If statement keyboards are your thing and you have some serious cash to burn, you should check out this brutalist flagship offering from Serene Industries. The Icebreaker is a wedge-shaped mechanical keyboard constructed from a single block of CNC-machined aluminum, featuring hot-swappable aluminum keycaps with configurable RGB backlighting.Preorders are available now, with pricing starting at $1,500 for the wired version. A Bluetooth wireless and a wired version with magnetic hall effect switches are also available for $1,600 the same price as a new 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro. The keyboard base comes in two colors clear or black with the latter option costing an additional $500. Serene Industries hasnt provided an ETA on delivery, but says production will begin when pre-orders close on January 28th.The design is very striking if you like a Cybertruck kinda vibe. Image: Serene IndustriesThe keycaps appear lightly textured, alongside being ergonomically shaped for fingertips. Image: Serene IndustriesThe Icebreaker comes in a 65 percent layout and measures 450 x 44 x 24mm (around 17.7 x 1.7 x 0.9 inches). It sports a configurable integrated EC11 rotatory dial, dual silicone dampeners to help reduce noise and vibrations, and a 4,000 mAh battery that supports a battery life of around three months according to Serene Industries. The specifications dont mention how much the keyboard weighs or what full height switches it comes with. Weve asked Serene Industries to clarify and will update this piece if we hear back.Heres a look at the Icebreakers rear and side profiles, showing its aggressive wedge-shaped. Image: Serene IndustriesTheres also premium features like micro-perforations on each keycap to allow the LED backlight to shine through, and 1/4-20 inch mounting points three on the USB-C port face, and four at the base for users to attach accessories like tripod mounts, monitor arms, oraxe handles.The design was partly inspired by the Flatiron Building in New York City, according to Serene Industries founder Denis Agarkov. When the Icebreaker was first announced in January 2024, Agarkov told Null Society that he aimed to create a keyboard that goes against the prevailing trends, adopting a more distinctive and challenging design. Its certainly an expensive conversation starter for any keyboard collectors who want something more niche than your typical DIY kits.

10 Comprehensive Strategies for Ensuring Ethical Artificial Intelligence 1 like December 23, 2024Share this postLast Updated on December 24, 2024 by Editorial TeamAuthor(s): Veritas AI Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium.Now, we are in the middle of a very unusual rise of artificial intelligence, especially in this post-GPT and generative AI era. This emergence is going to get much stronger for the next few years and will see AI being introduced more and more into all areas of businesses, industries and directly into our daily lives.However, we have to move from the state of wonder and seriously think about the positioning that we give to AI in our lives and the risk(s) that this represents. From a purely technical point of view, an AI can only seem enormously useful. Still, it can hide fine layers of problems linked mainly to its structures, architecture, and model. not to mention the risk of using AI to achieve extremist groups bad intentions. In addition to all national or international laws in progress or already implemented, allowing the regularization of the creation and use of AI, it is necessary to be able to put in place systems that can evaluate AI about its compliance with certain ethical principles.The integration of Artificial Intelligence into various sectors of society raises important ethical concerns that must Read the full blog for free on Medium.Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming asponsor. Published via Towards AITowards AI - Medium Share this post

The iPhone and iPad could have different default search engines, argues a Google court filing, as the company attempts to protect its $20B a year deal with Apple.Googles annual payment to Apple to be the default search engine in Safari looks certain to be banned in an antitrust case, but the search giant is hitting back with a number of counterproposals Googles $20B+ annual payment to AppleIf you carry out a web search by typing your query into the integrated Safari bar, that search will (unless you manually changed the default) be carried out on Google. Thats because Google pays Apple a multi-billion dollar sum each year for the privilege.Thats a great deal for Google, because it gets a huge amount of its search traffic from Apple users, and thus the ability to place ads in front of them. Apple customers are also a particularly valuable demographic for advertisers, thanks to the fact that they have higher than average incomes.Its also a great deal for Apple because its free money. It has to set a default, and Google is the best-known search engine, so the company would probably do it