‘Most beautiful building on Earth’ opens in Dubai

Dubai opened its Museum of the Future on Tuesday, a spectacular structure it is touting as the world’s most beautiful building. The museum, a seven-storey hollow silver ellipse decorated with Arabic calligraphy of quotes from Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Moha…

Swedish skaters return to frozen lake in style

There is no sign of Nils van der Poel, Sweden’s double Olympic speed-skating champion in Beijing, but that does not stop over 500 competitors from gliding elegantly around a vast frozen lake just outside Stockholm. It is a thrilling sight as they hurtl…

One-horse open sleigh ride across frozen Turkish lake

By the time Kismet the horse sets off, Orhan Goller’s bare fingers have already turned blue from the freezing temperatures. But the pure white surroundings and the echo of hooves are enough to delight his customers in eastern Turkey. Between December a…

How to change your Snapchat username

Good news if you’ve outgrown your Snapchat username, as you’ll soon be able to change it. Snapchat is finally giving in to one of its users’ most requested options: the ability to change their username. Here’s how it works. Have things moved on since y…

Our brains think faces AI-created are realistic

With artificial intelligence, it’s not easy to distinguish the real from the fake. Especially when this technology is used to generate ultra-realistic faces. Researchers from the University of Lancaster have found that it is extremely difficult for us …