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With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for decades, and it has evolved to adapt to new technologies like game systems, phones, and tablets. But until January 2024, nobody had ever been able to beat it.A teen from Oklahoma holds the Tetris title after he crashed the game on Level 157 and beat it. Beating it means the player moved the tiles too fast for the game to keep up…

A Tetris board. Credit: Brandenads/Wikimedia Commons With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for decades, and it has evolved to adapt to new technologies like game systems, phones and tablets. But until January 2024, nobody had ever been able to beat it.…

Artificial intelligence companies have been at the vanguard of developing the transformative technology. Now they are also racing to set limits on how AI is used in a year stacked with major elections around the world.Last month, OpenAI, the maker of the ChatGPT chatbot, said it was working to prevent abuse of its tools in elections, partly by forbidding their use to create chatbots that pretend to be real people or institutions. In recent weeks, Google also said it would limit its AI chatbot, Bard, from responding to…

Astronomers have discovered that Type Ia supernovae, through interactions with surrounding gas, are a new source of cosmic dust, challenging previous beliefs that dust formation was exclusive to core-collapse supernovae. This discovery expands our understanding of dust formation in elliptical galaxies, potentially revising our views on the cosmic cycle of matter. Credit: SciTechDaily.comAstronomers identify Type Ia supernovae interacting with gas as a new source of cosmic dust, offering insights into the process of dust…

We have learned to approach FinOps as both a mindset and a set of cloud solution capabilities. Yes, FinOps empowers firms to harness value from the cloud consistently and continuously (20 to 30% savings each year per a recent McKinsey article), but it also yields growth and innovation. To realize cost savings and transformational benefits, be ready to treat your FinOps effort as a critical business priority. Over the past two years — and more than twenty consulting experiences later — we can summarize a group of issues…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised many different industries in recent years. It gained a lot of attention and popularity with the launch of ChatGPT, a tool capable of writing poems, solving equations and producing articles on different topics.With the fast-paced implementation of AI in different fields, will it take the place of architects and architecture schools soon? To answer this question, we need to understand the capabilities of AI and the role of architects and architecture schools. Architectural…

By J.S. Marcus \ Photographs by Francesco Lastrucci for The Wall Street Journal June 14, 2023 12:01 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)In a shaded spot near his new swimming pool, Northern Italian architect Paolo Genta is taking stock of his Southern Italian dream project—a luxurious vacation compound, serving three generations of his extended Turin family, that he created in Puglia, the region running down the heel of Italy’s boot.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

The UK’s PLP Architects is focused on creating a greener future by collaborating with nature, developing a fungus-based modular block that is renewable and biodegradable, and has the potential to become a new building material with minimal environmental impact.In biology, the word "symbiosis" is used to describe two different organisms living together for mutual benefit. Borrowing from the concept of symbiosis, it’s predicted that the current Anthropocene age – the age of humans – will make way for the Symbiocene, an era…

British architect Norman Foster has spent six decades pushing the boundaries of technology with awe-inspiring modernist structures from California to Hong Kong, but he is yet to be convinced by the craze for artificial intelligence."Artificial intelligence at the moment has the ability to cheat, to invent," he told AFP in a recent interview in Paris, which is hosting a retrospective of his work. "We live in a world which is physical, we inhabit buildings, streets, squares. That physicality, you can't replicate by…

Here are the top 10 tools for software architects that will increase productivity in their software development projects. Read to know. Tools for visualizing software architecture are crucial for effective application development. The visualization provides programmers with a standard blueprint to work from by presenting code in a graphical format and documenting software functionality. Code and documentation are far too frequently managed using numerous, diverse tool sets. Software teams run the risk of wasting time and…