anyway.The exact amount has never been revealed, and Apple hides it inside its Services revenue, but an antitrust case against Google resulted in the accidental disclosure of the 2022 figure, which was $20B.The Department of Justice argued that this payment was illegal, as it gave Google an unfair advantage over smaller search engines, and a court agreed back in the summer. The DOJ has asked the judge to ban this payment for a period of 10 years.Google makes counterproposal on default search enginesAs part of the legal process, Google is entitled to make a counterproposal to the DOJ one, and it has now done so.Google accepts that its deal with Apple will be banned, but argues that this should be for three years rather than ten. It says the tech industry is a fast-moving one, especially with the rise of generative AI as a new form of search, so the fact that the company dominates the industry today doesnt mean it will continue to do so.The company also suggests that more flexibility could better enable other search services to compete with Google for Apples business. In one particularly bizarre suggestion, it argues that iPhone and iPad could have different default search engines, implying that Google would bid for one while competitors bid for the other.Our proposal allows browsers to continue to offer Google Search to their users and earn revenue from that partnership. But it also provides them with additional flexibility: It would allow for multiple default agreements across different platforms (e.g., a different default search engine for iPhones and iPads) and browsing modes, plus the ability to change their default search provider at least every 12 months9to5Macs TakeAs much as Google owns the search industry for now, the company does have a tenable argument that its dominance may not last forever. Weve already seen people using AI services like ChatGPT as a replacement for a conventional search engine, and it is indeed hard to predict what the future holds.Prior to the launch of the iPhone, for example, Nokia basically owned the smartphone industry. It would have seemed unimaginable that it could ever exit the business, yet just seven years later the company was indeed out of the smartphone market. So as secure as Google looks today, its future dominance certainly isnt assured.In theory, by making default search deals more granular, that would make it more realistic for competing search engines to bid for a slice of the pie. But Apple is all about delivering a consistent experience across devices, so the idea that it would sign deals to deliver different search engines on iPhone and iPad is, frankly, silly. There may be room for compromise in the courts ruling, and Google may well succeed in reducing the proposed ten year ban, but certainly for the next few years, Apple is going to be down $20B a year.Photo byBrandon RomanchukonUnsplashAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

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Dec 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / MalwareJapanese and U.S. authorities have formerly attributed the theft of cryptocurrency worth $308 million from cryptocurrency company DMM Bitcoin in May 2024 to North Korean cyber actors."The theft is affiliated with TraderTraitor threat activity, which is also tracked as Jade Sleet, UNC4899, and Slow Pisces," the agencies said. "TraderTraitor activity is often characterized by targeted social engineering directed at multiple employees of the same company simultaneously."The alert comes courtesy of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, and the National Police Agency of Japan. It's worth noting that DMM Bitcoin shut down its operations earlier this month.TraderTraitor refers to a North Korea-linked persistent threat activity cluster that has a history of targeting companies in the Web3 sector, luring victims into downloading malware-laced cryptocurrency apps and ultimately facilitating theft. It's known to be active since at least 2020.In recent years, the hacking crew has orchestrated a series of attacks that leverage job-themed social engineering campaigns or reaching out to prospective targets under the pretext of collaborating on a GitHub project, which then leads to the deployment of malicious npm packages.The group, however, is perhaps best known for infiltrating and gaining unauthorized access to JumpCloud's systems to target a small set of downstream customers last year.The attack chain documented by the FBI is no different in that the threat actors contacted an employee at a Japan-based cryptocurrency wallet software company named Ginco in March 2024, posing as a recruiter and sending them a URL to a malicious Python script hosted on GitHub as part of a supposed pre-employment test.The victim, who had access to Ginco's wallet management system, was subsequently compromised after they copied the Python code to their personal GitHub page.The adversary moved to the next-phase of the attack in mid-May 2024 when it exploited session cookie information