Ivy Esquero

If you’re big into multiplayer gaming, you need to buy the same console as your friends to play together. But a new move by Microsoft may end that.

In a note to independent developers today, ID@Xbox director Chris Charla announced that the company is enabling developers to support cross-network multiplayer gaming. He explains, “This means players on Xbox One and Windows 10 using Xbox Live will be able to play with players on different online multiplayer networks – including other console and PC networks.”

In other words, it could the first step in letting Xbox One users play against PlayStation 4 owners online, if Sony decides to open up its network, as well. We’re asking the PlayStation maker for comment on Microsoft’s announcement.

“Of course, it’s up to game developers to support this feature, and Xbox Live players will always have the option of choosing to play only with other Xbox Live players,” Charla said.

Rocket League, the smash hit where you play soccer with a futuristic car, will be one of the first games to enable cross platform play. The initial rollout will just be between PC and Xbox One networks, but Microsoft is inviting other networks (like Playstation Network) to open up as well.

While one of the main selling points of the new Xbox app on Windows 10 has been letting users play with friends on more devices, this doubles down on that approach and puts Microsoft’s console ahead of the PS4 in that respect.

And for Microsoft, which is frequently behind Sony in console sales, this could pump up Xbox One sales among users whose friends all own PS4s. However, Sony will still have to adopt similar measures with Playstation Network for cross-platform multiplayer to really take off.

Bill Gates has long been focused on finding better ways to manage sanitation processes — and build better toilets — for developing nations. A big part of that has included finding ways to conserve water. Now Gates reveals another landmark step in the direction of turning waste into everyday resources. The OmniProcessor, designed and built by Janicki Bioenergy, an engineering firm north of Seattle, takes human waste and turns it into clean drinking water, electricity and clean ash. Gates opens the video by explaining that nearly 2.5 billion of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe sanitation — a huge … Read More on GeekWire

(Image Link)

Winnie the Pooh is one of those cute and cuddly characters that should make you feel all warm and fuzzy every time you see him, no matter the incarnation or re-imagining.

But a new line of officially licensed Winnie the Pooh 'relaxation masks' are making people pooh their pants in terror, since they look like something a serial killer would wear while they slay.

(Image Link)

Both the Winnie and Eeyore masks make the wearer feel like they're having a waking heffalump and woozle dream, but they're face isn't melting- it's just the look of a licensed product gone horribly wrong!

(Image Link)

Posting pictures of yourself wearing the frightful mask of Pooh has become a Twitter trend in Japan, where people don't mind putting a little Pooh on their face for the sake of social media comedy.

-Via design you trust

L’architecte russe Vasily Klyukin est l’auteur d’un projet architectural assez ambitieux, qui viendra décorer tous les paysages urbains du monde. Au milieu de grattes-ciels, il a imaginé une tour imitant la forme d’un cobra levé, symbolisant la sagesse, la chance et la longévité. Il prévoit d’installer des appartements et des bureaux tout le long de son corps et une terrasse ou un restaurant/club penthouse dans sa gueule ouverte. La nuit, ce cobra pourra changer de couleurs, comme la mue d’un serpent.

Does your bleeding liberal heart make you feel guilty about your privilege? Do you love receiving praise on social media for good deeds? Do you wish there was something you could do to make up for five centuries of oppression?

There’s an app for that.

EquiTable (formerly EquiPay) splits the check fairly — and by fairly they mean in accordance with 500 years of racial and gender discrimination.

When it’s time to divide up the check, the app sets the amount owed for each member of the group, based on how much their income is affected by their privilege.

Users can protest the amounts based on inputs like “I’m conventionally unattractive” or “I’m a middle child,” but they aren’t likely to get very far. Selecting “This isn’t an issue anymore” prompts the app to lay down some truth about income inequality and ends with “I suggest you read a Jezebel article or two.”

The EquiTable team took home first prize for the concept at Comedy Hack Day SF last month. Watch their hilarious pitch below.

