Continued from Status report (end of September)

Incredibly, I still found time and energy to somewhat keep up with the affairs of the world and gathered a few notable news & links — which I now share with you (in both french or english, slightly categorized, but in no particular order — note that, to save on coding time, the links will NOT open in a new window), after the jump.

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Apple Stuff

• Apple releases macOS Catalina 10.15.7, possibly the last update before Big Sur (Are Technica)
• Apple iPad Air review roundup: Should you buy one? (Fox Business)
• Apple One: Everything You Need to Know About the New Mega Bundle (Daily Dot)
• iOS 14: How to use 10 of the most popular new iPhone and iPad features (9 to 5 Mac)
• macOS Big Sur release date, features and compatibility (Tom’s Guide)
• ‘Apple One’ services bundle might have just been confirmed (Cult of Mac)
• Recent Hints Point Toward Apple Card International Expansion (MacRumors)
• macOS Big Sur preview: Five things you should know before installing (Engadget)
• 5 iPad Features Most People Didn’t Even Know Existed (iDrop News)
• Apple updates iMovie for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with new filters, soundtracks, and more (9to5Mac)
• The Best New iPad Features Coming This Fall (Gear Patrol)
• Report: Apple to launch TV+, Showtime, and CBS All Access bundle next week (9to5Mac)
• Apple to Launch Bundled Subscription Services Called ‘Apple One’ (MacRumors)
• Apple Is About to Announce Its Most Important Product Ever, and It Isn’t an iPhone (Inc.com)
• Translate Webpages in Safari to Another Language Using Apple’s New Translation Tool (Gadget Hack)
• iPad Air (2020) may be the biggest, fastest and cheapest ever (Laptop Mag)
• If your iPhone feels slow or dies fast, you may need a new battery — here’s how to check (CNBC)
• Best iPad for 2020: iPad Air 2019 vs. iPad Pro 2020 vs. iPad 2019 (CNET)
• iOS 14: How to Send an Audio Message Using Siri (MacRumors)
• The 3 best Apple Watch sleep tracking apps to use before watchOS 7 arrives (Tom’s Guide)
• iOS 14: What do the orange and green dots in the status bar mean? (9to5Mac)

Books, Culture & Library

• Début du chantier à la bibliothèque Maisonneuve, malgré les critiques (Journal Métro)
• Opinion: How Libraries Can Save the 2020 Election (NYT)
• François Legault et les bibliothèques publiques (QBPQ)
• Sofia: L’outil de recherche du Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires québécoises (Youtube)
• L’horreur selon H. P. Lovecraft (France Culture)
• « Me pointez-vous, monsieur ? » (Blogue BAnQ)
• For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books (Washington Post)
• Review: New Slaughterhouse-Five graphic novel might be better than the book (Polygon)
• The healing power of books and libraries (The Guardian)
• Taschen to Release 592-Page ‘The History of EC Comics’ (ICv2)
• Le Robert 2021 accueille les mots “mangaka” et “anime” (Animeland)
• Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) est une excellente wikipédienne [Bibliomancienne] 
• Review: ‘Asterix- The Chieftain’s Daughter’ GN (ICv2)
• Les bibliothèques publiques encouragées à abolir leurs frais de retard (Radio-Canada)
• Lovecraft Country Book and TV Show Spoilers (Popsugar)
• Manga in the COVID Era: Binge Reading, Box Sets, Volume 1s, and More (ICv2)
• July 2020 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Author, Manga, Superhero Graphic Novels (ICv2)
• Bouquins & Confidences: Émission du 10 août 2020 by Julie lit au lit (Mixcloud)
• Halifax libraries close the book on overdue fees (CBC)
• I Wrote an Ebook to See How Much Easy Money I Could Make Online (Vice)
• Or What You Will review: Jo Walton’s latest is a playful delight (Vox)
• The mysterious ancient origins of the book (BBC Culture)
• ‘The Far Side’ Cartoonist Gary Larson Shares First New Work in 25 Years (The New York Times)
• Why Marcus Aurelius Matters, in 5 of His Classic Quotes (How Stuff Works)
• Library finds beer and gum stash from ’80s hidden in shelves (NYP)
• Revue Collection: Les littératures de l’Imaginaire (link)

