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Dubai intends to construct the world’s first 3D-printed mosque, which is expected to be completed by early 2025. Plans for the 2,000-square-metre mosque were released by Dubai’s Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department (IACAD) on its website.

During Paris Fashion Week, many fashion houses and firms which include Dior, Botter, and Rebok decided to show their new 3D-printed products. Let’s take a look.

On September 23, 2022, a team of students from the University of Stuttgart broke the record for the fastest 0-100 km/h acceleration by an electric car, reaching the speed in just 1.461 seconds.

We are all surrounded by a 1,000 light-years old huge “giant bubble” formed by the explosion of a dozen or so stars. The team of scientists, led by Theo O’Neill at the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) at Harvard & Smithsonian, has created “the first 3D map of the magnetic field on a superbubble.”

NEOM has released a construction progress video of its multiple sites, having moved up to the construction stage with goals defines for 2023. It depicts real-world construction footage from NEOM regions such as The Line, Trojena, Sindalah, and Oxagon.

Sony and Honda have jointly introduced a new electric vehicle (EV) prototype called Afeela. The EV was unveiled by Sony at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

Psyonic, a bionic device manufacturer, introduced the Ability Hand, the world’s fastest and first touch-sensing bionic hand, at CES 2023. This prosthetic hand can feel what it is holding, even the most delicate objects.

MVRDV has won the competition to design Wuhan, China’s new central library. The 140,000-square-meter project, which is set to become one of China’s largest libraries, combines traditional and non-traditional functions with a variety of study, living room, reading, and studio spaces.

The first “robot” lawyer, powered by artificial intelligence will assist a defendant in fighting a traffic ticket in the United States Supreme Court next month.

The OMA / Shohei Shigematsu designed the scenography for the Dior exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) is now open to the public and will be on display until May 28, 2023.