La “task force” gouvernementale chargée de combattre l’influence communiste aux Philippines compte sur de nouvelles recrues glamours, rapporte le South China Morning Post.

For more than a decade, Stoya has been one of the most recognizable names in porn. But these days, like many in the adult industry, she is as subject to the whims of the creator economy as any YouTube or Instagram influencer.As porn has become more like social media, its stars are learning the hard way about the instability of creating content online, ever dependent on opaque platforms with changing rules. The gatekeepers of the creator economy are not just social media platforms, but the infrastructure providers behind them. Financial firms like banks, credit card companies, and pay-out providers are now becoming the arbiters of what’s allowed.What’s permitted on social media is at once ill-defined and...

It's not only a masterfully crafted stealth shooter, it also shows the possibility of radical ruptures with the present.

Utilities have upgraded the infrastructure for rooftop power in richer neighborhoods, but low-income areas don't have the same capacity.

If you plan to upgrade to Apple's new models, don't forget to cash in on your old one.

Depuis plus d’un an, la crise sanitaire bouscule notre rapport au travail en y instaurant une distance inédite. Incarnée notamment par la progression du télétravail, une « culture distancielle » est en train d’émerger, bouleversant durablement les mœurs des entreprises. De la reconfiguration des bureaux à l’essor d’un management « confiant », tour d’horizon des tendances dessinant un futur du travail porté sur la fluidité et la résilience.

Ursula von der Leyen a détaillé ses priorités devant le Parlement européen - Crédits : Dati Bendo / Commission européenne “Souveraineté européenne, autonomie stratégique, indépendance industrielle, réforme de la gouvernance économique et sociale de l’UE ou encore lutte contre la fraude fiscale” : de nombreux sujets étaient au menu du discours sur l’état de l’Union, prononcé mercredi 15 septembre par la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen [Libération]. Un exercice qui a débuté par un “satisfecit économique et sanitaire”, comme l’annonçaient les Echos, la cheffe de l’exécutif louant la gestion européenne de la crise du Covid-19. À LIRE...

122 670 inscrits à la primaire des écologistes peuvent voter pour l’un des cinq candidats à partir de ce jeudi. Un vote électronique, par internet. Les résultats du premier tour sont attendus dimanche en fin d’après-midi.

Dans L’Affaire collective, le documentariste roumain Alexander Nanau revient sur l’incendie meurtrier d’une discothèque de Bucarest en 2015, un fait divers qui avait révélé la gabegie du système de santé roumain. Son film est sorti en France le 15 septembre.

Avec la reprise des concerts, ça chauffe aussi du côté de l’industrie musicale. Jusqu’alors relativement préservée des attaques concernant son empreinte carbone, elle doit désormais répondre du taux d’émissions de CO2 gigantesque qu’elle génère chaque année, principalement via les tournées et festivals. Une chronique de Greg De Temmerman, physicien, chercheur associé aux Mines-ParisTech PSL et directeur général du think tank Zenon Research.

Avant-première du film « Une fois que tu sais » à Créteil avec Vincent Burnand-Galpin Confronté à la réalité du changement climatique et à l’épuisement des ressources, le réalisateur Emmanuel Cappellin prend conscience qu’un effondrement de notre civilisation industrielle est inévitable. Mais comment continuer à vivre avec l’idée que l’aventure humaine puisse échouer ? En quête de réponses, il part à la rencontre d’experts et de scientifiques tels que Pablo Servigne, Jean-Marc Jancovici ou Susanne Moser. Tous appellent à une action collective et solidaire pour préparer une transition la plus humaine possible. Une odyssée qui touche à l’intime et transforme notre regard sur...

Alors que la Maison-Blanche se préparait à proposer une nouvelle injection contre le Covid-19 à la plupart des adultes aux États-Unis, cette politique est mise en doute par des études contradictoires sur les bénéfices de la troisième dose.

L’allégement de certaines mesures serait progressif et concernerait les départements « où le virus circulera moins ». « L’épidémie n’est pas terminée », a toutefois souligné Olivier Véran, le ministre de la santé.