to impersonate the compromised employee and successfully gained access to Ginco's unencrypted communications system."In late-May 2024, the actors likely used this access to manipulate a legitimate transaction request by a DMM employee, resulting in the loss of 4,502.9 BTC, worth $308 million at the time of the attack," the agencies said. "The stolen funds ultimately moved to TraderTraitor-controlled wallets."The disclosure comes shortly after Chainalysis attributed the hack of DMM Bitcoin to North Korean threat actors, stating the attackers targeted vulnerabilities in infrastructure to make unauthorized withdrawals."The attacker moved millions of dollars' worth of crypto from DMM Bitcoin to several intermediary addresses before eventually reaching a Bitcoin CoinJoin Mixing Service," the blockchain intelligence firm said."After successfully mixing the stolen funds using the Bitcoin CoinJoin Mixing Service, the attackers moved a portion of the funds through a number of bridging services, and finally to HuiOne Guarantee, an online marketplace tied to the Cambodian conglomerate, HuiOne Group, which was previously exposed as a significant player in facilitating cybercrimes."The development also comes as the AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) revealed that the North Korean threat actor codenamed Andariel, a sub-cluster within the Lazarus Group, is deploying the SmallTiger backdoor as part of attacks targeting South Korean asset management and document centralization solutions.Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE

Dec 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software SecurityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched high-severity security flaw impacting Acclaim Systems USAHERDS to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2021-44207 (CVSS score: 8.1), a case of hard-coded, static credentials in Acclaim USAHERDS that could allow an attacker to ultimately execute arbitrary code on susceptible servers.Specifically, it concerns the use of static ValidationKey and DecryptionKey values in version 7.4.0.1 and prior that could be weaponized to achieve remote code execution on the server that runs the application. That said, an attacker would have to leverage some other means to obtain the keys in the first place."These keys are used to provide security for the application ViewState," Google-owned Mandiant said in advisory for the flaw back in December 2021. "A threat actor with knowledge of these keys can trick the application server into deserializing maliciously crafted ViewState data.""A threat actor with knowledge of the validationKey and decryptionKey for a web application can construct a malicious ViewState that passes the MAC check and will be deserialized by the server. This deserialization can result in the execution of code on the server."While there are no new reports of CVE-2021-44207 being weaponized in real-world attacks, the vulnerability was identified as being abused by the China-linked APT41 threat actor back in 2021 as a zero-day as part of attacks targeting six U.S. state government networks.Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies are recommended to apply vendor-provided mitigations by January 13, 2025, to safeguard their networks against active threats.The development comes as Adobe warned of a critical security flaw in ColdFusion (CVE-2024-53961, CVSS score: 7.8), which it said already has a known proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that could cause an arbitrary file system read.The vulnerability has been addressed in ColdFusion 2021 Update 18 and ColdFusion 2023 Update 12. Users are advised to apply the patches as soon as possible to mitigate potential risks.Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE

The battle for federal privacy regulation may have been lost, but the war is far from over.While political maneuvering derailed the latest push for nationwide legislation, the momentum for change is undeniable in the United States. Businesses and individuals want clear, unified standards with more than 80% of Americans supporting stricter federal data privacy and 20 states already passing data privacy laws.This growing patchwork of state regulations creates compliance challenges for businesses across borders while leaving millions of Americans with inconsistent protections. Eventually, federal lawmakers will have to step in and bridge the privacy divide.This interim period -- between todays fragmented landscape and tomorrows national framework -- presents a crucial window. Organizations should get ahead of regulations by enhancing data protection strategies, backing employee training, and deploying centralized management tools.The Long March Toward Data PrivacyThe year 2024 promised a breakthrough for federal privacy legislation. In April, bipartisan lawmakers introduced the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), proposing robust limitations on corporate data collection. The bill offered users unprecedented control, providing