COVID-19

• Suivez l’évolution de la COVID-19 au Québec (Le Devoir)
• Évolution de la COVID-19 au Québec (cas, décès, hospitalisations et tests de dépistage) (Radio-Canada)
• Santé Québec: CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 (Link)
• Santé Montréal (Link)
• Montréal Intranet (Employés): COVID-19 (Link)
• 5 potential coronavirus treatments have seen major advancements this month — here’s what the new research shows (Business Insider)
• How public spaces like parks and streets will change after pandemic (Insider)
• Druillet on Moorcock in New Titan ‘Elric’ Volume (ICv2)
• A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged (Elemental Medium)
• Why Do Some People Weather Coronavirus Infection Unscathed? (Undark)
• Canada’s coronavirus performance hasn’t been perfect. But it’s done far better than the U.S. (Washington Post)
• Bill Nye: why masks save lives (NowTHis via FB)

Entertainments & pop culture 

• Osamu Tezuka, Jill Thompson, Milestone Founders Named to Harvey Awards Hall of Fame (ICv2)
• The important Enola Holmes scene everyone’s tweeting about (Stylist)
• U.S. senators, citing Uighurs, urge Netflix to drop planned Chinese sci-fi series (Reuters)
• Enola Holmes Is Already the Most Popular Movie on Netflix (Comic Book)
• ‘Enola Holmes’: Netflix’s #1 Star Outshines Netflix’s #2 Star (Forbes)
• Sherlock Who? All you need to know about Enola Holmes and why is the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle suing Netflix? (Flipboard)
• Korean Film Festival Canada 2020 Launches (Press Release, 2020/08/11)
• AMC Reveals the End of ‘The Walking Dead’ (ICv2)
• Watch the first trailer for the insanely star-studded ‘Dune’ (TechCrunch)
• 10 Great Horror Movies Inspired By the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft (Bloody Disgusting)
• Canadian Games Distributors Merge [Luma & ILO307] (ICv2)
• ‘Game of Thrones’ creators to adapt Chinese sci-fi trilogy for Netflix (Reuters)
• Inside the unexpected rise of animated music videos (The Face)
• The New Battlestar Galactica: Sequel Series Happening At NBC (Giant Freakin Robot)
• The most underappreciated sci-fi movie on Netflix deserves another chance (Inverse)
• Second Season of Apple TV+ Series ‘The Morning Show’ Gets Pandemic-Based Rewrite (MacTrast)
• ‘For All Mankind’ Season 2 Trailer Shared on IMDb, with No Official Release (MacRumors)
• Why Netflix is canceling so many of its shows early (Newsweek)
• Tom Hanks said the ‘cruel whipmasters at Apple’ made him do an interview in front of a blank wall so people couldn’t scrutinize things in his home (Business Insider)
• ‘The Sandman’: Neil Gaiman Gives Update & Shares Clue About Netflix Series Paused By COVID-19 (Deadline)
• His Dark Materials Series 2 Trailer (BBC via FB)
• Olivia de Havilland, légende du cinéma hollywoodien, est morte (Le Monde)
• Alan Parker, réalisateur de « Midnight Express », est mort (Le Monde)
• The Boys renewed for season 3 to hunt more Supes (EW)
• Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon begins casting (EW)

Health & Environment

• Newsom calls for California ban on new gas-fueled cars by 2035 (Politico)
• This is exactly how much sleep you need to avoid cognitive decline, says JAMA study (Fast Company)
• The Winner: Endy vs. Casper vs. Douglas (Vern)
• Best foam mattresses in Canada 2020 (link)
• Best Bed in a Box Mattresses in Canada 2020 (Sustainable Planet)
• Health Canada expands list of recalled hand sanitizers to more than 45 products (CTV)
• Fatty liver disease a growing public health concern in Canada: study (Globalnews.ca)
• Flow Hive (FB)

