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Last updated: September 13th, 2022 at 17:16 UTC+02:00 The International Design Excellence Awards 2022 (IDEA 2022) concluded with Samsung Electronics winning no fewer than 42 awards. More specifically, the company earned two Gold, five Silvers, and one Bronze award while being granted the finalist title 34 times. IDEA 2022 is an award program held by the Industrial Designers Society of America. The latter was founded in 1980 and awards industrial design achievements. For IDEA 2022, the program named winners across 20…

Welcome to Babel: the great Oxford translation institute in an alternative version of Victorian England, where translators hold the keys to the British empire. Every device and engineering technique there is, from steam trains to the foundations of buildings, relies on silver bars enchanted with “match pairs”; words in two different languages that mean similar things, but with a significant gap between them. The bars create the effect of the difference: feelings, noises, speed, stability, colour, even death. The magic…

‘Sorry, I’m such a disappointment to you, Mum.” “We can’t all be appointments.” That’s the fumbling, poignant way of this debut comedy-drama from New Zealand director Michelle Savill, clearly a highly personal piece of work in its detailed character study of would-be architect and social-media blagger Millie, played in charmingly evasive style by Ana Scotney.Millie has a hot ticket from Wellington to New York for an internship at a blue-chip architecture firm, but has a panic attack and disembarks before takeoff. In…

Last year, NASA launched the Lucy spacecraft designed to explore the Trojan asteroids trapped near Jupiter's Lagrange points. However, a problem arose just 12 hours after launch — one of the large solar arrays designed to generate power from an increasingly distant Sun had failed to fully deploy and latch. Now, NASA has announced that a team was able to troubleshoot the problem sufficiently for the mission to continue — thanks to several clever tricks.  Hours after the problem was first discovered, NASA pulled together an…

Organ transplants can quite literally save lives, but they also come with strings attached – often including a lifetime of immunosuppression drug treatments required to keep the immune system in check, lest it reject the transplanted organ as a foreign invader.  Now scientists are reporting on three successful kidney organ transplants, carried out in children in California, without the need for immune suppression. The transplants used a new method that minimizes the risk of the new kidney getting rejected.This means…

The UK's broadband is slowly getting faster with more homes getting connected to quicker full-fibre downloads every single day. However, there's still a long way to go with the majority of UK consumers and businesses not expected to be connected to the very latest Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) technology until 2026.That feels like a long way off but BT has an ingenious idea that will help make things faster until that improved service is rolled out.The firm's new Hybrid Speed Boost product is the first in the UK to combine…

Robotic drones have existed for a long known by the name UAVs, but the inventions that have been happening in the recent times are epic Robotic drones have evolved from being a rare technological marvel to being adopted in everyday lives. Robotic drones have existed for a long, known by the name UAVs, but the inventions that have been happening in recent times are epic. On the one hand, while the leading countries like the USA are preparing for using robotic drones as weapons in their war strategies, on the other…

Dir: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert. Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis. 15, 139 minutes.The multiverse is having a moment. I’m undecided on whether the decision to chase up Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness with Everything Everywhere All at Once – a film grounded in the same concept of parallel realities, yet made with a fraction of the budget – is foolhardy or ingenious. Either way, David has shown Goliath how it’s done. While…