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Cet article fait partie de ma série spéciale hackers . Bonne lecture ! Il y a quelques jours, lors de la demo party Revision 2026 , dans une salle plongée dans le noir à Sarrebruck, un public de sceners regarde défiler les crédits d'une demo victorieuse. Au milieu des pseudos des graphistes, un nom...
La console NeoGeo AES est sans doute une des plus belles consoles des années 1990. Avec un hardware sans compromis, son constructeur, SNK, voulait des jeux aussi proche que possible de l'arcade. Résultat : des graphismes parmi les meilleures de son époque. Mais, la NeoGeo était vendu très chère....
Lancée en 1990, la Neo-Geo, c’est cette console de salon qui amenait littéralement « l'arcade à la maison », à condition toutefois de bien vouloir débourser 3 500 Francs à l’époque (sans parler du prix des cartouches), soit une petite fortune…
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the Roomba. The real ambition for many of these researchers was...
L'Electronic Frontier Foundation, la plus grosse association américaine de défense des droits numériques, a annoncé qu'elle quittait X. Après presque vingt ans sur la plateforme, l'organisation estime que le réseau ne remplit plus son rôle. Le départ a été officialisé le 9 avril. Les chiffres sont...
A rare warm spell in January melted enough snow to uncover Cornell University’s newest athletic field, built for field hockey. Months before, it was a meadow teeming with birds and bugs; now it’s more than an acre of synthetic turf roughly the color of the felt on a pool table, almost digital in...
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...
Human-made glass is thousands of years old. But it’s now poised to find its way into the AI chips used in the world’s newest and largest data centers. This year, a South Korean company called Absolics is planning to start commercial production of special glass panels designed to make...
Several years ago, Suzanne Berger was visiting a manufacturing facility in Ohio, talking to workers on the shop floor, when a machinist offered a thought that could serve as her current credo. “Technology takes a step forward—workers take a step forward too,” the employee said. Berger,...
On a bright morning last April, a surveillance plane operated by the Colombian military spotted a 40-foot-long shark-like silhouette idling in the ocean just off Tayrona National Park. It was, unmistakably, a “narco sub,” a stealthy fiberglass vessel that sails with its hull almost entirely...
Making a movie is a lot like pulling off a heist. That’s what Steven Soderbergh—director of the Ocean’s franchise, among other heist-y classics—said a few years ago. You come up with a creative angle, put together a team of specialists, figure out how to beat the technological challenges, rehearse,...
The past year has marked a turning point for Chinese AI. Since DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model in January 2025, Chinese companies have repeatedly delivered AI models that match the performance of leading Western models at a fraction of the cost. Just last week the Chinese firm...