Spaces

To push Spaces, Twitter is adding a dedicated tab for the audio-based chatroom to its mobile apps. Well, the company has been testing it on iOS for several months now. Android users are finally getting the dedicated Spaces tab as well. It’s a microphone icon that sits in the middle of the bottom navigation panel. We have the home and search buttons to its left and notifications and messages to its left.The dedicated Spaces tab started appearing for Android users over the past few days. But Twitter only announced the…

Apple is delaying moving forward on its hybrid return to work for office employees, saying in a memo (reported earlier by Bloomberg) that “we are extending the phase-in period of the pilot and maintaining two days a week in the office for the time being.” For those who are in the current two-day-per-week pilot, Apple said that if they feel uncomfortable coming into the office, they will again have the option to work remotely. The company’s COVID-19 response team said that its updates are based on monitoring local info…

Through an app update today, Twitter teased plans to roll out its Spaces voice-chatting feature broadly. Once this feature is available, anyone can create live rooms with up to 10 people speaking and unlimited numbers can join to listen. The app update from Twitter says: Introducing Spaces, where live audio conversations happen. Now you can tweet and talk. Spaces brings Twitter to life. Although the release notes make it seem like Twitter is ready to launch the Spaces feature to everybody, the Verge reports that…

Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire is one of the great lost wonders of British architecture, a neo-gothic giant with cathedral-sized interiors, built from 1796 to 1813, whose 90-metre tower collapsed and was rebuilt several times. It fell for the last time in 1825, since when the rest of the building has all but disappeared.It also takes its place in Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories, alongside clubs, bars, railway carriages, bookshops, community centres, public parks, private houses and a Castro-era…

Flung into freefall for months on end, our bodies adjust in ways that makes for a long list of health concerns for space travelers.The latest evaluation of microgravity's warping effect on our biology focuses on the spaces surrounding the blood vessels that weave through our brain, revealing concerning changes that remain with astronauts between missions.  Researchers from across the US compared a series of magnetic resonance image (MRI) scans of 15 astronaut brains taken prior to a six-month stay on the International…

A new study has found that bacteria change their swimming pattern while moving through tight spaces. The researchers, from the University of Hawaii in the US, said the sudden change in the behaviour of bacteria has come as a surprise. They found that the bacteria made a beeline, and swam in a straight line, to escape from the confinement as opposed to open spaces. In open spaces, they appeared to meander with no noticeable pattern, changing their direction arbitrarily and at random points in time. Bacteria live…

Audio-based social networking has become the hottest trend in the world right now, and to cash in on the virality, Twitter has introduced audio chat rooms called Spaces within the app. Twitter Spaces is almost like talking to people in real-time via voice notes. It lets you join, listen, and speak. These Spaces are public, so anyone can join as a listener, including people who don't follow you. You can invite up to 10 listeners to your Space by sending them a link.Who can use Twitter SpacesIf you have an iOS or an Android…