Ji Lee est un designer coréen qui a grandi au Brésil et vit désormais à New York. Il est fermement convaincu que les idées ne sont rien, mais que les actions sont tout : cela le pousse à produire des travaux personnels toujours plus riches et créatifs, passionnés. Word as Image est une collection de calligrammes qu’il a réalisé sur plusieurs années, reprenant des films célèbres, des personnalités, des villes et des objets divers, en disposant graphiquement le mot pour qu’il illustre son concept.

Hate tying your shoelaces? Nike has you covered.

The shoe giant today unveiled the Nike Hyperadapt 1.0, its first self-lacing sneaker that is available to the general public.

“Innovation at Nike is not about dreaming of tomorrow. It’s about accelerating toward it,” longtime Nike designer Tinker Hatfield said. “We’re able to anticipate the needs of athletes because we know them better than anybody. Sometimes, we deliver a reality before others have even begun to imagine it.”

The shoe features sensors in the heel that detect your foot, signaling the shoe to tighten. Two buttons on each side allow you to tighten and loosen the fit as needed.

Here’s soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo trying the shoes on:

Nike’s new “adaptive technology” first debuted this past October, when it showed off the 2015 Nike Air Mag that had the self-lacing feature. Those kicks were only available in limited quantity via auction, with proceeds going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

The Hyperadapt, though, will go on sale to members on the Nike+ platform this holiday season in three colors.

The longer-term vision is to have a shoe that automatically tightens or loosens, depending on what activity a person may be doing.

“Wouldn’t it be great if a shoe, in the future, could sense when you needed to have it tighter or looser? Could it take you even tighter than you’d normally go if it senses you really need extra snugness in a quick maneuver?” Hatfield said. “That’s where we’re headed. In the future, product will come alive.”

Other companies big and small are testing their own self-lacing technologies, but Nike certainly has the resources and customer base to push these new products into the mainstream.

Nike has always prided itself on innovation and that was evident when Nike COO Eric Sprunk joined us on stage at the GeekWire Summit this past September. Sprunk explained how it’s possible that customers will be able to download a file for a shoe and manufacture their new kicks at home with a 3D printer.

“Do I envision a future where we might still own the file from an IP perspective — you can’t just have anyone making a Nike product — and have it manufactured in your own home or we do it for you at our store?” Sprunk said. “Yeah, that’s not that far away.”

Photoshop is a powerful tool, and learning to use the software can make you feel mighty powerful when you start doing stuff like seamlessly swapping heads or cutting and pasting people in and out of pics with impunity.

Because of this feeling of power many Photoshoppers wind up using their skills for evil, trolling and sometimes even ruining lives by manipulating images for the Dark Side.

But 18th Level Photoshop Wizard James Fridman is different- he's using his trolling powers for good...and because people keep asking him to mess with their pics.

James' Photoshop skills are in such high demand that people keep sending him pics to digitally alter despite the fact that his trollish sense of humor often leaves the subjects looking a little silly.

See This Guy's Photoshop Skills Are In High Demand here

Ariel from The Little Mermaid

For Saraswati, a makeup artist in Malaysia, the head scarf isn't an obstacle to effective cosplay. In fact, without it, she wouldn't be nearly as effective. She uses a wide variety of colors, fabrics, and arrangements to depict her characters perfectly.

Sailor Moon from Sailor Moon

Tinker Bell from Peter Pan

Jafar from Aladdin

Mulan from Mulan

Belle from Beauty and the Beast

-via Huffington Post

Southern California design studio, Cerno, has just released a new suite of contemporary lamps, each design bearing the characteristic restraint and elegance for which the brand has become well known. Premier amongst them is the Calx LED Pendant Light, a clean, geometric modern lighting fixture comprised of faceted surfaces, and available in three sizes, the largest of which is a sumptuously-sized 36 inches across.  The contemporary pendant lamp’s metal composition—finished in brushed aluminum, brass, or rose gold—has been given a Mid-Century-invoking wood grain finish of natural or dark walnut.  An energy efficient LED light source—another Cerno trademark—emanates from Calx’s gleaming interior, casting downward nuanced illumination, tailor-made for the contemporary dining room.

