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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion en autant de millions de joueurs !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (Thibaut GALONNIER)
26 avril 2025 à 15:59

Cette semaine, TES IV: Oblivion a surpris son monde de fort belle manière. Cela faisait bien longtemps que Bethesda n'avait pas eu autant d'honneur, sa dernière création Starfield ayant été globalement un sketch, aussi bien technique avec une réalisation datée que marketing avec un Todd Howard accum...

What Happens When You Pay People Not to Use Google Search?

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Par : EditorDavid
26 avril 2025 à 14:34
"A group of researchers says it has identified a hidden reason we use Google for nearly all web searches," reports the Washington Post. "We've never given other options a real shot." Their research experiment suggests that Google is overwhelmingly popular partly because we believe it's the best, whether that's true or not. It's like a preference for your favorite soda. And their research suggested that our mass devotion to googling can be altered with habit-changing techniques, including by bribing people to try search alternatives to see what they are like... [A] group of academics — from Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT — designed a novel experiment to try to figure out what might shake up Google's popularity. They recruited nearly 2,500 participants and remotely monitored their web searches on computers for months. The core of the experiment was paying some participants — most received $10 — to use Bing rather than Google for two weeks. After that period, the money stopped, and the participants had to pick either Bing or Google. The vast majority in the group of people who were paid to use Bing for 14 days chose to go back to Google once the payments stopped, suggesting a strong preference for Google even after trying an alternative. But a healthy number in that group — about 22 percent — chose Bing and were still using it many weeks later. "I realized Bing was not as bad as I thought it was...." one study participant said — which an assistant professor in business economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania says is a nice summation of the study's findings. "The researchers did not test other search engines," the article notes. But it also points out that more importantly: the research caught the attention of some government officials: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D), who is leading the group of states that sued Google alongside the Justice Department, said the research helped inspire a demand by the states to fix Google's search monopoly. They asked a judge to require Google to bankroll a consumer information campaign about web search alternatives, including "short-term incentive payments." On the basis of that, the article suggests "you could soon be paid to try Microsoft Bing or another alternative." And in the meantime, the reporter writes, "I encourage you to join me in a two-week (unpaid) experiment mirroring the research: Change your standard search engine to something other than Google and see whether you like it. (And drop me a line to let me know how it went.) I'm going with DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused web search engine that uses Bing's technology."

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Les tests hardware de la semaine - S17 2025

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (Nicolas Derumigny)
26 avril 2025 à 13:30

Après une semaine chargée en émotions avec la sortie de la RTX 5060 Ti, le calme est retombé sur la scène hardware. Alors qu’une de ces cartes est encore sur le banc de test de notre confrère Ginjfo, le gros des dossiers de nos confrères est consacré à des périphériques, parsemés de quelques machine...

XPrize In Carbon Removal Goes To Enhanced Rock Weathering

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Par : BeauHD
26 avril 2025 à 13:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: The XPrize Foundation today announced the winners of its four-year, $100 million XPrize competition in carbon removal. The contest is one of dozens hosted by the foundation in its 20-year effort to encourage technological development. Contestants in the carbon removal XPrize had to demonstrate ways to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or oceans and sequester it sustainably. Mati Carbon, a Houston-based startup developing a sequestration technique called enhanced rock weathering, won the grand prize of $50 million. The company spreads crushed basalt on small farms in India and Africa. The silica-rich volcanic rock improves the quality of the soil for the crops but also helps remove carbon dioxide from the air. It does this by reacting with dissolved CO2 in the soil's water, turning it into bicarbonate ions and preventing it from returning to the atmosphere. More than a dozen organizations globally are developing enhanced rock weathering approaches at an industrial scale, but Mati's tech-heavy verification and software platform caught the XPrize judges' attention. "On the one hand, they're moving rocks around in trucks—that's not very techy. But when we looked under the hood... what we saw was a very impressive data-collection exercise," says Michael Leitch, XPrize's technical lead for the competition. Here's a list of the runners-up: - Paris-based NetZero won $15 million for turning agricultural waste into biochar through pyrolysis, a method that locks carbon into a stable, solid form. - Houston-based Vaulted Deep won $8 million for geologically sequestering carbon-rich organic waste by injecting it deep underground. - London-based Undo Carbon won $5 million for its enhanced rock weathering approach, spreading silicate minerals to speed up natural carbon removal. Additionally, Project Hajar and Planetary Technologies each received $1 million honorary XFactor prizes, recognizing their promising work in direct air capture and ocean carbon removal, despite not meeting the competition's 1,000-tonne removal threshold.

