAA (Association de Lutte contre la Désinformation en Histoire, Histoire de l'art et Archéologie) L'île mythique de l'Atlantide, telle que décrite par (...) Agenda de l'Afis

The embattled Chinese property giant's shares were suspended from trading on Thursday.

Les ministres des Affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne se sont retrouvés lundi dans la capitale ukrainienne, où ils se sont entretenus avec le président Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Quand, sur le terrain, les joueurs de différentes nationalités se croisent, et leurs langues avec eux, ce n’est jamais anodin. Et quand une Coupe du monde se déroule en France, pays au protectionnisme linguistique appuyé, ça l’est encore moins, observe John Lichfield dans sa chronique “Au-dessus de la mêlée”, écrite pour “Courrier International”.

Dans un récit empreint d’amertume, cette journaliste britannique d’origine arménienne raconte son été passé dans le pays de ses ancêtres. Un territoire coincé entre espoir d’un avenir radieux et rappel incessant de l’impossibilité d’avoir sa place dans le monde, comme l’illustre le sort réservé aux habitants du Haut-Karabakh, chassés de l’enclave séparatiste reconquise par l’Azerbaïdjan fin septembre.

Ce mardi 3 octobre débute à New York le procès de l’“une des plus grandes fraudes financières” aux États-Unis. En cause, “SBF”, fondateur de la bourse d’échange de cryptoactifs FTX, dont la faillite a provoqué l’évaporation de près de 9 milliards de dollars. Il est accusé de détournement de fonds et d’association de malfaiteurs.

Le chef de l’Etat a annoncé le déploiement de 238 nouvelles brigades de gendarmerie, lundi, en visite dans le Lot-et-Garonne. L’occasion de se dire « aux côtés de la ruralité » sur la sécurité, la santé et la transition écologique.

L’Organisation mondiale de la santé publie des nouveaux chiffres sur la septième pandémie de choléra. Des données parcellaires du fait de capacités épidémiologiques très variables selon les pays.

Cette filiale du transporteur Norbert Dentressangle est spécialisée dans les vêtements de sécurité. Selon des témoignages recueillis par « Le Monde », elle a fait fabriquer, au moins entre 2019 et 2022, des gants dans une prison chinoise pour le compte d’une marque américaine.

"Bring it on," says the House Speaker as a right-wing rebel launches a rare bid to remove him.

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A major part of finding extraterrestrial life is to be able to profile the atmosphere of any planets outside of our solar system. This is not an easy task, as these planets are usually found through the slight darkening of their star as they pass in front of it (transition). Although spectroscopy is the ideal way to profile the chemical composure of such a planet, having a massive, extremely bright star right next to the planet is more than enough to completely overpower the faint light reflecting off the planet’s surface and through its atmosphere. This is a major issue that the upcoming Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx, also called the Habitable Worlds Observatory, or HWO) hopes to address using...

L’élu trumpiste Matt Gaetz reproche au speaker de la chambre basse d’avoir notamment conclu un « accord secret » avec Joe Biden sur une possible enveloppe pour l’Ukraine, au milieu de tractations budgétaires.

L’ancien président américain est poursuivi pour avoir surévalué les actifs de la Trump Organization. Le juge a déjà ordonné le retrait de ses licences commerciales pour l’Etat de New York, ainsi que la dissolution de certaines de ses sociétés.

Image: DreamWorks AnimationSince he’s known for grisly horror, filmmaker Eli Roth making an animated show comes with certain expectations for hardcore visuals—even if it’s aimed at kids. With Fright Krewe, his latest creative project before the very adult Thanksgiving later this fall, Roth returns to a realm he first explored in 2018's The House With the Clock in Its Walls. Delving into this gentler subgenre comes from a love of the supernatural cartoons he grew up with, Roth explained to io9 in a recent interview. “I love gateway horror. I love scary shows for kids. And I felt like I was at a point in my life, in my career where I really wanted to start creating great experiences for kids and that...

Some 4,500 women were fitted with coils as part of attempts to limit the territory's population.

The owner of the fast-food brand says there are "no new updates" on its pledge to leave Russia.

The secretary general says further investment in oil is needed to meet rising global energy demand.

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When you’re a kid, nothing says spooky like turning off the lights and bringing out the Ouija board. For decades, this mystifying oracle has purported to channel the dead by spelling out messages using a board with numbers, letters, yes/no, and a heart-shaped windowed bit of plastic called a planchette.
While the action of a standard Ouija board owes itself to something called the ideomotor phenomenon, this motorized Ouija robot by [Ronald McCollum] is powered by tweets.
That’s right, the mannequin hand uses the planchette to spell out the tweets with a rather crisp snap of the wrist. [Ronald] impressively coded all the positions by hand, with each letter being comprised of both a hand position and...

