Finding relevant information on Gmail can be a daunting task, especially if you have a particularly buzzy inbox. Right now, the email client uses a search operator system that acts somewhat like a shortcut, but not many users know about it. Today, Google has announced an update to how search on Gmail works, thanks to some help from AI. When you look up a name or keyword in Gmail, the matching results are shown in chronological order. Recommended VideosMoving ahead, search results will be shown based on their relevance. In Googles words, relevance will take into account three factors viz. frequent contacts, most-clicked emails, and how recently the relevant emails arrived in your inbox.Old search (left), new search (right) GoogleWith this update, the emails youre looking for are far more likely to be at the top of your search results saving you valuable time and helping you find important information more easily, the company says in a blog post. The updated search system in Gmail is rolling out to users worldwide, and it will be implemented on the desktop version as well as the mobile app. And just in case you are wondering, this is not an irreversible change to the search function in Gmail.Google says users can switch between most relevant and most recent search results at their convenience. The overarching idea is to help users find the intended material at a quicker pace.In case you dont trust the new search system in Gmail, but still want tighter control over the whole process to save you time, here are a few operator shortcuts that you can type in the search bar: from:amy@example.com Search for emails sent by a particular person.to:john@example.com Find emails sent to a specific person.Is:important / is:starred / is:unread Look up emails based on their status.cc:john@example.com / bcc:david@example.com Identify emails that contain specific individuals in the CC or BCC fields.subject:example Search for emails that contain a specific word or phrase in their subject line.after:2024/09/16 / before:2025/04/18 Search for emails that were received within a specific time frame.older_than:1y / newer_than:2d Search for emails that were sent within a specific time frame. (d stands for day and y is an identifier for the year)from:amy OR from:david Look up emails that match one or more of your search criteria.Label:example / category:example Find emails under one of your labels or specific category.Nadeem Sarwar / Digital TrendsTalking about features, Gmail recently rolled out a package tracking system that relies on summary cards to offer important information at a quick glance. The Gemini AI is now a part of the Gmail experience, as well, helping users write emails, or get work done across Sheets and Docs among other connected apps. In case youre a heavy user of AI tools such as ChatGPT, one of the best email clients I have used recently is Shortwave, which offers a fantastic decluttering system and some neat AI perks such as summarization.Editors Recommendations

If you use YouTube to discover and listen to music, you may no longer be bogged down by the insufficient audio quality. YouTube is preparing for updated audio settings which will open up options for high definition audio playback.Currently, YouTube has a top audio bitrate of 128kbps along with a 48KHz sample rate, which corresponds to CD-like quality of MP3 music. Android Authority spotted references to three audio settings, Auto, Normal, and High, in the source code of the YouTube beta app for Android. While Normal likely corresponds to the existing bitrate, we can expect the High option to allow for higher bitrate and sample rates presumably at 256kbps and 96 or 192KHz, though the exact values are not specified. Meanwhile, the Auto option will choose the setting based on your network connection.Recommended VideosMoreover, audio quality settings on YouTube will be independent of the video quality. That means, even if your video is running at a low 144p quality, you can still stream high quality audio. This would be ideal for cases when you just want to stream music and dont have to look at videos.Please enable Javascript to view this contentWhile the additional audio controls are exciting, there is a big caveat. These settings will only show up for you if you are a YouTube Premium subscriber. Since the Premium subscription also allows you to play YouTube with the screen off, this could be an excellent means to streaming music directly from the YouTube app. That could be another reason to switch to a paid tier, which costs $14 a month for individual users and $23 a month for a family (or any group of people) with up to five members.Additionally, the audio quality similar to video quality will depend on the uploader of the video and is unlikely to upscale for all content even if Google has the computing power and AI tools to accomplish that easily.As with other under-development features, the timeline of this release is uncertain. YouTube might even axe it at a later stage, though we dont see any reason why it should.Editors Recommendations

