L’auteure de « L’art de perdre » a choisi les Côtes d’Armor pour écrire en solitaire. Près de la mer, forcément.

Les Etats-Unis devraient prolonger la licence permettant au fabricant de smartphone chinois de continuer à se fournir auprès des entreprises américaines.

Où comment un jeune écrivain belge, Georges Simenon, noceur et mondain créa le plus bonhomme et populaire des flics parisiens, le commissaire Jules Maigret, dont les histoires prendront pour décor le Paris noir des années 1930. Cinquième et avant-dernier épisode de cette série consacrée aux villes de polars.

Advertisers, tech giants and border forces are using face tracking software to monitor our moods – whether we like it or not

It is early July, almost 30C outside, but Mihkel Jäätma is thinking about Christmas. In a co-working space in Soho, the 39-year-old founder and CEO of Realeyes, an “emotion AI” startup which uses eye-tracking and facial expression to analyse mood, scrolls through a list of 20 festive ads from 2018. He settles on The Boy and the Piano, the offering from John Lewis that tells the life story of Elton John backwards, from megastardom to the gift of a piano from his parents as a child, accompanied by his timeless heartstring-puller Your Song. The ad was well received, but Jäätma is clearly unconvinced.

He hits play, and the ad starts, but this time two lines – one grey (negative reactions), the other red (positive) – are traced across the action. These follow the second-by-second responses of a 200-person sample audience who watched the ad and allowed Realeyes to record them through the camera of their computer or smartphone. Realeyes then used its AI technology to analyse each individual’s facial expression and body language. The company did this with all of Jäätma’s list of 20 Christmas ads from 2018, watching 4,000 people, before rating each commercial for attention, emotion, sentiment and finally giving it a mark out of 10.

With the loss of the two award-winning publications, digital media got a little less brainy in the summer of ’19.