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Last updated: November 10th, 2022 at 05:52 UTC+01:00 While YouTube’s homescreen widget waits for its turn to receive the Material You makeover, Google Contacts, in the meantime, is getting the treatment done and dusted. With this new Google Contacts Material You homescreen widget, you can place a person/contact in a more prominent place on your homescreen. If you have the Contacts widget, it has allowed users to create three types of homescreen widgets, i.e., Contact, Direct dial, and Direct Message. Anyone of these…

Balvinder Kaur, Data Architect at Thoughtworks has many feathers to her hat. Having started her career as a Software Engineer after graduating in 2007, she has come a long way in leading Data Engineering teams and has been instrumental in deploying data strategies for Thoughtwok’s clients helping them chart a road map for milestone-based plans. She is engaged in delivering Tech-talks, participating in fresher and lateral interviews, and takes a keen interest in designing training courses and mentoring freshers. She is…

Exhaust from coal-fired power plants, at left, contain large quantities of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (purple tripartite molecules). Aluminum formate, a metal-organic framework whose structure is highlighted at right, can selectively capture carbon dioxide from dried flue gas conditions, potentially at a fraction of the cost of using other carbon filtration materials. Credit: B. Hayes / NISTEasily synthesized chemical filter could stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere.How can carbon dioxide, a…

Engines undergo a final inspection at the Stellantis Dundee Engine Complex on August 18, 2022 in Dundee, Michigan.Bill Pugliano | Getty ImagesAutomaker Stellantis expects inflation costs on raw materials to subside next year following significant increases during the coronavirus pandemic, CFO Richard Palmer told investors Thursday.The spiking costs of critical raw materials used by automakers such as steel, aluminum and others for EV batteries have been largely offset by record pricing of new vehicles, cushioning…

Last updated: November 3rd, 2022 at 07:45 UTC+01:00 After providing convenient shortcuts to its YouTube iOS app via homescreen widgets, the same treatment is now rolling out for YouTube’s Android app. Thanks to the new Material You redesign of the widgets, you can have quick access to the app’s search and other core parts. With this update, you will soon be able to search on YouTube while tapping the next field that opens the app with the keyboard open. You can also use voice search using the widget. There are Quick…

Following a quick teaser last month, the American-spec Ford Transit Trail made its official debut today. The new Transit Trail is more than a mere ruggedized van, designed as a supple mound of clay specced to the wants and whims of camper van and motorhome enthusiasts looking to build the ultimate adventure rig. The Trail comes complete with intelligent all-wheel drive, electrical upgrades, all-terrain tires, a suspension lift, and a loaded options list that lets RV builders skip the painstaking dirty work so they can…

Soon, you will be able to charge your battery-based gadgets or even electric vehicles at an ultra-fast speed as a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has invented a new anode material that enables lithium batteries to be recharged within minutes. According to the team, the new two-dimensional (2D) anode material was developed using nanosheets derived from titanium diboride (TiB2), a material that resembles a…

Many quantum effects can only be produced at extremely cold temperatures, which limits how useful they would be in real-world settings. Now, researchers at Princeton have demonstrated a strange quantum state taking place in a material at room temperature.A topological insulator is a material with a structure that conducts electrons in a unique way. The bulk of the material is an insulator, completely preventing the flow of electrons through it. However, thin layers at its surface and along its edges are highly conductive,…

Swedish automaker Volvo Cars on Thursday said rising raw material costs and inflation drove down profits in the third quarter. The group posted a net profit of 665 million kronor ($61 million) in the July-September period, a drop of 71 percent compared to 2.3 billion kronor during the same quarter a year ago. The figure was far below analysts’ forecasts of between 2.15 and 2.19 billion kronor, according to Bloomberg and Factset. The company’s share price was down by around seven percent in midday trading on the Stockholm…

A group of scientists at the University of Chicago has discovered a way to create a material in which the molecular fragments are jumbled and disordered, but can still conduct electricity extremely well. This goes against all of the rules we know about conductivity. Above is an artist’s conception of the lattice. Credit: Illustration by Frank Wegloski‘Like conductive Play-Doh’: breakthrough could point way to a new class of materials for electronic devices.<span class="glossaryLink"…