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lundi 25 août 2025, 04:50
'For a few dozen people in the world, the downside of living with a rare immune condition comes with a surprising superpower — the ability to fight off all viruses...' notes an announcement from Columbia University. 'At first, the condition only seemed to increase...
'A fierce dust storm hit the Black Rock Desert on the eve of its annual Burning Man festival,' reports the San Francisco Chronicle, 'causing at least four minor injuries and damaging campsites that had been set up early.' [Alternate URL] 'Winds of up to 50 mph stirred up the ...
After the Tea dating-advice app leaked information on its users, the BBC found two online maps 'purporting to represent the locations of women who had signed up for Tea... showing 33,000 pins spread across the United States.' The maps were hosted on Google Maps. (Notified by ...
dimanche 24 août 2025, 22:34
'The truly universal properties of languages are not independent of our physiology and cognition,' argues the co-author of a new study. Instead he says their research 'strengthens the idea that intonation units are a universal feature of language.' Phys.org explains: Have...
'The ultimate test of climate projections is to compare them with what has played out...' says earth sciences professor Torbjörn Törnqvist, lead author on a new study published in the open-access journal Earth's Future (published by the American Geophysical Union). But after ...
'Delta Air Lines Flight 1334 was flying from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale last month when smoke and flames started pouring out of a backpack,' reports CNN. 'The pilots declared an emergency and diverted to Fort Meyers where the 191 people onboard safely evacuated.' The culprit ...
The mysterious X-37B space-plane — the U.S. military's orbital test vehicle — 'serves partly as a platform for cutting-edge experiments,' writes Space.com And 'one of these experiments is a potential alternative to GPS that makes use of quantum science as a tool for...
The BBC reports a growing trend in music: 'for established (but not superstar) artists to be targeted by fake albums or songs that suddenly appear on their pages on Spotify and other streaming services.' Even dead musicians have had AI-generated 'new' material added to their ...
Archer Aviation is 'the official air taxi partner' of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Electrek reported in May. In June it entered 'a key development phase ahead of full-fledged flight certification and commercial operations' by completing a piloted flight in its...
'Good news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla's browser now makes even more extensive use of AI,' writes the Register, 'providing summaries of linked content and offering developers the ability to add LLM support to extensions.' Firefox 142 brings some visible shininess,...
The Hill reports: Russian state-sponsored hackers have targeted thousands of networking devices associated with U.S. critical infrastructure sectors over the past year, the FBI warned Wednesday. The cyber actors are associated with the Russian Federal Security Service's...
The Atlantic reports some YouTube users noticed their uploaded videos have since 'been subtly augmented, their appearance changing without their creators doing anything...' 'For creators who want to differentiate themselves from the new synthetic content, YouTube seems...
'Google has confirmed that its Battery Health Assistance feature can't be turned off on the Pixel 10 phones,' reports Android Authority: Google introduced a Battery Health Assistance feature on the Pixel 9a earlier this year. This feature gradually drops your phone's...
'Solar and wind accounted for almost 91% of new U.S. electrical generating capacity added in the first five months of 2025...' reports Electrek, citing new data from America's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 'Solar has now been the largest source of new generating...
The U.S. government's 10% stake in Intel 'is a mistake,' writes the Washington Post's editorial board, calling Intel 'an aging also-ran in critical markets' that 'has spent recent years stumbling on execution and missing one strategic opportunity after another.' But...
samedi 23 août 2025, 23:34
Last weekend New Zealand experienced an hour-long air traffic control failure that disrupted flights, leaving five plans circling and four others unable to take off, according to Radio New Zealand. The country's sole air traffic service provider, Airways, now says it was...
'Only a tiny fraction of the more than 7,000 languages on Earth are supported by artificial intelligence models,' reported SiliconANGLE this week. So Nvidia announced 'a massive new AI-ready dataset and models to support the development of high-quality AI translation for...
'James Cameron has a confession: he can't write Terminator 7...' according to the Guardian, 'because reality keeps nicking his plotlines.' 'I'm at a point right now where I have a hard time writing science-fiction,' Cameron told CNN this week. 'I'm tasked with writing a new...
Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users. But who are these people who are actually using Threads, asks Mashable? And what is their cultural footprint? Threads is the Big Bang Theory of social media. Bland, boring, largely unoffensive, and somehow, it was...
The Free Software Foundation announced a special photography contest honoring its 40th anniversary: The technology we use every day has changed dramatically since our founding nearly forty years ago, including the way we interact with it... We're incredibly grateful for the...
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