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Vous connaissez probablement Wild Gunman sur NES, ce petit jeu de tir au Zapper avec des cowboys pixellisés. Mais la version originale, c'est autre chose. En 1974, Nintendo sort une borne d'arcade imaginée par Gunpei Yokoi lui-même, avant qu'il ne devienne la légende derrière la Game Boy. Au lieu...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Nature issue When we talk about “nature,” we usually mean something untouched by humans. But little of that world exists...
When people talk about “nature,” they’re generally talking about things that aren’t made by human beings. Rocks. Reefs. Red wolves. But while there is plenty of God’s creation to go around, it is hard to think of anything on Earth that human hands haven’t affected. In the Brazilian rainforest,...
The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance.” One of Brand’s several biographers described him as a mainstay of both...
1 000 fractures. C'est le nombre de cycles de cassure et de réparation qu'un nouveau composite à fibres a encaissé en labo, sans perdre sa capacité à tenir la route. Les ingénieurs de NC State University ont créé un matériau qui se "re-soude" tout seul, et qui pourrait durer entre 125 et...
When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people sheltered at home and shifted to remote work. Air travel collapsed. Cities—normally filled with the...
Linus Torvalds a officialisé Linux 7.0 le 12 avril, et le passage à la version 7 a d'ailleurs été expliquée. Torvalds a dit dans son mail de release qu'il préférait simplement incrémenter le numéro majeur quand les mineures dépassaient la dizaine, histoire de ne pas se retrouver avec un Linux 6.23....
I. We had crash-landed on the planet. We were far from home. The spaceship could not be repaired, and the rescue beacon had failed. Besides me, only the astrogator, part of the captain, and the ship’s AI mind were left. Outside, the atmosphere registered as hostile to most organisms. We...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home When Zeus, a medical student in Nigeria, returns to his apartment from a long day at...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work? In the last few months alone, Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI have all...
After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its work last week—saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey “organ sacks” as an alternative to animal testing. In an interview with Wired, R3 listed three...
This week I reported on some rather unusual research that focuses on the brain of L. Stephen Coles. Coles was a gerontologist who died from pancreatic cancer in 2014. He had spent the latter part of his career specializing in human longevity. And before he died, he decided to have his brain...