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Over the years, apps get updated with new features and UI changes and improvements. However, this isn’t always necessarily for the better because what was once a simple app can eventually get too bloated for its intended purpose. Thankfully, Facebook is looking to trim the fat on its Messenger app.

The app, designed to help users communicate with each other, will be undergoing a slight redesign in which Facebook will be removing and demoting certain features of it to help simplify the overall user experience. One of those changes is the removal of the Discover tab, while other features like Instant Games and Transportation have been removed from the chat composer’s utility tray. While chat bots are still part of Messenger, they have been hidden.

Facebook did not mention why exactly they were making the changes they are making, but it has been speculated that this could be done to help optimize the app and make it more simple and faster to use. After all, if an app is too bloated with too many features that aren’t essential to the experience and is not part of the core, it could potentially drive users away from it and look for something else.

That being said, Facebook’s WhatsApp is actually a pretty good example, where over the years, the app has continued to maintain its core functionality while adding new features that don’t detract from it.

Facebook Messenger Redesign Simplifies The App

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The durian, also known as the king of fruit, is probably familiar to some of you. To some, it is an incredibly smelly fruit that has been described as the smell of rotting corpses, while others feast on it with gusto where in certain parts of the world, all-you-can-eat durian buffets are actually a thing.

However, it seems that regardless of whether or not you enjoy the thorny fruit, it appears that scientists have discovered another potential use for it: fast-charging our electronic devices and maybe even electric cars. This is due to the way nature has designed thorny fruits like the durian and jackfruit, where researchers have found that by harnessing the biowaste of the fruit, they can turn it into supercapacitors that have the ability to store large amounts of energy.

According to the researchers, “The structural precision of natural biomass with their hierarchical pores, developed over millions of years of biological evolution, affords an outstanding resource as a template for the synthesis of carbon-based materials. Their integrated properties of high surface area, in-plane conductivity and interfacial active sites can facilitate electrochemical reactions, ionic diffusion and high charge carrier density.”

The idea that nature could provide the solution to some of our modern day technological marvels isn’t new. After all, one of the simpler science experiments we were taught in school was how the humble potato could be used as a battery, so this shouldn’t really come as too much of a surprise.

The Durian Fruit Could Be The Key To Fast-Charging Your Devices

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