The First Family (including Devon Sawa as James Collins, at right) sit around the breakfast table with Chucky on Chucky.Photo: Shane Mahood/SyfyWhen Chucky returns later this week, the horror comedy series will have a whole new crime scene for the killer doll to prowl: the White House. Devon Sawa, who has played a different character each season (in season one, he played twin dads; in season two, a Catholic priest), is the perfect choice to play POTUS—with proof in this delightful “tour video” ahead of season three.Inside Chucky: Devon Sawa Gives a Tour of the White House | Chucky Season 3 | SYFY & USA NetworkHe’s got my vote! The sets look great too, right down to the “Diet Coke button.”“In...

Illustration: The Verge It was bound to happen eventually: a company has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Elon Musk’s X Corp. over its renaming of Twitter (via Reuters). The company in question is X Social Media LLC, an ad agency from Florida that alleges X Corp. is guilty of violating Florida common law because of “unfair competition and trademark and service mark infringement,” as well as the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
X Social Media (hereafter referred to as XSM to make this article easier to write) writes in the complaint that it has used its registered trademark, “X SOCIALMEDIA,” continuously since 2016. XSM claims it has “already suffered loss in revenue that...

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Image: HuluReleased in 1993, horror comedy Leprechaun featured a post-Willow Warwick Davis playing against type as the title monster, and introduced the world to a pre-Friends Jennifer Aniston. It spawned an eight-film franchise—all of which are now on Hulu—and io9 was excited to chat with Mark Jones, who wrote and directed the first film and created a horror phenomenon in the process.There will not be a pop quiz, but here’s the full series: Leprechaun (1993), Leprechaun 2 (1994), Leprechaun 3 (1995), Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997), Leprechaun in the Hood (2000), Leprechaun: Back 2 the Hood (2003), Leprechaun: Origins (2014), and Leprechaun Returns (2018). And maybe a ninth film on the way? Read on for...

Queen B with that exclusive all-gold link band and original Apple Watch Edition. | Image: Beyonce.com It was never clear who the $10,000 to $17,000 18-karat gold Apple Watch was for, beyond celebrities and the ultrarich, but I hope whoever bought one way back in 2015 expected Apple to stop supporting them at some point. That day has come. Apple has now internally listed all first-gen Apple Watch models, including the solid-gold Edition, as “obsolete,” MacRumors reports.
Apple’s obsolete label doesn’t just mean the end of software support. That ship has sailed; the original Apple Watches (widely referred to as Series 0) never updated beyond watchOS 4.3.2 in 2018. It means the end of hardware support:...

Image: Oliver Barrett/MarvelBeing Spider-Man is about so much more than webbing up bad guys. Spider-Man is the neighborhood guy. He gives back to the community. He protects the community. There’s swinging, there’s fighting, there’s dangling, and sure, sometimes he has to traverse the multiverse and see all his alternative versions.In a new print series from artist Oliver Barrett though, we focus on the simple stuff. Spider-Man just being Spider-Man. Seven prints, available individually or as a series, each showing Spider-Man at his ground-level best. The pieces are from a collaboration Barrett did with Restoration Games/Unmatched and are being released via Bottleneck Gallery and Acme Archives on October...

This series was produced in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, with support from the Gertrude Blumenthal Kasbekar Fund, the Puffin Foundation, and the Pulitzer Center.Read more...

The Pixel Buds Pro may not be getting a replacement this year, but new software tricks are always welcome. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Google Pixel Buds Pro may be getting some nifty new software features that should sound a bit familiar if you were paying attention to the latest tweaks for Apple’s AirPods Pro. According to notable leaker Kamila Wojciechowska (@Za_Raczke), Google plans a software update for its flagship earbuds that includes conversation detection, a hearing wellness monitor, and clearer call quality going both ways.
The first feature sounds similar to Apple’s Conversation Awareness that just came to all second-gen AirPods Pro earbuds, with Google’s implementation...

While renewable energy offers many opportunities for decentralizing energy production, it can sometimes feel that doing so on a truly local level remains unachievable with increasingly large utility-scale deployments re-centralizing the technology. [AdamEnt] hopes to help others seize the means of energy production with the development of the ModuCoil.
This modular coil is intended to be used in motor and generator applications, and features a 3D printed structure to wind your copper about as well as a series of ferromagnetic machine screws and nuts meant to boost the field strength. This project really emphasizes the rapid part of rapid prototyping with this version 2 of the coil following only a week after...

