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Spoilers follow for Joy to the World.If theres one thing Steven Moffatt loves to do with Doctor Who, its to find a monster buried in the mundane. Hes made statues, shadows, lost children and even the idea of silence into some of the shows most terrifying villains. Sadly, the mysterious extra door you often find in older hotel rooms isnt as universal a concern, but its still a rich seam for him to mine. Thats the inspiration for Joy to the World, Doctor Whos 2024 Christmas Special. Which is light, fun and a little bit scattershot, much like Christmas is meant to be, right?When Doctor Who returned, the show was woven back into the UK's cultural firmament in a way it never had been before. Part of that process was adding the show to the BBC One Christmas Day schedule, making it a universal cultural touchstone. For most of its post-2005 run, it has aired an episode next to the Strictly Come Dancing and EastEnders festive specials. Imagine the British equivalent to those everyone-gathered-around-the-TV events like the Super Bowl or the Macys Day Parade, but on Christmas Day. Even if you dont like any of the fare on offer, youre still expected to sit with the family and consume it.With these specials, the prestige timeslot, longer runtime and bigger budget are burdens as much as they are benefits. The show has to play to a far broader audience than normal, with diehard fans sitting elbow-to-elbow with elderly relatives filling every silence with gossip about their neighbor's garden project. Consequently, the story needs to be a little looser, with less need for the audience to be paying undivided attention to whats going on. And it needs to be an oasis of fun in the melodramatic drudgery that is the BBC One Christmas Day schedule.Normally, the festive special would be the sole province of the showrunner but Russell T. Davies handed the reins to Steven Moffatt. Moffatt succeeded Davies as showrunner the first time around, co-created Sherlock and is widely-regarded as the best Who writer of the 21st century. With a pedigree as impeccable as that, and having already written "Boom" for the Ncuti Gatwas first season in the title road, expectations are high.Bad Wolf / BBC StudiosMoffatt is an arch farce writer and has a strong grasp of structure, so its no surprise we open in medias res. The Doctor is offering room service to a variety of people in different time periods including Edmund Hilarys base camp at Everest and the Orient express before stumbling in on Joy in a miserable London hotel room in 2024. After the credits, we spool back to the Doctor arriving in the Time Hotel, which allows guests to vacation throughout history. Dont worry about causality or any A Sound of Thundershenanigans, the Hotel is somehow built to protect its guests from screwing up the timeline.The Doctor is looking to steal some milk for his coffee from the hotel buffet, but his eye is caught on something sinister: A person carrying a briefcase with a handcuff chain is trying to check into a room. The Doctor recruits Trev, one of the employees, to keep watch while he scouts ahead to work out what scheme could be afoot. As it turns out, the case is sentient and evil, leaping from host to host and possessing each one in turn. Once its leapt to the next host, the last one disintegrates.Bad Wolf / BBC StudiosIts here the Doctor bumps into Joy who, through hijinks, winds up handcuffed to the case in place of the hotel manager. When the Doctor opens the case to try and find a solution, the case threatens to kill whoever its connected to unless it gets a four digit code. Who shall provide the code? The Doctor, emerging from his own future, taking Joy with him while leaving our Doctor trapped in 2024 without the TARDIS. As the hotel door closes, the Doctor hurls abuse at his future self, about why hes always alone and people are always leaving him. Hes doubly upset as he never normally has to travel the long way around, one day after the other.And so, the episode essentially stops to give us an extended sequence of the Doctor making friends with Anita, the hotel manager. The Doctor gets a job as the hotels handyperson, and slowly lets his guard down, spending more time with Anita until theyre a platonic couple. Its a sequence youd never see in a regular episode, with snatches of the Doctor and Anitas life. He makes the microwave bigger on the inside, repaints Anitas car TARDIS blue and they even sit and talk to one another on chairs a key visual given the lack of chairs on the TARDIS. But as the year elapses and its time for the Doctor to return to his own show, he waves goodbye to Anita.Bad Wolf / BBC StudiosReturning to the time hotel, the Doctor bursts back in on the events of a year ago, sharing the code and yanking Joy off to new adventures. The Doctor works out the briefcase holds the embryonic form of an artificially-created star that would offer a source of imaginable power to whoever owned it. But unless you own the Hand of Omega, stars take a long time to develop, far longer than anyone would be able to wait and test their experiment. Unless, of course, you hijack a time hotel and send it back to dinosaur times, waiting for when human history begins to see if it works.Joy, still possessed by the case, heads to the hotels dinosaur room while the Doctor tries to break its hold over her. To do that, he provokes an emotion strong enough to poison the link between the case and its host before it obliterates them. He bullies her, goading her into disclosing why she's staying at a downmarket London hotel. Turns out shes grieving the loss of her mother who died of COVID-19 in an isolation ward and Joy was unable to say goodbye to her in person. Sadly, before the Doctor can deactivate the star seed, its eaten by a (brilliant-looking) dinosaur, putting it out of his reach.Bad Wolf / BBC StudiosThe Doctor and Joy head back