An AI has created hilarious postcard images of popular British tourist attractions, based solely on snippets from one-star Trip Advisor reviews. Text-to-image tool DALL-E, released by artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, is able to create images and artwork from text prompts. UK rental agency My Favourite Cottages used it to reimagine tourist spots including Stonehenge, Angel of the North, Brighton Palace Pier and Cornwall's Eden Project. Some of the results have a passing resemblance to the real thing, while others are like a window into a dystopian nightmare. DALL-E relies on artificial neural networks (ANNs), which simulate the way the brain works in order to learn.

Reuben Wu, a British photographer and visual artist based in Chicago, was first introduced to National Geographic as most people are: When he was a child, he enjoyed looking at the magazines his father subscribed to for decades. He dreamed of seeing his photographs in the same magazine--and even on the cover. So when National Geographic asked him to photograph an iconic monument he knows well, he was ready to work. Last summer, Wu experienced a stark contrast of modern and prehistoric, as he used drones and artificial light to photograph Stonehenge, one of the best-known prehistoric monuments, while hearing honking cars passing by. The site in Wiltshire, England, is bisected by the A303--a major road that may soon be in a tunnel should a 2020 proposal become reality--which means motorists may have seen Wu's photo shoot and lit-up drones.

A mysterious hand that was created around 3,500 years ago and is believed to be Europe's oldest prosthetic limb will go on display in the UK for the first time this week. The artefact, which experts think may also have doubled as a knife, was discovered in western Switzerland in 2017. It is made from bronze with a gold cuff and dates to between 1,500 and 1,400 BC. The hand has been on display only once before, making a brief appearance in Germany, but will now be part of the'World of Stonehenge' exhibition at the British Museum. Detectorists found the hand buried in a human grave near Lake Biel, along with a hair ornament, bronze dagger and cloak pin.

Usually when we think of computers, we probably imagine glowing displays, interconnected networks sharing digital information, and more software applications than anyone one person could ever come close to using -- but that's only part of computing's story. Analog computers, and later mechanical computers, were an integral part of humanity's pursuit of scientific discovery, fueled by our desire to anticipate future events and outcomes. For a species that conquered the entire world thanks to our larger brains and toolmaking prowess, it's no surprise that we've been using artificial tools to augment and enhance our intelligence as far back as our history goes -- and probably even longer than that. From the careful positioning of stones in England, to the soaring water clocks of China's Song Dynasty to the precise arrangement of mechanical gears in the visionary inventions of Blaise Pascal and Charles Babbage, analog and mechanical computers have served our forebearers well and helped them not just survive but thrive by transcending the bounds of our biology. In Salisbury Plain in the south of England, a collection of about 100 massive and roughly even-cut stones form a pair of standing rings whose purpose is lost to history, but whose construction began before the invention of the wheel and took at least 1,500 years to complete, and possibly even longer.

It was an exciting week to be an electric vehicle fan--if a real up-and-down one. On Monday, Elon Musk welcomed investors to Tesla's Palo Alto headquarters for the company's first Autonomy Day, where he made some serious news: He promised an all-electric, 1-million-car fleet of self-driving Tesla taxis would roam the Earth by next year. The electric carmaker, which loves to do things differently, used the event to tout its new self-driving chip, and double down on its aggressive and heterodox approach to autonomous vehicles. Who cares if the self-driving experts are skeptical? By Thursday, electric vehicle fandom got messier.

Incredible aerial photographs of a'new Stonehenge' have been snapped over Ireland as a summer heatwave reveals the foundations of ancient buildings across the British Isles. The never-before-seen monument is made up of a ring of prehistoric ditches now buried deep underground. It was spotted in County Meath close to a 5,000-year-old Neolithic tomb called Newgrange. Historic landmarks have been cropping up across the UK over the past few weeks as a recent bout of hot weather uncovers imprints on fields and lawns that mark the sites of various old and prehistoric features. The outlines of World War II airfields and shelters have appeared in Hampshire and Cambridge, as well as long-buried Roman villages in Wales and Norfolk and a once-removed Victorian garden in Lancashire.

The mystique of the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge has long stoked people's imaginations. Theories as to what the Neolithic monument was used for include everything from a burial site to a place of healing. But a team of Australian researchers believes that the bluestone circle and similar formations of standing stones in the UK may actually have been built to track the movements of the sun, moon and stars thousands of years ago. They found strong alignments between the placement and orientation of the stones with the paths of the sun and moon and other features in their surroundings. Experts believe the analysis provides the first evidence to support theories that stone circles were used to measure or track the movement of heavenly bodies.