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Last updated: November 30th, 2022 at 09:44 UTC+01:00 Google has been working on the Material You redesign for ChromeOS since the beginning of this year. Later in June, we saw the first glimpse of Material You’s dynamic colors. Thanks to some ChromeOS enthusiasts, we now have a look at how the Material You redesign for ChromeOS will look on your Samsung Chromebook. The Material You dynamic color works a bit differently on ChromeOS than on Android. It does not match your ChromeOS accents to the dominant color of your…

The new fluorophores may be utilized to develop new materials that will increase the brightness of displays on computers, TVs, and mobile devices.Researchers have created fluorophores between 2.4 and 20 times more intense than analogs.Scientists have created, synthesized, and analyzed a new class of fluorophores, which are luminous chemical compounds. These are the new bullet systems based on cyanopyrazine. According to research, the inclusion of cyanogroup compounds in fluorophores considerably boosts the efficiency of…

While the purification of wastewater once just involved the removal of traditional pollutants, it now also entails the removal of microplastic particles. A new powder reportedly does the job much quicker and more thoroughly than has previously been possible.Developed by a team of scientists at Australia's RMIT University, the powder would ideally get mixed into untreated wastewater at existing treatment plants. And while it just looks like a plain white powder to the naked eye, it's actually made up of microscopic,…

Last updated: November 29th, 2022 at 11:01 UTC+01:00 Finally, the Material You redesign is arriving to the Android Auto app. The new design settings are now live with the latest Android Auto beta v8.6. As per the Google News Telegram Channel, the new Android Auto Material You redesign isn’t widely available. Moreover, not many will be able to view the changes as the beta channel is currently full. So, the first thing is that you need to be enrolled in the Android Auto beta program, and second, it seems like this…

Britain's government intends to make it illegal to encourage others to harm themselves online and will fine social media companies that fail to remove such material, as part of a revamp of legislation governing online behaviour. Promoting suicide is already illegal, but Britain's digital, culture, media and sport ministry said in a statement that it now wanted to require social media firms to block a wider range of content. "Social media firms can no longer remain silent bystanders ... and they'll face fines for allowing…

Trailers for M. Night Shyamalan’s latest flick, Knock at the Cabin, have included enough creepy and tension-building moments to get an audience excited. The film features stars like Jonathan Groff, Dave Bautista and Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint in a horror film about a family who has to choose to give up their daughter for the possibility of saving the world, which four strangers say is at stake. The film is adapted from the novel The Cabin at the End of the World by acclaimed horror author Paul G. Tremblay. Recently, the…

Several small, slender pendants uncovered from Stone Age graves on an island in a Russian lake more than 80 years ago have been reimagined after archaeologists reanalyzed the finds using chemical fingerprinting techniques."To our surprise, the raw material of some of the specimens turned out to be human bone," archaeologist Kristiina Mannermaa of the University of Helsinki in Finland and colleagues write in their published paper.Mannermaa was part of a team responsible for another landmark investigation into Stone Age…

Shazam app, the Apple-owned music recognition app, has rolled out a new update for Android users bringing with support for new home screen widgets. The latest update to Shazam 13.7 for Android is rolling out for all, letting users quickly identify a song playing without opening the app. The new widget features a Material You-inspired design on Android 12 and Android 13. The update is already available to download via the Play Store.According to a 9to5Google report, the new Shazam widget for Android phones lets you quickly…

Photo of a mechanical neural network (MNN). Currently, the system is about the size of a microwave oven, but the researchers plan to simplify the MNN design so that thousands of the networks can be manufactured on the micro-scale within 3D lattices for practical material applications. Credit: Flexible Research Group at UCLAUniversity of California, Los Angeles engineers have developed a new class of material.University of California, Los Angeles mechanical engineers have created a new class of material that can learn…

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides have been updated with a new design, according to a report. The search giant is rolling out redesigned toggles for its word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation apps on Android. The new switches have been designed like a pill that made the Material 3 (M3) switch larger than before. Google has also added new color mappings, as well as a taller and broader track. it can also to display an icon in the switch thumb, according to the company.According to a 9to5Mac report, the new Material…