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A fifty-year-old constitutional right has just been erased with the stroke of a pen by the conservative majority of the Supreme Court. Now, all states can rule as they see fit on the legality of abortion, and in this confusion there are already threats of criminal prosecution against women who resort to abortion. Texas confirms that two laws dating from the XVIIIe century, buried since 1973, could enter into force after the Court’s decision of 24 June. What are they planning? The stoning of the culprits?
In the regions of the South most hostile to abortion, doubt and fear are already pushing many women to try to erase the evidence of their past transgressions. the Wall Street Journal describes the frenzy of the administrators of health applications like Flo, Clue and that of Apple to ensure the anonymity of the information compiled in the millions of profiles as quickly as possible and to make them unusable in the event of seizure by the prosecutors. And for good reason, in 2019, the Missouri authorities, particularly enraged, admitted during a trial that they had all the electronic data of family planning patients, including the dates of their menstruation. For now, anyone can still obtain this data from operators on the Internet’s black market – including the new American Inquisitors.
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Memories memories
Yes, yes, I assure you: there is a poetry of failure, an aesthetic in the great disasters of business, if we are to believe the prices reached on the Internet by the remains of failed start-ups. Count 220 dollars for a plastic water bottle stamped Theranos, the name of the company which promised to revolutionize medical analyzes and whose ex-boss is awaiting her sentence, after a trial of anthology, for having defrauded its investors. The Hustle confirms to us that the employees laid off during these disasters too often forget in their drawers the masses of T-shirts, coffee mugs or windbreakers stamped with the house logo, products of a flourishing promotional gift industry. These witnesses of the sometimes delirious claims of the creators of the tech can appear in the private collections of fanatic amateurs, like Christina Warren, who, according to NPRdid not hesitate, the day of the abrupt closure of the CNN + streaming channel, in April, to ask on Twitter that we send him gadgets. “I will pay”, she wrote.
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beyond the grave
It’s new: Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant, can also make the dead speak. CNBC heard, at Jeff Bezos’ latest re:Mars conference in Las Vegas, an in-house engineering pundit present a new program that allows Alexa to mimic any human voice quite faithfully, including that of a a deceased from whom one minute of voice recording could be provided to the artificial intelligence software. “We lost so many loved ones during Covid, he explains. If artificial intelligence cannot erase the pain, it can make the memory last.”
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Grand angle
The sleuths of New York Times spotted the new era of the selfie, so far removed, they swear, from the cutesy iPhone snaps taken by stars like Paris Hilton and Ellen DeGeneres. Nothing to see. Generation Z no longer swears by the 0.5 selfie, “point five” for insiders, taken with the wide-angle lens of the iPhone 12, which guarantees close-ups of grotesquely distended facies but also offers a whole range of spectacular options. It’s quite an art: the lens is on the back of the phone, which forces you to photograph yourself at random, with comic or unexpected results. The new fashion would add a playful spontaneity, a mixture of imperfection and artistic research, to the narcissism of social networks.
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Solution miracle
The United States is spending lavishly on carbon capture technologies, touted as a miracle solution to global warming. Of the 27 major such projects in the world, 14 are American and Joe Biden intends to enshrine his country’s pre-eminence in this field thanks to a recent investment of 3.5 billion dollars for four carbon recovery hubs in the air in the United States. But tell it Washington Post, scientific voices are being raised to criticize this policy, assuring that the decarbonization of the atmosphere would be better ensured by the use of renewable energies than by cleaning CO2, too expensive at the start and above all still not very effective on a large scale. And we discover, ironically, that capture techniques were invented by the oil industry to extract carbon dioxide from oil and reinject it into the boreholes in order to increase their yield. If this system is implemented in large American cement factories, at the cost of billions of dollars of investment, it risks maintaining the status quo in terms of energy and blurring priorities. Rather than repairing the damage by capturing the carbon, it would be simpler and more efficient to produce less of it.