What’s your favorite YouTube design? I still hold a bit of nostalgia for the silver era, but the practicality of the current minimalist design is remarkable. Now, it’s time for a change. YouTube is refreshing its design starting this week.

Much like Apple with Liquid Glass, YouTube is going for a more transparent approach. The new design lets more content through the interface. It also features rounder buttons, in contrast to today’s blockier features.

The comments section is also getting a bit of an upgrade to allow for more structure between original posts and replies.

For engagement with actual videos, some videos will now have custom like animations. The update gives an example of a music video which puts out a musical note when liked. Adding a video to a custom playlist or the Watch Later list is also more natural.

YouTube is rolling out these updates starting this week. It will also be available for web, mobile, and TV users.

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The purpose of a bend test is to determine how much pressure a phone can withstand before bending and breaking. The battery isn’t something you’d usually look at when performing these tests. That said, the new Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold now has the unfortunate distinction of being the first smartphone to explode during a bend test.

Here at GadgetMatch, we don’t really do bend tests. We leave it to the professionals like JerryRigEverything. If you’ve watched a bend test in the past, it’s likely from the renowned YouTuber. In the decade he’s been doing the test, he’s never experienced an explosion.

Today is a first. Putting through the foldable through his usual slate of stress tests, the Pixel 10 Pro Fold surprisingly exploded during the iconic bend test. Upon bending the foldable past its natural folding angles, the battery started swelling and expelling smoke. It eventually causes his smoke alarm to go off. Though it didn’t result in a catastrophic explosion, the phone still looked like a crime scene afterwards.

Via The Verge, iFixit says that the incident shouldn’t be a cause for concern. It’s possible that the exploding phone wasn’t properly discharged before testing. A moderately charged phone can potentially cause heat to run away and cause an incident.

Additionally, regular users don’t usually bend their own phones to the point of breaking. Replicating the phenomenon. Unless the user intentionally tries to replicate the feat, a potential explosion shouldn’t be a concern.

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It’s not often that other brands are trailing behind Apple on an innovation; usually, it’s the other way around. But that’s not the case with the Vision Pro. However, given how lackluster the headset is, it’s no surprise that Apple’s rivals aren’t quickly jumping on the new segment. Now, more than two years since Apple’s debut, Samsung is ready to unveil its own mixed reality headset.

Today, Samsung has officially issued invites for an upcoming event on October 21. There is no mystery as to what’s coming next week. The company has explicitly stated that the event will reveal “a new category of AI-native devices”. The announcement even names Project Moohan, the current codename for the brand’s mixed reality headset.

In contrast to Apple’s native software, Samsung’s headset will run on Android XR, Google’s newest platform for mixed reality hardware, co-developed with Qualcomm. It will also, predictably, infuse the platform with AI-based features.

Looks-wise, the invite comes with a tiny sneak peek at what the headset looks like. Half of the graphic has the familiar dome shape of a typical headset, made to look like the curvature of the globe.

Other than that, we’ll just have to wait a week for the headset’s launch. If anything, the segment is finally warming up. A few months ago, vivo unleashed the Vision, its own take on mixed reality headsets. There’s also some expectation that Apple might finally update the Vision Pro in a more consumer-friendly way.

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