Save 15% on all Cerno modern lighting, now through March 31 >

Cerno’s new Camur LED Linear Pendant Lamp has the kind of graceful brilliance sure to appeal to minimalists whose idea of statement lighting is a dearth of embellishment. Camur’s gently snaking horizontal form, an impressive 5 feat in length, is comprised of beautifully grained walnut, and a translucent polymer panel that disperses diffused illumination across a wide swathe. Exactingly composed, Camur’s softly curving walnut side panels are replicated identically in the polymer panel from which illumination emanates, yielding the same shape whether seen from below or viewed face-on. An exceedingly architectural modern lighting statement, the Camur pendant lamp proves ideal for both domestic and commercial interiors.

Save 15% on all Cerno modern lighting, now through March 31 >

Amazon has shown it can go up against Netflix and HBO by offering original content to paid subscribers, but now it’s chasing Hulu and broadcast networks with its first ad-supported original show.

The third season of The Fashion Fund debuted on Amazon yesterday, and anyone can watch it as long as they don’t mind putting up with a few ads. The 10-episode reality show pits fashion design contestants against each other for a $400,000 prize. Of course, you can buy some of the fashion seen on the screen straight from the show’s streaming page.

By offering content without the need for a Prime membership, Amazon is appealing to viewers who don’t want to pay the $99 subscription fee. While advertising will help Amazon make up some of that revenue (Philips Norelco and Philips Sonicare ran ads during the season’s first episode), the product placement of contestant’s clothing brands, only available on Amazon, will also help drive buyers to the company’s online marketplace (and maybe even pay more for free shipping).

It’s unclear if Amazon will continue to debut ad-supported shows to its lineup. New seasons of premium shows like Transparent or Mozart in the Jungle likely won’t have ad breaks anytime soon, but Amazon may work on shows with more product placement options and ad breaks in the future. It could even bring ads to older seasons of its premium shows to get people hooked, opening up the possibility of converting those viewers to Prime users down the line.

The Fashion Fund is available now. All versions include ads, even for Prime users. But non-Prime users can view the show in the browser or any Amazon TV or smartphone streaming app. And just like broadcast TV, you’ll have to wait a week for each new episode.

L’agence russe Nikita a imaginé un packaging qui sort de l’ordinaire pour présenter des aliments aussi banals que des pâtes. Ici, chaque variété vient completer la coupe de cheveux d’un portrait de femme, illustré sur le packaging. Les spaghetti s’apparentent à une élégante chevelure raide, les fettucine dessinent un chignon plein de volume alors que les cavatappi forment une superbe coupe afro. À découvrir.

Le photographe brésilien Vitor Schietti nous présente une nouvelle composante de sa série Impermanent Sculptures, présentée précédemment intitulée Entities. Il utilise des paysages naturels pour imaginer des sculptures éphémères en utilisant la technique du light painting. A travers ce travail, l’artiste explore le temps qui passe, la fragilité et le caractère éphémère de la nature. D’un point de vue technique, Vitor Schietti utilise un trépied, des fusées de feux d’artifices ou encore des lampes de poche pour ensuite programmer son appareil en pose longue allant de dix à soixante secondes suivant l’intensité de la lumière au moment présent.

A Washington man taking selfies with his girlfriend and a gun shot himself in the face and died on Sunday, according to a news report.

The Skagit Valley Herald says the 43-year-old Concrete, Wash., man and his girlfriend were in a house in the 46000 block of Baker Loop Road taking photos of themselves when the incident occurred. The man’s name was not released.

Chad Clark, chief of patrol with the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office, said the man and woman had reportedly loaded and unloaded the weapon several times during the day, taking pictures throughout.