rights to access and delete data, plus the ability to opt out of data broker sales. By June, however, momentum collapsed. Under pressure from conservative legislators, APRA was stripped of its civil rights protections and data minimization principles and ultimately failed to advance beyond committee.The bill is dead, but dont be mistaken. The push for privacy is just beginning. Were now the only G20 member without a comprehensive framework governing the collection and use of personal data. Americans from across the political spectrum, including record numbers of Republicans and Democrats -- are in support of federal rules, especially as artificial intelligence ingests our data in new ways. Heading into the new year, we need privacy guarantees more than ever.Expect more states to press forward and force the federal hand. For enterprises, this is a pivotal moment to start updating data handling for inevitable privacy changes on the horizon. The time for preparation isnt coming -- its here.Building Privacy-Ready OperationsEnterprises can predict core privacy requirements for personal data management, storage and sharing. And, using something like Europes General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a yardstick, consider the best way to anticipate compliance.For example, data management is crucial. Smart enterprises are moving now to establish clear data governance structures and appoint dedicated privacy leadership. A privacy champion or data protection officer becomes crucial in these internal overhauls. That is someone who can map your data ecosystem, build an incident response procedure, and connect technical requirements with business objectives. Most importantly, this leader must have both the authority to implement changes and direct access to executive decision makers.Further, employee training must be front and center. This means developing role-specific privacy protocols and ensuring teams understand not just the how but the why of data protection. Regular training sessions, practical scenarios and clear escalation paths are therefore vital.Finally, modern privacy demands intelligent solutions that can scale with requirements. Think automated compliance monitoring, unified endpoint management, and centralized platforms that streamline everything from access controls to incident response. These tools enhance privacy protection but also reduce operational overhead and minimize human error in data handling procedures.Its worth noting that privacy isnt a switch thats easily turned on and off. The GDPR rollout demonstrates this. European businesses continue to grapple with implementation challenges and costs nearly a decade later. We must learn from regions that have gone before us and not repeat those mistakes. Thiscalls forstarting early and carving out additional time for privacy upgrading, onboarding and troubleshooting.Whatever Happens Next, Prepare NowThe writings on the wall for federal privacy. Its simply not tenable for almost half the states having varying privacy thresholds and the other half with nothing. Our interconnected business and digital ecosystems need certainty and consistency across the country.Congress can and should stand up for American privacy. The good news? Recent history shows that sweeping reforms are possible. From the CHIPS and Science Act to major pandemic stimulus, lawmakers have shown their ability to meet moments with big regulations. While states deserve credit for filling the privacy void, federal action must follow.For now, theres no time to waste. Enterprises that build privacy-ready operations today will be better positioned to thrive under future regulations, maintain customer trust, and turn compliance into a competitive advantage. On the other hand, slow-to-move companies risk regulatory penalties and loss of customer confidence in an increasingly privacy-conscious marketplace.Future-forward organizations recognize that investing in privacy isnt just about compliance; its about building a sustainable competitive advantage in the data-driven economy. The choice is clear: invest in privacy now or play catch-up when federal mandates arrive.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Heres a question. Imagine that, for $15,000, you could purchase a robot to pitch in with all the mundane tasks in your household. The catch (aside from the price tag) is that for 80% of those tasks, the robots AI training isnt good enough for it to act on its own. Instead, its aided by a remote assistant working from the Philippines to help it navigate your home and clear your table or put away groceries. Would you want one? Thats the question at the center of my story for our magazine, published online today, on whether we will trust humanoid robots enough to welcome them into our most private spaces, particularly if theyre part of an asymmetric labor arrangement in which workers in low-wage countries perform physical tasks for us in our homes through robot interfaces. In the piece, I wrote about one robotics company called Prosper