Histoire d’un livre. Friedrich Nietzsche et sa sœur Elisabeth sont au cœur de ce roman sur Nueva Germania, colonie raciste allemande créée en Amérique du Sud à la fin des années 1880.

Le département des routes de Californie vient de publier les données sur les essais de véhicules autonomes. Waymo et GM Cruise semblent en avance sur leurs concurrents, même si les chiffres prêtent à caution.

Le théologien dominicain envisage les émotions comme l’amour, la joie, la colère, le regret ou la tristesse comme les traits d’un Dieu en action.

Once the stuff of science fiction, technology that enables people to talk using different languages is now here. But how effective is it?

Noise, Alex Waibel tells me, is one of the major challenges that artificial speech translation has to meet. A device may be able to recognise speech in a laboratory, or a meeting room, but will struggle to cope with the kind of background noise I can hear surrounding Professor Waibel as he speaks to me from Kyoto station. I’m struggling to follow him in English, on a scratchy line that reminds me we are nearly 10,000km apart – and that distance is still an obstacle to communication even if you’re speaking the same language. We haven’t reached the future yet.

If we had, Waibel would have been able to speak in his native German and I would have been able to hear his words in English. He would also be able to converse hands-free and seamlessly with the Japanese people around him, with all parties speaking their native language.

3D-printed and “smart” pharmaceuticals are making medical treatments more effective. But it may take years before the new devices reach most patients, if they do at all.