Tension between innovation and security is a tale as old as time. Innovators and CIOs want to blaze trails with new technology. CISOs and other security leaders want to take a more measured approach that mitigates risk. With the rise of AI in recent years regularly being characterized as an arms race, there is a real sense of urgency. But that risk that the security-minded worry about is still there.  Data leakage. Shadow AI. Hallucinations. Bias. Model poisoning. Prompt injection, direct and indirect. These are known risks associated with the use of AI, but that doesn’t mean business leaders are aware of all the ways they could manifest within their organizations and specific use cases. And now agentic AI is getting thrown into the mix. “Organizations are moving very, very quickly down the agentic path,” Oliver Friedrichs, founder and CEO of Pangea, a company that provides security guardrails for AI applications, tells InformationWeek. “It's eerily similar to the internet in the 1990s when it was somewhat like the Wild West and networks were wide open. Agentic applications really in most cases aren't taking security seriously because there aren't really a well-established set of security guardrails in place or available.” What are some of the security issues that enterprises might overlook as they rush to grasp the power of AI solutions? Related:Visibility  How many AI models are deployed in your organization? The answer to that question may not be as easy to answer as you think.  “I don't think people understand how pervasively AI is already deployed within large enterprises,” says Ian Swanson, CEO and founder of Protect AI, an AI and machine learning security company. “AI is not just new in the last two years. Generative AI and this influx of large language models that we’ve seen created a lot of tailwinds, but we also need to take stock an account of what we've had deployed.” Not only do you need to know what models are in use, you also need visibility into how those models arrive at decisions.  “If they're denying, let's say an insurance claim on a life insurance policy, there needs to be some history for compliance reasons and also the ability to diagnose if something goes wrong,” says Friedrichs.  If enterprise leaders do not know what AI models are in use and how those models are behaving, they can’t even begin to analyze and mitigate the associated security risks.  Auditability Swanson gave testimony before Congress during a hearing on AI security. He offers a simple metaphor: AI as cake. Would you eat a slice of cake if you didn’t know the recipe, the ingredients, the baker? As tempting as that delicious dessert might be, most people would say no.  Related:“AI is something that you can't, and you shouldn't just consume. You should understand how it's built. You should understand and make sure that it doesn't include things that are malicious,” says Swanson.  Has an AI model been secured throughout the development process? Do security teams have the ability to conduct continuous monitoring?  “It's clear that security isn't a onetime check. This is an ongoing process, and these are new muscles a lot of organizations are currently building,” Swanson adds.  Third Parties and Data Usage Third party risk is a perennial concern for security teams, and that risk balloons along with AI. AI models often have third-party components, and each additional party is another potential exposure point for enterprise data.  “The work is really on us to go through and understand then what are those third parties doing with our data for our organization,” says Harman Kaur, vice president of AI at Tanium, a cybersecurity and systems management company. Do third parties have access to your enterprise data? Are they moving that data to regions you don’t want? Are they using that data to train AI models? Enterprise teams need to dig into the terms of any agreement they make to use an AI model to answer these questions and decide how to move forward, depending on risk tolerance.   Related:Legal Risk  The legal landscape for AI is still very nascent. Regulations are still being contemplated, but that doesn’t negate the presence of legal risk. Already there are plenty of examples of lawsuits and class actions filed in response to AI use.  “When something bad happens, everybody's going to get sued. And they'll point the fingers at each other,” says Robert W. Taylor, of counsel at Carstens, Allen & Gourley, a technology and IP law firm. Developers of AI models and their customers could find themselves liable for outcomes that cause harm.  And many enterprises are exposed to that kind of risk. “When companies contemplate building or deploying these AI solutions, they don't do a holistic legal risk assessment,” Taylor observes.  Now, predicting how the legality around AI will ultimately settle, and when that will even happen, is no easy task. There is no roadmap, but that doesn’t mean enterprise teams should throw up their collective hands and plow ahead with no thought for the legal implications. “It's all about making sure you understand at a deep level where all the risk lies in whatever technologies you're using and then doing all you can [by] following reasonable practice best practices on how you mitigate those harms and documenting everything,” says Taylor.  Responsible AI Many frameworks for responsible AI use are available today, but the devil is in the details.  “One of the things that I think a lot of companies struggle with, my own clients included, is basically taking these principles of responsible AI and applying them to specific use cases,” Taylor shares.  Enterprise teams have to do the legwork to determine the risks specific to their use cases and how they can apply principles of responsible AI to mitigate them.  