Mozilla is redesigning the Firefox logo, with a little help from the rest of us. This time around, though, the plan isn’t just to create one new icon for the flagship browser, but to design an entire series of icons to fit the brand’s different ventures — from mobile and VR browsers, to screenshot and […]
The YouTube desktop site was designed for 16:9 video, with videos in any other aspect ratio—most commonly 4:3 for old TV material or 9:16 for vertical smartphone video—padded with black bars until they fit the 16:9 box. In a change that Google is currently rolling out, those black bars are now being scrapped, and the […]
Adding magnetic particles to surgical cement better helps heal spinal fractures by guiding nanoparticles directly to lesions, according to research involving pigs. The method, researchers said, will better target drugs to the affected area during a procedure called kyphoplasty, where a fracture is filled with surgical cement. Findings from the recent study were published Friday […]
In the blink of an eye, a massive star more than 2 billion light-years away lost a million-year-long fight against gravity and collapsed, triggering a supernova and forming a black hole at its center. This newborn black hole belched a fleeting yet astonishingly intense flash of gamma rays known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB) toward […]
Scientists and researchers have been intrigued by the black hole for years now. Since no light can escape from a black hole, these spaces are essentially invisible and cannot be seen. Therefore, only special space telescopes can detect the presence of a black hole. Scientists have been trying to ascertain for years whether or not […]
When Google launched its first “made by Google” Pixel phones nearly two years ago, it was pretty bold. Not just in the new way it would conduct its business but even in the design of the smartphones themselves. For two generations, the Pixel phones have carried very visible and distinct two-tone colors on their backs. […]
Ask anyone on the Roadshow staff to name a glaring shortcoming to the BMW M2 and they’ll be hard-pressed to come up with one. The coupe’s excellent chassis, punchy 365-horspeower turbo six-cylinder engine and compact dimensions make for a capable and extraordinarily fun car to sling around race tracks and twisty roads alike. It’s come […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