to the hotel and, 65 million years later, find the star is now ready to detonate. Its been locked inside a stone structure with a heavy stone door that neither of them can move, and time is running out. So, the Doctor, who boasts that hes good with rope, steals a rope from the Everest base camp, hanging it off the back of the Orient Express to haul the stone away.. Its an impressive and kinetic sequence let down only by the dreadful CGI when Gatwas standing on the train. Typical Doctor Who: It can now do convincing dinosaurs, but now cant do a convincing train.Its here things lose their coherence, since Joys eyes flash with possession energy, but by the time the Doctor returns, Joy has eaten the star? Absorbed it somehow? Made friends with and bonded with it? He finds her standing on a cliff edge, where Joy says shell merge with the star and take it to the heavens, where it will do nobody any harm at all. At this point in my notes, I wrote Dont let this be Bethlehem, when the camera pulls out to reveal thats exactly where they are, complete with three camels parked outside a stable. Oy.Bad Wolf / BBC StudiosJoy reunites with her mother and the Doctor goes back to traveling, but not before he gets Anita a job running the Time Hotel. We also get a little shot of Ruby Sunday, who will return to the show for its second season proper.As I said at the top, you cant judge Joy to the World on the merits of a regular episode since its serving multiple masters. But I dont think we could call it the strongest episode of either Steven Moffatts oeuvre or the shows various Christmas Specials. Like all of the Disney-era episodes, it has a slightly incoherent quality where the pacing sags and zips in all the wrong places. Im for the lengthy aside where we see a normal year in the life of the Doctor, but the story framing it should have been tighter to balance out the slowness. Its a fun enough way to pass an hour with a stomach full of holiday turkey (or your preferred equivalent) with enough mawkishness to make you think youve seen something quite profound. But I dont think Ill be coming back to watch this one again and again like I would for, say, The Christmas Invasion.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/doctor-who-joy-to-the-world-review-what-a-star-190018215.html?src=rss

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If you're thinking about grad school, you might spend some of your holiday time sparkling up that portfolio as the application deadline is soon approaching for SVA's MFA in Products of Design program in NYC.Natya.AI is an app designed specifically for Bharatanatyam dancers, offering real-time voice and visual feedback during practice sessions. Developed by Yukti Arora as part of her thesis, Democratizing Bharatnatyam: Investigating the Interplay Between Dance and AI. The department teaches Industrial Design, Interaction & Service Design, Social Innovation Design, Leadership and Strategic Management, and Business. Why all these disciplines at the same time? Department chair Allan Chochinov argues that "to design anything requires the design of everything. If you talk to anyone who is actually deep into the lived experience of practicing design, they will acknowledge that they are doing everything all at once: While designing a physical product for example, they are looking at what digital components and apps might be for that product. They are also looking at the product as a "service platform" and are constantly measuring the business risks and business value of any idea while they are prototyping. If they are an admirable organization, they are looking at the social value of an idea from the inception of a design project all the way through the narratives through which they market the idea."Chochinov adds, "We need designers to have skills and to be comfortable in all of these facets of design because if they don't, they will not be in the meetings where decisions get made. Particularly around finance. If you are a designer who does not understand finance, you will for sure not be in the meetings where strategic decisions get madeyou will just be 'handed a decision' of what the leadership team has decided to make, and told to 'make it.' We don't want our designers in jobs where they get handed a decision; we want our graduates to be active members of teams that make those decisions.We don't want our designers in jobs where they get handed a decision; we want our graduates to be active members of teams that make those decisions.RE:ACTORS, which won best student booth at NYCxDESIGN's Javits Center, encourages "re-physicalizing in a pandemic world." Every year, students of the program design products for manufacture and sales at MoMA as part of its ongoing partnership. Here, a top product is Hui Zheng's Roller Coasters."Our program also features a no-grade policysomething that both the students and faculty appreciate. Not having grades encourages maximum risk from the students, and fosters a collegial relationship with the faculty (as opposed to a hierarchical one where teachers are 'measuring' you.)"Like a metaphor of a relationship, Crystal Lo's Kuddle Charging Stand will only charge if both of a couple's phones are close together on the dock. You can see what the department is looking for in a candidate in Core77's article, Getting Accepted: How to Be a Standout Applicant to SVA's Products of Design MFA Program, and learn much more about the program at https://productsofdesign.sva.edu/Ready to apply? Get all the details at their Apply Page.Dana Krouham created a public intervention as part of her thesis, CHRONIC: How Understanding Your "In our program, you are not forced to choose one discipline of designyou get to experience and build marketable skills in all of them.This vastly increases the potential breadth of practice in your career, and provides a broader portfolio of work to share in job interviews."

