Qui aurait cru qu'un monorail à roue unique pourrait connaître une seconde chance ? C'est presque aussi surprenant que de voir un chat décider de plonger dans l'eau ! Construite par le génie du Meccano, cette merveille a débuté avec des tests « modestes » où un gyroscope a, bien entendu, décidé de faire le grand saut... vers l'échec. Mais qui a besoin de stabilité quand on peut avoir une montagne russe de la science ? Allez, un peu de foi, peut-être que le prochain essai de cette invention iconique sera une balade magistrale... ou un ticket pour le cirque. #Monorail #Gyroscope #InventionsFuturistes #Meccano #

La solitude s'installe comme une ombre, même dans les moments de créativité. Sam et son équipe, malgré leur génie dans la conception des épisodes dévastateurs de *Game Changer*, semblent porter le poids de leur propre isolement. 🌧️ Chaque épisode, bien que rempli de surprises, révèle aussi une vulnérabilité triste. Peu de tests et beaucoup de pression, une danse délicate entre l'innovation et la mélancolie. Chaque rire sur le plateau cache une larme, témoignant d'une bataille intérieure. Peut-être que derrière le rideau des jeux se cache un cœur égaré, cherchant une connexion, une chaleur, un soutien. 🖤 #Solitude #Créativité #Game

So, Meta has decided to let job candidates use AI during coding tests. Because, you know, nothing screams "top-notch engineering" quite like letting a chatbot do the heavy lifting. Mark Zuckerberg calls it "vibecoding." Apparently, the future of tech is now all about good vibes and AI babysitters. Who needs actual coding skills when you've got a digital sidekick to help you vibe your way through the test? I can already see the new job title: "Chief Vibe Officer of Code." Welcome to the new age of engineering where "if it feels good, it codes good." #Meta #Vibecoding #TechTrends #JobCandidates #FutureOfWork

Le RX 9070 XT a surpris tout le monde en dépassant le RTX 5080, mais seulement dans certains tests. Pas vraiment une révolution, mais c'est ce qu'on a. Il semble que les benchmarks aient révélé des résultats intéressants, même si ça ne change pas grand-chose à la situation générale. La compétition continue, mais bon, c'est juste une autre carte graphique parmi tant d'autres. #RX9070XT #RTX5080 #CartesGraphiques #Technologie #Benchmarks

Ari Aster’s new film 'Eddington' is a glaring indictment of how living in the internet has warped our realities. Written during a time of crisis, the film exposes the explosive consequences of our addiction to conspiracy-fueled social media diets. It’s infuriating to see how we’ve become slaves to our screens, drowning in misinformation while critical issues like the BLM protests get overshadowed. Aster’s critique is not just relevant; it’s a wake-up call! We need to wake up, unplug, and reclaim our lives from this toxic digital landscape. Stop letting algorithms dictate your thoughts and start thinking for yourself! #Eddington #AriAster #SocialMedia #DigitalAddiction #WakeUp

Il est inacceptable que des systèmes de simulation vulnérables pour le test de pénétration des drones soient mis en avant comme une méthode d'apprentissage! On nous dit que "la meilleure façon d'apprendre est de faire", mais à quel prix? Promouvoir des systèmes intentionnellement vulnérables, c'est jouer avec le feu. Ces pratiques ridicules exposent notre société à des risques incommensurables. Qui en est responsable? La sécurité ne doit jamais être une expérience de laboratoire! Il est temps de se lever et de dénoncer ces erreurs techniques qui mettent en péril notre sécurité collective. Assez de cette irresponsabilité! #SécuritéInformatique #TestsDePénétration #D

Elden Ring, Nightreign, revive mechanics, survival tips, gaming strategy, Bell Bearing Hunter, multiplayer challenges, emotional gaming experience ## Introduction In the shadowy realms of Elden Ring Nightreign, where hope flickers like a dying ember, players find themselves entangled in a web of survival, sacrifice, and betrayal. Each moment spent in this unforgiving world tests not only our skills but also our endurance. One of the most poignant aspects of this journey is the ability to reviv...

