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Le Journal
Optimisation and ethics
Navigation tools, sales optimisation software, higher education platforms…Algorithms are not immune to ethical bias. Well before the tsunami of…
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Le Journal
Downloading the human mind
In "Mickey 17", the latest film by the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, the main character is recruited as an “Expendable” as part of a mission to…
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Multimedia
Notre-Dame, a divine research site
In 2019, we watched in horror as Notre-Dame burned. A tragedy, but also an opportunity to examine in detail a building with many secrets.
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Le Journal
When beauty overshadows scientific genius
The actress Hedy Lamarr died 25 years ago. A brilliant inventor, she devised a system for encoding data transmissions that became widely used in…
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Le Journal
AI needs to align with human values
Researchers submitted various scenarios to three chatbots, including ChatGPT, to see whether they took human values into account in their answers to…
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Le Journal
Alexandre Grothendieck, a committed genius
Alexandre Grothendieck, who is considered one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry, left a considerable mark on mathematics through his…
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Le Journal
Notre Dame: restoring eternity
In the aftermath of the fire, the French Ministry of Culture and the CNRS implemented a vast scientific effort to support the restoration of Notre…
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Le Journal
Friends, the robot that adapts in the blink of an eye
At the cutting edge of robotics, the teams at the Joint Robotics Laboratory (JRL) in Japan recently worked on Friends, a humanoid personal assistance…
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Le Journal
Single-cell technologies mark the dawn of a new era
Single-cell technologies for the analysis of genomic data enable scientists to better study tissue mechanisms and heterogeneity at the scale of a…
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Le Journal
Russian propaganda floods Europe's social networks
As the European elections draw near, Paul Bouchaud, a specialist in algorithms, shows that Meta (the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and…
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