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Robots, our new friends electric?

Fictional robots always have a personality: Marvin was paranoid, C-3PO was fussy and HAL 9000 was murderous. But reality is disappointingly different. Sophisticated enough to…

Alok Jha

3 min read

AGOSTINO VESPUCCI

14 JAN 2008

German experts crack Mona Lisa mystery

German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the Mona Lisa in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait. Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a…

Sylvia Westall

2 min read