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« La Lune, avant de la conquérir, il faut la comprendre » : l’ESA défend une exploration spatiale plus utile

23 June 2026 at 20:07
La Lune s'impose aujourd'hui comme l'enjeu central d'une nouvelle compétition spatiale mondiale. Mais derrière les annonces enthousiastes et les promesses d'une installation durable, quelle est la réalité ? James David Carpenter, responsable du Bureau des sciences lunaires à l'Agence spatiale...

Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the Wild’ and Swiss Army Knives

20 June 2026 at 16:20
A black and white photo of Hainbach at a table with two pieces of scientific equipment that he uses to make music.
Indulging in the “Dark Souls of synthesis.” | Image: Aleksander Stojanov / Hainbach

Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the "Dark Souls of synthesis." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and gear salvaged from nuclear testing facilities, Hainbach is also incredibly prolific, releasing six albums in 2025 alone, along with a handful of singles and EPs. His latest, Gentle Hum, is a collaboration with Ah! Kosmos (Turkish composer, Başak Günak). The album is a melancholic co …

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In season 2 of Sugar, Colin Farrell’s quirky detective becomes much more human

19 June 2026 at 13:00
A still photo from the Apple TV series Sugar.

When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it's also secretly a work of science fiction, something that doesn't become clear until halfway through the season. "I knew that I could get the show in deep shit if I revealed certain things," he tells me. Now as Sugar heads into its next season, which starts streaming on Apple TV on June 19th, Farrell says he feels "unburdened" by the previous veil of secrecy. "There are certain things I wouldn't mention here about season 2," he says, "but nothing as big a …

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Gilles Babinet : « Il faut réfléchir à ce qui nous différencie des algorithmes, et réinventer notre singularité »

18 June 2026 at 20:07
Alors que l'IA connaît une phase d'expansion extrêmement rapide, cette technologie est désormais capable de traiter tout type de tâches aussi efficacement, et même plus efficacement, que les humains. Dès lors, comment nous positionner face aux machines ? 

Never Post’s Mike Rugnetta on the creative process and the value of reliable power

13 June 2026 at 15:00
Headshot of Mike Rugnetta against a plain gray background.

Mike Rugnetta is a writer, podcast host, producer, audio engineer, educator, musician, sound designer, and father. In short, the man wears a lot of hats. He's the cocreator and host of the award-winning Never Post, an absolutely must-listen podcast about the internet, as well as Fun City, a TTRPG podcast where he's the GM. He's also hosted two different Crash Course series and PBS's Idea Channel.

If you're thinking that sounds like a lot, you're not wrong. It made us want to know how Mike stays focused with so much on his plate, and what tools are most indispensable to him with his hectic schedule. But, what we got was so much more than th …

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Five questions for the duo behind The Pelley Minutes

10 June 2026 at 15:06
Scott Pelley, correspondent, 60 Minutes. | Photo by Michele Crowe/CBS News via Getty Images

Websites are so back! Today's website worth visiting is The Pelley Minutes, a clever project that puts the career of longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley into perspective. The show may only be 60 minutes long, but Pelley racked up nearly 37,000 minutes in his 37-year long career, reporting on almost everything humanity has put on display - from chess battlefields to real-world warzones.

Pelley was fired recently after standing up to the new bosses at CBS, who he has accused of "murdering" the legendary news show. In an interview with The New York Times, he warned of an alarming new world at the network where there's "a thumb on th …

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