A 13-year-old boy from Oklahoma, United States, is believed to be the first person to defeat Tetris since the game's introduction more than three decades ago.In a video released on Tuesday, the Oklahoma boy, known online as Blue Scuti and by his legal name, Willis Gibson, is seen playing for around 38 minutes and reaching level 157 before stating, "Oh, I missed it," assuming that a misplaced block foiled his attempts, reports The Guardian. Video Games Releasing in January 2024: A Comprehensive Guide to New ReleasesBut he recovers, and when the blocks fall, he repeats, "Please crash," and completes another line of blocks, the Tetris method for collecting points. The game freezes, indicating de facto victory, and he shouted, "Oh my God! Yes! I’m going to pass out. I can’t feel my hands.” His score read “999999,” it said.Previously, only artificial intelligence-powered bots could push the game, initially launched on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), to its "kill screen," when its blocks fall so quickly that the game itself cannot continue. China approves 105 online games after draft curbs trigger massive losses“It’s never been done by a human before. It’s basically something that everyone thought was impossible until a couple of years ago,” Vince Clemente, president of the Classic Tetris World Championship, told the New York Times.The game was launched in 1989. According to the New York Times, Willis practices 20 hours a week on a cathode-ray tube television, the report said. Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google over barriers to its Android app storeWillis dedicated his victory to his father who died last month. Willis, according to 404 Media, has become one of United States' best competitive Tetris players in just two years, using a newly trendy way of manipulating the NES controller known as "rolling". He first found the game on YouTube, where he posted a video of his victory, he told the Times.

The Guardian newspaper has carried a photo feature titled "Freedom in the making: Bangladesh by Anne de Henning – in pictures" as the exhibition is set to begin in the city on Friday evening. Anne de Henning travelled through Bangladesh between 1971 and 1972, during the War of Independence, photographing freedom fighters, families, refugee trains, and women fleeing villages. Read: French photographer Anne de Henning's exhibition on Bangladesh to inaugurate on Friday To mark the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence, her images are being kept on display at the National Art Gallery in Dhaka from December 10–31. To mark the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence, Samdani Art Foundation and CRI are hosting "Witnessing History in the Making: Photographs by Anne de Henning, Bangladesh 1971-1972" - an exhibition of never-seen-before photos of Bangladesh during the period of 1971-72 by French photographer Anne de Henning. Anne de Henning began her career as a photojournalist and at the age of 23 she left her life in Paris to cover the Vietnam War and later Bangladesh Liberation War. Read: Samdani Art Foundation, CRI to exhibit unseen photographs of 1971-72 Her photographs from 1971 and 1972 taken in Bangladesh remained unpublished and will be shown for the first time after 50 years. KM Khalid MP, State Minister for Cultural Affairs, Nasrul Hamid, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources and Trustee, CRI; and Liaquat Ali Lucky, Director General, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy will grace the occasion that will be held on Friday evening.

The Wuhan lab leak theory is more about politics than science, The Guardian newspaper reported Sunday. Whatever this week's Biden review on the virus's origins finds, the cause of the pandemic lies in the destruction of animal habitats. As for the "lab leak" theory of the disease, scientists refuted the idea in the paper. Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust, made clear in his recent book that he changed his mind after intense consultations with other researchers, though initially he believed that COVID-19 escaped from a virus research centre, said an article in the paper. READ: What the WHO coronavirus experts learned in Wuhan "As things currently stand, the evidence strongly suggests that COVID-19 arose after a natural spillover event," Farrar was quoted as saying. Farrar's point is backed by Professor James Wood, of Cambridge University. "I think there is very strong evidence for this being caused by natural spillovers but that argument simply does not suit some political groups. They promote the idea that COVID-19 was caused by a lab leak because such a claim deflects attention from increasing evidence that indicates biodiversity loss, deforestation and wildlife trade - which increase the dangers of natural spillovers - are the real dangers that we face from pandemics," said Wood. READ: WHO expert skeptical coronavirus leaked from controversial Wuhan lab