and its massive effortbringing in former Pixar designers and professional butlersto design a trustworthy household robot named Alfie. Its quite a ride. Read the story here. Theres one larger question that the story raises, though, about just how profound a shift in labor dynamics robotics could bring in the coming years. For decades, robots have found success on assembly lines and in other somewhat predictable environments. Then, in the last couple of years, robots started being able to learn tasks more quickly thanks to AI, and that has broadened their applications to tasks in more chaotic settings, like picking orders in warehouses. But a growing number of well-funded companies are pushing for an even more monumental shift. Prosper and others are betting that they dont have to build a perfect robot that can do everything on its own. Instead, they can build one thats pretty good, but receives help from remote operators anywhere in the world. If that works well enough, theyre hoping to bring robots into jobs that most of us would have guessed couldn't be automated: the work of hotel housekeepers, care providers in hospitals, or domestic help. Almost any indoor physical labor is on the table, Prospers founder and CEO, Shariq Hashme, told me. Until now, weve mostly thought about automation and outsourcing as two separate forces that can affect the labor market. Jobs might be outsourced overseas or lost to automation, but not both. A job that couldnt be sent offshore and could not yet be fully automated by machines, like cleaning a hotel room, wasnt going anywhere. Now, advancements in robotics are promising that employers can outsource such a job to low-wage countries without needing the technology to fully automate it. Its a tall order, to be clear. Robots, as advanced as theyve gotten, may find it difficult to move around complex environments like hotels and hospitals, even with assistance. That will take years to change. However, robots will only get more nimble, as will the systems that enable them to be controlled from halfway around the world. Eventually, the bets made by these companies may pay off. What would that mean? One, the labor movements battle with AIwhich this year has focused its attention on automation at ports and generative AIs theft of artists workwill have a whole new battle to fight. It wont just be dock workers, delivery drivers, and actors seeking contracts to protect their jobs from automationit will be hospitality and domestic workers too, along with many others. Second, our expectations of privacy would radically shift. People buying those hypothetical household robots would have to be comfortable with the idea that someone that they have never met is seeing their dirty laundryliterally and figuratively. Some of those changes might happen sooner rather than later. For robots to learn how to navigate places effectively, they need training data, and this year has already seen a race to collect new data sets to help them learn. To achieve their ambitions for teleoperated robots, companies will expand their search for training data to hospitals, workplaces, hotels, and more. Now read the rest of The Algorithm Deeper Learning This is where the data to build AI comes from AI developers often dont really know or share much about the sources of the data they are using, and the Data Provenance Initiative, a group of over 50 researchers from both academia and industry, wanted to fix that. They dug into 4,000 public data sets spanning over 600 languages, 67 countries, and three decades to understand whats feeding todays top AI models, and how that will affect the rest of us. Why it matters: AI is being incorporated into everything, and what goes into the AI models determines what comes out. However, the team found that AI's data practices risk concentrating power overwhelmingly in the hands of a few dominant technology companies, a shift from how AI models were being trained just a decade ago. Over 90% of the data sets that the researchers analyzed came from Europe and North America, and over 70% of data for both speech and image data sets comes from YouTube. This concentration means that AI models are unlikely to capture all the nuances of humanity and all the ways that we exist, says Sara Hooker, a researcher involved in the project. Read more from MelissaHeikkil. Bits and Bytes In the shadows of Arizonas data center boom, thousands live without power As new research shows that AIs emissions have soared, Arizona is expanding plans for AI data centers while rejecting plans to finally provide electricity to parts of the Navajo Nations land. (Washington Post) AI is changing how we study bird migration After decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists. (MIT Technology Review) OpenAI unveils a more advanced reasoning model in race with Google The new o3 model, unveiled during a livestreamed event on Friday, spends more time computing an answer before responding to user queries, with the goal of solving more complex multi-step problems. (Bloomberg) How your car might be making roads safer Researchers say data from long-haul trucks and General Motors cars is critical for addressing traffic congestion and road safety. Data privacy experts have concerns. (New York Times)