Clark said a bullet apparently remained in the gun the last time the man handled it and the incident is being investigated as an accident.

Earlier this month, CNN reported on a study looking into deaths related to people taking selfies. The study by Priceonomics found that “the selfie seems to serve as an inopportune catalyst — a distractor in situations where the picture-taker should should be focused on safety.”

 

 

Uber, the on-demand ride-hailing service, today announced a new group feature called Family Profiles, allowing up to 10 people can sign into the same account, which is covered by a single payment method.

Currently, the feature is available in Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix, but Uber eventually hopes to expand the service nationally and internationally, the company said in a statement.

It’s the latest move by the popular ride-hailing app to expand its appeal in the face of competition from Lyft and other startups, as well as traditional taxis.

Every person on a Family Profile must first have an individual Uber account to join. Since Uber doesn’t serve minors, that means that all the users on Family Profiles must be over 18. In other words, parents can pay for their college-age kids to get rides around campus, but they can’t pay for their middle school children to take Uber to a dance.

The feature works like this: An Uber user selects up to 10 contacts to receive an invitation to join the Family Profile. Then, when any of those people want to order a ride, they can select the Family Profile as their default payment method. The original organizer gets receipts for all rides billed to the Family Profile. Though everyone on the group plan can use one payment method, only the original organizer can see specific payment details like credit card number.

And there’s good news for college students who don’t want mom and dad always knowing where they’re Ubering: as members of a Family Profile, users can still add their own payment methods for personal trips. Those trips won’t be billed to the main family card, and receipts for their trips will be sent to their personal accounts.

Uber’s new family plan builds upon its existing group payment plan, Uber For Business, designed for employees who want to expense their trips.

Oh, the irony. Just a few weeks after Google’s self-driving car hit a bus in its hometown, the search giant received a patent titled “Bus Detection for an Autonomous Vehicle.”

To be fair, the patent mainly pertains to school buses, which the cars can detect based on word and color cues. In February, Google’s self-driving car hit an ordinary city bus, when both the driver and the car wrongly assumed they would be allowed to merge. No one was hurt in the collision.

The patent, originally reported by CNet, includes the ability to detect school buses based on relative size, as well as other cues. Google originally applied for the patent in 2014, so the timing is just a funny coincidence.

Watch a video of the incident below:

Minecraft will be the backbone for a new platform designed to help test and improve artificial intelligence applications, Microsoft announced on Monday.

The new platform, called AIX, will be made available to researchers who are trying to help AI think with the same sophistication and complexity as humans, Microsoft explained in a post. In one example, a research team is using Minecraft to train an AI “agent” how to climb to the highest point in the virtual world, using the same types of resources as a human would when doing the same thing.

Minecraft is an attractive environment for AI testing and can become a research “playpen” because it presents endless possibilities, “ranging from simple tasks like walking around looking for treasure to complex ones like building a structure with a group of teammates,” the company said in the post, adding that the game is also a lot cheaper than building robots to try to navigate physical obstacle courses.

“The things that seem really easy for us are actually the things that are really difficult for an artificial intelligence,” said Robert Schapire, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research who is part of the team using AIX in Microsoft’s New York lab, in the Microsoft post.

Microsoft researchers and a small group of academics have been part of a private test period but the company will make the platform widely available via an open-source license sometime this summer.

Microsoft’s new platform comes as Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program recently has generated a lot of media attention. In a contest of the ancient Chinese game of Go, Google’s program defeated champion Lee Sedol in three consecutive games, winning the $1 million five-game match. On Sunday, Sedol struck back with a consolation win.

Since buying Mojang, the company that developed Minecraft, in 2014, Microsoft has found multiple uses for the game. It became the bedrock of Microsoft’s educational strategy after the software giant also acquired MinecraftEdu, a version of the game created for the classroom. 

