It is an article in the Washington Post signed by our colleague Reed Albergotti who throws this paving stone into the pond and breaks the silence. The mythical and often adulated apple brand shamelessly plunders the best ideas in the applications it hosts on its own App Store. Privilege of
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Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. A teeming megalopolis of ten million people. The city could partially disappear, drowned by rising waters. Already today, it's sinking by 25 cm a year and the northern half of the city is now at or just below sea level.
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The climate is constantly shifting, leading to extreme phenomena, including drought, which is devastating for the populations concerned. People have always sung, danced and prayed to make rain fall and ensure good harvests. But today, rain dances are becoming the prerogative of the people.
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On Saturday, July 13, before an audience of high-ranking military officials gathered at the Hôtel de Brienne, President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a new army corps dedicated to space. A major space command will be created next September within the French Air Force, which will become the French Air Force.
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The report just published by INSEE on investment by French companies in the environment is disarming. It does nothing about it. All the planet's lights are on red, whether it be pollution levels, greenhouse gas emissions or the collapse of biodiversity...
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Astronomers announced three years ago that they had discovered an exoplanet very close to our Earth and potentially habitable. It orbits the closest star to our planet, Proxima Centauri, and is located 4.25 light years away, a trifle over forty thousand billion
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The Akademik Lomonosov is a ship like no other. It is a floating nuclear power plant, designed by the Russians to supply energy to the northernmost parts of the planet. Currently moored in the port of Murmansk, this ship with two nuclear reactors of 35 MW each will start a
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The heat wave that hit France and parts of Europe last week was, meteorologists say, caused by hot air masses from North Africa. In this region, as in the Middle East, global warming is burning the air to the point of making it unbearable. In a relatively
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Facebook, the giant firm founded by Mark Zuckerberg, wants to look more and more like a state, if not more. With its 2.4 billion users, the social network has colossal power. A few days ago, Facebook announced the creation of its own currency. Regalian privilege arrogated to a
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Dans la lutte contre les dérèglements climatiques, la France est dans le rouge. Elle ne tient pas ses engagements, elle est en retard sur ses objectifs et en plus, elle donne des leçons aux autres. En attendant, les français suffoquent sous la canicule dont on nous annonce que ce n’est
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Those who still have doubts about the reality of climate change will be served: this week, France will reach scorching temperatures above 40°C. This is an extremely rare situation at this time of year, which is set to recur more and more frequently. This heatwave comes on top of
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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and boss of Facebook is a man in a hurry. Today he is presenting "Libra", which he wants to put into circulation as early as 2020. His currency. In doing so, he is giving his group a power hitherto reserved for the states. With more than two billion users, Facebook has become a major player on the Internet.
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Last summer, it was very hot all over the world. We remember the heat waves in France, the giant fires in California, the suffocation of the Australians. But that's nothing compared to what's ahead of us. A study published this week warns us: the waves
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Despite the environmental and health risks and the overpowering power given to the lobbies, Macron wants to speed up the ratification of the AACC. Indeed, the President of the Republic has called for the fastest possible ratification of this trade treaty between Canada and the European Union. After two years of
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Polls and voting estimates had hardly seen it coming: environmentalists have made their mark in the European elections. They are increasing the number of their members in the future European Parliament by 50 %. A strong dynamic, driven by a young vote, which imposes the urgency of the need for a new European Parliament.
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Mars seems to have become the latest fashionable destination. There is no shortage of projects and candidates for the long journey are jostling for the gate. It must be said that the first organized trip is for - almost - tomorrow: 2024. That's what Elon Musk predicts, ready to embark.
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While the government is working on a separation of EDF's activities to isolate nuclear power from the rest of the group, the question of waste is resurfacing. A major public debate on the management of radioactive materials and waste is being launched today for a period of five months. The issue at stake
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The information was published in China in the Beijing National Science Review on March 27 and revealed to the world by the MIT Review today, April 10. Chinese geneticists are believed to have succeeded in introducing copies of a human gene suspected of playing a role in the development of the brain of monkeys.
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He's probably the most powerful man in the world. At the head of an empire of more than two billion subjects who worship him daily. But he is also, in recent months, the most disparaged man in the world. His masterpiece, Facebook, seems to have become an uncontrollable monster.
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On 27 March, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi bragged on television about the successful launch of a missile into an orbiting satellite. India thus entered the very closed club of nations capable of waging space war. The problem is that the missile
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