Durement éprouvés par les crises du quinquennat, commerçants, artisans et professions libérales bénéficieront de simplifications sociales et fiscales.

Until last year, Stuart was a man with ties to many countries—an exemplar of this multinational age of business. He was a Briton who’d lived since 1996 in Japan, working as a flight attendant on international flights. His employer through all those years, United Airlines, was American.Stuart worked under a US contract, which meant that he was represented by a US union, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA). He paid US income taxes and contributed to social security. After the Covid-19 pandemic hit, he even continued getting his salary under the US government’s payroll support program, which disbursed $40 billion to US airlines on the condition that they didn’t lay off employees until Sep. 30,...

La représentante de l’opposition biélorusse, en visite du 15 au 17 septembre, demande à l’Union européenne de maintenir la pression sur le régime Loukachenko et d’aider la société civile.

Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist and evangelical Christian, has written a book that lays out strategies for discussing the climate crisis in a divided country.

Her gentle, heartwarming stories seek to soothe our troubled souls. They also aim to blow up the entire genre.

If you are calling to clarify the order in which you should use cleansers, toners, serums, creams, moisturizers, spot treatments, oils, and masks, the answer is, no one knows.

As director and star, the nonagenarian filmmaker looks back at pain and ahead to redemption.

The civil-rights attorney Alexandra Brodsky discusses how legislation against nonconsensual condom removal could expand understandings of sexual assault.

Beijing says the deal, involving nuclear-powered submarines, undermines regional peace.

The ban comes after a 17-year-old admitted to a romantic relationship with murderer Peter Madsen.

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India’s jobseekers are in for a festive season bonanza.Recruiters expect between 300,000 and 500,000 seasonal jobs will be created as demand for temporary staff surges 35% compared to last year. The two biggest e-commerce firms, Amazon and Flipkart, are creating over 100,000 jobs each in the coming months. After all, this year’s festive sales are poised to be the biggest ever because of pent-up demand and rising consumer confidence in online shopping.India’s recovery continuesRead the rest of this story on qz.com. Become a member to get unlimited access to Quartz’s journalism.

US President Joe Biden appeared to forget Scott Morrison's name during a video conference.

WhatsApp is piloting a new business directory in São Paulo, Brazil that lets users find local shops and services with a presence on the app, the service’s head Will Cathcart has announced. Screenshots show how WhatsApp will show businesses sorted by categories like “grocery store” and “restaurant,” before letting users chat directly with them. Reuters reports that the test will include thousands of businesses in the city. Although the Facebook-owned messaging service is most famous as a person-to-person messaging service, e-commerce has become an increasingly important part of its offering in recent years. As of last October, WhatsApp reported that over 175 million people globally used the service...

Image: Gogoro Gogoro is the latest EV company to jump on the trend of going public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The Taiwanese e-scooter and battery-swapping tech startup announced Thursday that it will combine with a SPAC called Poema Global Holdings, which is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The deal — which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022 — will net Gogoro around $550 million, and will value the startup at more than $2.3 billion.
It’s a huge step for the scooter company, which has been rapidly expanding this year. In April, Gogoro announced a partnership with the largest two-wheeler manufacturer in the world to bring its electric scooter and...

Difficulties in getting Covid-19 vaccines from the US and Europe to Africa mean that it’s more important than ever for the continent to be capable of breakthrough research in biotechnology and medicine. While that reality may still be years away, new investment into one of the continent’s most ambitious health-tech companies could help lay necessary foundations.54gene, the genomics research startup, says it has raised $25 million in a Series B round led by venture capitalists Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund. Some existing investors like Adjuvant Capital, KdT Ventures, and Ingressive Capital put in new money too.Abasi Ene-Obong, 54gene’s CEO, says the new capital will advance plans for “an African...

Trois jours après l’échec cuisant du camp présidentiel péroniste aux élections primaires pour les législatives, une crise gouvernementale laisse apparaître une fracture entre Alberto Fernández et Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Cinq ministres et deux hauts fonctionnaires proches de la vice-présidente ont présenté leur démission.
 