The protests in Los Angeles have brought a lot of attention, but honestly, it’s just the same old story. The Chatbot disinformation is like that annoying fly that keeps buzzing around, never really going away. You’d think people would be more careful about what they believe, but here we are. The spread of disinformation online is just fueling the fire, making everything seem more chaotic than it really is. It’s kind of exhausting to see the same patterns repeat. There’s a protest, some people get riled up, and then the misinformation starts pouring in. It’s like a never-ending cycle. Our senior politics editor dives into this topic in the latest episode of Uncanny Valley, talking about how these chatbots are playing a role in amplifying false information. Not that many people seem to care, though. The online landscape is flooded with all kinds of messages that can easily distort reality. It’s almost as if people are too tired to fact-check anymore. Just scroll through social media, and you’ll see countless posts that are misleading or completely untrue. The impact on the protests is real, with misinformation adding to the confusion and frustration. One could argue that it’s a bit depressing, really. As the protests continue, it’s hard to see a clear path forward. Disinformation clouds the truth, and people seem to just accept whatever they see on their screens. It’s all so monotonous. The same discussions being had over and over again, and yet nothing really changes. The chatbots keep generating content, and the cycle goes on. Honestly, it makes you wonder whether anyone is actually listening or if they’re just scrolling mindlessly. The discussions about the protests and the role of disinformation should be enlightening, but they often feel repetitive and bland. It’s hard to muster any excitement when the conversations feel so stale. In the end, it’s just more noise in a world that’s already too loud. The protests might be important, but the chatbots and their disinformation are just taking away from the real issues at hand. This episode of Uncanny Valley might shed some light, but will anyone really care? Who knows. #LosAngelesProtests #Disinformation #Chatbots #UncannyValley #Misinformation

Perhaps the oldest, most pernicious form of human bias is that of men toward women. It often started at the moment of birth. In ancient Athens, at a public ceremony called the amphidromia, fathers would inspect a newborn and decide whether it would be part of the family, or be cast away. One often socially acceptable reason for abandoning the baby: It was a girl. Female infanticide has been distressingly common in many societies — and its practice is not just ancient history. In 1990, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen looked at birth ratios in Asia, North Africa, and China and calculated that more than 100 million women were essentially “missing” — meaning that, based on the normal ratio of boys to girls at birth and the longevity of both genders, there was a huge missing number of girls who should have been born, but weren’t. Sen’s estimate came before the truly widespread adoption of ultrasound tests that could determine the sex of a fetus in utero — which actually made the problem worse, leading to a wave of sex-selective abortions. These were especially common in countries like India and China; the latter’s one-child policy and old biases made families desperate for their one child to be a boy. The Economist has estimated that since 1980 alone, there have been approximately 50 million fewer girls born worldwide than would naturally be expected, which almost certainly means that roughly that nearly all of those girls were aborted for no other reason than their sex. The preference for boys was a bias that killed in mass numbers.But in one of the most important social shifts of our time, that bias is changing. In a great cover story earlier this month, The Economist reported that the number of annual excess male births has fallen from a peak of 1.7 million in 2000 to around 200,000, which puts it back within the biologically standard birth ratio of 105 boys for every 100 girls. Countries that once had highly skewed sex ratios — like South Korea, which saw almost 116 boys born for every 100 girls in 1990 — now have normal or near-normal ratios. Altogether, The Economist estimated that the decline in sex preference at birth in the past 25 years has saved the equivalent of 7 million girls. That’s comparable to the number of lives saved by anti-smoking efforts in the US. So how, exactly, have we overcome a prejudice that seemed so embedded in human society?Success in school and the workplaceFor one, we have relaxed discrimination against girls and women in other ways — in school and in the workplace. With fewer limits, girls are outperforming boys in the classroom. In the most recent international PISA tests, considered the gold standard for evaluating student performance around the world, 15-year-old girls beat their male counterparts in reading in 79 out of 81 participating countries or economies, while the historic male advantage in math scores has fallen to single digits. Girls are also dominating in higher education, with 113 female students at that level for every 100 male students. While women continue to earn less than men, the gender pay gap has been shrinking, and in a number of urban areas in the US, young women have actually been outearning young men. Government policies have helped accelerate that shift, in part because they have come to recognize the serious social problems that eventually result from decades of anti-girl discrimination. In countries like South Korea and China, which have long had some of the most skewed gender ratios at birth, governments have cracked down on technologies that enable sex-selective abortion. In India, where female infanticide and neglect have been particularly horrific, slogans like “the Daughter, Educate the Daughter” have helped change opinions. A changing preferenceThe shift is being seen not just in birth sex ratios, but in opinion polls — and in the actions of would-be parents.Between 1983 and 2003, The Economist reported, the proportion of South Korean women who said it was “necessary” to have a son fell from 48 percent to 6 percent, while nearly half of women now say they want daughters. In Japan, the shift has gone even further — as far back as 2002, 75 percent of couples who wanted only one child said they hoped for a daughter.In the US, which allows sex selection for couples doing in-vitro fertilization, there is growing evidence that would-be parents prefer girls, as do potential adoptive parents. While in the past, parents who had a girl first were more likely to keep trying to have children in an effort to have a boy, the opposite is now true — couples who have a girl first are less likely to keep trying. A more equal futureThere’s still more progress to be made. In northwest of India, for instance, birth ratios that overly skew toward boys are still the norm. In regions of sub-Saharan Africa, birth sex ratios may be relatively normal, but post-birth discrimination in the form of poorer nutrition and worse medical care still lingers. And course, women around the world are still subject to unacceptable levels of violence and discrimination from men.And some of the reasons for this shift may not be as high-minded as we’d like to think. Boys around the world are struggling in the modern era. They increasingly underperform in education, are more likely to be involved in violent crime, and in general, are failing to launch into adulthood. In the US, 20 percent of American men between 25 and 34 still live with their parents, compared to 15 percent of similarly aged women. It also seems to be the case that at least some of the increasing preference for girls is rooted in sexist stereotypes. Parents around the world may now prefer girls partly because they see them as more likely to take care of them in their old age — meaning a different kind of bias against women, that they are more natural caretakers, may be paradoxically driving the decline in prejudice against girls at birth.But make no mistake — the decline of boy preference is a clear mark of social progress, one measured in millions of girls’ lives saved. And maybe one Father’s Day, not too long from now, we’ll reach the point where daughters and sons are simply children: equally loved and equally welcomed.A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here!See More: #stunning #reversal #humanitys #oldest #bias

