You can now ask YouTube Music to make suggestions regarding which of your Cast-enabled speakers it thinks you’d like to stream music to. In the previous method, the app would merely list all of the Cast-enabled devices on your network in alphabetical order. This new method, on the other hand, is a significant improvement over the previous method. Even if there is only one speaker that you use on a regular basis, you may have to search through a list of up to six different speakers if you are anything like us. Now, ChromeUnboxed has discovered that attempting to Cast from the YouTube Music app will bring up a new menu, which will highlight a “Suggested” device above the standard alphabetical list of devices. This was discovered by ChromeUnboxed. In an email to The Verge, Paul Pennington, a spokesperson for Google, confirmed the new feature and explained that suggestions are determined by the user’s activity, their device’s history, and the type of device being used. All users of the app, regardless of whether they use iOS or Android, should now be able to access the feature, which is unique to YouTube Music. Be aware, however, that in order to cast music from the app to an external device, you will need to be a subscriber to YouTube Music, unless the music in question is something that you have personally uploaded.

Within the Chrome web browser on desktop computers, the powerful image recognition software known as Google Lens, owned and operated by the search giant, is becoming slightly easier to use. At the moment, if you want to use Lens on an image that is displayed on a website, the browser will open a new tab with a page of results. In the not too distant future, however, the results will instead be displayed in a panel that is placed to the right of the webpage. Chrome will only open a new tab in your browser when you specifically ask it to look for an image’s source. The image recognition software developed by the industry leader in search engines has been accessible on mobile devices for some time now. It can be accessed through Google’s apps for iOS or the camera app that comes preinstalled on some Android phones. However, Google Lens became available on desktop computers in 2018 through the Chrome web browser. To use it, right-click an image and select the “Search Image with Google Lens” option from the context menu. Google Lens is intended to be able to recognise a wide range of things, including buildings, animals, clothes, plants, and works of art, among other things. It provides a method that is more visually appealing for locating the information that you are looking for on the internet. Although it has a lot of potential, the feature frequently gives the impression that it is just a fun novelty that Google is attempting to develop into a useful tool. It is Google’s hope that by making the service more accessible on desktop, it will be possible for its potential to become apparent. Users of Google Chrome are now able to access the updated Lens panel. On this page of the support site, you will find detailed instructions on how to access the feature.

Apple implemented a number of new policies for the App Store during the WWDC 2021 event that it hosted. These changes included alterations to the guidelines governing everything from bounty hunting to the determination of whether or not Roblox qualifies as a game. Apple is reminding developers that it is ready to turn the switch on some policy updates that were previously delayed. The WWDC 2022 event is set to begin on June 6th, and Apple has announced that it will be starting the event. Apple has confirmed that two changes to the rules governing the App Store will go into effect on June 30. The first of these is a requirement that apps that offer paid online group services use its in-app payment system. The second is a requirement that mandates developers offer easy account deletions (including stored personal data) within any app that allows users to create an account. Apple has stated that both of these requirements will go into effect on June 30. It should be noted that the regulation concerning online group services (such as classes and events) predates the WWDC 2021 set of modifications; however, Apple has postponed the implementation of this regulation on three separate occasions. The first delay occurred in 2020 as a result of Facebook’s complaints that it would have an unfair impact on vulnerable small businesses. A second delay occurred in the spring of 2021. It was supposed to go into effect this past January, along with the policy that would permit users to delete their accounts from within an application. However, neither of these things happened. However, on January 22nd, Apple announced that it would be pushing the deadline for both changes back a few more months, to June 30th. The company stated that this would give developers more time to update their apps, and we don’t anticipate any further delays now that Apple has reminded developers. Both of these policies are mentioned on the page that details upcoming changes for developers. The one policy is a note about the account deletion requirement, which you can read below.

According to an announcement made jointly by the two companies on Monday, Take-Two has successfully closed the acquisition of social game developer Zynga for a total price of $12.7 billion. Take-Two Interactive Software not only gains ownership of major Zynga franchises such as FarmVille as a result of the acquisition, but it also gains access to Zynga’s expertise in the development of massively popular free-to-play mobile games. Many well-known game studios have made significant investments in mobile gaming, and many of the industry’s most popular games have proven to be extremely effective at generating revenue. According to Sensor Tower’s research, for instance, the lifetime revenue of Activision’s Call of Duty: Mobile, which was released in October 2019 and has since surpassed $1.5 billion, has recently been surpassed. And Sensor Tower reported in November that Krafton’s PUBG Mobile had surpassed an astounding $7 billion in lifetime revenue. (By the way, Tencent is playing a significant role in the development of both of those titles.) Take-Two, the owner of major properties such as Grand Theft Auto, BioShock, and Civilization, most likely wants a piece of that mobile money. At the time of the deal, the company stated in an investor presentation that it intends to bring more of its franchises to mobile platforms with the assistance of Zynga. The transaction was made public for the first time in January, which ultimately served as the catalyst for a string of blockbuster gaming acquisition announcements. Take-acquisition Two’s of Zynga was thought to be one of the most significant purchases in the history of video games; however, just over a week later, Microsoft announced that it would pay $68.7 billion to acquire Activision Blizzard, which significantly surpassed Take-previous Two’s record. And at the very end of that month, Sony announced that it would be spending $3.6 billion to acquire Bungie, the company that developed Destiny.

