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Solar Storm Threat Is Back as Giant Sunspot Cluster Reappears

Earth may experience another solar storm—and more auroras—in early June as the hyperactive sunspot cluster rotates back into view.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie May 28

Netflix’s Marianne Debut Teaser Is About a Writer Who’s at War With Her Own Villain

Stephen King’s got nothing on this horror writer. The debut teaser for Netflix’s new French series Marianne centers around a famous novelist who uses her books to keep a horrifying witch at bay…but it can’t work forever. Written and directed by Samuel Bodin, Marianne stars Victoire Du Bois (Call Me By Your Name) as Emma,…

Trailers Beth Elderkin Aug 27

France Is Getting a New, Algorithmically Designed Keyboard Layout

French and English share the same 26-character alphabet, but additional accents, symbols, and punctuation make it challenging for Francophones to use keyboard layouts designed for English speakers. The solution so far has just been to learn to adapt, but researchers led by Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, developed an algorithm that helped create the first…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 4

Communists Oppose Naming a French Street for Steve Jobs, Suggest Ada Lovelace Instead

France has a surprisingly large number of streets named after Americans. There are streets named for Thomas Edison, George Gershwin, and Ben Franklin. But recent plans to name a street after Steve Jobs has encountered some resistance. Specifically, resistance from French Communists. Developers recently converted an old train station in the city into a tech…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 2

A Firefighter Is Captivated By Flames In This Gorgeous Animated Short

In Wildfire, a firefighter is utterly captivated by the flames which surround her, and it’s an obsession that begins to spill into her personal life. This short film is brilliantly animated, and it’s a beautiful, poetic affair: a firefighter who can’t seem to escape a morbid fascination with the flames that she’s supposed to fight…

io9 Andrew Liptak Sep 27

Interesting Theory On Why French People Find English-Speakers Annoying

There exists a kind of long-standing rivalry between the French and the English (and the Americans). Some of it is rooted in history, but could some of it come from language? Here’s an interesting little theory about why the French, at least, find English-speakers annoying. Any two nations that spend a long time next to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 13

This Simpsons couch gag making fun of the French is hilarious fine art

I would so watch a French version of The Simpsons that makes fun of itself as much as this couch gag. Hopefully, it could be just as beautifully animated as this too. This couch gag was made by French director Sylvain Chomet and it has Homer eating snails, Bart brutally making his own foie gras…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 6

French Secret Service Freaks Out About Seemingly Nonexistent Military Secrets On Wikipedia

French agents at the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI), apparently turning their attention to Wikipedia for the first time in years, demanded last month that the Wikimedia Foundation delete an entry about a military radio relay station written in 2009. When Wikimedia refused, the DCRI approached a French man with administrative editing ability on…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Apr 7

Peeing Frenchman Sues Google Over Embarrassing Street View Photo

Google Street View, long established as a source for photos of unaware naked people, is being sued by a man in France because one of its camera-mounted cars snapped a photo of him pissing into a courtyard on his property and, as any of us surely would, uploaded it to the internet. Although Google blurred…

Tech News Kif Leswing Mar 1

This Black Bun Darth Vader Burger Looks More Awesome Than The Phantom Menace

I’m finally jealous of the French. To promote the re-release of The Phantom Menace in THREE DEE, French fast food chain Quick is making a Darth Vader Burger complete with a black bun. A BLACK BUN. On a burger! There’s also a Jedi Burger, but whoever wants the snoozefest of a regular bun when the…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 4

“Is My Son Gay?” Is One Aggressively Sad Android App

If you think your son’s sexuality can be determined through any means other than actually having a meaningful, face-to-face conversation, then you need to waste your money on the “Is My Son Gay” French Android App. The app costs 99 Euro cents € 1.99, which if you think about it, is a great deal considering…

Tech News Michael Zhao Sep 24

Skyliners Tightrope Walking Is Insane but Not Certifiably So

Some people might imeediately think of words like “crazy” or phrases like “batshit insane” when they see this “Skylining” video out of France, but those are misnomers. True crazies wouldn’t use a safety line. [Skyliners Paris Trailer via kottke]

Tech News Jack Loftus Aug 21

Above France for iPad: It’s Like the Tour de France Without Any of the Sweaty Cycling or Crashes

Making fun of France is as American as apple pie but it doesn’t mean we don’t think it’s a beautiful country (what? there’s more than Paris?). Above France is an app from National Geographic Traveler and Fotopedia that shows off the beauty of the rest of the country. It’s a series of jaw dropping photographs…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 12