There was a time when we were told that the future of deliveries would be made by robots, both flying or rolling. That dream proved to be a little too impractical and not secure to be considered a sustainable model, especially after a few mishaps that befell these unsuspecting machines. Thats not to say that they cant become a more common sight in the distant future, leaving plenty of opportunities to refine the design of these robots.Having small robots carrying packages on the street might sound cute until you think about how a fleet of such autonomous machines might seem like a waste of space on roads if thats the only thing they can do. This concept design tries to add a new angle to this idea, offering a multi-functional robot that can follow you around, deliver your packages, and even transport you to your destination.Designers: Chaewon Lee, Jungmin ParkThe idea of a delivery robot is both interesting and worrying, providing a little more efficiency but also raising the stakes both for the security of the package as well as the human couriers they will replace. A robotic storage device that follows you around or hands off items to colleagues on the same floor, however, might be a little less daunting, offering convenience without that big of a risk. Even better if this robot can actually do chores for you, including making purchases on your behalf.movr is a concept for such a robot, but it goes beyond simply carrying stuff. At first glance, it actually looks odd for a delivery robot and looks more like a three-wheeled mobile trash can. Its side slides open to reveal a small compartment for a phone, drink holders, envelopes, and any other thing you need to be transported. Almost like a ride-hailing service, movr has an app that can let you send packages or pick some up, depending on the task you need to accomplish.Its real magic, however, is in what the robot can do when its not transporting objects. movr can also move people around, or at most one person, by transforming into a personal mobility device. Its front extends from its body and the scooters handles slide up from the front. The robots body then becomes the seat for the lone passenger, carrying the user as well as some of their things from one place to another.movr is an interesting concept, though it isnt something that can be easily implemented. Stability, battery life, speed, and intelligence will all be critical factors to consider, and theyre not something that can be easily crammed into a compact design like this. Transforming robots and vehicles, however, has long been a dream of many engineers and designers, so there might come a time in the distant future when movr transforms from idea to reality.The post Self-driving robot storage concept doubles as a personal mobility device first appeared on Yanko Design.