À sept mois de la présidentielle, c'est un sujet qui préoccupe les partis politiques et états majors des candidats. Comment se prémunir contre les cyberattaques, les fuites de données et de conversations privées? Dans chaque camp, on s'organise pour sécuriser au mieux les outils.

French President Emmanuel Macron calls the killing of Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi a "major success".

Les abus sont nombreux et beaucoup de stagiaires sont déçus par leur expérience. Le magazine Der Spiegel a donc fait le point sur les droits des stagiaires et les obligations des entreprises.

Project Taara link | Image: X In January, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, shut down Project Loon, an initiative exploring using stratospheric helium balloons to distribute wireless internet (an attempt to use solar-powered drones folded in 2017). However, some technology developed as a part of the Loon project remained in development, specifically the Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC) links that were originally meant to connect the high flying balloons — and now that technology is actively in use providing a high-speed broadband link for people in Africa. Sort of like fiber optic cables without the cable, FSOC can create a 20Gbps+ broadband link from two points that have a clear line of sight,...

Canberra a rompu le « contrat du siècle » avec le français Naval Group, au profit de technologies nucléaires américaines et britanniques. Jeudi, le chef de la diplomatie française, Jean-Yves Le Drian, a évoqué un « coup dans le dos » de la part de l’Australie.

Que vous soyez sous mac ou Linux, vous connaissez forcement la commande « ls » qui permet dans un terminal de lister les fichiers d’un répertoire. Seulement, voilà… Un « ls » chez moi ça ressemble à ça : C’est très monochrome, pas forcément super bien présenté et on a du mal à y voir clair. Alors bien sûr, vous pouvez sûrement passer des heures à tuner votre terminal comme vous le faites déjà probablement avec votre voiture. Mais si ça vous saoule et que vous voulez du résultat tout de suite, pourquoi ne pas tester exa ? Exa est un « ls » amélioré avec beaucoup plus de fonctionnalités et un meilleur rendu. Il utilise des couleurs pour distinguer les types de fichiers et...

Un tout nouveau modèle et quelques mises à jour dans notre matériel pour cette rentrée 2021. -
Autocollants / autocollants

Christiane Taubira, ancienne garde des Sceaux, auteure de "Ces morceaux de vie... comme carreaux cassés" (Robert Laffont), est l'invitée du Grand entretien de France Inter.

La veille du colloque : Hôpital & Université,inspirations parallèles, la promotion Gisèle Halimi du Master […]

A la base, je comptais vraiment adapter un vieil iMac comme écran, mais comme je manque de place pour des écrans cathodiques et que mon seul iMac G3 compatible est un Flower Power, je vais juste vous présenter le projet. Une personne a donc décidé de proposer le nécessaire pour réutiliser un iMac G3 comme écran classique. Trois choses à dire pour commencer. Premièrement, ça ne fonctionne que sur les iMac G3 avec un lecteur slot-in. Sur les premiers iMac (ceux avec un tiroir), c’est nettement plus simple. Avec eux, il y a une prise DA-15 et il suffit donc du bon adaptateur VGA pour sortir une image sur l’iMac. Deuxièmement, il faut se méfier d’une chose : les ordinateurs récents ne...

Le pipeline complété, sa mise en opération devrait se faire d'ici le mois prochain. Nord Stream 2 est un gazoduc reliant la Russie à l'Allemagne en passant par la mer Baltique. Il est l'une des nombreuses routes utilisées pour acheminer le gaz en Europe. Entamé en 2015, le projet n'a cessé de diviser. Entre ses partisans, au premier rang desquels on retrouve l'Allemagne, qui ne veulent y voir qu'un projet économique, et ses détracteurs (Pologne, États baltes) qui estiment que sa construction devrait être arrêtée pour diversifier les approvisionnements en gaz de l'UE. Nord Stream 2 a créé une véritable « désunion intra-européenne et transatlantique », comme le résume une étude du Parlement...

INFO FRANCE INTER I Un homme a été interpellé à Paris alors qu'il faisait des tests antigéniques pour un prestataire mandaté par une pharmacie. Cet étudiant en architecture semblait loin de remplir les conditions nécessaires. Une enquête préliminaire est ouverte. L'affaire interroge quant aux contrôles dans ce domaine.

