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If James Gunn is to be believed, then The Flash could end up being the high point of this year’s superhero movie slate. We suppose any film that puts the ill-fated DC Extended Universe out of its misery is worth that sort of shout, but given that The Flash is further armed with mind-shattering stakes and a pair of surefire powerhouses in Sasha Calle and Michael Shannon, this is one movie that just might walk the walk as well as it’s been talking the talk. Gunn, of course, has confirmed a solo film – Supergirl:…

Last updated: June 1st, 2023 at 07:37 UTC+02:00 One of the best and most popular messaging apps worldwide, WhatsApp, is all set to gain some new features in the coming days. A few weeks ago, we reported that WhatsApp is working on a new design for the context menu. Later, some days ago, it was reported that WhatsApp would soon bring screen sharing to Android phones. Now, WhatsApp is all set to gain some more cosmetic changes. According to the latest report, WhatsApp is finally getting the Material You Design toggles.…

Königsaue birch tar and experimental production techniques. a KBP1, Königsaue 1 (left); KBP2, Königsaue 2 (right). b Drawing of the condensation method; c cobble-groove condensation method; d the bark roll buried technique; e the pit roll technique; f raised structure. 1, birch bark; 2, birch tar. Explanations in the main text but also see supplementary information. Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2023). DOI:…

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and colleagues have successfully developed a “superlattice” of semiconductor quantum dots that can function similarly to a metal. The new material’s conductivity was found to be one million times greater than existing quantum dot displays, while the quantum confinement of individual dots remained. The team predicts significant improvements in quantum dot superlattice capabilities and potential new applications like true all-QD direct electroluminescence devices,…

Self-healing mechanism of lens material for self-driving cars using based on a dynamic polymer network and photothermal dye. Credit: Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) Safety issues of self-driving cars have emerged due to frequent traffic accidents. A self-healing lens material that can prevent car accidents that occur due to signal distortion by healing scratches on the sensor surface of the…

Wear OS 4 sems to be getting Material You dynamic theming, according to a recent report from 9To5Google. Google is keeping the changes to the new version of Wear OS pretty close to the chest, but it did share a couple of things about Wear OS 4 back at Google I/O. Notably that there will be improvements to battery life and text-to-speech. Wear OS previously got battery life improvements with Wear OS 3. Though it still has a way to go and it seems Wear OS 4 will help push it a little further. Visually, one big design…

A prototype innovative metamaterial with unconventional properties employs electrical signals to control the direction and intensity of energy waves traversing a solid. This innovative metamaterial, characterized by odd mass density, presents a divergence from Newton’s second law, as force and acceleration do not go in the same direction. Huang envisions wide-ranging applications from military and commercial uses, such as controlling radar waves or managing vibration from air turbulence in aircraft, to civil uses like…

While technically an action-adventure game, you could easily call The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom a collectathon game as well. You will be scooping up hundreds of items, from ingredients and ores to weapons and monster parts. These are all useful for at least one thing, if not many, and the more difficult they are to find, the more useful they tend to be. Hylian rice may not sound all that valuable or rare, but it has already stumped many players looking for it, especially when trying to complete the…

It’s a beautiful, 60-degree day, the sky a cloudless blue. Spunn Road is lined by stately houses looking down on the historic main street of Jackson, California, the high peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains visible in the distance. There’s a slight bend in the road—and there it is. A chain-link fence topped with barbed wired blocks access to a few dilapidated buildings and a 50-foot-tall rusting steel structure that, in another life, hoisted rock from the depths below. There’s a sign on the fence: TOXIC HAZARD KEEP…

The Wear OS 4 update was announced during the Google I/O 2023 event. Wear OS 4 is based on Android 13, a significant upgrade from Android 11, which formed the base for Wear OS 3.5. Wear OS 4 will be released to the Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Watch 5, bringing battery life improvements and better apps. The update will also bring Material You design to the smartwatches. It was reported a couple of months ago that Google was working on Material You for Wear OS. Now that the Developer Preview version of Wear OS 4 is out,…