3-D printing

An AI visionary looks forward to the best of all possible worlds

20 July 2024 9:00 am

Technology unquestionably improves lives, says Ray Kurzwei, and soon we’ll be living to 150. As for 3D-printed guns invisible to scanners – there’ll be a solution to those too

True or false? The Temple of Bel, Palmyra, before and after its destruction at the hands of Islamic State

The great pretenders

28 May 2016 9:00 am

Can the beauty of Palmyra be reproduced by data-driven robots? Stephen Bayley on copies, fakes and forgeries