Jordan Brandman was a two-time Anaheim City Council member, once a rising star in Orange County politics. He ended up resigning amid a text messaging scandal and eventually became a whistleblower, giving the LA Times an exclusive look inside Anaheim’s “cabal” led by special interest groups. He was found dead in his home over the weekend; no cause has been given.

Inside the El Sereno GreenGrocer, owner Patricia Torres prepares for business, arranging ripe tomatoes on a table with eggplants and long beans. 
“People get very excited about produce, but they get much more excited about bread and pastries. We are honoring that,” says Torres as they smile and gesture to the case of pan dulce near the register and a table of freshly baked bread. 
Torres and Erika Crenshaw opened the market in June as a love letter to tienditas, or corner stores, they grew up with. Like those businesses, the couple says they use the 600 square feet to create a welcoming gathering place that reflects the community’s needs. They are also very intentional about selecting products from...

Starting October 3, the critically acclaimed musical Hadestown is returning to the Ahmanson Theatre in LA. It will run for 16 performances until October 15. 
Hadestown is an epic retelling of two tragic love stories in Greek mythology: Orpheus and Eurydice, plus Hades and Persephone. The show is narrated by Hermes, another Greek god, and follows Orpheus on his quest to rescue Eurydice after she signs a contract with Hades to work for him underground.  But long before Hadestown won eight Tony awards in 2019, it was originally a folk opera concept album written by indie singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell. She also performed it for a limited run in Vermont, but wanted to create something bigger. So in 2011, one...

Image: NetflixCastlevania: Nocturne is here, and ready to usher in a new generation of monster-slaying heroes and suitably monstrous threats for them to slay. But now that Netflix and Powerhouse Animation’s latest entry in the video game adaptation saga is streaming, we spoke to some the team behind the show to learn about the season’s biggest moments.Much like the initial season of its predecessor, Nocturne does much to set up a lot of promise for the future by the end of its eight episodes. It ends with a clear and ready indicator that team is ready to tackle arguably the most iconic Castlevania narrative of all time, Symphony of the Night, as Richter and his allies find themselves bolstered in the...

Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” hasn’t had the easiest path to the silver screen. The film’s production started right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the planned theatrical release was pushed back several times, to eventually premiere in June 2023. With well over half a billion dollars in global box office revenues, the film has been quite a success. The mission is not complete though, as the digital release, scheduled for October 10, has not yet rolled out.
With anticipation just starting to build again, the film has suffered yet another setback. A few days ago, high-quality pirated copies of the new Mission Impossible film began circulating on pirate sites. The...

The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Time really does fly, doesn’t it? The summer is over, fall is here, and Amazon’s fall Prime Day sale, the period when Amazon (and probably a significant number of its competitors) will be dropping prices on a lot of its products for Prime members, is happening on October 10th and 11th. If you’re interested in the goodies being offered but haven’t signed up for Amazon Prime, don’t worry — Amazon makes it very easy. (Not surprisingly. After all, it would be the sorry vendor who would make it difficult for people to become new customers.)
If you’re attracted by the goodies being offered but haven’t signed up for Prime, Amazon makes it very easy
Besides...

La disparition soudaine de Qin Gang, qui n’a pas encore été expliquée par le Parti, et son remplacement ultérieur par Wang Yi, ont créé une tempête au sein de l’appareil diplomatique chinois. Depuis lors, de nombreuses rumeurs relayées par les médias étrangers se sont concentrées sur la relation de Qin avec l'ancienne animatrice de Phoenix TV Fu Xiaotian, sur leur fils présumé et même sur le recours potentiel à une mère porteuse pour lui donner naissance sur le sol américain.

Grammy-winning, UK neo-soul artist Corinne Bailey Rae made her live radio debut on Morning Becomes Eclectic in Oct. 2006, then released a self-titled LP that sold over 4 million copies. The album’s North American single “Put Your Records On” peaked at No. 64 on The Billboard Hot 100 chart and received both “Song of the Year” and “Record of the Year”  Grammy nominations.
More: Corinne Bailey Rae (Morning Becomes Eclectic, 2006)
Her freshly released album, Black Rainbows, is a far cry from the carefree, stripped-back, jazz-tinged musings of her debut, instead finding Rae marinating in tension. The distorted instruments (Rae’s voice included) and militaristic rhythms of “Erasure” melt...

The Supreme Court's term begins today, and this year the justices will consider big cases concerning the administrative state, free speech, voting rights, and guns.

Cruise ship operator Carnival Corp. reported record Q3 revenue of $6.9 billion, the highest quarterly number since the covid pandemic began in early 2020. That performance follows revenue of nearly $5 billion for Q2, signaling an upswing for the Carnival Cruise Line owner.Read more...