Pour rendre hommage à ce grand visionnaire souvent comparé à Orwell et Asimov, ARTE organise une exploration triptyque de l’existence dickienne, avec une programmation spéciale réunissant un documentaire, un jeu vidéo et un court-métrage en vidéo 360° autour de Philip K. Dick. Douze ans, c’est l’âge auquel Philip Kindred Dick se découvre une affinité avec la science-fiction, en feuilletant le magazine Stirring Science Stories, lors d’une après-midi paisible dans sa ville, à Chicago. Il purge et extériorise ses angoisses en s’évadant dans les écrits de deux maîtres du genre : Edgar Allan Poe et H. P. Lovecraft.

Illustration d’Olivier Bonhomme.

Né en 1928 aux côtés d’une jumelle nommée Jane (morte quelques semaines après sa naissance), ses parents ne se doutaient pas, à ce moment-là, que cet enfant se révèlerait être un éminent auteur américain de 40 romans et 120 nouvelles (dont les célèbres Ubik, Le Maître du Haut Château, Les Androïdes rêvent-ils de moutons électriques ? et Le Dieu Venu du Centaure), largement récompensé et reconnu, et qui verra la plupart de ses livres adaptés au cinéma. Parmi les adaptations cinématographiques posthumes, on compte Blade Runner (de Ridley Scott), Total Recall (de Paul Verhoeven) et Minority Report (de Steven Spielberg). Cet homme illustre s’est éteint le 2 mars 1982, en emportant avec lui ses mondes imaginaires mais en nous laissant une œuvre conséquente, dont l’intelligente citation : « Si vous trouvez ce monde mauvais, vous devriez en voir quelques autres ».

La chaîne ARTE diffusera le 2 mars le documentaire Les mondes de Philip K. Dick, réalisé par Yann Coquart et co-écrit avec Ariel Kyrou, où nous plongerons dans l’univers unique de cet auteur du XXème siècle qui a anticipé notre ère numérique et notre société technologique comme personne.

De son côté, le site ARTE Creative a publié le 16 février dernier la version gratuite du jeu vidéo Californium, créé par Brice Roy, sous la direction artistique d’Olivier Bonhomme et dont les scénarios sont signés Thibaut de Corday et Stéphane Beauverger. Il s’agit d’une expérience immersive, psychédélique et narrative, aux graphismes impeccables, dans laquelle le joueur se met dans la peau d’Elvin Green, un écrivain en manque d’inspiration vivant à Berkeley, dans les années 60. Incarnant un personnage piégé dans des réalités multiples, la mission du joueur est de détecter des anomalies dans le décor ; chaque anomalie représente une porte vers un nouvel univers, entre réalité et monde parallèle, directement inspiré des œuvres et thèmes de prédilection de Philip K. Dick.

Californium.

En plus de cela, ARTE Creative mettra en ligne le 22 février I, Philip, une fiction filmée en 360° et en relief, réalisée par Pierre Zandrowicz d’Okio Studio et co-écrite par Rémi Giordano. Cette vidéo sera disponible sur le site d’ARTE Creative, sur l’application, sur les plateformes de réalité virtuelle Samsung et Oculus, ainsi que sur l’application ARTE 360°.

I, Philip.

I, Philip.

Determining the right time of year to sell your home is a tricky prospect for would-be sellers, and getting it right could influence the final sale price significantly, according to Zillow. Now the Seattle real estate media company is providing a new tool, called Best Time to List, and revealing the ideal timeframe for the country’s 25 biggest metro areas.

According to Zillow, local market variations and weather patterns can affect the buying season, but new analysis suggests homes sold in late spring (May 1-May 15), sell around 18.5 days faster and for 1 percent, or $1,700, more than the average listing.

San Francisco, with a median sold price of $1.15 million, boasts a $12,200 premium for sellers who get the window right (May 16-31). In Seattle, where weather is a factor throughout much of the year, houses moved 20 days faster than average if sold in the May 1-15 timeframe.