2025-03-21T05:21:59Z Read in app The UK Defense Ministry estimates that nearly a quarter of a million Russian soldiers have died fighting Ukraine. TATYANA MAKEYEVA / AFP via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.Have an account? The UK Defense Ministry said about 900,000 Russians have been killed or wounded fighting Ukraine.Up to 250,000 of those soldiers were killed, the ministry said.Russia is already short of workers, and the Kremlin has been pouring cash into hiring new troops.About 900,000 Russian soldiers have been wounded or killed since the start of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the UK's Defense Ministry wrote in a statement on Thursday."Of these, it is likely 200,000 to 250,000 Russian soldiers have been killed, Russia's largest losses since the Second World War," the ministry wrote.The statement said the Kremlin is likely prepared to continue suffering a high rate of losses, contingent on two factors: public support for the war and how easily those losses can be replaced."Russian President Putin and the Russian military leadership highly likely prioritize their conflict objectives over the lives of Russian soldiers," the ministry wrote.The ministry's estimates tend to mirror those of Ukraine's public tallies. Kyiv said on Thursday that it estimated close to 900,000 Russian troops were wounded or killed in the war.The UK Defense Ministry did not provide further information or analyses about Russian war casualties.The Russian Defense Ministry did not respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours by Business Insider.An estimate in January from Lloyd Austin, who was US Defense Secretary at the time, put Russia's wounded and killed at around 700,000.Meanwhile, over 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers have likely been wounded or killed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in February that about 46,000 of his troops were killed while about 380,000 were wounded.UA Losses, an open-source research site that calculates war losses based on news articles and social media posts, estimates that around 65,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed while another 55,000 are missing.How Russia's losses affect its economyBoth Ukraine and Russia have struggled to replenish their forces as the war drags past its third year. Kyiv is expanding its criteria for eligible draftees, while Moscow is pouring money into contracts to entice new soldiers to sign up.The Kremlin managed to raise recruitment rates in the second half of 2024, but it's spending nearly a third of its entire federal budget on defense.A steady supply of able bodies on the battlefield has been key for Russia's main strategy for the last year or so, which involves deploying mass infantry assaults to exhaust Ukraine. It's acostly tactic that has brought limited results on the eastern front, though it helped to gradually push Ukraine out of Kursk in the north."RF has been dealing with a degree of matriel exhaustion after high loss rates in the fall," wrote Michael Kofman, a senior defense-focused analyst at the Carnegie Endowment Fund, in a summary on Thursday."But current RF contract rates continue to provide replacements and enable rotations," Kofman added, referring to the Russian armed forces.Some Russian industries are also facing an intense labor shortage of about 5 million total workers, brought on partially by mass military recruitment and a brain drain of wealthier Russians who left at the war's start.Business leaders highlighted those shortages in a meeting on Tuesday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.Some asked for further federal investment and floated the idea of restricting part-time work in favor of full-time jobs, according to a speech by Alexander Shokhin, president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.Their meeting was held against the backdrop of Moscow's negotiations with the Trump administration, which have raised hopes that theRussian economy may receive some form of sanctions relief and an easier path to recovery.But Putin sought to temper those expectations at the meeting, telling business owners not to think of sanctions as temporary but as "systemic, strategic pressure" on their country."Let me repeat: sanctions and restrictions are the reality of today's new stage of development, which the entire world, the entire world economy, has entered," Putin said.