Satya Nadella appears in DC for US v. Google. | Image: Getty Images On the stand in US v. Google, the Microsoft CEO said he’d do just about anything to make Bing better. Google’s lawyers said he should have been doing that for decades. Continue reading…

In the world of agriculture, not all enterprises are large arable cropland affairs upon which tractors do their work traversing strip by strip under the hot sun. Many farms raise far more intensive crops on a much smaller scale, and across varying terrain. When it comes to automation these farms offer their own special challenges, but with the benefit of a smaller machine reducing some of the engineering tasks. There’s an entry in this year’s Hackaday prize which typifies this, [KP]’s Agrofelis robot is a small four-wheeled carrier platform designed to deliver autonomous help on smaller farms. It’s shown servicing a vineyard with probably one of the most bad-ass pictures you could think of as a...

Le président LR de la région dit vouloir s’affranchir de cet objectif qui vise à préserver les espaces naturels agricoles et forestiers. Mais un élu local ne peut pas simplement contourner la loi.

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Un vent nouveau se lève !
Le monde change : un élément est intervenu qui rend désormais impossible toute prédiction quant à la manière dont il va encore changer. Il faut le savoir et en tenir compte si l’on parle de planifier l’avenir. Cet élément, c’est la Singularité, et ce qui l’a fait advenir, c’est la parution, en 2022, d’Intelligences Artificielles du type GPT, generative pre-trained transformer, tels ChatGPT, Bard ou Claude.
Bien des définitions circulent de la Singularité, en voici une : « La machine étant devenue plus intelligente que l’humain, pas seulement...

Nobel Prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman pioneered the technology that produced a Covid-19 vaccine in record time. Next, mRNA could tackle flu, malaria, and HIV.

Indonesia’s first high-speed train, called Whoosh, launched commercial operations on Oct. 1. The service is the first of its kind in the country and in Southeast Asia, and a notch in the belt for Indonesian president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. It’s also a milestone moment for Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which …Read more...

Knowing which executive to hire and when can be incredibly difficult—especially when you’re a startup founder focused on scaling your business and managing a milieu of other responsibilities.Read more...

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There are too many different kinds of displays – some of them, you already know. I’d like to help you navigate the hobbyist-accessible display world – let’s take a journey together, technology by technology, get a high-level overview of everything you could want to know about it, and learn all the details you never knew you needed to know. In the end, I’d like you to be able to find the best displays for any project you might have in mind, whatever it could be.
Today, let’s take a look at a well-known LCD technology – the HD44780 displays, a type of display that we hobbyists have been working with since the 1980s. Its name comes from the HD44780 driver chip – a character display driver IC that...

Pour la première fois, des scientifiques ont guéri des souris paralysées en régénérant des neurones sur une moelle épinière entièrement rompue. Une prouesse dont nous avons parlé au micro de France Culture dans l'émission La Science, CQFD.

Le taux d’inflation annuel a de nouveau baissé en août 2023. Il s’est établi à 5,9 % dans l’Union européenne. La zone euro enregistre quant à elle un taux de 5,2 % dans les 20 pays disposant de la monnaie unique. Ces chiffres étaient respectivement de 6,1 % et 5,3 % au mois de juillet 2023. Le taux d’inflation annuel correspond à la variation des prix entre le mois en cours et le même mois de l’année précédente. C’est le rôle de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) de lutter contre une inflation trop forte en Europe. Bien qu’enregistrant une baisse depuis le début de l’année, les taux d’inflation restent inédits depuis les débuts de l’euro il y a plus de 20 ans....

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EN UN GRAPHIQUE – Après avoir conquis un quart du territoire au début de l’invasion de l’Ukraine, en février 2022, l’armée russe a reculé avant de stabiliser son occupation du pays.

Wopke Hoekstra est issu du Parti populaire européen (PPE), les conservateurs européens - Crédits : Conseil de l’UE Wopke Hoekstra sera-t-il le prochain “Monsieur Climat” de l’Union européenne ? Le candidat au poste de commissaire est attendu à Strasbourg lundi 2 octobre dans l’enceinte du Parlement européen. Il est auditionné de 18h30 à 21h par la commission de l’environnement, présidée par Pascal Canfin (Renew). L’ex-ministre néerlandais des Affaires étrangères pourrait récupérer le portefeuille de l’Action climatique, alors que l’Union européenne s’est engagée sur la voie de la neutralité carbone en 2050. Le chantier du Pacte vert, la feuille de route environnementale de...

The fringe idea that cities built for biking and walking are part of a government plot has been picked up by … the UK government.

White-collar defendants use three main defenses: “It wasn’t me, I didn’t mean it, and the people that say I did are lying.” FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to go for “I didn’t mean it,” experts say.