Low inventory is heavily influencing the market today, according to Dr. Svenja Gudell, Zillow’s chief economist.

“Faced with increasingly competitive markets, many buyers are forced to consider several homes and make multiple offers, elongating the home shopping experience,” Gudell said in a news release. “By listing homes further into the shopping season, sellers may attract buyers who are increasingly eager to purchase and may be more willing to pay a premium for the home.”

Best Time to List estimates how much more money a seller can make by changing the listing date on their individual home. According to Zillow Blog, the tool is live for 71 million off-market homes, and registered Zillow users can find it by clicking the “Sell Your Home” on the home details page for an individual home.

Olja Ryzevski et Mauricio F. Corridan sont deux aventuriers berlinois qui étudient la photographie. Ils ont passé ces derniers 6 mois à voyager à travers l’Asie, de Séoul à la Thaïlande en passant par l’Indonésie et la magnifique île de Java. A Java, ils ont parcouru des reliefs impressionnants, au milieu de volcans actifs, à demi en éruption, des chutes d’eau et du plus large lac acide du monde, dans le Ijen Crater.

If you live in a region with a thriving tech industry, you’ve probably noticed your dollar doesn’t go as far in the housing market as it used to.

There are a few factors causing rent and home values to rise, says Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow, the Seattle-based real estate media company. Most notably, when tech companies do well they hire — and they tend to hire young people who look to buy or rent entry-level homes. This increases demand faster than inventory can be supplied.

“The tech sector’s been doing really well,” said Gudell. “We’ve seen a lot of job growth in tech and a lot of income growth in tech as well, so a lot of these cities have attracted new people…Inventory is pretty tight given how many people are looking for homes, especially first-time home buyers. If you think about a lot of the millennials that are active in tech, buying their first home, they’re having an especially hard time breaking into those markets and affordability is becoming a real issue.”

Gudell also noted that many people who lost their homes in the 2008 crash are still renting, and many who would like to buy a home in these regions can’t afford to do so.

“They’re staying renters,” she said. “You have millennials that would like to buy but they can’t because there are not a lot of homes for them to buy, so you just have a lot more renters now and there aren’t enough rental units out there. So, over the last two or so years, we’ve seen very rapid rental appreciation.”

Booming tech industries certainly affect the housing market, but some of these regions are seeing faster appreciation than others. GeekWire used Zillow data from January 2016 to compare how far your dollar goes in the nation’s top tech hubs. Continue reading for the results.

Bay Area*

Median Home Value: $865,350

Median Rent: $3,395

$300,000 buys:

 

55 Page St APT 212, San Francisco, CA 94102. 1 bed 1 bath 685 sqft. Listed for $297,288.

$500,000 buys:

444 14th St, San Francisco, CA 94103. Studio 1 bath 363 sqft. Listed for $495,000.

$1,500 Rents:

357 Willow St, San Jose, CA 95110. 1 bed 1 bath 369 sqft. Renting for $1,495/month.

Seattle

Median Home Value: $371,100

Median Rent: $1,939

$300,000 buys:

 

7323 Sand Point Way NE UNIT 212, Seattle, WA 98115. 2 beds 2 baths 928 sqft. Listed for $315,000.

$500,000 buys:

2107 NE 75th St, Seattle, WA 98115. 3 beds 2 baths 1,260 sqft. Listed for $499,950.

$1,500 rents:

503 E Thomas St, Seattle, WA 98102. 1 bed 1 bath 600 sqft. Renting for $1,500/month.

New York

Median Home Value: $382,400

Median Rent: $2,394

$300,000 buys:

345 E 77th Street 2i # 2I,New York, NY 10021. Studio 1 bath 300 sqft. Listed for $300,000.

$500,000 buys

 

5 Tudor City Pl APT 1519, New York, NY 10017. 1 bed 1 bath — sqft. Listed for $510,000.

$1,500 Rents:

