Tour France. And in the end, it was Germany who wins!

The classic Paris-Tours offers a regular sprint festival in October. For the arrival in town of the 12th stage of the Tour de France, it is also an explanation that was scheduled between beefy, whatever day of the five escaped, returned to the last of them, Juan Antonio Flecha, 6 km from the finish. At this stage of the race, the favorites to win are identified, but a fall in the last three kilometers sends down many riders, including private and André Greipel sprint. In the group that is present in the last mile, it's Marcel Kittel who shows more powerful than Mark Cavendish half a wheel. He won his third victory on the Tour in 2013, to add to the success of German Tony Martin in the clock, and Greipel sprinting to victory in Montpellier. That makes 5 of 12. Five runners head At 4 km, Francesco Gavazzi (AST) out of the pack, followed by Romain Sicard (EUS), Manuele Mori (LAM), Juan Antonio Flecha (VCD) and Anthony Delaplace (SOJ). The five riders progressing easily at first, until you get the maximum benefit of 9 at passing Laval (42.5 miles). In the pack, the Argos-Shimano team Lotto-Belisol and are the first to be positioned at the front. 45.8 km / h on the first three hours The combination is very gradually between the peloton and the breakaway. A 100 km from the finish, there is 6'20'' margin attackers, who are forced to maintain a steady pace to preserve their chances (45.8 km / h average after three hours of racing). At the intermediate sprint, the energy dissipation due to a Romain Sicard, recovering while the gap is down to 2'30''. The remaining 10 points to take the 6th place in the aftermath of the break, earned first Tour by Mark Cavendish. Flecha solo At 20 km from the finish, the four attackers cling to a slender lead of 34'', which seems insufficient. Mori Delaplace and 14 km from the end, then Gavazzi three kilometers away, leave Flecha continue the mission alone. But the Spaniard in turn reinstates the pack, 6 km from the line. Private Greipel sprint The peloton then prepares a final explanation nervousness. The Orica-GreenEdge team goes a little faster in a roundabout, where Svein Tuft collapses without affecting its companions. But in the last three kilometers, a new fall brings many riders to the ground, including Richie Porte and Edvald Boasson Hagen in the Sky clan. Especially, André Greipel left without sprint, and it is in a group of 15 riders that plays the stage. Although led by Gert Steegmans, Mark Cavendish seems able to win. But in the last 50 meters, Marcel Kittel, who was seated in the wheel of his rival, than the man with 24 victories on the Tour. The meter sprinter Argos-Shimano now stands at three!

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The economy of sharing, new Internet horizon

The economy of sharing, consisting for individuals to exchange services without intermediaries, will overcome the consumer society in its present form, a revolution was already billions which do not kill capitalism, says Rachel Botsman, specialist the subject.
The "collaborative" economy, including the best-known examples are the AMAP in France, the exchange sites of apartments, car rental between private loans between individuals bypassing the banking system, "already worth billions dollars "globally, said Rachel Botsman, author of" What's mine is yours, How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing The Way We Live "(What is mine is yours, or how the collaborative economy will change our way of life).

Thus, the market for loans already represent two billion. Airbnb, linking individuals to rent their homes for a few days and taking that transaction costs, resulted in the hiring of 4 million overnight stays in 2013 against 3,000,000 in 2012, to the chagrin of the hotel, note the specialist invited Thursday Bordeaux for a forum on this topic.

"This is the end consumer as intended. Within ten years he'll be dead," she says AFP. The consumer will be defined more as such, but as "a member of a community," says the English from the world of marketing and advertising, founder of a consulting firm specializing in collaborative economy, which considers crisis of 2009 led to a profound questioning of the consumer society.

The technology has now enabled to connect individuals without intermediaries and as in the circulation of information, internet defies "monopolies" and causes a profound change in the relationship between producer and consumer, with a "more distributed economy, less centralized, niche markets and networks (...) allowing individuals to feel more "capable".

It also allows users to "monetize" assets that previously were not: "The cars but also the physical space or the expertise that were previously under-utilized."

A triple-digit growth

Before, "the tree houses had no market," now can be rented on the Internet, she jokes. Similarly, some rent their time to others to do paperwork for them, before a non-existent market. Ditto for the "empty seats in cars", unused minutes of mobile phone packages, exchange knowledge online.

Sector, she insists, has a "triple-digit growth," she notes.

That economy does lead to job losses in the manufacturing sector, while encouraging the re-use of objects rather than consumerism?

Not necessarily, she responded by emphasizing the exchange of online music had thus fear the collapse of the music industry and eventually led to "the emergence of new sources of revenue." "It went well for television, Youtube, blogs newspapers," she said, without however denying that at first, "Manufacturing will suffer a lot" and will evolve into a "service model" and Non production.

Thus, some DIY chains offer more and more services to individuals beyond the sale. "They teach you how to do things yourself rather than just selling a stripper."

However, altruism should not prevail. "We go beyond money, with very sophisticated systems of barter." There will be a "democratization" of finance with loans between individuals, but also remains a "tension between individualism and the common good" and resistance of incumbents who attempt to recover these business for their benefit .

