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Many from low-income households or rural areas lacked access and digital devices appropriate for learning

If Dan Brown can write, so can robots

The Hoshi prize hopes stories created by artificial intelligences (AIs) will soon go up against those written by humans in the competition.

Avoiding excessive sensationalism

With his new book, Intervention, Robin Cook moves, with mixed success, into the realm of Dan Brown.

Analyse this

Dan Brown’s latest work, although banal, crammed with clichés and frequently nonsensical, is readable. Shaun de Waal did it in six hours.

Knights Templar: The last charge

The accountancy firm that looks after children’s entertainers the Wiggles is not an obvious place to search for the Holy Grail, but that’s where the trail led on Tuesday night.…

Pullman fantasy film ‘promotes atheism to kids’

The Golden Compass, a -million picture based on Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novel Northern Lights, is caught between a United States Catholic group that has called for a boycott…

Jesus Christ gets an evil twin in fantasy film

There’s no mention of him in the Bible but the plot of a fantasy film set in India gives Jesus Christ a twin brother — and an evil one at that. German filmmaker Robert Sigl’s The…

Hollywood takes action hero Jesus to India

Hollywood is to fill in the Bible’s ”missing years” with a story about Jesus as a wandering mystic who travelled across India, living in Buddhist monasteries and speaking out…

Writers’ strike claims first film casualty

In the first big-screen casualty of the Hollywood writers strike, Columbia Pictures said on Friday it had postponed production on Angels & Demons, a prequel to its box-office hit…