230 W 147th St APT 3S, New York, NY 10039. 1 bed 1 bath 750 sqft. Renting for $1,500/month.

Boston

Median Home Value: $384,500

Median Rent: $2,257

$300,000 buys:

56 Charlesgate E APT 148,Boston, MA 02215. Studio 1 bath 295 sqft. Listed for $279,000.

$500,000 buys:

43 Fairview St, Boston, MA 02131. 3 beds 2 baths 1,306 sqft. Listed for $499,000.

$1,500 rents:

(Undisclosed Address) Boston, MA 02136. 1 bed 1 bath 600 sqft. Renting for $1,500/month.

Austin

Median Home Value: $244,000

Median Rent: $1,684

$300,000 buys:

2401 Stone River Dr, Austin, TX 78745. 3 beds 2 baths 1,653 sqft. Listed for $300,000.

$500,000 buys:

7004 Via Correto Dr, Austin, TX 78749. 4 beds 4 baths 3,409 sqft

$1,500 rents:

1601 Royal Crest Dr, Austin, TX 78741. 4 beds 2 baths 1,188 sqft

*Bay Area statistics are averaged from Zillow data on San Francisco and San Jose.

Le travail de Jodi Harvey-Brown devrait contenter les amateurs de sculpture et de littérature. En utilisant de vieux livres pour ses oeuvres, l’artiste originaire de Pennsylvanie a trouvé un moyen d’expression artistique à mi-chemin entre ses deux passions. Chaque nouvelle sculpture est atypique et correspond au livre avec lequel elle a été conçue. La collection intitulée Book Sculptures est large, puisqu’elle va d’Alice au pays des merveilles à Tom Sawyer en passant par 20000 lieues sous les mers de Jules Verne.

La passion de Karine Khoo à réinventer les jolies choses l’ont toujours poussé à customiser les objets du quotidien : elle lance donc naturellement ce joli projet intitulé Monster Platter Dinnerware, un service de 4 assiettes de porcelaine dessinées à la main, avec des designs différents, dans la plus pure tradition du dessin sur porcelaine. Les adorables illustrations sont minutieuses et la précision des détails bluffante ; chauffé à une très haute température, le service n’a peur ni du micro-ondes, ni du four, ni du lave-vaisselle.

Il y a des moments dans la vie où nous avons envie de petites surprises pour étonner les invités ou les proches, ces petits monstres malicieux et charmants donneront un coup de pouce à votre moral et rehausseront l’esthétique de vos plats. Fait à Singapour. Un projet Kickstarter à soutenir ici.

For a while at least, it appeared the tech sector might have rallied around a Michael Bloomberg campaign. The former mayor of New York and billionaire tycoon who made his fortune in technology, said in January he would consider a run, and at least to some in the tech sector, Bloomberg seemed liked an attractive alternative to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

But Bloomberg announced Monday that he doesn’t think he could win and won’t enter the race. Where does that leave the tech sector? Well, some of the industry’s biggest players, were huddled last weekend with leaders of the Republican party to discuss ways to stop Trump, The Huffington Post has reported.

Among the tech notables who gathered on an island off the coast of Georgia last weekend for the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum were Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster cofounder and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors chief Elon Musk. They were joined by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political strategist Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), and Tim Scott (S.C.), the Post reported.

According to the Post, conservative columnist Bill Kristol wrote in an email from the conference: “A specter was haunting the World Forum–the specter of Donald Trump,” borrowing the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto. “There was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why [Trump has] done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated.”

It certainly won’t be Bloomberg who defeats him.

In a piece posted to the web site of the news service he owns, Bloomberg said “When I look at the data, it’s clear to me that if I entered the race, I could not win.” Bloomberg added he believes he might win some states but he acknowledged that his candidacy might help Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz win the presidency. That is a scenario Bloomberg said he could not risk.

