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After debuting on the Pixel 10 (version 10.0), Google is rolling out the Pixel Camera 10.1 update to older devices with a handful of Material 3 Expressive tweaks. On the viewfinder, the capture button is now a solid circle with a transparent ring. The two buttons flanking it are now rounded squares, with the preview of your last image getting …

Google announced its new design language in May. Material 3 Expressive redesigns have been rolling out to Google apps since then, but the Pixel 10 and Android 16 QPR1 launch really kicked things off. Here’s our list of what’s available and still to come on Android phones. Updated 10/12: Refer to the table for what’s New and Updated. Recent launches …

It’s always been said that the kitchen is the heart of the home, and the latest trend report from the National Kitchen and Bathroom Association (NKBA) confirmed this. In fact, it confirmed that our cook spaces are growing bigger and better than ever, playing an even larger role in our homes’ overall design plans. The report, which is based on …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Washington  —  President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs aren’t boosting inflation, so interest rates should be lowered quickly to prevent America’s labor market from deteriorating, Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran said Friday in his first public comments as a monetary policymaker. The Fed on Wednesday announced a quarter-point rate cut, the first reduction in nine months, in …

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 adds a new Material 3 Expressive look to the Setup Wizard. The redesigned Setup Wizard includes thicker buttons and a cleaner card-like UI on certain screens. Most users are likely to miss the changes as the Setup Wizard only appears on new or wiped devices, but a refresh was …

Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year. The vast majority of these materials end up in landfills, but what if we could repurpose some of that waste to remove planet-warming emissions from the atmosphere? A team of researchers in Denmark has discovered a way to do just …

Scientists are finding ways to turn Martian dirt into usable metals. This breakthrough could make it possible to build settlements on Mars without bringing everything from Earth. Credit: Shutterstock Swinburne and CSIRO researchers have successfully produced iron in Mars-like conditions, opening the door to metal production beyond Earth. The vision of establishing settlements on Mars has captured the imagination of …

Japanese physicists have observed an elusive form of the “Hall effect” in a nonmagnetic material for the first time ever. The material, cadmium arsenide (Cd3As2), now proves theoretical predictions that “Anomalous Hall Effect” (AHE) can exist in nonmagnetic materials. “Our study is the first to experimentally confirm that AHE can be quantitatively detected in nonmagnetic materials using in-plane magnetic fields,” …

Thriller novelist Andrea Bartz is photographed in her home Thursday in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Richard Drew/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Drew/AP NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its …

Chemists have doubled the members of a family of buzzy 2D materials, and even jammed a record nine metals into one of them. The feat, published today in Science1, has excited researchers because it opens the door to designing a multitude of weird but useful substances. Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick The materials …