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It was just a few days ago that Microsoftannounced Windows 11, but the company is now ready to let enthusiasts give the OS a test drive — including that fancy new design. Luckily, this build seems to be a fair bit more fleshed out than the sluggish, incomplete leak that made its way to the web prior to the official announcement. Here are some of the most notable updates available in the first public preview of the OS — there’s quite a lot:...

Google today announced that you can now earn badges by reading articles on Google News. There are badges for a variety of topics from the Dominican Republic to Harry Potter that are earned as you spend more time reading on those topics. Google says that they’re launched with more than 500 topic badges. Each badge has several levels and you progress the more you read. You start with Bronze and move up to Silver, Gold, Platinum and Ultimate....

Itis only a dream to explore the Universe by sailing between galaxies, soaring through vast regions of the Cosmos in a comfortably-short period of time. But now, an international group of researchers have found a way to make this dream come true. A new virtual universe allows anyone to swoosh through the Universe in an unprecedented virtual setting. Fly through the Universe in this video showing off the Uchuu model, provided by Center for Computational Astrophysics (CfCA)...

You can share Google Docs with as many people as you like, but how many are actually looking at them? Google hasrolled outa new feature today to let you know. By clicking the Discussions button, you should now see a Document Stats link, opening up graphs detailing exactly how many views and discussions the document, spreadsheet or presentation has had over the past seven days. For people who share lots of documents online publicly, this is particularly useful....

Twitter has todayannouncedthat you can now share photos to Twitter via a text message. You simply enter the text of a Tweet as you normally would and attach a photo to it as if you were sending a standard multimedia text message. You will need to send the tweet to your Twitter account by adding your phone to your Twitter profile, if you haven’t already, and then using theshort codefor your country....