This Google App Lets You Explore Exotic Places Virtually As the Coronavirus-led lockdown is keeping people inside their homes, many apps and services have emerged with new ways to keep them occupied using VR.Airbnb came up with their “Online Experiences”to give users personalised tours. However, if you want to explore countries and new places in VR from the comfort of your good old couch, then we recommend you to check out Google’s Arts & Culture app....

This Special “Gel” Cools Down Li-Ion Batteries While Charging Them One of the puzzles that smartphone manufacturers have to solve is how to maintain the temperature of the smartphone battery. As we all know, Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries heat up during heavy usage and they could catch fire if the batteries heat up too much. Current smartphonesuse liquid cooling systems and cooling fansto maintain battery temperature. But, what if we could turn the heat of the battery and use it to charge the device?...

You Can Build Windows 98-Inspired UIs with the 98.css Library Microsoft launched Windows 98 back on June 15, 1998, and released it to the public 10 days later, on June 25. Since that time, we have a long way. Now, we haveWindows 10, which is modern and much more cool looking. However, I still remember those grey, flat UI elements, the blocky-looking dialog boxes and the “Start” button with a pixelated Microsoft logo....

You Can Now Stream Apple Music on Samsung Smart TVs Apple Music is now available on select Samsung TV models launched in 2018 or later. In a press release on Thursday, the company claimed that it is the first TV brand to integrate Apple’s music streaming service on its Smart TV platform. The feature, which has just started rolling out via an update, will enable consumers in more than 100 countries to enjoyApple Musicon their Samsung Smart TVs, the company said....

18 Facebook Messenger Tips and Tricks You Should Use Of the billions of people that use Facebook across the world on a daily basis, a fairly large number also use its companioninstant messaging service, the Facebook Messenger. It not only lets you chat with your buddies conveniently, but also includes features likevoice/video calls, funky stickers, and more. And the fact that Facebook Messenger is a cross-platform app only makes it better....

Android 11 May Auto Revoke App Permissions WithAndroid 11 Developer Preview 3, Google has added a new toggle for app permissions named “Auto revoke permissions”. As the name hints, the feature will automatically remove permissions if an app is “not used for a few months” and it isdisabled by default. As spotted byAndroid Police(via XDA Editor-in-chief Mishaal Rahman), the feature resides in the App Permissions section that can be accessed fromSettings -> Apps and notifications -> Name of the app -> App Permissionsor by accessing App Info from the recent apps and heading into Permissions....

Google Ads Will Soon Display The Advertiser’s Name & Location With an increase in the spread of fake news and misinformation in the past couple of years, Google has put in place practices to prevent the abuse of its ad tools. One such practice is called identity verification. It requires all political groups to disclose their identity before running ads using Google’s platform. The search gianttoday announcedthat it’s expanding the ‘identity verification’ tool to all advertisers....