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Online food delivery platform Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal on Tuesday clarified the 10-minute food delivery plan stating that the service "will be for specific nearby locations, popular and standardised items only." Taking to Twitter, Goyal said, "Hello Twitter, good morning. I just want to tell you more about how 10-minute delivery works, and how it is as safe for our delivery partners as 30-minute delivery. This time, please take 2 minutes to read through this (before the outrage)," Goyal tweeted today morning."Zomato…

A star younger than our Sun but similar in size has got scientists worried and they say everyone should be worried too. The star, called EK Draconis, is located dozens of lights years away from us and has been spewing out massive fireworks. Scientists recently watched it having an energy blast and ejecting charged particles so powerful that the Sun has never experienced. The Sun often triggers solar storms after coronal mass ejections (CMEs). But this star experienced an energy blast at least 10 times bigger than the…

Google recently announced the expansion of Fast Pair to Windows PCs to let users easily set up Bluetooth accessories, sync text messages, and share files using the Nearby Share service. The tech giant is now reportedly working on a new addition for its Nearby Share feature. The new tool is said to be called Self Share, and as the name suggests will let users to easily transfer files to themselves across their own devices. Using Self Share, you can send files to yourself without the use of email or cloud drives. The…

Last month, Google announced that it will introduce a nearby traffic homescreen widget for Maps in the “coming weeks”. The said widget is now rolling out widely to users via a server-side update (via). It should reach everyone over the next few days.As Google previewed, the widget shows the traffic state on major routes around you. A blue dot at the center denotes your location, with green, orange, and red lines indicating the traffic state, similar to the main app. A FAB (floating action button) on the bottom right…

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring may have brought Middle Earth to our world in a very real, on-screen way just over 20 years ago, but the cast of the franchise is still bringing some major joy to the fandom. The four hobbits from the world-famous franchise recently reunited at a restaurant, and a nearby fan found himself dining in the shire as his day was totally made by eating near the Lord of the Rings reunion.One fan had his geek dreams realized when he and his wife went to dinner and got sat next to…

There are about a million ways that you can share files between different devices on Android, but Google wants to make the process even easier. According to Mishaal Rahman, Android 13 might have a feature that will make copying and pasting text between phones quick and seamless. This feature will integrate the clipboard overlay with Nearby Share.Now, this is just a rumor at this point, so you’ll want to take this with a grain of salt. Right now, when you copy something to your phone’s clipboard, you’ll see a small…

When we see pictures of galaxies outside the Milky Way, what we're usually looking at is primarily the light of their stars. But stars are far from the only ingredient that makes up a galaxy. Think of stars as the chunks of vegetables in the galactic soup.  The broth, then, in which they float, is the intergalactic medium – not empty space but filled with often tenuous, sometimes dense clouds of dust and gas that drift between the stars. Because stars are so much brighter, the dust is usually second fiddle; but that…

In a significant discovery, astronomers have spotted one of the closest known multiplanet systems located within our galactic neighbourhood. The system is about 10 parsecs or 33 light-years from Earth and was identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The system was first spotted in October 2021 when Michelle Kunimoto, a postdoc in MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and one of the discovery's lead scientists, was analysing the data from TESS.Adding to the astronomers'…

Google announced a new upcoming Nearby Traffic Widget for Google Maps. It will be available for Android users in the coming weeks. The upcoming nearby traffic widget will allow users to get the information for traffic around their current location right from their Android Home screen, according to Google. Users can check for the local traffic scene by just tapping on the nearby traffic widget on Google Maps. Other than this, Google has also revealed a preview of the widget, which seems to appear in 2x2 size.According to a…

MIT astronomers have discovered a new multiplanet system that lies just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth, making it one of the closest known multiplanet systems to our own. The star at the heart of the system likely hosts at least two terrestrial, Earth-sized planets. Credit: MIT News, with TESS Satellite figure courtesy of NASALocated just 33 light years from Earth, the system appears to host two rocky, Earth-sized planets.A new multiplanet system within our galactic neighborhood has been discovered by…