History & Sciences

• New super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster (The Guardian)
• Oldest writing about teachings of Confucius found in Japan (The Asahi Shimbun)
• Des portraits très réalistes d’empereurs romains créés à l’aide d’une IA (Trust My Science)
• Colossal crater found in Siberia. What made it? (National Geographic)
• 25 “Weird History” Facts That Prove the Past Is Fascinating and Really Funny (My Modern Met)
• A Medieval Metropolis Existed In What’s Now St. Louis, Then Mysteriously Disappeared in the 14th Century (Open Culture)
• Egyptian Authorities Have Discovered 13 Completely Sealed 2,500-Year-Old Coffins (Science Alert)
• Top 7 Worst Case Scenarios for the Human Species (Flipboard) [Bof…]
• The Ancient Greeks Had a Word for the Specific Kind of Bad You’re Feeling Right Now (Inc.com)
• Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it (New Atlas)
• Massive stone structures in Saudi Arabia may be some of oldest monuments in the world (Live Science)
• Asteroid heading our way day before presidential election (NYP)
• Oxburgh Hall: Thousands of ‘rare items’ found in attic (BBC)
• It was 37 years ago: “A young Canadian tourist was killed Sunday by woman who jumped to her death from Notre Dame cathedral” (UPI Archives, 1983/08/07; The Gazette, 1983/08/09; Ocala Star-Banner, 1983/08/17)
• Dwarf planet closest to Earth is geologically alive (National Geographic)
• Beirut Blast: The inferno and the mystery ship (BBC)
• Why wireless charging is a terrible idea (ZDNet)
• Beirut Explosion: What Happened in Lebanon and Everything Else You Need to Know (WSJ)
• A New Alternative to Dark Matter (The Atlantic)
• Pompeii’s most recent finds reveal new clues to city’s destruction (National Geographic)
• Earliest evidence for humans in the Americas (BBC)
• Good News: This Comet Won’t Cause A Mass Extinction In 2020. Also, It’s Really Pretty (NPR)
• House cat ancestors’ remains found in Polish caves—2,000 miles from home (National Geographic)
• ‘Sensational’ Egypt find offers clues in hunt for Cleopatra’s tomb (The Guardian)
• Native Americans and Polynesians Met Around 1200 A.D. (Smithsonian)
• Hominid Footprints on Crete Could Change Evolutionary Theory For Good (Greek Reporter)
• Polynesians steering by the stars met Native Americans long before Europeans arrived (Science Mag)
• A historian explains how America will collapse by 2025 — using 4 different scenarios (Rawstory)
• A Submerged 7,000-Year-Old Discovery Shows the Great Potential of Underwater Archaeology (Smithsonian)
• What is the Didache and why is it important? (Aleteia)
• Online Resources: Society of Antiquaries of London (link)
• Amazing astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece (Live Science)
• A French start-up supported by a regional government is to build a plant to produce hydrogen with zero emissions (NHK)
• Rescuing the world’s unseen photos (BBC via FB)
• NASA Pushes Back Launch Date On Webb Space Telescope, Citing COVID-19 (NPR)
• Brian Cox on Einstein and Mahler (ABC Classic via FB)

Humour

• No Shakespeare…
• La caricature de Côté (2020/09/27)
• The future according to Liberals…
• So Moses…
• Trump’s House Of Wings
• Aztec calendar mistake !
• Deep subjects…
• Satire: Harris Tells Trump She Cannot Send Him Birth Certificate Without Postal Service (New Yorker)
• Now I understand…
• 56 Percent Of Americans Don’t Think We Should Teach Arabic Numerals In School (IFLS)
• Alien cabbage…
• Years and Years: Our Fault Speech (BBC via FB)
• Ostie qu’on est dans marde! (FB)
• Literary selfies (FB)

