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With the future showing no signs of going backwards, we round up the most daring, dazzling tech and the most exciting trends of 2025

NOT TOO LONG ago, the idea of buying a Chinese car would have been met with scepticism. In fact, it was once the punchline of a primetime television special; remember when, back in 2012, the Top Gear

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