Some cute little plants in Antarctica are flourishing in warmer temperatures—an ominous sign for rest of the continent and the world. A study published Monday in Current Biology finds that the continent’s only flowering plants have been growing rapidly in the past decade, thanks to warmer temperatures.
It took several months after launch, but Microsoft is finally making Android apps available to most Windows 11 users. As promised in January, the company is rolling out its first major Windows 11 update with an Amazon Appstore “preview” for American users. The preliminary release offers roughly 1,000 apps, including Amazon’s own Audible and Kindle apps as well as third-party titles like Lords Mobile and Khan Academy Kids. The selection won’t compare to the Google Play Store, but it should create some harmony between your PC and phone.
The upgrade offers OS improvements beyond Android support. The Windows 11 taskbar now lets Teams users quickly mute calls or share any window. The date and time now show on a second monitor, too, while the weather widget’s taskbar component shows live information. Microsoft has also revamped Media Player with a focus on a “full-featured” music library, while Notepad offers a reworked interface with a dark mode, simpler menus and features like multi-level undos.
These updates probably won’t sway you to install Windows 11 if you weren’t before. They do help Microsoft fulfill promises made when it unveiled the software last year, though, and they might provide an incentive to step up before the free upgrade period is over.
At least three other lawsuits have been filed over the shooting.
Eternals certainly had its issues, but you can’t argue it didn’t bring a multitude of diversity into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After a great many movies starring heterosexual white dudes, it was great to see a group of heroes from different cultures, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, and more, even if they…
Are you sitting down? Good. I highly recommend you brace yourself before you watch this first trailer for the long-, long-awaited live-action Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers film, because it’s a lot. No, more than that. I mean a lot. And I don’t think you need to have grown up loving the classic Disney cartoon of the…
Netflix is breathing life into an underwater video game franchise fans long thought had drowned. The streamer just secured the rights to Bioshock, the Take-Two Interactive game set in a decrepit, underwater city called Rapture.
The so-called “Freedom Convoy” has bitten off a lot more than it can chew. As the protests have spiraled out across the country, the Canadian government has announced a major expansion of anti-money laundering monitoring and terrorist financing laws in response to the news it raised millions in crowdfunding.
A series of cyberattacks struck the websites of Ukrainian banks and defense agencies on Tuesday. It’s not at all clear who is responsible, though the attacks come as a diplomatic crisis involving Russia and the U.S. continues to roil the region.
Uncharted is one of those video game franchises that wows you to no end. As adventurer Nathan Drake, the player traverses the globe exploring all different environments, most of which become the settings for some of the most epic, jaw-dropping action set pieces imaginable. And you’re in the middle of the action, as…
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