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The 2022 event drew more than 46,000 visitors, up from the 25,600 festivalgoers in 2019. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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From electric power to the steam locomotive, the brilliant arrogance of Victorian invention

Singapore content celebrated at MIPCOM 2022 with first look at highly-anticipated upcoming regional co-productions

Digital license plates are bow legal in California. A new book looks at the history of the index. Google Japan introduces a very long, single-row keyboard. Remembering Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. A graphene-enhanced “SuperBattery.” NASA’s DART mission to repel an asteroid was a success! A “TikTok influencer” buys a accidentally buys a $100,000 couch “as a joke”; immediately regrets it. “Martha Stewart partners with Liquid Death to release ‘Dismembered Moments�...

In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computer that existed only on paper.

Two pioneers of key computing technologies were friends in 19th Century London

HAVING made headlines with a vibrant portrait of the Queen, and a crowd-pleasing appearance at this summer’s Glastonbury Festival, Ai-Da Robot,…

As the impacts of climate change bite ever more into tender flesh and ever closer to home, with even the iconic olive tree, the epitome of resilience in the ari

A cathedral over 140 years in the making, a molecule magnified by 165 billion times, a tower with a 660,000-kilo golden heart and more.