MacworldSo you just got a brand new iPhone 16, transferred everything from your old phone, and now youre ready to play with your shiny new toy. What do you do first? Obviously, youre going to check out the apps you already have been using on your old iPhone for so long, probably marveling at how fast they load and how smooth and responsive everything is.Then what? Here are our suggestions for the next things you should do with your iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 Pro. And since the iPhone 16 will be the first iPhone most people will have that is capable of running Apple Intelligence, theres lots of neat new stuff to try out.Update to iOS 18.2If you have an iPhone 16-series handset it came with iOS 18, and might even be updated already to iOS 18.1. But you should check if it has the latest version of iOS on it already: iOS 18.2. It arrived in mid-December and adds features mainly for iPhone 16 users like Visual Intelligence, Image Playground, Genmoji, and ChatGPT integration. Plus there are numerous bug fixes and security updates, so you should install it ASAP. To get it, open up Settings, then tap General and Software Update.Enable Apple IntelligenceYou almost certainly got a pop-up screen during setup telling you about Apple Intelligence and giving you the option to turn it on. But its easy to just hit nextnextnext on those screens and not really pay attention.If you need to enable Apple Intelligence, you can open Settings, select Apple Intelligence & Siri, and then tap Get Apple Intelligence.AppleYour iPhone will need to have its Device language and Siri language set to one of the supported languages for Apple Intelligence (as of iOS 18.2, thats English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (New Zealand), English (South Africa), English (UK), and English (US)).You might enter a little waiting list but that typically lasts minutes or hours rather than days. Then your iPhone will download the Apple Intelligence models, and youre be good to go in a jiff.All the Apple Intelligence features may not operate optimally until your phone has completed some background processing and indexing, so keeping it plugged in for a while while it updates is a good idea.Tweak Camera Control settingsOne of the iPhone 16s hot new features is Camera Control, that new button on the lower right side thats flush with the edge. It can launch your preferred camera app, act as a shutter button, and even adjust some camera features with swipes and taps.But its a little touchy, and with the default settings it might be more of an annoyance than a benefit. We have a guide to fixing the Camera Control button that describes the settings you can change in detail.One set of options is in Settings > Camera > Camera Control and the other is in Accessibility > Camera Control.Dip into both of those menus to tune the Camera Control button and get it operating the way you like it. It will make a big difference! And dont forgetyou can turn the whole thing off if you cant get it to work the way youd like.FoundrySet an Emergency Contact and Medical IDYou can do this on any iPhone, but many people havent yet and it could save your life one day. So setting up a new iPhone is the perfect time to open the Health app to enter important Medical ID info and set up an emergency contact. Medical ID info can display critical medical info or allergies on your lock screen to a first responder, and an emergency contact is someone who can be called in an emergency by pressing and holding the side and volume buttons.First, open theHealthapp.Then tap on yourprofile picturein the upper right.TapMedical ID.Enter any critical medical info a first responder would need to know if youre in an accident, and an emergency contact you would want to reach.Customize your Home Screen and Control CenterIf this is your first iPhone, or if you just havent spent much time with iOS 18 yet, you may not know that you can now greatly customize both your Home Screen and Control Center.You can add widgets and position them anywhere, tint icons, make icons big with no text, and more. And you can add control center controls for all kinds of third-party apps now, and resize or reorder them.Check out our guide to customizing your Home Screen or Control Center in iOS 18, and give your fresh new iPhone 16 and fresh new look and feel.FoundryTweak the new Photos appSpeaking of customizing iOS 18, the new Photos app definitely needs a few tweaks. If youre a longtime iPhone user, youll notice its completely overhauled, and if youre new to the platform you might see a lot of things you dont necessarily want.In just a few minutes you can change the Photos app to show only the categories you want, in the order you want, and you can make (and reorder) Pinned Collections that take you right where you go the most often.Our guide to customizing the Photos app tells you everything you need to know.FoundryRead the manualDid you know your iPhone actually has a manual? No, it didnt come in the boxit would never fit in there. Apple keeps it online. But its super helpful, with a nicely organized, hyperlinked guide to your iPhone hardware and iOS 15 online at the iPhone User Guide. Youd be surprised at how many useful details are in there, and how much youll learn just by reading the instructions!

Holiday price cuts are in effect for Christmas and Hanukkah, as Apple's latest MacBook Pro with an M4 chip has plunged to $1,399.Get Apple's M4 MacBook Pro for just $1,399 - Image credit: AppleThe $1,399 price at B&H Photo and Amazon is thanks to a holiday price war between the two Apple Authorized Resellers. With the entry model now including 16GB of unified memory compared to last year's 8GB, the Late 2024 14-inch MacBook Pro offers additional value for the price.Buy for $1,399 Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

PC gaming has come a long way, evolving by leaps and bounds over the decades. New titles came about that changed the way we thought about the medium. More powerful hardware redefined visuals and presentation, even rivaling Hollywood. However, beloved genres endured, with computer role-playing games and strategy titles continuing to be made (and seeing great success).Nailing down any one aspect of PC gaming is challenging, but its that diversity that really makes it shine. Lets check out the 30 best PC games that have stood out through the decades.Sons of the ForestThe first rule of playing Sons of the Forest is to experience the original if only to appreciate its story-telling and how things work. Then dive into the sequel and really start to grasp all the different tools that Endnight Games has offered, from solar-powered golf karts and hang-gliders (with launch pads) to an extensive range of firearms, new melee weapons, and mechanics, like AI helpers and a revamped building system. Though its narrative wont quite hook you, the sheer amount of stuff to do on the island inhumane and otherwise provides hours of fun.