We’ve got a whirlwind of an episode this week on The Vergecast. Nilay, Paul, and Dieter bring back Silicon Valley Editor and host of Converge Casey Newton to discuss Twitter’s bad week and what the heck is going on with them. But before that, there’s a whole lot of other things that came up. We reviewed both the Galaxy Note 9 and Android 9 Pie this week, so Dieter runs through everything you need to know about the two launches.
We’ve also got two fresh segments this this week. Deputy Editor Liz Lopatto updates us on this week in Elon Musk, and culture reporters Megan Farokhmanesh and Bijan Stephen stop by to tell us what’s happening in culture section of The Verge.
There’s a whole lot more in...

La proportion d’ouvrages d’art nécessitant des travaux urgents diffère considérablement selon les régions, d’après des données issues du ministère de la transition écologique et solidaire.

If you are in any way connected with radio, you will have encountered the low pass filter as a means to remove unwanted harmonics from the output of your transmitters. It’s a network of capacitors and inductors usually referred to as a pi-network after the rough resemblance of the schematic to a capital Greek letter Pi, and getting them right has traditionally been something of a Black Art. There are tables and formulae, but even after impressive feats of calculation the result can often not match the expectation.
The 30MHz low-pass filter, as QUCS delivered it.
Happily as with so many other fields, in recent decades the advent of affordable high-power computing has brought with it the ability to take the...

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Le photographe montréalais Drowster nous offre une série brumeuse et empreinte d’humanité avec «A Morning in Khiew Kan». Ces quelques photos retracent le précieux moment qu’il a passé avec la tribu de Khiew Kan, isolée au sommet d’une montagne dans la jungle du Laos. «Les parents partent tôt chaque matin pour aller travailler dans les champs laissant le village entièrement aux enfants, explique-t-il. Malgré la barrière culturelle et de langue, on a tout de même pu rire et échanger autour d’un souper.» Il indique qu’il n’avait pas prévu de prendre des photos ce jour-là, mais autant l’ambiance unique du village que les visages de ces jeunes enfants le poussent à immortaliser ce...

Google has updated the help page for its Location History feature to acknowledge the fact that the company still tracks users through use of its services like Google Maps, weather updates, and browser searches, according to a report from the Associated Press. As noted by the AP, the help page for the Location History setting has been updated to clarify that “This setting does not affect other location services on your device,” and that “some location data may be saved as part of your activity on other services, like Search and Maps.”
“Some location data may be saved”
AP had previously reported that Google was still tracking users who had disabled the Location History feature earlier this week,...

WordPress has taken down several alt-right blogs, citing a new policy that bans blogs from the “malicious publication of unauthorized, identifying images of minors.” The change has led to the shutdown of several blogs that spread conspiracies about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, as spotted by TechCrunch.
Now alt-right bloggers and readers claim several sites have been removed, including conspiracies about Sandy Hook and 9/11. The timing of the move comes just after the New York Times reported on how WordPress was still allowing these bloggers to stay online.
WordPress’ Terms of Service is filled with loopholes for abusers
Previously, that content was left up as it didn’t directly violate...

La Guérilla des Animaux met en scène un militant de la cause animale qui n'hésite pas à passer par la violence pour défendre ses idées antispécistes.

Google Goggles was launched in 2009, an early example of Google’s ambition to make the visual world as searchable as the internet. Times have changed though, and with the unveiling this year of the faster, slicker, deep learning-powered Google Lens, it’s time to take the goggles off for good. As spotted by Android Police, Google Goggles got its first update since 2014 this week: a death note. If you load the app you’re now directed to a landing page that instructs you to download either Google Lens (if you’ve got a compatible handset) or Google Photos (where some of the same image recognition features are also available). Image: AndroidPolice The note telling users to download Google Lens instead....

