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Two new worlds of probable rocky mineral goodness have just been found orbiting a star close to our own cosmic neighborhood.The two newly discovered exoplanets are what are known as super-Earths – bigger than Earth, but smaller than an ice giant – orbiting a cool red dwarf star called HD 260655, which is just 33 light-years away.  While the worlds are unlikely to be habitable, given our current understanding of life, the star and its exoplanets are among the closest multi-world systems to Earth.This makes it an excellent…

Image Source : SNAPCHAT Snapchat Snapchat has partnering with The Infatuation, a restaurant review website to enable users finding the top local restaurants nearby via Snap Map. From around the world, Snapchatters will now automatically see Infatuation reviews in Place Profiles in more than 50 cities around the world. Indeed, the platfrom has been looking for ways to upgrade the usability of the platfrom and it will help people to figure out more reasons to use the app. Last year, the photo-sharing platform…

Take a good look at the latest image provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows a huge elliptical galaxy called NGC 474 that lies about 100 million light-years away from us.  At about two and a half times larger than our Milky Way Galaxy, it's really a behemoth. Notice its strange structure – mostly featureless and nearly round, but with layered shells wrapped around the central core.Astronomers want to know what caused these shells. The answer might be in what this galaxy represents: a vision of the future Milky…

Facebook's Nearby Friends feature that lets people share their current location with other Facebook users, will no longer be available starting May 31 this year. As per user reports on social media platforms, the Meta owned company has started informing users about the discontinuation of Nearby Friends and other location-based features. The functionality allows users to track their friend's real time location. Once enabled, users will be notified when their friends are in the proximity range of their current location.…

Google Play system updates for the month of May have been released, and one of the changes include the addition of self-sharing to the Nearby Share feature, apart from a redesign of the Google Help app. Google system updates include the Android operating system, Google Play store, and Google Play Services. Every month, Google shares the latest updates about the changes it makes with the system update, to what it calls the "Google System" for Android. Usually, the changelog seems pretty much the same for every month, but…

Google is reportedly working on an update to its Nearby Share feature that could allow users to quickly share files with themselves, across devices. The feature, which was first introduced in 2020, uses Google Play Services to allow quick file transfers from one device to another. The new “Self Share” feature could allow users to share files between two of their devices seamlessly, similar to Apple's AirDrop functionality offered across its devices running iOS and macOS. Google is yet to officially announce any details…