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Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

But with time, the Share UI in Android has languished, stuck with the same features and same problems.

Chrome also does something funny where it gives you a quick shortcut to share to one app right there, so you don't have to open the Share UI to begin with.

Now you wait, and sometimes wait a little bit longer, for the Share UI to populate.

The issue is that Android is indexing apps to share to each time the menu is being called upon (thanks, Ron!).

With the introduction of Direct Share, that process has been slowed down even further: first the main share interface shows up, then a second or two later, the top row of direct share items loads.

In no particular order, here are the things that we think Google should fix in the Share UI.

Allow users to hide direct share targets coming from certain apps, and choose the logic behind which direct share targets show up in the menu. »

I know you’re tired of hearing about net neutrality.

Authored by medium.com

But the Senate is about to vote, and it’s time to pay attention.

Look, I know everyone is tired of hearing about this.

They’re hoping that we’ve become apathetic and have heard too many times that this is the “last chance” to save net neutrality. »

Solar Powered Sea Slugs Shed Light on Search for Perpetual Green Energy

Authored by news.rutgers.edu

Photosynthesis is when algae and plants use sunlight to create chemical energy (sugars) from carbon dioxide and water.

The brown alga’s plastids are photosynthetic organelles (like the organs in animals and people) with chlorophyll, a green pigment that absorbs light.

This microscopic image shows stolen algal plastids (in green) and lipids from algae (in yellow) inside the sea slug's digestive system. »

60-year-old maths problem partly solved by amateur

Authored by theguardian.com

Aubrey de Grey, who is more widely known as a maverick biologist intent on extending the human lifespan, has taken the academic world by surprise after announcing a new solution to the so-called Hadwiger-Nelson problem.

“Literally, this is the first progress in more than 60 years,” said Gil Kalai, a mathematician at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The biologist said he was astonished to make the breakthrough after working on the problem for only a few weeks. »

Police Detain Navalny, Hundreds Of Protesters At Anti-Putin Rally

Authored by rferl.org

According to the independent police-monitoring group OVD-Info, some 1,612 people have been detained in 26 cities nationwide in connection with the rally.

Moscow police issued a statement saying that "about 300" people had been detained in the capital.

Police said the crowd numbered some 1,500 people, but officials routinely downplay the size of opposition protests in Russia. »