Security vs. Innovation  Embracing security and innovation can feel like balancing on the edge of knife. Slip one way and you feel the cut of falling behind in the AI race. Slip the other way and you might be facing the sting of overlooking security pitfalls. But doing nothing ensures you will fall behind. “We've seen it paralyzes some organizations. They have no idea how to create a framework to say is this a risk that we're willing to accept,” says Kaur.  Adopting AI with a security mindset is not to say that risk is completely avoidable. Of course it isn’t. “The reality is this is such a fast-moving space that it's like drinking from a firehose,” says Friedrichs.  Enterprise teams can take some intentional steps to better understand the risks of AI specific to their organizations while moving toward realizing the value of this technology.  Looking at all of the AI tools available in the market today is akin to being in a cakeshop, to use Swanson’s metaphor. Each one looks more delicious than the next. But enterprises can narrow the decision process down by starting with vendors that they already know and trust. It’s easier to know where that cake comes from and the risks of ingesting it.  “Who do I already trust and already exists in my organization? What can I leverage from those vendors to make me more productive today?” says Kaur. “And generally, what we've seen is with those organizations, our legal team, our security teams have already done extensive reviews. So, there's just an incremental piece that we need to do.” Leverage risk frameworks that are available, such as the AI Risk Management Framework from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). “Start figuring out what pieces are more important to you and what's really critical to you and start putting all of these tools that are coming in through that filter,” says Kaur.  Taking that approach requires a multidisciplinary effort. AI is being used across entire enterprises. Different teams will define and understand risk in different ways.  “Pull in your security teams, pull in your development teams, pull in your business teams, and have a line of sight [on] a process that wants to be improved and work backwards from that,” Swanson recommends.  AI represents staggering opportunities for enterprise, and we have just begun to work through the learning curve. But security risks, whether or not you see them, will always have to be a part of the conversation.  “There should be no AI in the enterprise without security of AI. AI has to be safe, trusted, and secure in order for it to deliver on its value,” says Swanson.

Solvej Balle’s protagonist lives the same day on repeatVICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alamy On the Calculation of Volume (parts I and II) Solvej Balle, translated (from Danish) by Barbara J. Haveland Faber & Faber (UK); New Directions (US) On his 70th birthday, Albert Einstein received a manuscript from his friend, the logician Kurt Gödel, that mathematically demonstrated something he had conjectured, but never proven: according to his general theory of relativity it was possible for space-time to bend and close in on itself, creating a loop to the past. It was an extraordinary development, but one that troubled many…

Deepak Singh leads Amazon Web Services' developer agents and experiences division. Amazon Web Services 2025-04-10T14:19:43Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Deepak Singh leads AWS' Q Developer team and thinks vibe coding can be a game changer for developers. Singh told BI that conversations with customers haven't been about replacing human developers with AI. "The reason vibe coding is such a vibe" is because developers enjoy using it, Singh said. Vibe coding is shaking up software development, and an Amazon executive in charge of developing the company's AI agents thinks it's here to stay. Deepak Singh, vice president of Amazon Web Services' developer agents and experiences division, told Business Insider that software developers are using increasingly powerful AI agents to improve their productivity."The way I like to state it is your AI software has gone from 'help me type faster' — a coding companion — to being a true pair programmer that helps you build your software by working with you," Singh said.Vibe coding is a term coined in February by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy to describe giving AI prompts to write code. As he puts it, developers can "fully give in to the vibes" and "forget the code even exists." While some fear vibe coding may mean fewer software developer roles, Singh said conversations with customers haven't revolved around finding ways of replacing human workers with AI agents.Others, like Singh, see vibe coding as a way for developers to free up their time to focus on more important aspects of their jobs — such as problem-solving."A really good engineer is one that can take a problem, shine a light upon it, and clarify," Singh said, pointing to tenets Amazon lays out for its legions of software developers and engineers. "It's not just about writing the most complex code. It's about simplifying a complex problem." Developers have long been interested in how AI can help them. When ChatGPT first arrived in late 2022, developers were quick to adopt the generative AI tool to help them code — even if the chatbot was prone to generating errors.Back then, developers could find value by getting generative AI to help speed up the line-by-line process of writing code. They could "add a command and have the command write the code for them," as Singh put it.This year, tech companies have been launching a growing number