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Renault’s Twingo returns, cute and electric. But is it a design great like Apple’s G3 iMac – or indeed the original Twingo? Critic Stephen Bayley referees

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IF YOU’VE BEEN paying attention to the contemporary guitar scene over the past 24 months, chances are you’ve heard of Mk.gee, everyone’s favorite fast-rising guitar hero who has ushered in a tonal rev

T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar

Expressing a musical note such that it sounds analogue and ‘real’ is a challenge for developers of sampled sounds, as heard on many digital pianos. The compromises inherent in the technology are why M