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Ari Lennox “Pressure”
There’s a lot to find charming about “Pressure” – the pleasing curls of the melody, Ari Lennox’s coy delivery, the light and relaxed tone of the groove – but the thing that puts this song over the top for me is a small detail. It’s the way a small snippet of vocal sample is dropped in as sort of punctuation, an unintelligible but raw and raspy vocal that contrasts sharply with Lennox’s more silky vocal tone. It’s deployed brilliantly but sounds like it might have started as a happy accident, like some stray fragment that happened to fall at the right spot of a ProTools session. It’s an unexpected texture that grabs the ear and highlights the best qualities of...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Sony’s update adding the much-anticipated support for M.2 SSD storage expansion is here, letting you install more PS5 games than the 825GB built-in SSD allows. When the feature first launched in beta, Sony provided a list of requirements, making it clear that you wouldn’t necessarily be able to just grab any SSD and chuck it in your PS5. We’ve tried to list as many of the compatible ones as we can, as stock has seemingly been hit pretty hard — the more options you have, the more likely you are to actually get your hands on one.
Which SSDs work with the PS5?
Sony’s main requirements are that the SSD is PCIe Gen4 and at least 250GB. However, Sony makes it very clear that...

She puts the “spesh” in “special”!Screenshot: ShudderAs far as horror fans are concerned, Halloween is a year-round state of mind rather than holiday with a specific time frame for its enjoyment. But even those of us who are in Halloween mood all the time can (and will) get extremely excited for Halloween-specific festivities, especially when they involve genre legends doing what they do best. Gather up the popcorn and candy corn, because the Mistress of the Dark is coming to Shudder to mark not just the spooky season, but also a monumental anniversary.“Shudder Presents: Elvira’s 40th Anniversary Very Scary, Very Special Special” honors the 40th anniversary of the curvaceous horror host’s...

Results from the California recall election came in early and quickly Tuesday night. KCRW reporter Benjamin Gottlieb spoke with people who supported Newsom and those who wanted him ousted — about their reactions and what this means for the gubernatorial election in 2022. Supporters of GOP frontrunner @larryelder gather in Costa Mesa in anticipation of hearing the results tonight in the #CaliforniaRecall @kcrw pic.twitter.com/q7DmGpwAXD
— Benjamin Gottlieb 🇦🇷 (@benjamin_max) September 15, 2021 Festive vibe in Boyle Height tonight at the recently opened Distrito Catorce where the @LAdemocrats are holding a watch party for the #CaliforniaRecallElection @MarkJGonzalezLA @kdeleon @kcrw...

LA City Council passed a motion aimed at curbing illegal street racing this week.
Introduced by City Council member Monica Rodriguez, the motion instructs several city departments and task forces — including the Department of Transportation, the Bureau of Street Services, and the Los Angeles Police Department Street Racing Task Force — to recommend traffic calming measures in places with frequent illegal street racing.
That could include street humps, rumble strips, raised center medians, curb extensions, and traffic circles. Rodriguez says preventative infrastructure measures like these will be more effective than enforcement efforts. 
“The LAPD cannot be at every intersection interrupting these...

Do you ever feel like your television has become another member of your family? You probably look at the screen now more than ever, especially during the pandemic. Zürich-based visual artist Pipilotti Rist knows how you feel. She is obsessed with the electric unconscious residing in our TVs and within ourselves as viewers. You can explore the obsession yourself at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA now, at her exhibition called “Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor.” The multimedia collection includes more than 30 years of her work and runs through June 6, 2022. 
Installation view, Louisiana Museum, Pipilotti Rist Åbn min lysning (Open My Glade), Humlebæk, Denmark, 2019. Photo by Poul Buchard. © Pipilotti...

« Génération Merkel » (4/5). La chancelière allemande tirera sa révérence après les législatives du 26 septembre. Retour sur l’un de ses coups de maître : l’adoption du mariage entre personnes de même sexe, en 2017. Sans elle, rien n’aurait été possible, et pourtant, elle a voté contre.