of AI models with the ability to reason and spend longer on problems — a key reason vibe coding is having its moment. Amazon made Q Developer, its own AI assistant for software developers, generally available in April 2024. This week, the company unveiled a feature for developers to interact with Q in different languages, such as Spanish, Korean, or Hindi. For Singh, the best developers are those who are "very clear in the guidance they're giving the AI." They're the ones who are able to "move very quickly," he said.Some AWS customers appear to be successfully vibe coding. Singh gave the example of the National Australia Bank, claiming that half the code that goes into production is from Q Developer, not handwritten by a human at the bank, he said. "The reason vibe coding is such a vibe, no pun intended, is because developers enjoy it and they're able to make progress," Singh said. Recommended video

Something unexpected happened recently as I was filing my taxes: AI helped. It even caught an error that my human accountant missed.This was surprising because when I decided to test out a free tax return chatbot, I expected it to tell me to, I don’t know, write off my dog as a business expense and pay my IRS bill in magic beans. I can’t say it’s the first time I’ve underestimated AI’s ability to be useful in my everyday life. I made fun of this simple AI-powered family meal planning app, and several months later, it’s gotten good enough that I’m using it on a weekly basis. I used to blankly stare at ChatGPT’s empty prompt field, unable to think of anything I might want an AI to do, and now, that box is on my screen at all times as I bounce ideas off the language model, like it’s a half-useful intern. I don’t trust the AI. But I don’t ignore it, either.AI is still bad at a lot of things. I encounter hallucinations and inaccurate answers almost every time I use it, so I double-check everything, which takes time. I never believe anything I read on the internet at first glance, anyway. Still, on balance, AI is now saving me so much time and improving my workflow so much that I don’t mind. The latest AI models are getting good enough that it’s more than worth it to find ways the software can make your life easier. Fielding your most pressing tax questions is a great example of a job AI can try.The tax bots are helpful — and pretty restrained For the 2023 tax year, both TurboTax and H&R Block launched AI-powered chatbots to help customers file their taxes. The tools did not impress Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler, who called the chatbots “unhelpful” and, more to the point, “awful.” The companies rolled out the tools before they were finished, and they served up plenty of “bad advice,” Fowler said in a review last spring. I believe him, but I also had a different experience testing the tools this time around. After last year’s reported goof-ups, TurboTax and H&R Block updated their tax bots. They appear to be less bad at first glance. Compared to what I know about the original iterations, the second-generation chatbots seem more low-key and less error-prone. When I asked them really hard questions, they referred me back to help documents or to a human agent. You might think of the chatbots as a coach. They’re not going to do your taxes, and they’re not supposed to give you inaccurate information. But they are designed to make the process feel less stressful, according to Heather Watts, senior vice president of H&R Block’s DIY tax business.“What we’ve heard from feedback from users who’ve used it,” Watts told me, “is it’s just giving them that confidence that what they’re doing is accurate, and they feel good about, ultimately, the outcome of their tax refund.”Both TurboTax and H&R Block power their chatbots with proprietary large language models (LLM), trained on the tax code and their internal help documents. This should, in theory, keep the chatbots from drifting too far from dependable information and already-vetted answers to questions. When I asked H&R Block’s AI Tax Assist software specific questions about itemized deductions or the child tax credit, I got clear, bullet-pointed responses that often didn’t directly answer the question but rather provided generalized information. TurboTax’s AI assistant answered some questions but was quick to refer me to help articles or a live human when the questions got more complicated — which is why I describe them as low-key. They’re generally pretty restrained and conservative in their willingness to give actual advice. They’re not trying too hard to impress you, so they don’t fail too hard either.“They’re still not great in very complex situations, and I think that will take some time,” said Subodha Kumar, a professor at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. “But they have become very good with simpler cases.”They’re not trying too hard to impress you, so they don’t fail too hard either.Which is not to say these AI chatbots can never be wrong. If these bots give you bad advice — and they gave Fowler from the Washington Post plenty of it last year — your tax return could get flagged by the government and require an amendment. It could cause some unnecessary stress, at best, and at worst, cost you some money. Both TurboTax and H&R Block guarantee accuracy in your finalized tax return. Both companies also tucked access to their chatbots away in the software’s help menu, a couple clicks away from the form where you input your financial info. That leads me to believe that people who find them know what they’re getting themselves into. And people do seem to be discovering and using these tools. TurboTax told me that while only 15 percent of its customers’ questions were answered