Chat GPT is the world’s most powerful AI chatbot. It offers a human-like alternative to search engines and can do everything from compile a menu to writing a TV script to explaining quantum physics. Could it also transform the jobs of hundreds of millions of people?
0:15Solar powered car drives 1000kms – The Sunswift 7 weighs just 500kg. While an average car weighs between 1,500 and 2,000kg and boasts incredibly low rolling resistance due to its shape. A team at UNSW Sydney designed and built the car. Which completed 240 laps of a special test circuit. Equal to driving from Sydney to Melbourne, plus 100km.
1:323D printed bionic arms – Cure Bionics 3D-printed prosthetics are lightweight and muscle-controlled. They can be attached without surgical intervention and are charged wirelessly by solar power. The arms can be printed and ready within a week at the cost of just $3,000. Other providers can take months and charge up to $100,000. Cure Bionics’ arms are available for children with limb differences aged 8 and up. The low weight makes them easy for kids to operate. An immersive VR training programme helps patients learn to use their arms even before it’s made. Cure Bionics was founded in Tunisia, where the start-up has already launched a prototype. In spring 2023, it’s releasing a public version.
3:17 Geneva introduces driverless buses – 15 self-driving minibuses will be deployed in 2025. Providing an on-demand, door-to-door service, 24 hours a day. This pilot project will run for 1 year alongside similar schemes in Germany and Norway.
4:55Implants restore vision to blind people – The implants were given to 20 people by scientists at Sweden’s Linköping University and LinkoCare Life Sciences. 14 were blind and 6 were on the verge of losing their sight. After 2 years, none of them were blind.
The Local Project (January 13, 2023) – Renovating an old house in Hobart, Bence Mulcahy added a two-storey extension made of glass and steel. Named Greenhouse, the structure replaces a 1980s iteration in a manner that best engages the nearby veranda, courtyard and garden.
Video timeline: 00:00 – Cloudy Bay 00:12 – Introduction to the Greenhouse 00:53 – The Brief for the Renovation 01:19 – House Tour of the Home 02:16 – The Sandstone Base of the Building 02:30 – The Lower and Upper Floor of the Extension 03:15 – The Exterior of the Greenhouse 03:25 – The Interior Materials Chosen 03:48 – The Furniture and Furnishing of the House 04:50 – Cloudy Bay
Located in the Hobart suburb of Mount Stuart, Greenhouse forms a contemporary addition to a red brick, Federation-style Italianate home. The new volume looks out onto the Derwent River and is supported by a veranda and a well-established garden complete with plants, trees and sandstone retaining walls. Bence Mulcahy identifies the key to renovating an old house is relating the extension to the main building – Greenhouse mirrors the scale of the existing dwelling, proposing a strong sense of verticality.
A house tour of the dream home begins at the formal entry space and transitions into the main hall. Beyond lies the beginning of the extension. The process of renovating an old house sees the final extension enclose the dining room, kitchen and an extra eating area. Upstairs, the addition houses an ensuite bathroom and walk-in wardrobe. Ample glazing then allows the home to borrow visual space from the external landscape.
Bence Mulcahy takes a seasoned approach to renovating an old house, inserting voids in order to manage the sense of privacy. A two-storey void is left over the dining room, whilst a separate alcove of the same size is located above the upstairs ensuite. Creating a glasshouse structure using a combination of glass and steel, Bence Mulcahy pays homage to a greenhouse inspiration. The durable nature of the material palette is particularly relevant to renovating an old house, promising an enduring outcome.
Internally, copper sinks and a copper island bench complement a wax-sealed timber floor and array of curated soft furnishings. Utilising the skills of local craftsmen, Bence Mulcahy does justice to the personal nature of the home. Greenhouse stands as a lesson in house renovation and embraces the tranquil quality of its natural surrounds.
January 13, 2023: In the first episode of the year, we look ahead at the next 12 months. Anny Shaw, the acting art market editor at The Art Newspaper, peers into her crystal ball and tries to predict the fortunes of the art market this year.
Then, Jane Morris, one of our editors-at-large, José da Silva, our exhibitions editor, and host Ben Luke select the museum projects, biennales and exhibitions that they are most looking forward to in 2023.Events discussed:
The Grand Egyptian Museum: no confirmed opening date.
\The National Portrait Gallery reopens on 22 June.
Factory International, Manchester, also opens in June.
Yayoi Kusama’s You Me and the Balloons opens there on 29 June, as does the Manchester International Festival.
The Sharjah Biennial: Thinking Historically in the Present opens on 7 February.
The Gwangju Biennial: Soft and Weak Like Water opens on 7 April.
Celebration Picasso 1973-2023
Vermeer opens at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on 10 February.
AirPano VR – Moneron Island, a large island located near Sakhalin Island, with its unique nature, with the status of the marine natural park reserve. From 1904 to 1945, the island belonged to Japan, and called Caibaté. On Moneron, rich flora and fauna, many giant mussels, rare sea urchins, sea cucumbers red book. This is the only place in Russia, where there are gastropods shellfish – galiotis. On the coast of the island Moneron, fur seal rookeries satisfied. The nature of the island is unique, there are like endless green fields and rocky canyon, waterfalls, columnar cliffs.
What’s on the agenda for today’s meeting between the US president, Joe Biden, and Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida? Plus: voters in India’s contested Kashmir region will soon be able to vote for the first time; the head of one of the world’s largest oil companies becomes president of the Cop28 talks; and the latest business news.
The appointment of Robert K. Hur comes two months after the attorney general named a special counsel to investigate former President Donald J. Trump’s mishandling of classified material.
The West has sent an array of weapons once seen as too provocative, and it looks like tanks will be next. With a new Russian offensive expected, officials see an urgent need to shift the balance.
Beijing says the outposts aren’t doing police work, but Chinese state media reports say they “collect intelligence” and solve crimes far outside their jurisdiction.
Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath
AirPano VR – Moneron Island, a large island located near Sakhalin Island, with its unique nature, with the status of the marine natural park reserve. From 1904 to 1945, the island belonged to Japan, and called Caibaté. On Moneron, rich flora and fauna, many giant mussels, rare sea urchins, sea cucumbers red book. This is the only place in Russia, where there are gastropods shellfish – galiotis. On the coast of the island Moneron, fur seal rookeries satisfied. The nature of the island is unique, there are like endless green fields and rocky canyon, waterfalls, columnar cliffs.
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