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Raspberry Pi Foundation, the company responsible for the famous homonymous microcomputer, has just launched an exciting new product: Pico, a microcontroller board in the mould of the well-known Arduino. The difference is that this launch is much cheaper: while an Arduino Micro (simpler version) costs US $ 18.40 (about R $ 98 in the direct quotation and without fees), the Raspberry Pi Pico was launched for the modest US $ 4 (or R $ 21). Alternative to the Raspberry Pi is so cheap and better than the original. The idea is that the maker and DIY community (“do it yourself”, in English) can h...

19 Jan 2021 The director of the French Arab World institute has expressed regret for signing a 1977 letter that called for decriminalising adults having sex with children. Jack Lang, a former Socialist Party politician, former French minister, and former mayor, was confronted on Monday about his signing of a January 1977 letter published as an op-ed in the newspapers Le Monde and Libération and which argued for the decriminalisation of sexual acts with children. The letter was also signed by French philosopher Michel Foucault and former Green Party member of the European Parliament Danie...

On Sunday, we witnessed the biggest match in England as Liverpool faced Manchester United. The two most successful clubs in the land have a huge worldwide fanbase and clashes between the two are watched by millions around the globe. The millions that were watching on Sunday would have been disappointed as the two sides drew 0-0 at Anfield. It wasn’t quite the same without a ferocious Anfield crowd but there’s no doubt this remains the most intense rivalry in the world. But what other derbies rival it? Well, ahead of the big match in the Premier League, the Athletic ranked the biggest riva...

Vive l'indifférence! Netflix's Room 2806 exposes France's #MeToo apathy Amelia Gentleman Most people will have only the haziest recollection of the fallout that occurred after the French presidential hopeful and then head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of sexually assaulting a room attendant in a New York hotel in 2011. That allows the Netflix documentary Room 2806: The Accusation to possess all the qualities of a slick political thriller. Who will be believed? The immigrant, hotel cleaner, a single parent living in a flat in the Bronx o...

French beauty queen April Benayoum was targeted with antisemitic abuse on social media. Photo: Instagram. One of the main organizations combating antisemitism and racism in France is considering legal action against a left-wing activist over an alleged antisemitic article published last week in which she argued that “one cannot be innocently Israeli.” The article — by the French-Algerian writer and political activist Houria Bouteldja — asserted that the antisemitic abuse piled on French beauty queen April Benayoum, after she revealed that her father was Israeli, should be sympathetic...