by AI in 2024, that number has grown to 65 percent this year. There are clear disclaimers about the need to proceed with caution on both platforms. A warning label does not make any product safe, but at least it signals something to the user. In this case, you should review all answers the AI provides.AI is the past and future of accounting The tax world is not new to AI. For years, accounting firms and tech companies alike have been incorporating AI tools to automate and streamline the tax-filing process. TurboTax and H&R Block have already been using AI in the background to give personalized deduction recommendations and to read uploaded documents, including W2s, in order to fill out forms more quickly. Both companies also told me they’re using AI to help check the accuracy of tax returns in real time. These kinds of workflows aren’t unique to the tax prep giants. In fact, AI is making everything faster through automation across the accounting industry.“We use a lot of automations to help save us time,” said Anthony Drozd, the operations manager at Sargent CPAs, a New York-based accounting firm. “If I had to make an educated guess, I would say we’ve saved about 20 percent of our time with automations that wouldn’t have been possible without AI help.” The next wave of AI technology, known as agentic AI, could allow the technology to not only recall information and create content but actually carry out tasks. In other words, AI isn’t currently doing your taxes. But companies like TurboTax and H&R Block are slowly training their models to do more by watching you do your taxes, so that it can automate the process more in the future, and save time and money.We don’t know if that agentic AI future will come to pass. In the meantime, some experts think that these AI chatbots can do more harm than good. Even if TurboTax and H&R Block have improved their models, AI chatbots are an unwelcome intermediary between someone looking for accurate information and that information in its original, vetted form, according to Emily M. Bender, a linguistics professor at the University of Washington and the co-author of The AI Con.“You end up with something that looks like a cost-cutting measure or looks like a convenient shortcut, and at the same time, it devalues the work of the people who actually do that stuff,” Bender said.Indeed, some in the tax industry are leaning away from the chatbot approach and appealing to the demand for a personal touch. Ernst & Young, for instance, advertises its lack of a chatbot as a reason to pay for its services over the competitors. Taxes are stressful, so why worry about the reliability of the advice you got from an AI chatbot, which is effectively just a sophisticated autocomplete software program.The thing my accountant had missed was no big deal. It ended up not affecting my return this year, but my accountant later told me he was glad I flagged it. And I was glad to have a human there to help me feel a little less scared about tax season.A version of this story was also published in the User Friendly newsletter. Sign up here so you don’t miss the next one!See More:

Nintendo Switch 2's preorder rollout has been massively impacted by Trump's tariffs, but that's not why the console has been indefinitely delayed in China — here's all we knowTech11:33, 10 Apr 2025Switch 2 is just a couple of months away(Image: AFP via Getty Images)Nintendo finally revealed the Switch 2 last week after months of waiting, and it's fair to say many of us have been getting our preorders in since.That's unless you're in the US, in which case preorders are severely delayed thanks to Trump's tariffs. Still, if you have managed to order yours, you'll no doubt be excited about the more powerful console, that Switch 2 will be able to play upgraded versions, and what that mysterious 'C' button does.‌Article continues belowIf you're in China, however, you'll need to temper your expectations. Nikkei is reporting (thanks, VGC) that Nintendo wants to see what demand is like for its latest console before committing to the console's launch.Mario Kart World is Nintendo's big Switch 2 launch title(Image: Nintendo)It's another twist in the tale of Nintendo and China, which has particularly tight regulations on video games and consoles within its borders.‌The original Switch is available in the country, but didn't launch until two years after it launched elsewhere.Nintendo has previously advised Chinese players that the Nintendo eShop is being shut down on March 31, 2026, and is giving away free games as compensation.Chinese Switch owners with an active WeChat account (an app that's pretty ubiquitous in China) can snag Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe, Pokemon Let's Go! Pikachu, and Super Mario Odyssey before the deadline.‌Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are now open at most UK online stores(Image: AFP via Getty Images)Chinese gamers tend to play more mobile games than buying dedicated gaming hardware, which likely also factors into Nintendo's decision making.‌Given the Switch 2 preorders have already been delayed in the US and Canada thanks to President Trump's tariffs, there's every chance the company will look to launch in China later on — but it's not looking likely any time soon.Nintendo partners with Chinese megacorporation Tencent to help with Switch distribution in the country, but Tencent declined to comment when Nikkei approached to ask about the new system.For more on Nintendo Switch 2, be sure to check out what the console was almost called, as well as the one surprising game we hope gets a second chance at success on the platform.Article continues belowFor the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters.

