How to use the distance apart widget on iOS 16
Want to know how far you are from your friends, significant other, or even your child? The distance apart widget for iOS 16 allows you to see that......»»
In animal battles, cheaters can win
Two knights stand face to face. One has a plain average-sized sword. The other has a massive fear-inducing sword stained with blood. After one quick look at it, the first knight quickly puts his average sword away, backs off to a safe distance, and r.....»»
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover breaks 17-year-old driving record
NASA’s Perseverance rover recently drove a record distance on a single solar day across the surface of Mars, smashing the record set by another rover in 2005......»»
Meta Introduces "Personal Boundary" Feature To VR Worlds
Meta has introduced a new "personal boundary" feature within its VR social spaces, starting with Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues. Hypebeast reports: By enacting a personal boundary, a user will by default have a nearly 4-foot (1.2 m) distance betwe.....»»
Facebook To Bring in Mandatory Distances Between Virtual Reality Avatars
Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality business is to introduce a mandatory distance between people's digital avatars after warnings that the social media tycoon's plans for a metaverse will lead to a new wave of online harassment. From a report: Zuckerbe.....»»
Study: Look into the camera during video meetings to be perceived positively
People who look directly into the camera during video meetings are seen as more sociable and sympathetic. This is the finding of a study that investigated how gaze, camera angle and distance affect how we are perceived during video meetings......»»
Why monkeys attack sick members of their troop and don"t socially distance
Life in the wild can be tough, and sometimes animals don't have the luxury of taking time out when they are sick. That's certainly the reality of life for vervet monkeys living in Southern Africa, even though parasites and viruses are an ever-present.....»»
Best widgets for the Echo Show 15 for the connected family
The new widget function in the Echo Show 15 has several options that are particularly useful for connected families......»»
Researchers study waves created by recreational boats
A new study by researchers in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering's St. Anthony Falls Laboratory found that popular wakesurf boats require a greater distance from the shoreline and other boats compared to more typical recre.....»»
New computational tool predicts cell fates and genetic perturbations
Imagine a ball thrown in the air: it curves up, then down, tracing an arc to a point on the ground some distance away. The path of the ball can be described with a simple mathematical equation, and if you know the equation, you can figure out where t.....»»
Google Pixel “At a Glance” Starts to Get New Batch of Features
The “At a Glance” widget that Google won’t let us turn off on Pixel phones is finally going to do more than show you the weather and your commute times and calendar appointments. It was previously rumored to be getting a sizable lis.....»»
NordVPN will now comply with law enforcement data requests
NordVPN has updated an older blog post in an effort to distance itself from bad actors in the VPN industry......»»
Research demonstrates a new technique for improving long-distance quantum key distribution in a real-world field
An experiment, performed by Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM) on 200 km of the Italian Quantum Backbone, in collaboration with Toshiba Europe, shows that coherent laser interferometry considerably improves the performances of quantum.....»»
Google’s Digital Wellbeing widget hits Android devices soon
Google is soon expected to release a widget that assists users in curbing their daily screen time......»»
US Cold War hostility towards Chinese due to the influence of Truman"s nationalist beliefs, new research argues
Research suggests the failure of the Truman administration to pursue rapprochement with Chinese Communists before the founding of the People's Republic of China was not based on ideological distance or domestic politics, as has previously been sugges.....»»
Archaeologists discover ancient highways in Arabia
Archeologists from The University of Western Australia have discovered people who lived in north-west Arabia in the Early to Middle Bronze Age built 'funerary avenues'—long-distance corridors linking oases and pastures, bordered by thousands of ela.....»»
The James Webb Space Telescope will map the atmosphere of exoplanets
Exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun, are found at distances very far from Earth. For example, the closest exoplanet to us, Proxima Centauri b, is 4.2 light years away, or 265,000 times the distance between the Earth and the sun......»»
Effect of afforestation on soil fungal community structure is greater than spatial distance
Afforestation is an important strategy to enhance terrestrial carbon sink. It alters regional landscapes and affects microbial processes in soil ecosystems. In particular, soil fungi, which play an important role in carbon and nitrogen cycling, coul.....»»
Watch this pest controller use a drone to vacuum up a wasp nest
A company in Japan has developed a drone with a vacuum mechanism that enables a pest controller to remove a wasp nest while standing a safe distance away......»»
Google Photos Improves Cinematic Photos, Rolls Out New Widget
Google Photos is one of the best apps to casually open around this time of the year. Not only do we have holidays and the end of the year coming up, we often get together more frequently with friends and family, leading to more pictures of those we c.....»»
Windows 11 brings back another highly requested Taskbar feature
Microsoft is bringing back the weather widget initially introduced in Windows 10 to Windows 11, as well as adding a new voice access feature for the OS......»»