2025-03-21T05:14:30Z Read in app Hundreds of companies left Russia completely following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Westend61/ Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.Have an account? No Western companies have applied to return to Russia, a top Russian official said.He signaled tough negotiations for returning Western firms.Trump's Moscow talks have spurred speculation about a corporate return to Russia.No Western companies have applied to return to Russia, a top Russian official said on Thursday a contrast against recent active speculation about a corporate return to the market."No one has officially applied yet, only informally testing the waters so to say," said Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, according to TASS state news agency.The Trump administration has been seeking a cease-fire deal with Moscow, spurring discussions about a return of Western businesses to Russia.Western brands "will be waiting for their management to give a signal," Medvedev said.Companies that left Russia include fast-food giant McDonald's and coffee chain Starbucks.Medvedev indicated"Our companies have taken many niches by now, well done to them. New expertise, new production sites, and even whole sectors appearing amid sanctions have emerged. They fairly earned their place in the sun, and they are ours, Russian," Medvedev said on Thursday.Medvedev's comments echo those made by Anton Alikhanov, the Russian industry and trade minister, who said last month that Russia was "not waiting for anyone with open arms" and that there would be "a price to pay for past decisions."On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin doubled down on his officials' stance, per TASS."To prevent cases when the owners sold their business in Russia at a bargain price essentially left it to its fate, and now they want to buy the asset back for the same peanuts. It shouldn't be like that, that's not the way it works," Putin said. "The market situation has changed, the companies have become stronger, increased their capitalization and are valued differently."Caution aheadMore than three years into the war in Ukraine, 483 foreign companies have left the Russian market completely, according to the Leave Russia database from the Kyiv School of Economics.The exit of foreign businesses created winners at home in Russia, some of whom picked up assets at fire sale prices. They would likely need to be compensated to give up their businesses."Freely allowing foreign companies back in is going to diminish their profit streams and make life a lot more competitive, so if that is going to happen, Russia wants some kind of compensation for liberalizing its market," said David Szakonyi, a specialist in Russia's political economy at George Washington University, told Business Insider last month.Avtovaz, the former Russian partner of Renault, said last month that the French carmaker would need to pay about $1.3 billion if it wishes to return after the war.Despite the lure of the large Russian market, analysts have recently said that businesses are likely to be cautious about a return to the country, even if sanctions are lifted.Russia's wartime economy is facing multiple issues, including high inflation, currency volatility, and sky-high interest rates. Putin's ironclad reign also presents concerns about the rule of law and safety.Investors are likely to remain cautious after corporate nationalization and asset seizures in the past few years that redistributed international corporate wealth to the Russian state and oligarchs.

Como Terraces Residence / CarrSave this picture! Tom RossArchitects: CarrYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2023 PhotographsPhotographs:Tom RossMore SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Meandering steps to the river Set on a once-in-a-lifetime site overlooking the verdant banks of Birrarung (Yarra River), Como Terraces is a complex series of eight buildings that work with the landscape, meandering and nestling into the steep topography that falls 26 meters.Save this picture!Save this picture!Read as a series of buildings, rather than one large apartment block, Como Terraces is developed by Cbus Property and Sterling Global and appears as a collection of monolithic forms forged from the earth.Positioned in the Como Hill precinct of South Yarra with a frontage to Alexandra Avenue, Como Terraces was contextually influenced by the nearby apartment buildings from the early 20th century. These respective apartments handle the topography with intriguing stairways that humanize and pedestrianize an otherwise large built form. This contextual influence is honored in the central stairway within the falling terrain, creating a sense of interest to passing pedestrians and a connection back to the river corridor.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The overall architectural outcome of Como Terraces is a collection of three-story built forms that traverse the topography with slight shifts and rotations to maximize expansive views, space, and natural light to all apartments.The resultant interstitial space establishes laneways and communal landscape courtyards, connected via paths and stairways that wind up the hill, connecting the individual buildings and internal communal spaces. These external spaces protected by the wind, sun, and urban noise hold an inherent sense of calm encouraging interaction and community for residents and their guests. Designed in close collaboration with landscape architect T.C.L, the terrain throughout the site is home to native species indigenous to the river corridor.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The overall formation and placement of the eight buildings follow the topography of the site, solar orientation and viewpoints, sitting in what at first may appear to be random but are selectively splayed as the site dictates. At the lower level, the buildings are positioned orthogonally to the bend of the river, and the second tier of builtform angles in a plan to afford large expanses of views that maintain privacy from the other buildings and neighbors. Working to the natural contours, the arrangement of each building limits overlooking, both among the new buildings on site and the seven existing surrounding buildings.Save this picture!Save this picture!The natural material palettefeaturing rammed earth, travertine stone, timber floors, and sandblasted concretecreates an atmosphere of calm, rationality, and warmth. This is evident in the communal areas, where the pared-back design allows the materials to speak for themselves.Inside the residences, this curated palette provides a strong foundation for residents to personalize their spaces, with the textural variations of the earthy materials offering a raw environment where light and shadow play in ways reminiscent of a cave.Save this picture!Save this picture!The project incorporates luxurious communal amenities, including private dining and lounge spaces, while most residences feature large balconies, expressed across the fullwidth of the building. Understanding the needs of the future residents, each residence is spacious, with ample room for entertaining, while landscaping and gardening create a seamless transition to apartment living.All apartments face north in the master plan. Working as one with the architecture, the interiors frame, rather than obstruct, the views of South Yarra, establishing a transitional space between the indoor and outdoor. Passive wayfinding and discreet signage also intuitively guide residents and visitors without disturbing the overall serenity of Como Terraces.Save this picture!As an architectural endeavor, Como Terraces seeks to balance the monumental with the intimate and explores the relationship between architecture, community, and landscape. Our design celebrates the natural contours of the landscape and sets a benchmark for context-driven multi-residential design and consideration in Melbourne.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:139 Alexandra Avenue, South Yarra, Melbourne, AustraliaLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeCarrOfficePublished on March 21, 2025Cite: "Como Terraces Residence / Carr" 21 Mar 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1028089/como-terraces-residence-carr&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