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Fair DRM Scheduler v4 Running Well On Steam Deck, "Looks Solid"

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Par : Michael Larabel
26 avril 2025 à 12:50
Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been pursuing the Fair DRM Scheduler as a "fair" scheduling policy to help with multiple applications/processes aiming to make use of the GPU concurrently. With this week's v4 patch-set to the DRM Fair Scheduler there are some big code changes but overall looking well as a nice scheduling policy for multiple apps/games/processes wanting equal access to GPU resources...

#Flock : un nerf de vacances

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Par : Flock
26 avril 2025 à 11:37
avec une scie à tiques ?
#Flock : un nerf de vacances

Les nerfs à rude épreuve, à vif, avec lesquels on joue, le nerf de la guerre, les avoir, voilà ce que nous fait subir le quotidien. Quelque soit l’alignement des planètes, je ne peux empêcher mes nerfs faire mes rides. Du coup eh bien moi je vais aller me les calmer ailleurs quelques jours, au frais. A très vite pour la suite dans les idées.

#Flock : un nerf de vacances

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Par : Flock
26 avril 2025 à 11:37
avec une scie à tiques ?
#Flock : un nerf de vacances

Les nerfs à rude épreuve, à vif, avec lesquels on joue, le nerf de la guerre, les avoir, voilà ce que nous fait subir le quotidien. Quelque soit l’alignement des planètes, je ne peux empêcher mes nerfs faire mes rides. Du coup eh bien moi je vais aller me les calmer ailleurs quelques jours, au frais. A très vite pour la suite dans les idées.

Les prix des cartes graphiques AMD, Intel et NVIDIA semaine 17-2025 : Oui, bon, OK, même joueur joue encore !!!

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26 avril 2025 à 11:29

Commes tous les samedis, voilà les prix des CG. On commence chez les rouges, avec la 7600 XT qui augmente de 18 euros. Aucun n'autre changement à noter chez AMD cette semaine. Chez les bleus, même combat, un seul et unique changement, sur la B580 qui augmente de 13 euros. Cette semaine ça va aller vite. On se fait les 4000 de NVIDIA dans un premier temps. La 4060 baisse de 10 euros et voilà, on a fait le tour. D'ailleurs, nous allons retirer les RTX 4000 du tableau la semaine prochaine, sauf la 4060 qui reste, pour le moment, le seul modèle d'entrée de gamme des verts. […]

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Les vidéos hardware de la semaine 17-2025 : Ecran, watercooling, boitier et PC à la GA

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26 avril 2025 à 11:06

Cette semaine, pas moins de 4 vidéos, ce qui est plutôt pas mal. Nous avons donc découvert l'écran PHILIPS EVNIA 32M2N8900, le boitier CHIEFTEC HUNTER 3, le watercooling Zalman ALPHA2 DS A36, mais aussi quelques PC à la Gamers Assembly.En partenariat avec GVGMALL: Windows 10 Pro (13U+20AC) : https://biitt.ly/c8V0M Windows 11 Pro (19U+20AC) : https://biitt.ly/7ctfn […]

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Les montages du week-end : ALPINE A110 GT4 Rim par Charly M.

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26 avril 2025 à 10:59

Le principe reste simple : on est le week-end, on vous montre une configuration, pas forcément un mod, mais plutôt des montages hors normes, farfelus, ou encore ultra sobres. La seule chose que l'on félicite ici, c'est le travail ! On vous laisse critiquer le goût et les couleurs dans les commentaires. Durant cette section, nous allons sûrement déterrer de vieilles configurations et nous n'aurons pas forcément de hardware musclé. Le but réel est de vous montrer qu'on peut tout faire en matière de montage. Alors, n'hésitez pas à nous proposer vos configurations via Lucas en MP, peut-être seront-elles éditées ? Ce Week-end, nous vous proposons de découvrir le ALPINE A110 GT4 Rim de Charly M : […]

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Une vraie gamme mobile complète chez AMD avec les futures RX 9000M ?

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (Matthieu Strebler)
26 avril 2025 à 11:00

AMD le GPU mobile, c'est une histoire un peu compliquée. Malgré les tentatives, ce marché échappe toujours complètement aux Radeon. Avec RDNA 3, des Radeon RX 7000M avaient bien été lancées, mais leur existence a été franchement anecdotique. Manque d'effort de la part d'AMD ou concurrence trop rude ...

Linux 6.15-rc4 To Fix The Kernel Crashing For 32-bit Systems With Too Much RAM

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Par : Michael Larabel
26 avril 2025 à 10:54
With the Linux kernel now limiting 32-bit systems to 4GB of memory even with the "HIGHMEM" Kconfig option, an issue was uncovered where if the system was still populated with more memory than addressable by 32-bit systems, the kernel would crash. With the Linux 6.15-rc4 kernel due out on Sunday, this issue will be addressed...