"You will always monopolies and conglomerates but the margin, niche market network will be as dynamic as those of + center +," she said. For workers, however, to listen, everything will change: "My children have five jobs a week and no longer think in terms of work, but expertise."
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France also spy on social networks

Widespread surveillance of telecommunications is also a reality in France. Le Monde published a survey on Thursday showing that French intelligence intercept all telephone calls in France, but also those carried out on the Internet, and store everything in huge servers located in the basement of the headquarters of the DGSE, Boulevard Mortier, in the twentieth arrondissement of Paris.
The purpose of this monitoring is not listening or reading private exchanges, but to determine who talks to whom, when, how long and where. DGSE has access to the titles of emails sent to France, the Google queries, interactions on Facebook ... The accumulation of data over time, can map the social interactions of every citizen. If an individual is suspected, for example, be part of a terrorist group, the French information could easily end up with the person who sent the last few years, and find possible accomplices. Dependent then investigators launch real listening, requiring the approval of the authorities.
Le Monde reveals that this massive database is accessible to the DGSE (foreign) but also Homeland Security (DCRI), the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DRM), the Department for the Protection and Security defense (DPSD), the National Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation (DNRED) and even TRACFIN (fight against illegal financial channels) or the police. The existence of this sharing of information is denied by the authorities.
A revealed in 2010 by the DGSE system

This widespread Internet surveillance was revealed by the DGSE itself in 2010, at the Symposium on Safety of information technology and communications. Bernard Barbier, the technical director of the DGSE, it explained the functioning of this system, as had been reported then the blogger Jean-Marc Manach. "All these metadata are stores, over years and years. When we look at an IP address or a phone number, we will search our database. We find the list of matching (the suspect) for years. It happens to reconstitute its entire network, "explained Bernard Barbier. Why look to the Internet and public services such as email or Facebook? "Because public networks are used by terrorists," who drowned in the mass of conventional Internet exchanges, hoping not to be detected.
These ads were placed completely unnoticed at the time. But the scandal broke Prism in the United States, based on the same method may change. The only difference is size, with the United States: French surveillance based on any legal framework. French law does not provide for anything about the legality of mass storage data connection. A legal vacuum in which were engulfed intelligence agencies.

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you may have an electronic tattoo: what will it serve?

A butterfly on the shoulder, a pirate on the forearm ... So far, nothing very original for a tattoo. Except that the Chinese researcher Nanshu Lu, had the idea of ​​incorporating an electronic circuit there. She has received the grand prize Netexplo forum, dedicated to digital innovations, for this invention.
In practice, an electronic tattoo sticks to the body. It contains the transistors, diodes and miniaturized sensors.
What's the point?
"The potential applications are limited only by our imagination," said the young researcher who developed these tattoos at the University of Texas at Austin.
More specifically, the first application should be medical. These electronic tattoos are able to measure the activity of the heart, brain and muscles. They may for example allow doctors to follow, remote cardiac patients, without the need for electrodes and son traditionally used to collect biological data. The data transmission is wireless, with built in tattoo issuers.
But in the medium term, these electronic tattoos could be used for video games (man-machine interfaces) or sports (measurement of heart rate during exercise, or other parameters).

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Android devices to 99% of them affected by a huge flaw

The security team Bluebox discovered a huge flaw. Indeed it would be possible to modify the code a apk (note: this is the file to install an application) without the signature of the application is changed. This would allow a hacker to convert any application into virus or trojan and unusable mobile using the said application or use the phone at the expense of the owner. The main drawback inherent to Android is that once the Trojan is installed, it has access to all the phone. We can then see the value of a closed system like Apple. Even if a Trojan or virus took advantage of a flaw in Apple's mobile system, it could not access the system.

This issue is particularly important as it is for 4 years and can be used on all devices with Android Donut version is 1.6. This would be nearly 900 million handsets.

At the moment the fault was discovered by a security company who passed last February. It would seem that no hacker has not used.

Good news for owners of Galaxy S4, ComputerWorld says that mobile Samsung would already have the patch removing this flaw.

This major flaw will allow to see the responsiveness of Google and manufacturers. This can prove to be a choice in your mobile future. The latter being increasingly used and contains more and more personal data.

The fault will be shown in detail at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, which runs from July 27 to August 1, 2013.

I advise you to be careful when downloading applications, especially if it comes from unknown sources.

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Tens of billions of habitable planets in our galaxy

The department of "planet hunters" to NASA has doubled this estimate, taking into account recent studies on planets with high cloud cover ...

If humanity is ever to move, it will be spoiled for choice. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, in fact, harboring more than 60 billion habitable exoplanets. The Kepler Spacecraft, NASA department responsible for referencing habitable planets has published a new study.

>> Hunting habitable planets is here in pictures

Until now, the scientific community believed that each solar system, around-called "red dwarf" (less bright than our Sun) stars, housed on average a habitable planet. But this new study twice the estimate, whereas some planets with atmospheres cloud can also accommodate extra terrestrial life forms.

Under the clouds, life

"The clouds cause both warming and cooling of the Earth, says Dorian Abbot, professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. They reflect sunlight and so cool the atmosphere and cause a greenhouse heating. This balance is largely allowing a planet to host life. "

For the record, a planet is considered habitable when the temperature allows water in the liquid state, and is therefore neither too far nor too close to the star.

Between light and shadow, life as

In this new study, researchers have developed a simulation system that allows for what are potentially habitable planets according to their apparent cloud cover.

Even some planets that constantly show the same face to their star could have a habitable zone on the border between sunny and not sunny hemisphere.

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Xbox Music

dice that day, fans of Xbox Music Pass are able to access the web version of Xbox Music. You no longer have to use the Xbox or Windows 8 as simply enter the address (music.xbox.com) to access it from any browser, and on any operating system.

  Microsoft has taken the design of existing Xbox Music, and added a touch of "responsive design" for the site fits all screen sizes. In detail, we note that we can access and play all his songs without limits, and whatever the terminal. Synchronization is complete, and effective in all directions.

A toolbar is located at the bottom of the window to access the different controls (volume, repeat ...). You can edit its playlist, add songs, and research. For this service to be truly universal, it's missing a version iOS and Android. (EP)

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