Despite having an app simply ripe for multitasking as users pull up extra info related to the books they’re reading, Amazon’s Kindle app is just now delivering support for Android’s split-screen viewing feature. It added support for split view on the iPad back in March, but with this update all of your Android 7.0 (and […]
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Google ‘Pixel Stand’ might turn your phone into a smart speaker
When the Pixel 3 comes out, it might launch with a special kind of wireless charging dock: one that could make buying a smart speaker unnecessary unless you need more than one. 9to5Google has decompiled the latest version of Google app beta and found strings of code talking about a “Pixel Stand.” The lines show what you’ll see on […]
LHC accelerates its first “atoms”
Protons might be the Large Hadron Collider’s bread and butter, but that doesn’t mean it can’t crave more exotic tastes from time to time. On July 25, for the very first time, operators injected not just atomic nuclei but lead atoms containing a single electron into the LHC. This was one of the first proof-of-principle […]
How Quantum Computers Could Kill the Arrow of Time
A new technique for quantum computing could bust open our whole model of how time moves in the universe. Here’s what’s long seemed to be true: Time works in one direction. The other direction? Not so much. That’s true in life. (Tuesday rolls into Wednesday, 2018 into 2019, youth into old age.) And it’s true […]
How to pick the smart display that’s right for you
Smart speakers like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, or the Apple HomePod remain a good fit for most homes if you enjoy listening to music above all else. But some of the smart assistants that power them have found their way into smart displays, a new form factor that brings about some exciting changes. Whether […]
Google Bans Crypto Mining Apps from Play Store
Google has now joined Apple in banning cryptocurrency mining applications from its mobile app store. According to a report from a industry media outlet Android Police on Thursday, the internet giant revealed its shift in stance in a recent policy update for Google Play developers. “We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices. We […]
Newest supercomputer to help develop fusion energy in international device
Scientists led by Stephen Jardin, principal research physicist and head of the Computational Plasma Physics Group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), have won 40 million core hours of supercomputer time to simulate plasma disruptions that can halt fusion reactions and damage fusion facilities, so that scientists can learn […]
New algorithm could help find new physics—inverse method takes wave functions and solves for Hamiltonians
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed an algorithm that could provide meaningful answers to condensed matter physicists in their searches for novel and emergent properties in materials. The algorithm, invented by physics professor Bryan Clark and his graduate student Eli Chertkov, inverts the typical mathematical process condensed matter physicists use to […]
Slack forms key alliance as Atlassian throws in the towel on enterprise chat
With today’s announcement from Atlassian that it was selling to Slack the IP assets of its two enterprise communications tools, HipChat and Stride, it closes the book on one of the earliest competitors in the modern enterprise chat space. It also was a clear signal that Slack is not afraid to take on its giant […]
Costco is already selling the brand-new Lenovo Smart Display for $50 off
The Lenovo Smart Display with Google Assistant goes on sale July 27th, but the 10-inch model (with the nicer bamboo rear finish) is already $50 off for Costco members, bringing the price down to $199. This not only puts it at the same cost as the eight-inch model, but it’s also $30 cheaper than its […]
Holographic image of a black hole proposed in a graphene flake
Physicists have theoretically shown that, by applying a magnetic field to a small, irregularly shaped graphene flake, the flake becomes a quantum hologram of a black hole. This means that the graphene flake recreates the spatial structure and characteristic properties of a black hole, but in a much smaller, lower-dimensional system. The physicists, Anffany Chen […]
Electron images achieve record-breaking resolution
A new electron microscopy technique that achieves far better resolution than ever before, while also minimizing potential electron damage to the sample, has been unveiled by researchers in the US. The team presented images of the 2D material molybdenum sulphide that show unprecedented atomic-level detail, and they are confident that the technique could also be […]