What just happened? As protests against federal immigration enforcement swept through downtown Los Angeles last week, a wave of looting left several major retailers, including Apple, T-Mobile, and Adidas, counting the cost of smashed windows and stolen goods. Yet for those who made off with iPhones from Apple's flagship store, the thrill of the heist quickly turned into a lesson in high-tech security. Apple's retail locations are equipped with advanced anti-theft technology that renders display devices useless once they leave the premises. The moment a demonstration iPhone is taken beyond the store's Wi-Fi network, it is instantly disabled by proximity software and a remote "kill switch." Instead of a functioning smartphone, thieves were met with a stark message on the screen: "Please return to Apple Tower Theatre. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted." The phone simultaneously sounds an alarm and flashes the warning, ensuring it cannot be resold or activated elsewhere. This system is not new. During the nationwide unrest of 2020, similar scenes played out as looters discovered that Apple's security measures turned their stolen goods into little more than expensive paperweights. The technology relies on a combination of location tracking and network monitoring. As soon as a device is separated from the store's secure environment, it is remotely locked, its location is tracked, and law enforcement is notified. // Related Stories Videos circulating online show stolen iPhones blaring alarms and displaying tracking messages, making them impossible to ignore and virtually worthless on the black market. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, at least three individuals were arrested in connection with the Apple Store burglary, including one suspect apprehended at the scene and two others detained for looting. The crackdown on looting comes amid a broader shift in California's approach to retail crime. In response to public outcry over rising thefts, state and local officials have moved away from previously lenient policies. The passage of Proposition 36 has empowered prosecutors to file felony charges against repeat offenders, regardless of the value of stolen goods, and to impose harsher penalties for organized group theft. Under these new measures, those caught looting face the prospect of significant prison time, a marked departure from the misdemeanor charges that were common under earlier laws. District attorneys in Southern California have called for even harsher penalties, particularly for crimes committed during states of emergency. Proposals include making looting a felony offense, increasing prison sentences, and ensuring that suspects are not released without judicial review. The goal, officials say, is to deter opportunistic criminals who exploit moments of crisis, whether during protests or natural disasters. #stolen #iphones #disabled #apple039s #antitheft