Joe Russo teases a darker Captain America and Black Widow in Avengers 4. Fox 21 and McG are teaming up for a Vampyr TV series. Star Trek: Discovery’s head makeup artist teases those big Klingon changes. Plus, tons of new American Horror Story promos, and Stephen Amell discusses Arrow’s most important new character.…Read more...

Java House, east Africa’s largest chain of coffee and dining shops, is taking Kenyan coffee and tea to China.
The company said it signed a distributorship agreement with Green Chain, a subsidiary company of the Shanghai-based based logistics firm CJ Smart Cargo. Under the deal, Java will sell 10 tons to 15 tons a month of its 375-gram bags of Kenya AA Arabica coffee and Gold Label Tea brands. Java said the partnership was part of its expansion strategy, aimed at solidifying its place in markets in Europe, the United States, and China.
The decision to export to China showcases Java’s ambitions to take its brand beyond East Africa and to capitalize on the increased demand for specialty coffee globally. Kenya...

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Issues d'ateliers d'écriture collectifs, trois micronouvelles inédites imaginent, à l'inverse de la série « Black Mirror », un futur lumineux.

Les 90 millions de dollars qu'il faudrait débourser pour organiser un défilé militaire en novembre à Washington ont refroidi le Pentagone.

Back in 2017, Samsung had a lot to prove with the Note 8. It was the first phone in the line since the Note 7, which became an international punchline and got recalled after the handsets started catching fire and blowing up. After many apologies and promises that it had revamped its battery-making process, the company followed up with the Note 8. It was a nearly perfect device; we called it the best phone of 2017.
But things haven’t been so great since then. Coming off a corruption scandal involving the highest levels of the company and the South Korean government, Samsung’s next smartphone, the Galaxy S9, has reportedly been met with turgid sales, apparently forcing the company to push forward the release...

On July 27, 2014, monsoon rains hit the sister cities of Nogales, Arizona, in the US, and Nogales, Sonora, in Mexico. As the rain poured down, floodwaters rushed west of the Mariposa Port of Entry, clogging a 60-foot section of the border fence with debris. The bollard-style fence, with posts buried at least 7 feet underground, had been designed to let water pass through, but the intensity of the flooding and the size of the debris, which included tree trunks, toppled it. For longtime Nogales residents on both sides of the border, the incident felt like déjà vu. Six years earlier, monsoon rains had flooded the downtown Nogales, Sonora, a city of about 210,000, trapping merchants in their stores, causing $8...

We’re not sure who designed [Max Glenister]’s place, but they had some strange ideas about interior door positioning. The door to his office is right next to a corner, yet it opens into the room instead of toward the wall. Well, that issue’s been taken care of. But the architect and the electrician got the last laugh, because now the light switch is blocked by the open door.
Folks, this is the stuff that IoT is made for. [Max] here solved one problem, and another sprang up in its place. What better reason for your maiden voyage into the cloud than a terrible inconvenience? He studied up on IoT servo-controlled light switching, but found that most of the precedent deals with protruding American switches...

Researchers at MIT Media Lab have designed a desk that adapts to the mood of the user by adjusting lighting, changing images on a screen (attached to the front of the desk) and playing different sound through a set of speakers. The project, called “Mediated Atmosphere,” is based on psychological studies about the way space impacts productivity.
Researcher Nan Zhao said the desk is a combination of technology, psychology, and design. The prototype collects over 30 biological signals including heart-rate, facial-expressions, and posture. The workspace adapts to what the sensors indicate, like showing a video of running wanter if the user is stressed.
But the researchers will need to do a lot more testing to...

You’re so lucky! How do I know? Because, to name just a few factors, you’re literate, can access the internet, and have great taste (you’re reading this story, after all). And social scientists would advise against you arguing otherwise—because how lucky we feel influences our future fortunes.
That is to say, we’re only as lucky as we think we are, and luck begets luck. This makes optimists the luckiest people of all, according to Bloomsberg University philosophy professor Steven Hales, who writes in Aeon, “Luck might not be a genuine quality of the world at all…Luck judgments are a matter of perspective.”
The lucky ones
In a study to be published in the journal Philosophical Psychology, Hales...