New Analysis Casts Doubt On 'Biosignatures' Found On Planet K2-18b

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Par : BeauHD
26 avril 2025 à 10:00
Initial claims that life-associated gases were detected on exoplanet K2-18b are being challenged, with independent reanalysis by Jake Taylor suggesting the data is too noisy to support such conclusions and that stronger, model-independent evidence is needed. NPR reports: Rather than seeing a bump or a wiggle that indicated a signal, "the data is consistent with a flat line," says Taylor, adding that more observations from the telescope are needed to know what can be reliably said about this planet's atmosphere. "If we want to claim biosignatures, we need to be extremely sure." What this new work shows is that "the strength of the evidence depends on the nitty gritty details of how we interpret the data, and that doesn't pass the bar for me for a convincing detection," says Laura Kreidberg, an expert on the atmospheres of distant planets at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany who didn't work on the original research team or this new analysis. She explains that astronomers can make a lot of different choices when analyzing data; for example, they can make different assumptions about the physics and chemistry at play. "Ideally, for a robust detection, we want it to be model-independent," she says -- that is, they want the signal to show up even if the underlying assumptions change from one analysis to another. But that wasn't the case here.

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La GeForce RTX 5060 ne serait plus très loin !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (Thibaut GALONNIER)
26 avril 2025 à 08:28

Les deux concurrents AMD et NVIDIA se cherchent des poux en permanence. C'est de bonne guerre, mais voilà un nouvel épisode qui cristallise cette relation spéciale. Cette semaine, on apprenait qu'AMD devrait lancer le 18 mai ses RX 9060 XT dotées de 8 et 16 Go. En face, il ne reste plus qu'à NVIDIA...

China Shares Rare Moon Rocks With US

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Par : BeauHD
26 avril 2025 à 07:00
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: China will let scientists from six countries, including the U.S., examine the rocks it collected from the Moon -- a scientific collaboration that comes as the two countries remain locked in a bitter trade war. Two NASA-funded U.S. institutions have been granted access to the lunar samples collected by the Chang'e-5 mission in 2020, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Thursday. CNSA chief Shan Zhongde said that the samples were "a shared treasure for all humanity," local media reported. Chinese researchers have not been able to access NASA's Moon samples because of restrictions imposed by U.S. lawmakers on the space agency's collaboration with China. Under the 2011 law, Nasa is banned from collaboration with China or any Chinese-owned companies unless it is specifically authorized by Congress. But John Logsdon, the former director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, told BBC Newshour that the latest exchange of Moon rocks have "very little to do with politics." While there are controls on space technology, the examination of lunar samples had "nothing of military significance," he said. "It's international cooperation in science which is the norm."

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Petit récap, moins de temps passé devant le PC !

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26 avril 2025 à 07:15

Il arrive parfois que les tests et dossiers soient moins nombreux, voire même absents. Et cette semaine passée est concernée, ce qui va aussi permettre de limiter un peu le temps devant son écran. Ou alors, on récupère les minutes de lecture pour en faire des minutes de jeu, il parait que des supers titres sont sortis ces derniers jours ! […]

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Intel l'admet : ses ventes de CPU sont surtout bonnes pour... Raptor Lake !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
26 avril 2025 à 06:28

Matthieu vous parlait hier de l'annonce des résultats d'Intel pour le premier trimestre 2025. Une annonce comme toujours faite en grande pompe, avec de nombreux officiels de la marque qui ont pris la parole. L'une de ces prises de parole fait pas mal parler d'elle, car, comme toujours dans ce genre...

Netflix Introduces a New Kind of Subtitles For the Non-Hearing Impaired

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Par : BeauHD
26 avril 2025 à 03:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Multiple studies and investigations have found that about half of American households watch TV and movies with subtitles on, but only a relatively small portion of those include someone with a hearing disability. That's because of the trouble many people have understanding dialogue in modern viewing situations, and Netflix has now introduced a subtitles option to help. The closed captioning we've all been using for years includes not only the words the people on-screen are saying, but additional information needed by the hard of hearing, including character names, music cues ("dramatic music intensifies") and sound effects ("loud explosion"). For those who just wanted to make sure they didn't miss a word here and there, the frequent descriptions of sound effects and music could be distracting. This new format omits those extras, just including the spoken words and nothing else -- even in the same language as the spoken dialogue. The feature will be available in new Netflix original programming, starting with the new season of You in multiple languages. Netflix says it's looking at bringing the option to older titles in the library (including those not produced by Netflix) in the future. Traditional closed captions are still available, of course. Those are labeled "English CC" whereas this new option is simply labeled "English" (or whatever your preferred language is).

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