Ideally, work on a new Devil May Cry game began long before the Netflix show dropped (Netflix) Capcom is hopefully paying attention to Devil May Cry’s hit new Netflix show and the effect it’s having on game sales on Steam. Last week saw Netflix launch its latest video game to TV adaptation: Devil May Cry, which is based on the Capcom series of the same name. Although it got some criticism for how it adapted the series’ lore and story, the Devil May Cry show has been another success story for Netflix, as it’s already been commissioned for a second season. Much like Amazon’s Fallout show, that success has led to a renewed interest in the games on PC (and probably console but that’s harder to track) which will hopefully incentivise Capcom to make a Devil May Cry 6. Devil May Cry 5 – the most recent entry in the series – has benefited the most, with over 10,000 players on Steam following the Netflix show’s debut on April 3. Get personalised updates on all things Netflix Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro’s TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we’ll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. The HD compilation of the first three games has also seen a noticeable uptick in players, jumping from a few hundred players to several thousands. Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition hasn’t enjoyed as much of a boost, but it still has hundreds more players than it did before and the same can be said for the controversial 2013 reboot. Devil May Cry 5 also managed to climb as high as number 12 on Steam’s global bestsellers list (for reference, Capcom’s newest release, Monster Hunter Wilds, is at number 10) and while it’s since dropped out of the top 20, it’s currently outperforming the likes of Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6. It does help that Capcom is currently running a series-wide sale on Steam, to coincide with the Netflix show, with discounts of up to 75% on all the games and DLC. The sale will last until April 16. Is Capcom making Devil May Cry 6? Since it’s been six years since Devil May Cry 5 a sixth mainline entry has almost certainly been in development for some time now, regardless of the Netflix show. Although, the success, or otherwise, of shows on Netflix has never been to seen to have a direct effect on game development. Fallout 5 probably won’t be out this decade and its over 11 years since the last new Castlevania game. Per Capcom’s records, Devil May Cry 5 sold 8.9 million copies in its lifetime, making it the company’s 12th best selling game ever. It was also one of the first games to help kickstart the golden age Capcom is currently enjoying, so on that basis alone a sequel seems certain. That said, series director Hideaki Itsuno left Capcom last August, so perhaps Capcom is having trouble finding someone to take the reins for a sequel. Perhaps series creator Hideki Kamiya could be involved, since he’s already working on a new Ōkami game for Capcom. What games is Capcom releasing in 2025? Following the success of Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom’s next 2025 release is Capcom Fighting Collection 2 in May, which will compile another slate of retro fighting games. This includes the two Capcom Vs. SNK games and, most importantly, the Power Stone duology. More Trending Aside from that, Capcom has plans for an Onimusha 2 remaster in May and Nintendo Switch 2 ports for Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess and Street Fighter 6 in June. We also know the company is working on Resident Evil 9, but there’s been no proper reveal yet. There seems a good chance one will debut this year, at one of the bigger gaming showcases, be it Summer Game Fest or The Game Awards. Things have only been getting better and better for Capcom lately, with the success of Monster Hunter Wilds, and now Devil May Cry Netflix, likely to lead to the revival of even more dormant franchises – something they’ve been promising to do for a while now. As well as the new Ōkami game, they’ve already announced the first new Onimusha game in almost 20 years. We can only hope Dino Crisis is next as well as, perhaps, more classic franchises like Ghosts ‘N Goblins and Bionic Commando. A year ago, the prospect of a new Onimusha would have been laughable (Capcom) Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. TV Newsletter Sign up and tell us which TV shows you love to watch to get personalised updates every morning. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy

Science & technology | Factory resetAI models are helping dirty industries go greenMining companies and steelmakers are feeling the benefitsIllustration: Rose Wong Apr 10th 2025|RotterdamOVER A CENTURY ago, ships leaving Rotterdam’s harbour were among the earliest to be equipped with wireless telegraphy and submarine signalling. Now, Europe’s busiest port is pioneering the use of artificial intelligence (AI). PortXChange, developed by the port and spun out as an independent entity, uses AI to analyse several dozen factors tracking vessels, port emissions and estimated arrival times. A huge source of wasted fuel is the “hurry up and wait” common among ships rushing to arrive at congested ports. This platform helped Shell, an oil giant, reduce “idle time”, affecting departures of barges and bulk shipments across all ports, by 20%. The tool is now being used by companies and ports around the globe.Explore moreThis article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Factory reset”From the April 12th 2025 editionDiscover stories from this section and more in the list of contents⇒Explore the editionReuse this content

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Storage X Domaine 17 Showroom / Temp ProjectSave this picture!© Yevhenii Avramenko Architects: Temp Project Area Area of this architecture project Area:  117 m² Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024 Photographs Photographs:Yevhenii Avramenko Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers:  Bearbrick, Greenswift, SBB Light, Sadoline, oitoproducts Lead Architects: Anastasiia Tempynska More SpecsLess Specs Save this picture! Text description provided by the architects. Resellers of men's and women's streetwear have transformed three halls on the ground floor of an early 20th-century building in central Kyiv into a hub for bold urban culture. This collaborative space unites two clothing showrooms owned by a young entrepreneurial couple, each leading their own brand. The men's store, Storage, and the women's store, Domaine 17, both embrace a raw, rebellious vibe with a focus on sports and street fashion. The collections, carefully selected from international brands, reflect the spirit of contemporary urban culture. "The clients envisioned an atmosphere reminiscent of an abandoned industrial zone, with scratched concrete surfaces, exposed rebar, and plants reclaiming space from the city. The interior embodies the raw essence of an urban landscape that thrives with minimal human interference," explains architect Anastasiia Tempynska. Key elements of the building's original architecture were preserved, including arched doorways, wooden ceiling beams, and brick walls. "We deliberately chose not to clean the original brickwork – it would have looked too polished. We aimed for a raw, honest aesthetic, so we left the bricks untouched," Anastasiia adds.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The men's store, Storage, occupies the first hall, which previously served as a beauty salon. The uneven flooring with radial elements, a remnant of the salon's past, was creatively adapted with a poured concrete reception desk, echoing the look of a skatepark. The brand's concept revolves around the idea of safeguarding the most valuable and sought-after pieces of modern fashion and culture, which is why a safe serves as the store's emblem. Massive vault doors in the catwalk area display footwear, emphasizing the concept of exclusivity. A photo zone for fashion shoots, complete with a steel wall backdrop, is situated near the entrance. To make a free space for shoots, the clothesline is up to the ceiling via a control panel.Save this picture!Save this picture!The second hall, home to the Domaine 17 womenswear showroom, introduces softer elements with rounded and colorful accents. Notable design features include wavy mirror frames by Ukrainian brand Oito and pink mobile floor reels. Corrugated steel walls, reminiscent of industrial workshops, contribute to the gritty aesthetic. A striking art installation of vintage TVs forms a chaotic pile in this space. Hidden among the screens, cameras capture visitors' movements and instantly project them onto the screens with various effects – visual noise, color distortion, and digital glitches. The third section, a conceptual extension at the back, houses the fitting rooms. Their mirrored walls create a maze-like effect, offering multiple angles for self-reflection. Heavy doors resembling a safe lead to a storage area, while the asymmetrical pink Bug table by Oito appears to float, enhancing the sense of surrealism created by the mirrors.Save this picture!In the first hall, dark blue armchairs with elongated cylindrical cushions woven into metal frames, along with a large rounded sofa, draw inspiration from the movement design trend, where objects visually stretch and contract as if defying physical laws. The project's