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C’est l’histoire d’un enfant de trois ans qui refuse de manger, se plaint du ventre et est constipé depuis cinq jours. Ses parents s’inquiètent. Rien de spectaculaire : pas de vomissements, pas de sang dans les selles, pas de fièvre au début, pas de signes de gravité immédiate. Rien, en apparence, ne laisse présager l’ampleur de ce que les médecins vont découvrir. Derrière ces symptômes banals se cache une situation médicale exceptionnelle, rapportée en février 2025 par des chirurgiens indiens dans la revue Acta Scientific Gastrointestinal Disorders. Le petit garçon vit en milieu rural, près de Bangalore. Depuis l’âge de deux ans, il a pris l’habitude de manger de la terre, des graviers et de petites pierres, un comportement appelé pica. Ce terme désigne l’inge...

Fresh off launching the low-cost MacBook Neo, Apple is reportedly preparing at least three new products that will fit into its highest-end “ultra” lineup. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gruman, the next batch of releases may not bear the “ultra” name, like its Watch, but will all command price premiums over their mainline counterparts.There’s the oft-rumored foldable iPhone, which is expected to cost around $2,000, and a touchscreen MacBook Pro is supposedly slated for the fall. Those are pretty straightforward plays for the higher end of the market. More interesting are the next-gen AirPods, which are rumored to include cameras to feed visual context to Siri. Since AirPods already use the Pro and Max branding, similar to Apple Silicon, a set of AirPods Ultra could very well be on the do...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Smart glasses promise a future where technology blends into everyday life. You can ask a question, snap a quick video or identify what you are looking at in seconds. It sounds convenient. However, a new investigation suggests the experience may come with a privacy tradeoff many users never expected.According to an investigation by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten, contractors reviewing AI data in Nairobi, Kenya, may have seen highly personal footage captured by Meta's AI-powered smart glasses. In some cases, the videos reportedly showed bathroom visits, sexual activity and other intimate moments.The allegations have already sparked legal action and renewed debate about how AI systems are trained. Meta Platforms CEO...

The opening notes of “Kravitz”, which kicks off Mabe Fratti’s 2024 record Sentir Que No Sabes, are lodged in my brain permanently. It’s not a showy album, by any means. But there’s something about the buzzing of her cello, plucked as you might an upright bass. The way they ring out before coming to an abrupt stop, fuzz still hanging in the air, set against a simple kick and snare sat firmly in the pocket. There’s something industrial about the way it all comes together, like a jazzy “Closer.”Then come Fratti’s paranoid lyrics in Spanish about ears in the ceiling and someone listening through the walls, and the slightly atonal horn blasts. In the back half, the arrangement blooms with big piano chords, and the drums pick up steam. It’s the perfect opening to a record that sees Fratti tak...

Les membres du collectif féministe Les Rosies, lors d’une marche organisée à l’occasion de la Journée internationale des droits des femmes, à Paris, le 8 mars 2026. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP « Stop aux violences », « du travail pour vivre, pas survivre », « notre corps nous appartient » : des dizaines de milliers de personnes manifestent dimanche 8 mars partout en France pour défendre les droits des femmes, menacés par la montée du conservatisme, selon les associations. Lire aussi | « Joyeuse fête de la femme ! » : huit idées reçues sur la Journée internationale des droits des femmes Lire plus tard A Bordeaux, à Lille, à Marseille, mais aussi à Albi ou à Alenç...

There is so much art out there that it’s absolutely impossible to keep up. Whether it’s a slept-on post-punk album from the ‘80s, a new sci-fi novel, or a cult classic horror movie, we’re always finding new obsessions here at The Verge — and we want to share those obsessions with you. Sometimes that might be a new release, but often it’s going to be something a little older, something not necessarily plastered all over TikTok or sitting at the top of the charts on Spotify.We’ve said it before, but the best way to find new music, a new show to binge, or a self-help book that isn’t pure trash is to skip the algorithm and get a recommendation from actual humans. And it just so happens that The Verge employs a number of those (humans, that is). So checkback regularly for new art to fall in ...

Crowning the EasySMX S10 the best Switch 2 controller last fall was easy. The $60 wireless gamepad, which is often well below $50, mimics or improves on many of the $90 Switch 2 Pro controller’s best features. The S10 has great-feeling rumble in games, TMR joysticks that will last longer than Nintendo’s, plus amiibo support, comfortable grips, and buttons and triggers that offer satisfying clicks. The new S10 Lite trims away some of those, but builds on EasySMX’s lead with one big, new feature that I expect other companies to copy.The EasySMX S10 Lite is the first third-party controller to offer native support for the Switch 2. It’s an improvement on all non-Nintendo wireless controllers, which rely on macros to execute system-level commands, like GameChat, and require a strange, yet co...

Un jeune choucas des tours à Altheim (Allemagne), le 3 novembre 2019. THOMAS WARNACK/AFP Jusqu’où l’inné va-t-il se nicher ? Une expérience originale portant sur des oisillons de choucas des tours (Corvus monedula) éclaire la façon dont leur instinct et une forme d’apprentissage peuvent se combiner pour les amener à ne réagir qu’aux vraies menaces venues du ciel. Dans la revue Biology Letters du 4 mars, Hannah Broad, Guillam McIvor et Alex Thornton, de l’université d’Exeter (Royaume-Uni), décrivent comment ils ont installé des caméras et des microphones dans trente-neuf nids de deux villages de Cornouailles, dans l’ouest de l’Angleterre, peu après la naissance de choucas des tours. Ils ont ensuite diffusé par haut-parleur différents cris d’ois...

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the EV struggle, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.Apologies to the Toyota Prius, but the first hybrid vehicle of note was the Semper Vivus, developed by Ferdinand Porsche (yes, that Porsche) way back in 1900. The Semper Vivus (Latin for “always alive”) used two combustion engines to power generators, which then fed electricity to motors inside the wheel hubs. The fact that it took modern engineers over a century to really appreciate the merging of internal combustion engines with electric power is a sign that ingenuity isn’t always a foregone conclusion in the automotive world.Car companies are now ...

The hottest toy of 1998 was sort of adorable, and sort of annoying. It couldn’t do much — couldn’t do anything, really — but it could look at you, it could say some nonsense phrases, and it seemed uncannily aware of the world around it. That’s all Furby needed to pretty much take over the world.The story of Furby is filled with technical achievement. The fact that the furry little guy worked at all, ever, was a bit of a surprise to a lot of people involved. But Furby also represents a different way of thinking about our relationships with technology, a different idea about human-computer interaction, and maybe even a path worth following for AI companies everywhere.On this episode of Version History, we tell the story of Furby, from its roots in an off-grid house in California all the w...