Ancient robot games

Chess sets and backgammon boards are a familiar sight on drawing-room tables, but one expert Highland woodworker is refashioning their forms in beautiful new ways, writes Mary Miers

From exploding lightbulbs to the Knights Templar – via Ron Howard and the Daleks

Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else

Wargaming as a genre can seem inaccessible. The need for miniatures, the dense rulesets, the never-ending expansions that add to an already complex world – it’s all just too much for many potential pl

UNDER DANIELA AND DARIO AMODEI , , THE WONKY STARTUP HAS SHRUGGED OFF ITS “DOOMER” ” REPUTATION. NOW IT’S THE GO-TO AI TOOL FOR THOUSANDS OF COMPANIES. HOW LONG CAN IT STAY AHEAD OF ITS BIGGER, FREE-SPENDING RIVALS?

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