primary materials – concrete, aged brick, stainless steel, and corrugated metal – convey a raw industrial feel. The palette is dominated by shades of gray, black, and lilac, with vivid light green and lemon accents brought in by islands of moss and ferns, thriving despite the limited natural light.Save this picture! Project gallerySee allShow less Project locationAddress:Shota Rustaveli str. 30, Kyiv, UkraineLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeTemp ProjectOffice••• MaterialConcreteMaterials and TagsPublished on April 10, 2025Cite: "Storage X Domaine 17 Showroom / Temp Project" 10 Apr 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1028577/storage-x-domaine-17-showroom-temp-project&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save世界上最受欢迎的建筑网站现已推出你的母语版本!想浏览ArchDaily中国吗?是否 You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.Looking closely at the tools’ chipped blades as well as the larger rocks from which they were formed — what archaeologists call a core — the scientists surmised how the tools were made. That, in turn, reveals much of the makers’ know-how.“When your average person thinks about stone tools, they probably focus on the detached pieces, the blades and flakes,” Sara Watson, a postdoctoral scientist at the Field Museum in Chicago and an author of the paper, said in a press release. “But the thing that is the most interesting to me is the core because it shows us the particular methods and order of operations that people went through in order to make their tools.”Archaeologists working in the cave overlooking the ocean. (Credit: Sara Watson) Both the precision of the blade-making methods, as well as a variety of techniques used to make them, led Watson and colleagues to hypothesize that the Paleolithic people there shared tool-making knowledge with each other — and perhaps even learned from other groups.“In a lot of these technologies, the core reduction is very specific, and it’s something that you are taught and learn, and that’s where the social information is,” said Watson. “If we see specific methods of core reduction at multiple sites across the landscape, as an archaeologist, it tells me that these people were sharing ideas with one another.”For instance, Watson noticed that one particular method of breaking tiny bladelets off of a core found in the South African cave resembled a style discovered hundreds of miles away in Namibia and Lesotho, according to the release.“Same core reduction pattern, same intended product,” Watson said. “The pattern is repeated over and over and over again, which indicates that it is intentional and shared, rather than just a chance similarity."Hunting With New Tools and WeaponsWhen the blades were fabricated between 24,000 years and 12,000 years ago, Earth was a vastly different place. Since so much of Earth’s water was frozen in glaciers and ice caps, the sea level was lower, placing the caves a few miles inland rather than right on the water, where they are today.The caves then would have been a few miles inland, near vast plains with plenty of animals, such as antelope. “People hunted those animals, and to do that, they developed new tools and weapons,” said Watson.Gaining access to the caves was a treacherous task. It required a 75-foot climb, safety ropes, climbing harnesses, and stairs made of sandbags. The archaeologists made many trips up the sandbag staircase, laden with 50-pound backpacks full of excavation equipment. Removing some of the tiny, fragile items was challenging as well.Paleolithic Technology“Since these are extremely, extremely old sites, from before the end of the last Ice Age, we had to be very careful with our excavation,” Watson said. “We used little tiny dental tools and mini trowels so that we could remove each little individual layer of sediment.”Such techniques — and the ability to share how they were developed — show that Paleolithic people may have been more technologically sophisticated than previously thought. And the reach of these techniques, as evidenced by similarity-seeming tools at several sites, shows Paleolithic people likely taught skills within their own groups as well as gained knowledge from others.Article SourcesOur writers at Discovermagazine.com use peer-reviewed studies and high-quality sources for our articles, and our editors review for scientific accuracy and editorial standards. Review the sources used below for this article:Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. Robberg Lithic Technology from Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in newspapers, but switched to scientific magazines. His work has appeared in publications including Science News, Science, Nature, and Scientific American.