Researchers may have found a way to chill your components without the use of these slotted hunks of metal that are used by default to keep components cool on your PC and practically every other electronic device. This is exciting news because heatsinks are the default when it comes to keeping components cool on your PC and practically every other electronic device. A new and more streamlined technique for cooling electronic devices is described in an article published on Science Daily (via Tom’s Hardware), which describes how the technique involves coating the entire device with poly and copper. If you are not familiar with heatsinks, they are typically made of copper or aluminium, which are both metals that serve as thermal conductors. If you do not know what a heatsink is, you can read more about it here. They frequently come with a number of metal fins that are designed to pull and spread heat away from the essential components on your device in order to assist in preventing those components from overheating. A fan located nearby then expels the heat that has been generated by the system. Traditional heat sinks can be replaced with “a conformal coating of copper” and “an electrical insulating layer of poly” that is spread across the entire device, according to a study that was published in Nature Electronics by a group of researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley. The study was conducted jointly. When compared to heatsinks, the researchers say that this method of cooling provides “very similar performance, or even better performance.” Because it also does away with the requirement for a cumbersome piece of metal, this could save a significant amount of space inside electronic devices. According to the researchers, this can increase the power output of a device by up to 740 percent per unit volume. According to the findings of the study, “you can stack much more printed circuit boards in the same volume when you are using our coating as compared to if you are using conventional liquid- or air-cooled heat sinks.” [Citation needed] This information was gleaned from the research conducted on the subject. The researchers are still determining whether or not this coating is effective, and they intend to test it out on power modules and graphics cards in the near future. It is too soon to tell whether this kind of technology would be something that PC part manufacturers would precoat their components with or if it would be something that you would have to do on your own. If the coating does prove to be a practical alternative to heat sinks, it has the potential to dramatically alter the look of electronic devices in ways that I just can’t even begin to imagine. It’s possible that the coating will render the heat sink completely useless. Even though I would miss the cool shields that manufacturers make to hide the heatsinks on motherboards, I think that if they weren’t there, designers would have even more freedom to express their creativity in the way that a variety of components look and how they function.

In Savannah, Georgia, Hyundai is constructing facilities that will be solely devoted to the production of electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries. This will be Hyundai’s first plant in the United States that will produce only EVs (via CNBC). The South Korean automobile manufacturer will invest a total of $5.5 billion in the construction of the new facilities, and it will also receive an additional investment of $1 billion from its suppliers. Construction on the 2,923-acre site is scheduled to begin in the early part of 2023, and Hyundai anticipates that production will begin there in the first half of 2025. The electric vehicle factory is expected to produce 300,000 vehicles each year and will result in the creation of approximately 8,100 new jobs. Hyundai does not provide any details regarding the electric vehicle models that will be manufactured at the plant; rather, the company only suggests that a “wide range” of models will be produced in Georgia. However, the business does mention that the battery-building facility “will be established through a strategic partnership.” The company does not reveal very much else about the facility. Hyundai’s current lineup of electric vehicles includes the Kona Electric, the Ioniq 5, and the Nexo, which is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. Kia, which is owned by Hyundai, also offers the all-electric EV6 and Niro, and Hyundai’s luxury Genesis brand features electric vehicles with model names such as GV60, GV70, and GV80. According to Hyundai Global COO José Muoz’s comments to Automotive News, the new facilities will be capable of producing up to six different models by the year 2028. The outlet was also informed by a source who was familiar with the situation that production could start with the Hyundai Ioniq and later expand to include a Kia EV pickup that has not yet been announced in the year 2026. “The future of transportation is in the Peach State as we announce the largest project in our state’s history,” Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia said in a statement. “This will deliver high-quality jobs on the cutting edge of mobility to hardworking Georgians.” Hyundai has stated that it plans to invest more than $10 billion in the United States by the year 2025 to develop a variety of technologies. These technologies include autonomous driving, robotics, artificial intelligence, and advanced air mobility. In addition to the new facilities in Georgia, Hyundai has made this announcement. The $5.5 billion that has been set aside for the company’s new electric vehicle plant is included in that fund. This past week, the state of Georgia reached an agreement with Rivian in which the state agreed to provide the company with tax incentives totaling $1.5 billion in exchange for the company relocating to Georgia. It is anticipated that the $5 billion factory will generate approximately 7,500 jobs by the year 2028, and it will produce 400,000 electric vehicles each year. The number of electric vehicle factories across the country is growing. Toyota is investing $1.29 billion in the construction of a battery factory in North Carolina, and General Motors has plans to bring its third electric vehicle battery factory to Michigan. Stellantis, the company that owns Jeep, Dodge, and Chrysler, is also anticipated to build an electric vehicle (EV) factory in the United States at some point in the future; however, the precise location of this facility has not yet been determined. In a similar vein, Ford and the South Korean battery manufacturer SK Innovation are constructing new factories in the states of Tennessee and Kentucky that will be dedicated to the production of electric vehicles. In the United States, Tesla already operates a number of factories that are solely devoted to the production of electric vehicles and batteries, and the company only recently opened a new facility in Austin, Texas.