La mobilisation de centaines de rédactions aux États-Unis contre le président qui les accuse d’être des “ennemis du peuple” suscite de vifs débats jusqu’en Europe. À Berlin, Die Tageszeitung publie à la une la controverse dans ses propres rangs.

Des centaines d’employés de la firme de Mountain View ont signé une lettre demandant plus de transparence, après la révélation d’un projet secret visant à revenir sur le marché chinois en appliquant la censure.
 

Décédée le 16 août, la reine de la soul a révolutionné la musique américaine. Dans son répertoire, désirs charnels et spirituels se mêlent jusqu’au sublime.
 

Le chef d’État sortant, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, a été reconduit à la tête du Mali avec une large avance sur son rival Soumaïla Cissé lors du second tour de la présidentielle. L’opposition dénonce des fraudes et conteste les résultats, rapporte la presse ouest-africaine.

« Pomerols FN » qui devient « FLASH INFO », « Citations des Minions » remplacé par « Ayoye France »… ces exemples racontent l’économie souterraine du réseau social, centrée sur les abonnés et le clic.

L'entreprise semblait prête à se conformer à la censure imposée par le gouvernement chinois. Problème : les salariés de Google ne sont pas d'accord.

We feature hacks on this site of all levels of complexity. The simplest ones are usually the most elegant of “Why didn’t I think of that!” builds, but just occasionally we find something that is as much a bodge as a hack, a piece of work the sheer audacity of which elicits a reaction that has more of the “How did they get away with that! ” about it.
Such a moment comes today from [Robinlol], who has made an SD card socket. Why would you make an SD card socket when you could buy one is unclear, beyond that he didn’t want to buy one on an Arduino shield and considered manufacture his only option. Taking some pieces of wood, popsicle sticks, and paperclips, he proceeded to create a working SD card of...

Last month, Nintendo flexed its considerable muscles by targeting two retro-gaming platforms.
The Japanese gaming giant filed a complaint at a federal court in Arizona, targeting LoveROMS.com and LoveRETRO.co for copyright and trademark infringement.
With potentially millions of dollars in damages at stake, both sites quickly shut down, taking libraries of gaming ROMs with them. But for fans of emulators and retro-gaming, the bad news wasn’t over yet.
In an announcement last week, EmuParadise, one of the web’s longest standing emulator and ROM download portals, announced that it will no longer be offering game ROMs for download. After 18 years of service, EmuParadise had fallen, largely because of...

Situé dans le quartier d’affaires de Singapour, l’Oasia Hotel, un gratte-ciel « tropical », prend place au milieu des buildings. Cette incroyable oeuvre architecturale haute de 190 mètres a été imaginée par le cabinet d’architectes singapourien WOHA et l’architecte-designer espagnole Patricia Urquiola. Né d’une fusion entre architecture et nature, il se compose à la fois d’énormes espaces intérieurs et extérieurs.
Crédits : WOHA – Patrick Bingham – K. Kopter Luxe, confort, beauté et écoresponsabilité sont les maîtres-mots qui définissent le monument : « Le projet combine des solutions novatrices pour optimiser l’usage du sol dans une approche tropicale, tout en créant...

André Manoukian, compositeur, pianiste, comédien, animateur TV & radio est l'invité de 7h50.

“Freedom freedom !” s’exclame–t-elle. Aretha Franklin chante "Think" dans Tubes & Co au petit matin. Une chanson de l’année 1968 qui connut une deuxième naissance en 1980.

We’ve all got a box full of old PCBs, just waiting to be stripped of anything useful. [Dennis1a4] decided to do something with his, turning it into an attractive mosaic that he hung on the wall of his new workshop. But this isn’t just a pile of old PCBs: [Dennis1a4] decided to use the LEDs that were on many of the old boards, creating a blinky junk build. That’s kind of neat in itself, but he then decided to go further, building in an IR receiver so he could control the blinkiness, and a PIR sensor that detected when someone was near the mosaic.
This whole setup is controlled by an ATMega328p  that is driving a couple of PCF8575 port expanders that drive the LEDs. These blink in Morse code patterns....

Seules 18 % des biographies Wikipédia sont dédiées à des femmes, alors que 9 Wikipédiens sur 10 sont des hommes.

L'hommage à Aretha Franklin, à Detroit, la ville de son enfance. Les fans de la chanteuse disparue hier se pressent devant l'église où son père était pasteur, et où elle avait appris à chanter.

Du 2 au 5 août a eu lieu le principal festival de musique électronique d'Europe de l'Est, le festival Untold dans la ville roumaine de Cluj-Napoca. Ce rendez-vous de la jeunesse européenne est soutenu depuis son origine par l'Union européenne. Cluj, la capitale de la nuit et de la magie
Capitale européenne de la jeunesse en 2015, la ville universitaire de Cluj-Napoca, en Roumanie avait créé pour l'occasion le festival Untold. Avec un budget initial de trois millions d'euro et Avicii, David Guetta et Armin van Buuren en tête d'affiche, le festival a réussi dès son lancement à s'imposer comme le Tomorrowland d'Europe de l'Est et à rassembler plus de 240.000 jeunes dont plusieurs dizaines de milliers...

You step out of the audience onto a stage, and a hypnotist hands you a potato chip. The chip is salty and crunchy and you are convinced the chip is genuine. Now, replace the ordinary potato chip with a low-sodium version and replace the hypnotist with an Arduino. [Nimesha Ranasinghe] at the University of Maine’s Multisensory Interactive Media Lab wants to trick people into eating food with less salt by telling our tongues that we taste more salt than the recipe calls for with the help of electrical pulses controlled by everyone’s (least) favorite microcontroller.
Eating Cheetos with chopsticks is a famous lifehack but eating unsalted popcorn could join the list if these chopsticks take hold and people want...

Do you love science fiction and/or Disney theme parks? Well, you may want to hold your breath. Next week in Los Angeles, there’s an auction of vintage Disneyland memorabilia.Read more...

It was a cute joke at the beginning. “I watch Game of Thrones, but there are so many characters, I can’t keep them all straight.” But then the show got a second season, a third season, and became one of the biggest, most popular TV shows in history. Names like Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Brienne of Tarth, and Arya…Read more...

This summer, you can read our French sister edition Le Taurillon's summer print version edited for JEF-France's Europe En Vacances project. It's an occasion to get readers to travel around with the help of postcards. Today's postcard comes from Cyprus! Cyprus, the island of Aphrodite, the forgotten small country at the east of the Mediterranean
Often mixed up with Malta or Crete, Cyprus is truly a little gem. It's hot (actually very hot in the summer – 40 degrees!), the water is beautiful and the Cypriots are welcoming – what else could you ask for? Despite its small size, its multimillennial cultural and natural heritage can proudly rival those of the old lands of the continent.
Are you dreaming of...

Last year several major record labels, represented by the RIAA, filed a lawsuit against ISP Grande Communications accusing it of turning a blind eye to pirating subscribers.
According to the RIAA, the Internet provider knew that some of its subscribers were frequently distributing copyrighted material, but failed to take any meaningful action in response.
Grande refuted the accusations and filed a motion to dismiss the case. The ISP partially succeeded as the claims against its management company Patriot were dropped. The same was true for the vicarious infringement allegations, as the court saw no evidence that the ISP had a direct financial interest in the infringing activity. The labels were not willing to...

Scientists created this picture of the Mona Lisa using genetically modified E. coli bacteria. Such teeny little artists!Read more...

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პლატფორმა Europe Elects ევროპაში ჩატარებული მასობრივი გამოკითხვის შედეგებს რეგულარულად აკვირდება. ეროვნულ დონეზე ჩატარებული წარმომადგენლობითი კვლევების მონაცემების გამოყენებით პლატფორმა ცდილობს განსაზღვროს თუ როგორ გადანაწილდება ევროპარლამენტში მანდატები მომავალ...

Plusieurs sites ont désigné les membres de la communauté des gens du voyage comme coupables de la fusillade de Beaune. Il n’en est rien.

Amber fossils containing bugs are nothing new, but the discovery of a beautifully preserved Cretaceous Period beetle with bits of pollen still around it is changing what we know about the planet’s earliest pollinating insects. Read more...

Le photographe allemand résidant à Munich ne cesse de nous impressionner grâce à ses clichés pris du ciel et sa précision à rendre justice à la richesse de la Terre. Tout en offrant des photographies à couper le souffle, l’artiste visuel et designer graphique souhaite porter notre attention sur les conséquences, parfois déplorables et parfois sublimes, de la vie humaine sur la nature. Ses oeuvres accompagnées de riches informations sont de véritables chefs-d’oeuvre engagés et esthétiques. Rencontre. Quel chemin vous a mené à devenir photographe?
J’ai étudié le design et la communication en Allemagne et au Royaume-Uni de 2011 à 2017. La photographie faisait partie de mes études, mais...

Je commence par vous rappeler un billet publié ici il y a un an et demi. Je le fais suivre d’une mise à jour consistant en un commentaire de quatre captures d’écran de télévision hier dans la soirée.
Trump vs. CIA + FBI : un combat de titans !, le 24 février 2017 (Donald Trump est alors Président depuis 35 jours)
M. Trump mène ses affaires comme une entreprise dont le patron a le droit d’être le tyran implacable (rien ne l’interdit, n’est-ce pas ? malgré notre allégeance aux valeurs démocratiques). Mais pour le rayonnement extérieur de celle-ci, il lui faut nouer des alliances. M. Poutine a semblé à M. Trump, être un patron dans son genre : celui qui fait taire toute opposition par...

Lady Soul, comme la surnommaient ses très nombreux admirateurs, nous a quittés. Notre programmateur musical Thierry Dupin nous offre cette playlist hommage.

De nombreux sites présentent la future mise en place, à la rentrée, de cours d’éducation sexuelle comme une mesure figurant dans le texte de la loi Schiappa, promulguée début août.

Jake Shears “Big Bushy Mustache”
First off, I am just so glad to have this guy back. I miss the Scissor Sisters very much, but some solo Jake Shears will do for now – especially since it all just sounds like Scissor Sisters anyway. There’s some magic missing without Baby Daddy and Ana Matronic, but Shears’ songwriting is still distinctive sharp.
“Big Bushy Mustache” is a funky fantasy about masculinity that’s based in a desire to emulate a certain kind of ’70s straight man. It’s a nostalgic song about a type of guy you don’t really see anymore – strong and bold and flashy, right on the edge of campy but not quite. If you see this dude today he’s probably queer, and emulating the vibe...

La députée Les Républicains des Bouches-du-Rhône a publié sur son compte Twitter une série de chiffres issus d’un contenu faux qui circule depuis janvier sur les réseaux sociaux.

Back in May, TF broke the news that Justin Sun, the entrepreneur behind the popular cryptocurrency TRON, was in the process of acquiring BitTorrent Inc.
Two months later, BitTorrent Inc. and the TRON Foundation confirmed the acquisition.
“With this acquisition, BitTorrent will continue to provide high quality services for over 100M users around the world. We believe that joining the TRON network will further enhance BitTorrent and accelerate our mission of creating an Internet of options, not rules,” BitTorrent Inc. said.
TRON’s Justin Sun added that the acquisition of BitTorrent supports his foundation’s goal to decentralize the web but more concrete details beyond this vision have proven elusive. The...

La seconde édition de la biennale du design de Londres aura lieu du 4 au 23 septembre et aura pour thème central «Les états émotionnels », le design affectant chaque aspect de notre vie, « influençant nos émotions, notre existence et nos expériences ».
De grandes problématiques seront soulevées à travers les oeuvres d’art d’une quarantaine d’artistes internationaux, telles que la durabilité, la pollution, l’énergie, la migration, les villes ou encore l’égalité sociale. Les installations et innovations sélectionnées seront proposées autour d’un parcours interactif et immersif. Concepteurs, innovateurs et organismes culturels les plus ambitieux du monde se réuniront lors de...

Cet été, retrouvez le Taurillon en vacances, notre édition papier estivale éditée pour le projet Europe En Vacances des Jeunes Européens - France. L'occasion de faire voyager nos lecteurs et lectrices à travers quelques cartes postales. Celle d'aujourd'hui nous vient de Chypre ! Chypre, l'île d'Aphrodite, le petit pays oublié tout à l'est de la Méditerranée… Souvent prise pour Malte ou pour la Crète, Chypre est un vrai petit bijou. Il fait chaud (vraiment très chaud l'été – 40° !), l'eau est belle et les Chypriotes sont accueillants, que demander de plus ? Malgré sa petite taille, son patrimoine multi-millénaire et naturel rivalise dignement avec nos bons vieux pays du continent.
Vous...

On 25 July, the European Union successfully launched four satellites from French Guiana. That was one of the last steps before the completion of the Galileo program, scheduled for 2020. This system, created to compete with the American GPS system, presently provides positioning and time measuring services to about 400 million users. Its goal is to make Europe independent from the USA in the fields of technology and digital advancement. Space is a major concern for the EU. This field demands a large budget and a reconciliation of national sovereign ambitions, but commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska managed to address the challenge. That challenge was all about changing the European Commission from an entity...

Le Monde : Au « Média », le grand déballage se poursuit, le 15 août 2018
Un extrait de Le temps qu’il fait le 17 février 2017 :
« Je voudrais pour commencer,  vous citer quelques chiffres. Les chiffres sont les suivants : courant collectiviste anti-autoritaire, 63 % des suffrages,
courant collectiviste marxiste, 31 % des suffrages, et
courant mutuelliste, dit encore « proudhonien », 6 % des suffrages. Si vous additionnez, ça fait bien 100 %. Alors de quoi ça parle ? Et bien ça parle du quatrième congrès à Bâle de l’Association internationale des travailleurs encore appelée l’Internationale. Et l’Internationale aura vécu de 1864 à 1872 – et bien entendu la Commune de Paris...

After years of careful planning and negotiating, the European Parliament was ready to vote on its new copyright directive last month. With backing from large political factions and pretty much the entire entertainment industry, many assumed that proposal would pass. They were wrong. The Copyright Directive was sent back to the drawing board following protests from legal scholars, Internet gurus, activists, and many members of the public. Article 13, often referred to as the “upload filter” proposal, was at the center of this pushback. The vote was a massive blow to those who put their hope on the EU’s proposed copyright changes. Following the failure of SOPA and ACTA, this was another disappointment,...

Pippa Dyrlaga est une artiste spécialisée dans la découpe du papier et la gravure, actuellement basée à Yorkshire en Angleterre. Elle débute l’art de la découpe papier en 2010, trouvant l’inspiration dans la nature et dans le monde qui l’entoure. Ses créations, dont la minutie est impressionnante, sont réalisées à l’aide d’un scalpel, entièrement découpées à la main, et peuvent l’occuper pendant des heures.
Pippa Dyrlaga a fait du papier le matériau principal de ses oeuvres étant donné que tout le monde l’utilise presque tous les jours, mais également du fait qu’il possède une valeur sociale, chacun l’utilisant pour communiquer avec d’autres personnes. De plus, le papier...