IBM is one of the oldest technology companies in the world, with a raft of innovations to its credit, including mainframe computing, computer-programming languages, and AI-powered tools. But ask an ordinary person under the age of 40 what exactly IBM does (or did), and the responses will be vague at best. "Something to do with computers, right?" was the best the Gen Zers I queried could come up with. If a Millennial knows anything about IBM, it's Watson, the company's prototype AI system that prevailed on Jeopardy in 2011. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In the chronicles of garage entrepreneurship, however, IBM retains a legendary place--as a flat-footed behemoth.

Scientists have rubbished the theory that a child's personality is influenced by the gender of their siblings. Many think that children who grow up around multiple siblings of the opposite sex are influenced by them in terms of personality well into adulthood. For example, girls with brothers are seen as likely to become'tomboys', while boys with sisters are seen as likely to become'girlish', according to common belief. But a new study suggests this way of thinking is a misconception – and that sibling gender'does not systematically affect personality'. Our personality as adults is not determined by whether we grow up with sisters or brothers, the new study claims.

Rose is an obese, Frankenstein raccoon with a pink bow on top of her ratty head and a bent fork where her left hand should be. She's died at least twice, and each time, she's been lovingly brought back to life by her creator, Christine McConnell. Rose is one of the fantastic puppet friends in The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, a Netflix series whose debut season helped define Halloween 2018. It stars McConnell, an endlessly creative baker whose online fame has exploded over the past five years, and a cast of puppet creatures produced by The Jim Henson Company. There's Edgar the bumbling werewolf, Rankle the resurrected, mummified cat god, and, of course, Rose the taxidermied raccoon.

HIROSHIMA--Students here are recreating the lives of people devastated by the atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, by vividly colorizing photos taken before the city was leveled by the nuclear attack. Students from Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School combine artificial intelligence technology and interviews with atomic bomb survivors to produce realistic coloring of black-and-white photos provided by hibakusha. Monochrome pictures snapped before and during World War II are automatically colorized with artificial intelligence. The processed photos are shown to hibakusha so colors can be manually adjusted based on their accounts. Converting one black-and-white photo into color takes from one week to several months, and 140 pictures have been colorized since November.

You wouldn't know, turning into this nondescript street in Stockholm and padding up the stone steps to Minecraft HQ, that anything special was being made up here. The truth only becomes clear when you step through the door and discover the endless shelves filled with awards (including a Bafta) and the vast boxes of Minecraft merchandise piled in every corner. This is where they make what many regard as a digital version of Lego: a game that's been downloaded more than 100m times on PCs, consoles and smartphones since its launch in 2009. If you have children aged between six and 16, the chances are they're hooked on this strange, blocky pursuit. And the chances are you've asked yourself: why? To truly understand the appeal of Minecraft, you need to understand the studio behind it.