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If you’re a YouTuber, then you should be familiar with the YouTube Studio app. It’s the app that lets you monitor what’s going on with your content. The app has maintained the same aesthetic over the year, but that just changed. The YouTube Studio app just got the Material You makeover, according to 9To5Google.Those in the Android space know all of the ins and outs of Material You. It’s the design language that Google brought to Android last year. Pretty much all of Google’s apps now have this design language, and…

YouTube Music is getting a minor UI redesign on phones. The latest changes give a Material You makeover to various action buttons on the app. For starters, the shuffle and play buttons that you get on top of a playlist now have a pill-shaped housing instead of rectangles. The housing is also marginally bigger, making it more prominent.The mood filters, such as Relax, Energize, Commute, Workout, and Focus, that appear on the top of the Home feed also see changes in line with the Material You design language. These buttons…

With Android 12, Google introduced the Material You UI design language, and Samsung adopted it with One UI 4 on smartphones and tablets. The new design language is also being rolled out to apps on Wear OS smartwatches. Google has released an updated version of Google Keep with the Material You design. As noted by 9To5Google, Google Keep’s Material You redesign allows you to see two note previews instead of one. It also brings pill-shaped buttons for creating a note and creating a list. The buttons for notes actions (Add…

AI applications to science, beyond biologyScientists have just set up a roadmap for the future of ML applied to chemistry and material sciences, in an article that also tracks the state of the art along several fronts of AIJust like ML is used in biology, the properties of molecules and materials can also be calculated with ML models trained from databases and quantum calculations. Picture by the author, composed from own photographs and drawings.We have witnessed in the last decade a revolution in the field of machine…

Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), a compound capable of “remembering” the entire history of previous external stimuli. Credit: POWERlab / 2022 EPFLVanadium Dioxide has the ability to “remember” the entire history of past environmental stimuli.During his research on phase transitions in Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo, a Ph.D. student at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s (EPFL) Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), made an unexpected finding. When relaxed at room temperature,…

Australia's eSafety Commissioner has issued legal notices to Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and more demanding the companies report on the measures they are taking "to tackle the proliferation of child sexual exploitation material on their platforms and services." In a press release Tuesday the body stated that it had sent the notices "to some of the biggest tech companies in the world" requiring that they report on steps taken to stop online child sexual exploitation. The expectations reportedly set out "the minimum safety…

Scientists have discovered a shocking fact about a material called Vanadium dioxide (VO2). According to research published in Nature Electronics, VO2 can remember previous external stimuli. It’s an interesting discovery, and one that researchers say could completely change the future of computer and storage devices. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a material bring new properties to light, or the first time we’ve heard about researchers finding new uses for older materials. Back in 2014, researchers and…

The Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, where the "Deep Biosphere" was studied, is an extensive tunnel system near Oskarshamn, Sweden, that reaches nearly 500 meters deep, in places even extending beneath the Baltic Sea. Credit: Margarita Lopez-Fernandez A research team with lead author Helena Osterholz of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW) reports in the latest issue of the journal Nature Communications on possible…

Scientists have, for the first time, identified a novel property in a compound that makes it stand apart from the rest. It has been discovered that a compound named vanadium dioxide (VO2) behaves like a human brain and can remember previous external stimuli. Scientists have recently proposed the idea to use VO2 as an alternative or complement to silicon for use in electronic devices. It has been said that the material can outperform silicon as a semiconductor. To reveal the unique memory property of the compound, the team…

Researchers at EPFL have discovered a material that seems to be able to “remember” all of its past encounters with stimuli, such as electrical currents. The compound could come in handy for better data storage and processing.The material in question is vanadium dioxide (VO2), and it’s already known to have some intriguing properties. It’s normally an insulator, but when heated to 68 °C (154.4 °F) its lattice structure changes, meaning it acts like a metal instead. This can make it a great coating for windows or roofs that…