When the eerily accurate AI image generator Dall-E 2 was released for public experimentation by OpenAI this summer, most people immediately used it to create whimsical scenes such as "samurai dolphin painted in the style of Rembrandt" or "Bruce Willis angrily devouring a cheeseburger on the moon". True, if you looked too closely at Bruce's left ear you might have noticed it wasn't there – but the freaky glitches were, though somewhat unsettling, part of the fun, not to mention a calming reminder that AI cannot entirely trick us that its images are real – yet. But more than one panicked architect also typed in, "Four-storey family home in forest in the style of Mies van der Rohe" or "Japanese-Scandi lounge area in office building lobby", and let out a tiny scream when the results resembled the renders of projects that architects otherwise spend long hours churning out. If an AI could knock out a decent interior in seconds, did it promise to be a fabulous time-saver – or would it put everyone out of a job? Not only does it celebrate the painstaking construction of physical structures, complete with tiny people and fake trees like a model railway set, which clearly took ages to make and no AI could come close to replicating – yet, but these models are also animatronic: they move, open, chirp, whirr, creak and close like Victorian clockwork figurines or the childlike works of Rodney Peppe.

A family in the Midwest is expressing enormous gratitude for their video doorbell system -- which alerted them to a wildfire that began burning right outside their home. Misty Schlake of Gothenberg, Nebraska, downloaded the stunning recording from her Ring Video Doorbell and sent it to the home security company. "Ring did so much more than [let] us know someone was at our door! It saved my son's life and our home!" The doorbell notified Schlake's 18-year-old son, who was home alone at the time, that there was movement outside their family home on Thursday, April 21, at around 9:15 p.m. "When he went to the door, he saw our land was on fire," Schlake wrote in comments to Ring.

Bob Smith sits upright on the sofa as his grandson, Louis Brow, prepares to quiz him on youth slang. We are sitting in the living room of Louis's family home in Ilkley, West Yorkshire; Bob has travelled over from Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire, in his Nissan Micra. "Would you know what flexing is?" Louis begins. "If I was to flex on the Gram?" "You're bending, you're a contortionist," suggests Bob, gamely. "Nowadays it's someone showing off," Louis explains. I might say to my mate, that's a big flex, you're flexing, you're looking good." "Why not say the correct word?" Bob might not know the terminology, but he has had a major flex on social media recently. Louis is the Yorkshire Challenge belt (69kg) boxing champion and credits his success to the outdoor boxing gym, nicknamed the Dojo, that Grandad Bob helped him build in the back yard of the family home. A TikTok video of Louis using a tyre as a punchbag while his grandfather eggs him on went viral this year. Today, Louis confidently reels off his social media wins to Bob. He just hit 1m likes on TikTok; their video garnered 2.4m views. "Well, people like watching things," Bob says, sagely. Talk turns to another modern phenomenon: dating apps. Bob explains what dating was like in his youth. "There would be these dos in the church with disco dancing.

A team of researchers, scientists and engineers from France have created a 3D printed house in just a matter of hours. For the first time ever, the four-bedroom house will serve as a permanent home for a family of five. The 1,022-square-foot house, located in the northwestern French city of Nantes, only took about two days - or 54 hours - to complete. A team of researchers, scientists and engineers from France have created a 3D printed house in just a matter of hours. Developers share promo for VR tour of Queen Nefertari's tomb Queen'stumbles' on stairs as she leaves Westminster Abbey service Piers Morgan accuses Sadiq Khan of'hypocrisy' over Trump blimp A team of researchers, scientists and architects designed a 3D printed house in Nantes, France.