Forbes magazine has him in its people You Need to Know list. So who is polymath John Maeda and why is he dispensing knowledge sitting in a sandbox in a Soho gallery? Nick Curtis finds out... more
Manifesto commentary: When the crowd booed the BBC’s Nick Robinson, we realised that Gordon Brown was getting more than a little help from his friends... more
Zoe Saldana's tough New York upbringing more than prepared her for the rigours of working with James Cameron on his $500 million intergalactic epic, Avatar. Hermione Eyre talks life, death and the universe with Hollywood's favourite space cadet... more
A technique called augmented reality is coming to a mobile phone near you. It can not only tell you where you are - but what you are looking at. Mark Prigg reports... more
Cineworld, the London-focused cinema chain with seven screens in Piccadilly’s Trocadero Centre, said bargain-hunting Britons helped it post an 18% increase in revenue to £161.9 million for the three months to July ... more
Sacha Baron Cohen's new comic creation, the latest instalment from Harry Potter at Hogwarts and adventures in the land of lizard men - here is our guide to the biggest movies of the season... more
Much soul-searching here this week after a 17-year-old student at Palo Alto’s Gunn High School was killed by a commuter train. All the evidence points to suicide and many are asking how much the Valley’s intensely competitive culture was to blame ... more
Cult sci-fi show Blake's 7 is returning to TV - 27 years after revolutionary Roj Blake was murdered by Kerr Avon. The original TV series ran for four years on BBC1 before the last episode screened in December 1981. Satellite channel Sky One announced they have commissioned two hour-long pilot episodes of a Blake's 7 remake, with potential for an 'event series'
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