The Metal War Cloud over Libya

Libya’s air power is destroyed. Its ground power is (largely) blasted. All because of a persistent storm of aircraft enforcing a strict no-fly zone—planes like this French Super Etendard fighter, dumping a plume of fuel across the sun. The nearly 40 year-old design is just one of many standing watch over Libya—a Libya that’s still…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 25

Crazy Basketball Team Uses a Crazier Amusement Park Robot for Practice

Basketball practices are pretty standard: shooting drills, defensive slides, three-man weave, suicides, 17s, rebounding, running plays, etc. Not for the French though, those weirdos are using an amusement park ride/giant robot to twirl them in the air to catch passes. Just watch the video, it’s ridiculous. The players strap themselves to the ride, the coach…

Tech News Casey Chan May 16

Hello? Hello?! Sorry, There’s a Fish Bone in My Phone

Boy, you’d really flounder about in the aquarium phone booth, wouldn’t you? It was installed by two artists for the French Lyon Light Festival, to make a statement about the phone booths that litter our streets, laying dormant save for sex phone-line leaflet hander-outers. I wonder what the bass was like on that phone after…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 7

This Is Absolutely, Positively the Best Way to Watch 3D Without 3D Glasses

Who gives a shit about 3D? Not me. But! I’m uber excited to see this technology hit our living room. The French have come up with a really, really, really creative way to get rid of those pesky 3D glasses. Watch. So, where do I sign up for the beta testing program? [Neon Margarita via…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 15

Schoolkids Guess the Ancient Gadgets and Get It All Adorably Wrong

Don’t kids say the darndest things? Especially when they’re speaking adorable French-Canadian. My favorite moment is when a kid is presented with a floppy disk and says “this goes into an iPod,” but if I’m honest I love them all. The little boy at 2:30 who immediately knows that the Fisher Price record player from…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 7

French Cellphone Contracts Will Be the Death of You

Thought getting out of cellphone contracts here in the US was bad? Sorry. It’s got nothing on what American-in-Paris Leonora Epstein went through trying to break up with Orange. This is her story. Quelle horreur! Shortly after arriving in France a year and a half ago, I decided to scrap my shit pay- as-you-go phone…

Tech News Leonora Epstein Dec 20

Nokia’s Budget 3210 Is Back—Reissued by French Designers

Not content with doing over just the Motorola StarTac, French design company Lekki has reissued Nokia’s 3210, which is one of the best-selling phones in history. Why? Seems like a good time to party like it’s 1999, I suppose. https://gizmodo.com/the-motorola-startac-is-back-in-yellow-5672422 The phone was one of the first models to have an internal antenna, and apart…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 20

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Solar Storm Threat Is Back as Giant Sunspot Cluster Reappears

Netflix’s Marianne Debut Teaser Is About a Writer Who’s at War With Her Own Villain

France Is Getting a New, Algorithmically Designed Keyboard Layout

Communists Oppose Naming a French Street for Steve Jobs, Suggest Ada Lovelace Instead

A Firefighter Is Captivated By Flames In This Gorgeous Animated Short

Interesting Theory On Why French People Find English-Speakers Annoying

This Simpsons couch gag making fun of the French is hilarious fine art

French Secret Service Freaks Out About Seemingly Nonexistent Military Secrets On Wikipedia

Peeing Frenchman Sues Google Over Embarrassing Street View Photo

This Black Bun Darth Vader Burger Looks More Awesome Than The Phantom Menace

“Is My Son Gay?” Is One Aggressively Sad Android App

Skyliners Tightrope Walking Is Insane but Not Certifiably So

Above France for iPad: It’s Like the Tour de France Without Any of the Sweaty Cycling or Crashes

The Metal War Cloud over Libya

Crazy Basketball Team Uses a Crazier Amusement Park Robot for Practice

Hello? Hello?! Sorry, There’s a Fish Bone in My Phone

This Is Absolutely, Positively the Best Way to Watch 3D Without 3D Glasses

Schoolkids Guess the Ancient Gadgets and Get It All Adorably Wrong

French Cellphone Contracts Will Be the Death of You

Nokia’s Budget 3210 Is Back—Reissued by French Designers

‘Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End’ Is a Sublime Fantasy That Finds Beauty in the Mundane

OnePlus Should Abandon Phones and Go All In on Gaming

Meta’s First AI Model From Its Superintelligence Lab Doesn’t Exactly Spark Joy

Iran Demands Bitcoin and Crypto for Strait of Hormuz Toll Payments

Stephen Colbert Adds Yet Another Genre Voiceover Cameo to His Belt

Turns Out Home Taping Wasn’t Killing Music After All

Wild Experiment Suggests Lasers and Graphene Could Propel Future Spacecraft

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Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

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