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YouTube is updating its user interface with a slew of changes, and chief among them are the pinch-to-zoom feature and “precise” video navigation. On Monday, YouTube announced quite a few updates to its viewing experience on mobile and web. Notably, the video-sharing platform said that it was finally “launching pinch to zoom and precise seeking to all users starting today.” The pinch-to-zoom feature is expected to allow users to zoom in and out of videos on both Android and iOS. Interestingly, users won’t have to…

Artist’s impression of two white dwarf stars merging and creating a Type Ia supernova. Credit: ESO/L. CalçadaAn analysis of more than two decades’ worth of supernova explosions convincingly boosts modern cosmological theories and reinvigorates efforts to answer fundamental questions.A powerful new analysis has been performed by astrophysicists that places the most precise limits ever on the composition and evolution of the universe. With this analysis, dubbed Pantheon+, cosmologists find themselves at a…

It’s been about a month since Apple released the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max with the new Dynamic Island cutout. While users have been playing with it while also setting the perfect Lock Screen with customizable widgets, how about enjoying a dark setting with a wallpaper set that brings precise borders to these phones? This wallpaper set was created by Hideaki Nakatani. Nakatani was the one that back in the day created stunning wallpaper sets that made the iPhone dock or folders disappear. This…

The Microscope satellite, a CNES mission with ESA cooperation to test the universality of freefall. The equivalence principle states that all objects should fall freely under gravity at the same rate, independent of their mass and composition, and is the founding principle of General Relativity, Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity. This principle has been tested by experiments on the ground, confirming with an accuracy of 1013 that objects with different characteristics experience the same acceleration from Earth’s…

In a medical landscape that’s full of precision drugs and detailed diagnoses, neurology is something of an outlier. Given how difficult it is to diagnose disorders of the nervous system, neurology has proven a particularly tricky branch of medicine. (Much of the public’s skepticism is understandable: Research suggests Parkinson’s, for example, has a 25% rate of misdiagnosis.)A lack of objective tests and the highly subjective nature of available tools leads to imprecise and deferred diagnosis, resulting in late…

iPhone Precise Location is buried deep within Settings so you might get confused while looking for it. Here’s how you can turn off iPhone Location. Have you ever opened a newly-installed app and noticed an option pop-up requesting access to your location? This is the location setting on your iPhone which grants apps permission to track your current location. This setting is used by many third-party apps such as Uber, Zomato, Swiggy, Ola and more to reach your…

Instagram has clarified that it does not share location with others and uses ‘precise location' for things like location tags as well as map features. The Meta-owned company's response came after a number of accounts had shared a message claiming that an update from Instagram might allow iPhone users' followers to know their exact location. The message, as expected, was widely praised for making people aware of the threats that they might get due to the availability of their exact location. However, it turns out to be…

In order for certain apps to operate to their full capacity, they need to access your location data. This is why YouTube Music needs access to your precise location. However, according to a post from the company, that’s going to change soon.YouTube Music, uses your location data in order to curate music for you accurately. Maybe the company would curate music for when you’re at work. Or, the app could recommend relaxing music for when you get home. This all has to do with the app trying to suggest music to listen to…

One major concern people have with social media is the large amount of personal data that they give to different platforms on a daily basis. For instance, most social media platforms know exactly where you are at this very moment due to location tracking. However, Instagram just announced that it does not share your precise location data with any other companies.According to a recent tweet (via BBC News), there have been some viral posts going around saying that Instagram shares your precise location data with other IG…

Does Instagram know where you are? Yes, every other social media app knows your location, but that does not mean every user on the app knows it too.Recently a user on Instagram made a post saying 'people could find your exact location from Instagram,' after a new update on iOS that enabled precise location sharing for the app. The same post goes on to further claim that some individuals are using the location to target people who have shared their "precise location" to stalk them.So far, there have been no reports of such…