Another year is coming to a close, so lets look back at the MIT Technology Review stories that resonated most with you, our readers. We published hundreds of stories in 2024, about AI, climate tech, biotech, robotics, space, and more. There were six new issues of our magazine, on themes including food, play, and hidden worlds. We launched two newsletters, to share tech industry analysis from our editor in chief and to step people through the basics of AI. And we hosted 11 exclusive conversations with our editors and experts in our subscriber-only event series, Roundtables. What did people enjoy most? Heres a quick look at some of the stories that performed best with our audience: 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2024 Every year as we compile this annual list, we look for promising technologies poised to have a real impact on the world. It represents the advances that we think matter most, and the 2024 edition included weight-loss drugs, chiplets, and the first gene-editing treatment. The 2025 list is dropping in early January. To find out what made the cut, join us for a special live Roundtables event, Unveiling the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025, on Friday, January 3, at 12:30 p.m. ET. This is a subscriber-only event. Register to attend or subscribe for access.) What is AI? Everyone thinks they know, but no one can agree. Senior editor Will Douglas Heaven explored the problem in this in-depth feature storyand explained why it matters for all of our futures. He covers the origins of modern AI and digs into the ongoing debate among experts about this technologys capabilities and potential. The AI Hype Index Theres no denying AI moves fast, and it can be hard to know whats worth your attention. Thats why we started plotting everything you need to know about the state of AI in a new matrix, along axes that run from Hype to Real and Doom to Utopia. What are AI agents? Major tech companies are now developing AI tools that can do more complex tasks, like sending emails or booking plane tickets, on your behalf. Heres how they will work. Super-efficient solar cells: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 Solar cells that combine traditional silicon with cutting-edge perovskites could push the efficiency of solar panels to new heights. Thats why we put them on our list of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2024. Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today As part of our 125th anniversary issue, contributor Kara Platoni spoke with a dozen experts to sketch out how technology might influence the life of someone born today over the next 125 years. The messy quest to replace drugs with electricity In the 2010s, the field of electroceuticals was born, attracting much fanfare and investment. Contributor Sally Adee explored how the field fizzled and how its being revived as an effort to turn gene expression on and off with electric fields. 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch For the second annual edition of this list, our reporters and editors chose 15 companies from around the world that we think have the best shot at making a difference on climate change. Weight-loss drugs: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 Drugs like Wegovy and Mounjaro have quickly become embedded into American life. In 2024, they even earned a place on our 10 Breakthrough Technologies list. The long-term implications are unknown, but plenty of people are using semaglutides anyway, and many lose around 15% of their body weight. Don't miss out on even more emerging technology coverage and subscriber-only stories.Subscribe today for unlimited accessto expert insights that you can't find anywhere else.

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"World Architecture Community has opened the WA Awards 10+5+X 49th Cycle to the Voting stage to name the best projects in the Architecture, and Student categories.The Voting process for the WA Awards 49th Cycle has started today (24 December) at 10:30 am GMT +0voting stage will close on Sunday,12 January 2025 (23:59 GMT +0).Once more, we have received a wide range of innovative projects from all around the world, which were submitted from 29 countries in the Architecture, and Student categories.These countries are Turkey, United States, China, Japan, India, Iran, Vietnam, Greece, United Arab Emirates, Montenegro, Slovenia, Portugal, Taiwan, South Korea, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Canada, The Netherlands, Oman, Colombia, Indonesia, Jordan, Finland, Bangladesh, Austria, United Kingdom, Palestine, Kenya, and Egypt. A great mix and global coverage, to say the least!WA Honorary Members and previous cycles' WA Awards Winners will cast their Votes to name the first 10 winning projects in each category. The