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Samsung’s Android-based smartphones and tablets come with a feature called Nearby Device Scanning. This feature keeps scanning for compatible devices nearby, such as Galaxy Watch, Galaxy Buds, and Samsung SmartThings-enabled products. Whenever the feature detects a compatible device, it sends you a notification or a pop-up asking you if you want to connect to the compatible device. Now, Samsung is pushing an update to Nearby Device Scanning, which adds support for Matter Easy Pair. With the new update, Nearby Device…

A star is being consumed by a nearby supermassive black hole. Astronomers call this a tidal disruption event (TDE). What makes this TDE a very rare TDE is that as the black hole rips apart the star, two jets of material moving with almost the speed of light are launched in opposite directions producing light in all wavelengths. Such jetted-TDEs are extremely rare and AT2022cmc, depicted here is the first one discovered with an optical telescope. Credit: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave…

Google, an American technology company, has launched the new Material You design for the Nearby Share app on the…

Tech giant Google has rolled out new Material You design for its Nearby Share app on Android phones and tablets.According to SamMobile, the update is available on all Android devices, and the latest December Google Play System update will bring Material You tweaks for Nearby Share.The Material You revamp brings visual changes to the main UI users interact with on the Nearby Share app.A new wave animation runs from left to right when the app is "Looking for nearby devices", also the text now has a slightly bigger font and…

Google is giving a Material You makeover to Nearby Share on Android. The company announced this change as part of the December Google System Updates. The redesigned interface will be available to users with Google Play services v22.49, which rolled out a few weeks back but isn’t available widely yet.This Material You-themed design overhaul for Nearby Share has been in the works since at least last month. We reported on this development in mid-November. There are several subtle changes here. Most notably, the “Looking for…

In the zoo of subatomic particles, neutrinos are strange beasts. Unlike more familiar particles such as electrons and protons, ghostly neutrinos barely interact with normal matter at all: they can fly right through a planet as if it weren’t even there. This makes them irritatingly difficult to detect and, for neutrinos streaming in from cosmic objects in the sky, even harder to know exactly where they come from. However, in recent research published in Science, an extragalactic source for these subatomic particles has…

Space is the final frontier, and while we’re still planning the first manned mission to Mars and the first human trip back to the Moon in 50 years, some scientists are already looking at the next steps. According to a new study, two nearby Earth-like worlds could provide potential targets for human colonization, and they’re only 16 light-years away. While still a good distance away, it’s still easier to fathom traveling 16 light-years than, say, 600, or even 100. Still, the possibility of being able to colonize…

In the search for life on other planets, a couple of promising leads have just opened up: Astronomers have identified two worlds with Earth-like masses, sitting in the habitable zone around a red dwarf star called GJ 1002.The habitable zone around a star is the sweet spot between a planet being too hot or too cold to support life. To be in this zone, planets must be orbiting their star at a distance where, theoretically, there could be liquid water on their surface."GJ 1002 is a red dwarf star, with barely one-eighth the…

Two worlds orbiting a tiny star 218 light-years away appear to be of a kind unlike anything we have in our Solar System.The exoplanets are named Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d. Both are around 1.5 times the radius of Earth, and both appear to be soggy worlds consisting of thick, steamy atmospheres and insanely deep oceans, all wrapped around a rocky-metallic interior."We previously thought that planets that were a bit larger than Earth were big balls of metal and rock, like scaled-up versions of Earth, and that's why we…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 30, 2022 11:17:39 ISTFearing that 5G bands that are being used by telecom companies might interfere with the navigation instruments on board most common aeroplanes, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Civil Aviation have asked telcos to not install any base stations for 5G that operate in the 3.3-3.67GHz frequency range in certain areas near airports. The DGCA and the MoCA fear that the radio altimetres and GPS used in most aircrafts will be adversely affected by the…