AnimalsHammerhead sharks diets may affect if they roam or stay homeA taste for silky shark versus stingray may drive migration behavior Smaller fish surround this great hammerhead shark. The sharks taste for different foods might have a surprising conservation impact. Annie GuttridgeBy Melissa Hobson28 seconds agoGreat hammerhead sharks are known for their long migrations, but scientists have now discovered that some individuals in the Bahamas instead spend all year snacking without leaving their plentiful and protected home waters. Why would some individuals take off if others are happy to stay put?The answer to this mystery might be their favorite foods, researchers report March 21 in Frontiers in Marine Science.Great hammerheads (Sphyrna mokarran) have been recorded making 3,000-kilometer journeys between Bimini, the Bahamas and offshore Virginia. But tracking tags and tissue samples from hammerheads in Andros, Bahamas, reveal that the country, designated as a shark sanctuary in 2011, could be more than just a part-time haven.

Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00803-yComprehensive maps of mutations in healthy and diseased gastric tissue give clues about how cancer arises and could inform early-detection strategies.

Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00744-6Insights from the Nature Index show that the boom in research related to affordable and clean energy is not a global trend.

Tencent-owned LightSpeed Studios has revealed the Original IP Initiative, a new strategic focus on creating original video games, at this years GDC.Its latest press release highlights the importance of innovation, which drives player engagement. With this in mind, the studio announced its commitment to empowering a network of self-sustained, independently run regional studios that will be focused entirely on developing original, cross platform game titles.LightSpeed STUDIOS is formed by a group of global studios, including LightSpeed LA and the Japan Studio. The former is working on Last Sentinel, a narrative-focused, open-world game, under the management of Steve C. Martin, a Rockstar Games veteran who contributed to titles including Red Dead Redemption I and II and Grand Theft Auto V. The development team is a world-class, global team, with members from top game developers such as Naughty Dog, Obsidian Entertainment, Sony Santa Monica, Meta, and EA Games. This is a showcase of the studios policy to take advantage of global talents.Meanwhile, LightSpeed Japan Studio is working on an original AAA action game directed by Hideaki Itsuno, the legendary Director of Dragons Dogma and Devil May Cry, who joined the newly founded studio after working at Capcom for more than three decades.Regarding his new title, whose name has not been announced yet, Hideaki Itsuno has set a high standard for it, saying: Our focus is on developing gameplay elements that offer players entirely new experiences the kind of innovations that make players sayIve never seen that in a game before.Join our80 Level Talent platformand ournew Discord server, follow us onInstagram,Twitter,LinkedIn,Telegram,TikTok, andThreads, where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.Source link The post LightSpeed Studios Working On Creating Original Games With Its Original IP Initiative appeared first on CG SHARES.

