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Shockingly, there are still people out there who use their phones as, well… phones. Those of us who get a ton of phone calls like to assign specific ringtones to specific contacts. Well, Google is rolling out a feature called Contact ringtones for Google Contacts. This will make it easier to assign custom ringtones to different contacts. Gone are the days when porting your contacts to a new phone required a long and drawn-out process of transferring them from SIM card to SIM card or, heaven forbid, reentering all of your…

A Nobel Laureate who co-created graphene has made another discovery that could turbocharge numerous futuristic applications, from smart contact lenses to rapid disease detection. Konstantin Novoselov, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, is among a group of scientists behind the breakthrough. The team announced today that they’ve unearthed unique properties in two unusual compounds: rhenium diselenide and rhenium disulfide — aka ReSe2 and ReS2. The duo comes from the same family of 2D…

Two particular sentences capture the essence of Dune: Part Two, and one cannot exist without the other. The first: “Frank Herbert’s legendary novel continues its reputation for being unfilmable.” The second: “Denis Villeneuve is more than capable of pulling all the right strings and pushing all the right buttons to come admirably, if only relatively, close to the feat.” Indeed, in trying to improve upon just about everything that Dune: Part One had to offer, the highly-anticipated sophomore entry in Villeneuve’s sci-fi…

iPhone has a bunch of cool features, but few are as useful as contact groups. As of iOS 16, Apple lets you pool contacts together into groups, making it easy to spam out messages to family, friends, or colleagues without needing to tinker with a bunch of clunky settings. You don't even need any extra software or apps – as long as you're running iOS 16 or later, you can quickly make a contact group on your iPhone. In this guide, we'll show you exactly how to create a contact group on your iPhone, how to send…

Not too long ago, a new feature was spotted in the WhatsApp iOS beta which would allow people to assign favorite contacts. Well, it appears that iPhone users can’t hog all of the fun. According to a report, the WhatsApp favorite contacts feature was spotted in the Android beta as well. Usually, WhatsApp tests its new features both for iOS and Android separately. Sometimes, the company will test features on Android and not on iOS, and vice versa. The favorite contacts feature was first spotted on the iOS beta not too long…

It takes some guts for any sci-fi film – especially a no-budget one – to pick that title, and to include some eerie wisps of Ligeti-like sounds to get the cosmic hairs rising on the back of your neck. When Monolith isn’t referencing 2001: A Space Odyssey, it also bears some resemblance to Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, with its alien artefacts turning out to be filled with indecipherable glyphs when scanned. But Matt Vesely’s impressive debut ably stakes out its own territory, not least in the vast distances covered by a…

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It’s likely that most people with curly hair will admit that they have specific preferences for their hair. They are picky when it comes to hairdressers and know exactly how they want their hair to look. Moreover, certain cultures place a great deal of value on a person’s hair; it shapes their identity. So cutting their or their kids’ hair without permission is really a bad idea.One Reddit user recently shared her story online, furious after finding out that her mother-in-law decided it was a good idea to cut her son’s…

Scientists have designed a striking new contact lens that could revolutionize ophthalmology. It's based on a spiral pattern that lets the eye focus at different distances and in varying lighting conditions.Beyond contact lenses, its inventors say the tech could be applied to a range of miniaturized imaging systems, including consumer gadgets like virtual reality headsets, to offer more versatility and flexibility than existing lenses.The lens, called a spiral diopter, causes incoming light to spin in an optical vortex,…

ADVERTISEMENT Although heartbreaking, family estrangement is quite a common occurrence. Research shows that 27% of Americans have a family member they have no contact with. And it’s not necessarily parents and children. Rifts between siblings happen, too. After years of not talking, people find it hard to reconnect: “What if the other person hates me? What if they (or I) can’t forgive?” The author of this story found himself in a similar situation. The Redditor u/Longest-Journey had a son who wanted to reconnect. But…