The engineering team that is in charge of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is currently speeding through interstellar space, is trying to figure out why the spacecraft is sending back data readouts that don’t match what the vehicle is actually doing in space. Voyager 1 is NASA’s robotic planetary explorer that is currently in motion. Despite the fact that it does not appear that the Voyager 1 spacecraft is in any immediate danger as a result of this mystery, NASA is still working to figure out what is causing it. Since its launch in 1977, Voyager 1 has been travelling through space and investigating the cosmos for almost half a century. Its identical counterpart, known as Voyager 2, was put into orbit 16 days earlier in the same year. Before leaving our local cosmic neighbourhood behind entirely, both spacecraft undertook circumnavigations of the outer reaches of the Solar System, during which they photographed the moons of planets and flew by them. The year 2012 marked the year that Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, the boundary that denotes the beginning of the interstellar medium and the end of the solar wind. Voyager 1 is the man-made object in space that is currently the most distant from Earth. It is currently 14.5 billion miles away. However, the likelihood that strange things will occur with the spacecraft Voyager 1 increases in direct proportion to the distance between it and Earth. The attitude articulation and control system, also known as the AACS, of the spacecraft is behaving strangely right now. It is the system’s job to keep the vehicle oriented properly in space and to point the high-gain antenna of the probe in the right direction so that it can send and receive signals from Earth. The AACS appears to be operating normally, at least insofar as the engineers are concerned. However, according to NASA, the data that it is returning does not accurately describe what the system is currently doing. In a press release, NASA wrote that the data “may appear to be randomly generated, or does not reflect any possible state the AACS could be in.” As an example, “the data may appear to be randomly generated.” In every other respect, Voyager 1 appears to be operating normally. NASA reports that it is collecting the required scientific data and is in communication with the engineering team. Additionally, it is performing as expected in terms of data collection. And the problem with the AACS has not caused the spacecraft to enter safe mode, which is a type of operating procedure in which the spacecraft turns off the majority of its instruments and only focuses on the functions that it needs to perform in order to stay alive. In other words, the group is pushing forward despite the fact that they are simultaneously attempting to figure out what is going on. Suzanne Dodd, the project manager for Voyager 1 and 2 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement that “a mystery like this is sort of par for the course at this stage of the Voyager mission.” “Both of the spacecraft are approaching their 45th birthdays, which is significantly older than the mission planners had anticipated.” We are also in interstellar space, which is known for its high radiation levels and the fact that no spacecraft has ever flown through it before. A software patch might be an option for a solution to the problem. Or the crew of Voyager 1 might just get used to the situation and learn to cope with it. The Voyager teams have made adaptation a way of life for themselves. The nuclear batteries that keep the spacecraft running are gradually losing their capacity, which results in a gradual decrease in the amount of power available on both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Even though the teams have already been forced to turn off a variety of systems on the spacecraft, the scientific instruments appear to be operating normally, despite the passage of so much time.

According to an announcement made by Google on Friday, the most recent update for Chromebooks now includes a feature that notifies users if the USB-C cable they are using has limited functionality. This new Chromebook feature seems like it could be a useful tool to help troubleshoot issues, as USB-C cables can have widely varying capabilities, offering things like different charging and data transfer speeds on a cable-by-cable basis, so it is important to note that these capabilities can vary widely. Google says in a blog post that “eligible Chromebooks will notify you” if the USB-C cable you’re using won’t support displays or isn’t performing ideally for your laptop. This information is provided by the Chromebook. “You’ll also get a notification if the cable you’re using does not support the high performance USB4 / Thunderbolt 3 standards that your Chromebook does,” it says. “This is because your Chromebook supports both of these standards.” According to the blog, the new feature will initially be available on Chromebooks with 11th or 12th Generation Intel Core CPUs that support Thunderbolt or USB4. The blog also states that “more devices will be coming.” Benson Leung, a Google employee, has been making waves with his tests and reviews of USB-C cables, including one that ruined his Chromebook Pixel. As a result of these tests and reviews, Google is acutely aware of some of the challenges that USB-C cables present. This new notification from Google is a welcome addition to its Chromebooks, and it should come as no surprise that we have Benson and the rest of the team to thank for that. Although the situation has significantly improved since then, it is still sometimes difficult to determine precisely which USB-C cable performs which function. The most recent update also comes with a few additional features. Google is currently working on an update to the split-screen magnifier feature that will allow users to resize the magnified portion of the screen. This will give users the option to view a greater or lesser portion of the area that is being zoomed in on. The following GIF, courtesy of Google, demonstrates how that operates: