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Facebook on Thursday announced an update on its messenger featuring a search bar that will show up in the reaction picker. The new search bar helps in finding the right emoji for your conversation. You can find the search bar on top of the reaction picker and below it, you’ll see another new feature that shows your recent emojis. Facebook also launched the Space Jam chat theme in messenger which should appeal both to the fans of the original movie and the new Space Jam movie. Facebook says the new…

EA Play Live-Digital game conference 2021 concluded by making some major announcements on 22nd July. The conference was filled with some great news for gamers. The conference revealed the return of GRID Legends. The team is working behind to provide the biggest GRID experience yet, with more cars, events, a full campaign, and much more. The “Grid legends” is expected to release in 2022. EA Play Live 2021 also shared the first glimpse of Battlefield 2042. Battlefield 2042 Portal combines elements of all previous Battlefield games with the return of…

The dinosaur game that comes to you as a boredom saver when your internet cheats on you, is getting a makeover as part of the Tokyo Olympics 2021. The new update from Google will now feature a splash of color in its usually monochrome interface and the cute little dinosaur will acquire the Olympics torch soon after it starts running. Once it picks up the torch, your character will load within the avatar of one of the sports that will be played at the Tokyo Olympics 2021. You can change…

Roboticists have been trying to develop systems that could automatically assemble large structures such as space crafts and telescopes directly from space. Research show having a modular design for space structures may simplify the process up to an extent. Researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Technische Universität München (TUM) published a research paper that says, the team developed an autonomous planner that could be used to assemble reconfigurable structures directly in space. in 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference. The system enables aerospace engineers and astronauts to assemble structures directly…

Researchers from the University of Cambridge say the touchscreen technology used behind smartphones could be effective sensors for soil & water contamination. They demonstrated how a typical smartphone touch screen can detect ionic contaminants in soil or drinking water by dropping liquid samples on the screen. This discovery could lead to the expansion of touchscreen technology in many sensing applications, including for biosensing or medical diagnostics, right from the phone in your pocket. The smartphone is everywhere, so touch screen technology. The touchscreen contained a grid of electrodes. When a…

Major websites and applications went down for some time on Thursday in a widespread outage linked to content distribution network Akamai. However, soon akamai confirmed that it fixed the issue. Akamai is a global content delivery network that helps to move data across the internet. The problem appears like came from an outage with the Edge DNS service provided by Akamai The popular company oracle also accused akamai as the source of the issue since the outage also impacted some Oracle cloud properties, but it said resources within its cloud…

It has been reported that a group of scientists discovered 15,000 years old viruses in ice samples taken from Tibetan Plateau, China. Their frozen state led them to survive this long. The findings came to light after they got published in the journal Microbiome. The journal also reveals that the scientists implemented a new method for analyzing viruses in ice without contaminating it. The ice was collected from the Guliya ice cap in western China. The cores are collected at high altitudes, where this ice originated, which is 22,000 feet…

Mercedes Benz announces their plan to become an electric-only automaker by 2030. As part of the production, Mercedes-Benz is going to install a battery cell capacity of more than 200 Gigawatt hours with its partners and plans to build eight battery factories. Ola Kallenius, CEO of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG said “The EV shift is picking up speed – especially in the luxury segment, where Mercedes-Benz belongs. The tipping point is getting closer, and we will be ready as markets switch to electric-only by the end of this decade,”…

We live in a world where smart devices conquer most of the time by conveniently involving in our daily tasks. They listen to us, obey us, and offer help with a variety of everyday tasks. But if you are a person who enjoys privacy a bit more, then you should restrict google assistant from listening to everything you say. Google assistants are sensitive towards voice cues or sometimes you just need to be alone. Whatever the reason, you can turn off Google Assistant in a few quick steps. Begin with…

Twitter confirmed testing upvote & downvote buttons for a tiny group of iOS users to highlight relevant comments on a long conversation. Upvotes and downvotes may appear in different styles for iOS users (up and down arrows, a heart icon, and a down arrow, and thumbs up and thumbs down icons). The Twitter official tweet revealed that “Some of you on iOS may see different options to up or down vote on replies. We’re testing this to understand the types of replies you find relevant in a conversation, so we…