Japan & Japanese popular culture 

• Japan’s Animation Giants Launch Youtube Channel For Classic Family Anime (Cartoon Brew)
• Watch Chilling Footage of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings in Restored Color (Open Culture)
• Adorable Japanese Cat Thinks She’s a Dog Just Like Her Shiba Inu Siblings (My Modern Met)
• Japanese Whiskies To Help You Better Understand The Style This Fall (Uproxx)
• ‘Tezuka’s Barbara’ Review (Variety)
• Tokyo’s latest attraction: Transparent public toilets (CNN Travel)
• New 55,000-pound Gundam robot in Japan can move its limbs like a boss (CNET)
• Japan Life-Size Gundam Now Complete in Yokohama (HypeBeast)
• How Kuniko Tsurita Shaped Literary Manga History (The Atlantic)
• Kabuki adaptation of Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind now available to stream online (Sora News 24)
• Evangelion “It Can (Not) Be True” 3DCG tribute short film by chinese artist Somei Sun (FB)

Local News

• Le Québec redescend sous la barre des 100 nouveaux cas (La Presse, 2020/07/05)
• Le bilan quotidien de la COVID-19 au Québec est encourageant (Radio-Canada, 2020/06/14)
• Des milliers d’usagers de la STM ont pris le métro et le bus sans payer (Le Devoir, 2020/09/28)
• Hanging A Mask On A Rearview Mirror In Quebec Could Result In A $171 Fine (MTL Blog)
• En vélo, il y a des règles à respecter (SAAQ, Vélo Québec, SPVM, Radio-Canada, Montréal)
• Un autre mouvement pour briser le silence sur les inconduites (Le Devoir)
• CERB Recipients Face A ‘Shock’ At Tax Time. Here’s How To Prepare (Huffington Post)

Photo / videography

• Extract Photos From iPhoto Library (Echo One)
• How iOS 14 Can Help You Take Better Photos on Your iPhone (How to Geek)
• How to download photos from iCloud and save copies of them to any device (Business Insider)
• How to Add Captions to iPhone Photos in iOS 14 (iPhone Life)
• FiLMiC DoubleTake app now lets you record multi-cam videos on iPad Pro (9 to 5 Mac)
• All the ways your iPhone camera will get better when iOS 14 arrives this fall (CNET)

Politics, Economy & Society

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Pioneering Justice on Supreme Court, Dies at 87 (WSJ)
• Long-Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance (NYT)
• Republicans will replace RBG but Democrats hold the trump cards – no, really (The Guardian)
• Handmaid’s Tale? U.S. Supreme Court candidate’s religious community under scrutiny (Reuters)
• Why Donald Trump talked to Bob Woodward (CNNPolitics)
• 2020 Election Forecast (FiveThirtyEight)
• Voter suppression has haunted America since it was founded (National Geographic)
• Trump slashes Biden’s sizeable lead in CNN poll (Axios, 2020/08/17)
• Russia report: UK ‘badly underestimated’ threat, says committee (BBC)
• If Section 230 gets killed, Wikipedia will die along with it (Digital Trends)
• Democracy books disappear from Hong Kong libraries (24 matins)
• Kellyanne Conway Announces She’s Leaving White House After Her Daughter Seeks Emancipation (Second Nexus)
• John Lewis, civil rights icon and longtime congressman, dies (Politico)
• Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe chairman wants presidents removed from Mount Rushmore (APTN)
• Current events for 2020: July • August • September (links)

Technology & Gadgets

• Belkin Boost-Charge 3-in-1 (Link)
• Lenso Space Pocket Size 4K 32GB Projector (Cult of Mac)
• Thunderbolt 3 Dock Core for Mac & Windows (Belkin)
• The iPhone of forehead thermometers is back to Amazon’s lowest price since COVID-19 began (BGR)
• Home Elevator | Residential Elevator – PVE® – Manufacturer, Since 2002 (Link)