World Architecture Community Members will cast their Votes to name the next 5 winning projects.Start your Voting for the 49th Cycle of WA Awards.Center For Inclusive Growth & Competitiveness For TAPMI by Akshay Heranjal in India is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 49th Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image SURYAN //DANGPablo Gil's House On The Cliff in Spain, Sanjay Puri Architects' 3 projects; Earth Home in India, Wavivanta in India, Tomorrowland Sports Club in India, Yazgan Design Architecture's Ayvalk Stone House in Turkey, Architectural Studio Chado's The Hotel Complex Mvenpick in Montenegro, Mind Architects' Haegrida in South Korea, PDM Partners' 3 projects; CHILAMSAGYE in South Korea, Sunglim Mokjang in South Korea, SEONYUDOWON in South Korea are among projects competing to be the winner of the 49th Cycle.You are the jury now! Choose the best projects for the WA Awards 10+5+X 49th CycleThe first group of jury members consists of WA Honorary Members and previous winners of the WA Awards. They will select the first 10 winning projects.The second group of jury members is made up of World Architecture Community Members, who will determine the remaining 5 winning projects through their votes.The above-mentioned jury members may go ahead, and click here to Votefor their preferred projects by Sunday, 12 January 2025 (23:59 GMT +0)House On The Cliff by Pablo Gil in Spain is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 49th Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image Jess GranadaIn the WA Awards Submissions page, the submitted projects are listed under the Architecture page. Then submitted projects are divided into 3 sub-categories; Realised, Designed and Student in the Architecture page.WAC's Honorary Members are composed of an exclusive group of invited architects, acclaimed critics, academics and theoreticians, editors of architectural magazines, curators and other experts from architectural centers and other organizations.Nikos Fintikakis, co-founder of SYNTHESIS AND RESEARCH, acclaimed Indonesian architect Budi Sukada, who is senior lecturer at the University of Tarumanagara, artist and teacher Ruth Jacobson, Alhadeff Architects founder Giancarlo Alhadeff, WAC Professional Member Sanjay Puri, the founder of Sanjay Puri Architects, Consultant & Culture advisor, author of DFID project research 2003 Jane Samuels, Prof. Dr. engl ymen Gr, are among the WAC's Honorary Members.The Hotel Complex Mvenpick In Montenegro by Architectural Studio Chado in Montenegro is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 49th Cycle in the Architecture/Designed category. Image Architectural Studio Chado2 distinctive groups of WAC Members will Vote the submitted projectsWA Awards' judging is based on 2 selection processes: WAC Members' Voting and WAC's Honorary Members and earlier WA Award Winners Voting.The members mentioned above will see "the Vote" button defined for them after clicking on the World Architecture Awards 10+5+X Submissions page. Voting is realized by a mixture of WAC's Honorary Members and earlier WA Award Winners. Their Votes will determine the first 10 winning projects. The second judging is WAC Members' Voting, which is realized by the fellow community members of World Architecture Community. Their Votes will decide the next 5 awarded projects.To Vote for the projects, a WAC member must have at least 1 uploaded project that was uploaded a minimum of 1 month agoon his/her page, and the project must have been opened to the public by being approved by the World Architecture Community. WAC's Members are composed of architects, interior designers, students, and academics.Both Voting processes take place simultaneously and will be completed by Sunday, 12 January 2025 (23:59 GMT +0).Foz Housing Heritage by dEMM arquitectura in Portugal is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 49th Cycle in the Architecture/Designed category. Image dEMM arquitecturaNow that you know everything, you may go ahead on the Voting Page for your preferred projects bySunday, 12 January 2025 (23:59 GMT +0), and help choose the best of the 49th WA Awards 10+5+X on the World Architecture Community.The World Architecture Community organises the WA Awards 10+5+X, running typically for 3-4 cycles per year, to recognise and highlight some of the great projects of our fellow community members.The World Architecture Community plans to announce the winners in the middle of January.Let's Play! - A Journey Of Regeneration And Reconnection In Glasgow by Xinyue Geng in United Kingdom is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 49th Cycle in the Architecture/Student category. Image Xinyue GengOne Cycle ends and Another begins!Now, the WA Awards 50th Cycle is open for entries in the Architecture, Interior Design and Student categories.Start your entries today.If you missed the previous cycle, you can submit your entries to the WA Awards 10+5+X 50th Cycle until 31March 2025.See all previous winners for WA Awards 10+5+X here.