Bloomberg, who has an engineering degree, built his fortune, estimated to be worth $41 billion, on the Bloomberg Terminal, the computer system that provides real-time financial information to scores of bankers, stock traders and analysts. He used to say that as the CEO and founder of the company that bears his name, he operated New York’s most successful tech venture.

Le photographe bangladais GMB Akash documente dans sa série Nothing To Hold On To le quotidien dangereux et difficile des travailleurs du Bangladesh. A cause de train surchargés, ils sont contraints de voyager sur le toit ou en entre les wagons pour aller travailler, à leurs risques et périls. Entre la vitesse des trains, les obstacles en hauteurs et le chargement de certains, les risques pour leur vie sont importants.

REFUGES est une série du photographe français Tristan Pereira qui a capturé plein de petits refuges et cabanes du patrimoine rural bigourdan. Ces petites maisons chaleureuses sont anciennes pour la plupart et sont encore utilisées aujourd’hui pour le pastoralisme par de valeureux
bergers. Il les qualifie de « véritables havres de paix » et de « réelle source de chaleur ». Elles apportent repos et protection lors d’une nuit fraiche en haute montagne.

Fascinée par les peintures de la Renaissance et amatrice des dessins animés Disney, l’artiste thaïlandaise Thunyamon Charoensuttikul a développé une série de portraits numériques qui combinent ces deux univers. Les princesses et héroïnes cultes telles que Blanche Neige, Mulan ou Jasmine sont ré-imaginées à travers des tableaux au style pictural caractéristique de la Renaissance.

Le cabinet d’architecture norvégien Lund Hagem, créé en 1990 et basé à Oslo, est à l’origine de cette magnifique petite maison perdue en pleine nature scandinave, à Sandefjord, et qui porte le nom de knapphullet. Ce bâtiment lumineux disposé sur un étage et possédant une terrasse sur le toit, est exposé à la lumière naturelle via ses grandes baies vitrées et peut compter sur un intérieur chaleureux grâce à des murs boisés. Un endroit au design original et chaleureux où il doit faire bon passer ses vacances.

BOSTON — As editor and founder of FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver makes a living by predicting the outcomes of sporting events and political elections. But even his exhaustive statistical forecasting models could not accurately project how far Donald Trump would get in the Republican presidential nomination race.

Silver discussed Trump’s unprecedented rise at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, spending a half-hour on a non-sports-related topic that has dominated headlines over the past several months.

“There are a lot of complicated lessons on the rise of Trump,” he said. “A lot of things have to come together for something like this to happen, and they have.”

Silver said there were three arguments his team made for why Trump was unlikely to be the Republican Party nominee.

The first was that Trump was in a media bubble. Silver noted that there were moments in his campaign where Trump was getting 70 or 80 percent of network news coverage in a field of 17 candidates.

“There was some notion that when he got more coverage, the polls went up, and there was a positive feedback loop,” Silver said.

He said that argument is an important part of the story, but not sufficient enough to explain why exit polls show that Trump’s supporters have been behind the candidate for so long.

“The media bubble theory is somewhat wrong, but you can’t talk about Trump without talking about the role media played,” Silver added.

The second theory was that Trump was a “factional” candidate” who would win support in the way former candidates like Pat Buchanan, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul did in the past.

“I don’t mean to put them together, but they got 20, 30 percent of the vote,” Silver said. “That theory might actually be right — Trump has not won a majority in any of the states.”

The third theory revolved around the fact that Republicans, many who dislike Trump, would “stop him somehow.” But Silver noted that the party was too disorganized and dysfunctional early on in the race.

“You’re not supposed to have 17 candidates running,” he said. “There weren’t very many endorsements and people weren’t getting off the sidelines in the GOP until very late in the game.”

Silver said there are some historical examples similar to what’s going on with Trump, dating back elections during the 1960s, 1930s, or 1890s — “periods of social upheaval,” he noted.

But the Trump situation is certainly unique.

“It’s not that he just violates some academic theories — he violates precedent in so many ways,” Silver said.