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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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Multimedia
Listen! It’s the Week of Sound
During UNESCO’s Week of Sound, meet the scientists who are studying our sound environment…sometimes in very surprising ways.
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Press
AI and the media: Ouest-France, CNRS and the University of Rennes, with the ANR funding, create a joint laboratory
Ouest-France, CNRS and the University of Rennes, with the French National Research Agency funding, are launching the first joint laboratory (“LabCom”…
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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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Press
Quandela, the CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay and Université Paris Cité join forces to accelerate research and innovation in quantum photonics
Quantum photonics, or the art of controlling light in the quantum regime, should revolutionise data processing and security, with an impact across a…
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