Ubisofts Assassins Creed Shadows is finally here, and as expected given the games chaotic pre-release phase the comment war surrounding the series new chapter has now reached unprecedented levels, with fans and critics alike setting forums and social media aflame with heated debates. In just the first 24 hours since launch, the game has sparked a multitude of newsworthy topics, so lets take a look at some of them and try to figure out whether Ubisofts last-chance-at-not-getting-consumed-by-Tencent is worth your time and 70 bucks.Perhaps one of the biggest comment warzones related to Shadows can be found in this tweet shared by the official Assassins Creed page, announcing that the game has attracted one million players in less than 24 hours since its launch.An impressive feat, the player count has nonetheless raised some eyebrows, with critics pointing out the careful wording of players attracted instead of copies sold, indicating that the one million figure includes those playing via Ubisofts subscription service, Ubisoft+, and doesnt necessarily translate into actual profits.Others have also pointed out the apparent discrepancy between the game attracting one million players while only reaching a peak of 41K concurrent users on Steam an underwhelming figure by AAA standards and around 30K lower than the launch-day peak of Dragon Age: The Veilguard (also released on Thursday), a game even Electronic Arts admitted had underperformed financially. Furthermore, some compared Shadows to Kingdom Come Deliverance II, a game that actually sold one million copies on its first day and had a much more impressive 159K concurrent users on Steam on its release day on Tuesday.Responding to the criticism, Shadows fans correctly pointed out that SteamDB statistics only offer a rough estimate of the games overall performance and noted that Ubisofts games are generally more popular on consoles than on PC, which is also accurate, as according to Statista, the distribution of net bookings generated by the studio in 2023-24 was 56% on consoles compared to 32% on PC.One way or another, all estimates surrounding the actual sales numbers are, at the moment, just that estimates and well likely learn the actual number of units sold sometime in the future, either from Ubisoft itself or from studio insiders, depending on whether the game succeeds revenue-wise or not.Another digital battlefield where fans and critics are exchanging blows right now relates to Ubisoft stealthily releasing a day-one patch for AC Shadows, which, among other changes, made it harder to desecrate in-game copies of real-life Japanese shrines and temples by making tables and racks in them indestructible and prevented unarmed NPCs from bleeding when attacked.The quiet nature of the update was quickly seen by the anti-Ubisoft side as the companys attempt to sweep the debacle under the rug, with them highlighting that the patch came only after Shigeru Ishiba, the Prime Minister of Japan, officially denounced the destruction of religious sites IRL or otherwise calling it an insult to the nation itself, and Hiroyuki Kada, a member of the House of Councillors of Japan, expressed concern that allowing players to attack and destroy real-world locations in the game without permission could encourage similar behavior in real life.All in all, the discussion surrounding Assassins Creed Shadows is a total mess right now, and it seems that for every Ubisoft win, like adding an awesome-looking snow-melting mechanic and nailing the open world as a whole, theres a Ubisoft loss, like mistakenly banning a VTuber and making battle music in a medieval Japanese setting straight up hip hop, making it insanely difficult for anyone who hasnt played the game to figure out whether they should give it a try.Given the very nature of the game in question and its creator, recommending it or not seems like a pointless task, since most people have already decided whether or not they want to support Ubisoft with their purchases. However, if youre still on the fence and actually struggling to make a decision, Id suggest checking out Steam reviews one of the few places on the internet where you can find genuine feedback on the game without it being overshadowed by politics.Dont forget to join our 80 Level Talent platformand ournew Discord server, follow us onInstagram,Twitter,LinkedIn,Telegram,TikTok, andThreads,where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.Source link The post Assassins Creed Shadows Attracts 1 Million Players on Day One appeared first on CG SHARES.