Leslie Odom Jr. and Cynthia Erivo star in Needle in a Timestack.Image: LionsgateDealing with toxic exes is a pain in the ass no matter what, but things get a lot worse if they start traveling through time. In Needle in a Timestack, Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. and The Outsider’s Cynthia Erivo star as a couple madly in love. That is, until the woman’s ex travels back through time to temp the man with his ex. And those exes are played by Lord of the Rings’ Orlando Bloom and Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto.Yes, there are lots of very beautiful people competing for various affections in Needle in a Timestack, which is written and directed by Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) is based on a...

In our modern times, divorce has become as commonplace as breathing. It’s a near-guarantee for nearly half the couples that get married. If there’s a 50% chance your marriage won’t make the distance, would you still walk down the aisle? Some of our dearest celebrities have been through the painful process and are opening up about the toll it takes on your mental health, self-esteem, and general ability to function in society. Drew Barrymore has been around the block a few times; as a result, she is constantly reflecting on her choices and trying to figure out where each of her unions went oh-so-wrong.  As a woman in her forties with three marriages under her belt, she is all too familiar with the stigma...

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Screenshot: Disney+/MarvelWhile the Sacred Timeline’s Erik Killmonger may be dead, a variant is alive and kicking in the latest episode of Disney+ and Marvel’s animated What If series. Michael B. Jordan reprises his role as the prodigal Wakandan son in “What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?”, a story that condenses and remixes the beats from the live-action Black Panther film. Black Panther’s Killmonger did a number of unconscionable, morally corrupt things in his pursuit of power and exacting revenge upon the world for systemically brutalizing Africa and its diaspora over the course of human history. But by the end of Ryan Coogler’s 2018 film, the charismatic villain had made more than enough...

A note written in marker on a baby's stomach made a mother very upset and eventually led to the teacher's firing. Heather Chisum, a single mom in Sanibel Island, Florida said she was "furious" when she picked her 18-month-old son Milo up from daycare only to find a note written in marker on his stomach. "Am I right to be furious about this? Or am I overreacting? I really need your opinions guys, because I’m about to barge in this daycare tomorrow morning and have some words," she wrote in a January 2020 Facebook post. The note said, ”Mom I’m out of diapers pls read my report.” This wasn't the first time Chisum explained that the Florida daycare her son attends usually puts a report in his lunchbox...

Josh Barro and Ken White talk about the fate of Rudy Giuliani associate, and why you should closely read the script before recording a Cameo.

Eddie Brock is searching for Venom 2 clues.Image: Sony PicturesMovies studios are usually coy about films with surprise post-credit sequences, but apparently not Sony in 2021. Earlier today, rumors began circulating online about one such scene in the studio’s Marvel superhero sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage—and by this afternoon, the studio had turned a tweet about it into a sharable social media post on its official account.“In my whole life I have never seen a whole movie theatre react as loud as they did to the Venom 2 end credits scene,” reads the tweet from user Eman Kellam, an actor, rapper, and Youtuber residing in England. “Sony delivered.” Sony then turned that into its own tweet...

Making keyboards is easy, right? Just wire up a bunch of switches matrix-style to a microcontroller, slap some QMK and a set of keycaps on there and you’re good to go. Well, yeah, that might work for cushier environments like home offices and Hackaday dungeons, but what if you need to give input under water, in a volatile area, or anywhere else you’d have to forego the clacking for something hermetically sealed? Mechanical switches can only take you so far — at some point, you have to go optical.
This gorgeous keyboard works with reflected IR beams to determine when a finger is occupying a given key site (because what else are you going to call them?). Each key site has an IR LED and a phototransistor...

It’s not that hard to get your head around the concept of an external conflict. The war scenes depicted in War and Peace or the shouting matches between husbands and wives in Anna Karenina? Those are external conflicts. The primary difference between internal and external conflict, from a writer’s point of view? Internal conflict can be a lot harder to write well. But what is internal conflict in literature? Let’s prime the pump with an example not from books at all, but from the movies. Internal conflicts in movies OK, big time, massive, huge spoiler alert: if you still don’t know the wildest silver screen reveal from the year 1980, that “Oh my god!” moment near the end of sci-fi space masterpiece...