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Google Search has a new easter egg for ‘The Batman’

After nearly a year of COVID-related delays, Warner Bros.’ The Batman will finally open in theatres on March 4th.

To celebrate, Google Search now features a special themed easter egg.

Now, queries for “Bruce Wayne,” “Gotham City” or “Bat-Signal” will bring up a yellow Bat-Signal icon on the right of the screen. (Oddly, “Batman” or “The Batman” don’t actually work.) Clicking on this icon will darken the screen, illuminate the Bat-Signal and call a silhouetted Dark Knight to grapple across.

Speaking to Variety, a Google spokesperson confirmed that the easter egg isn’t sponsored by Warner Bros., but it will remain for one year.

Not counting 2017’s animated The Lego Batman Movie, The Batman marks the first solo big-screen Batman film since 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises. Co-written and directed by Matt Reeves, The Batman follows a young Bruce Wayne/Batman (Robert Pattinson) as he pursues a serial killer named The Riddler (Paul Dano).

Image credit: Warner Bros.

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Google adds over 90 global monuments to AR Search

After adding AR versions of dinosaurs, insects and even anime characters to its Search app, Google has now added over 90 monuments from around the world for you to place in your surroundings.

The feature works in Google Search on Android smartphones and the Google app for iOS devices.

All you need to do is search for a famous monument, like the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty, using a mobile device and tap on ‘View in 3D’ in the search results. From there, you can tap ‘View in your space’ to place the monument in your room, with added options to zoom in and rotate the 3D model.

The new 3D monuments are now available on all devices running Android 7.0 Nougat or later, as well as iOS 11 or later.

Find all the monuments added the to AR feature below (via 9to5Google):

Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel Conservatory of Flowers Neuschwanstein Castle St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Alcatraz Island Eiffel Tower Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum St. Paul’s Cathedral
Alhambra Empire State Building One World Trade Center St. Peter’s Basilica
Amazon Theatre Ferry Building Palace of Versailles Statue of Liberty National Monument
Arasaka Imperia Residence Flatiron Building Palace of Westminster Stonehenge
Arc de Triomphe Giotto’s Bell Tower Palais Garnier The Angel of Independence
Aztec Stadium Golden Gate Bridge Palazzo Vecchio The British Museum
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe Japan National Stadium Pantheon The Centre Pompidou
Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence Kaminarimon Gate Panthéon The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Basilica of Santa Maria Novella Kensington Palace Parthenon The Painted Ladies
Big Ben La Sagrada Familia Piazza della Signoria The Palace of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Bridge Leaning Tower of Pisa Piazza Navona Tokyo National Museum
Buckingham Palace Les Invalides PIER 39 Tokyo Skytree
Campidoglio square London Eye Pitti Palace Tokyo Tower
Capela Curial de São Francisco de Assis Louvre Museum Placa de Catalunya Tower of London
Castel Sant’Angelo Magic Fountain of Montjuic Ponte Vecchio Trafalgar Square
Castle of Good Hope Meiji Jingu Rhodes Memorial Trevi Fountain
Cathedral of Barcelona Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral Rockefeller Center Union Buildings
Cathedral of Brasilia Monument of the Ninos Heroes Roman Forum Ushiku Building
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore Monument to the Revolution Sacré-Cœur Voortrekker Monument
Cathedrale Norte-Dame de Paris Moses Mabhida Stadium San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge Westminster Abbey
Chapultepec Castle Mount Rushmore National Memorial São Paulo Cathedral Yoyogi National Stadium
Christ the Redeemer Musée d’Orsay Sensō-Ji Zojoji
Coit Tower National Museum of Nature and Science Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Columbus Monument National Palace Sri Sri Radha Radhanath Temple
Via: 9to5Google
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Searching ‘climate change’ on Google will soon yield better results

Google is improving the results it provides when users ask questions about climate change.

In a company update on sustainability initiatives, Google announced its plans to add a “dedicated results page” about climate change to its main search engine.

The page will feature “in-depth” and “high quality” information from credible sources — the United Nations is listed as one — explaining the “causes, effects and definitions” of climate change.

The update is schedule to roll out sometime later this month, and will be available upon launch globally in English, French and Spanish.

As of today, Google is also updating its flight and hotel search tools to include information about CO2 emissions and sustainability commitments.

In April 2021, Google Earth released a video illustrating the devastating global effects of climate change in the last 40 years.

Source: Google

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Google Search for web finally gets a dark mode

Google initially launched a system-wide dark mode in 2019 with the release of Android 10. Since then, Google has been steadily adding dark mode support to its many services, and now, Google Search for desktop web is officially getting its share.

“I’m thrilled to announce that starting today & fully rolling out over the next few weeks, Dark theme is now available for Google Search pages on desktop,” reads Google’s blog post about the update.

To access the new mode, simply open Google Chrome and go to Google Search. Click on “Settings” on the bottom right corner and click on “Search Settings.”

Click on “Appearance” in the top left menu and select one of these three options, “Device default,” “Dark theme,” or “Light theme.”

Once selected, this dark grey backdrop will display whenever you are signed in with your Google Account, including the Google homepage, search results page, search settings and more.

Further, once dark mode is enabled, it can be toggled on/off by going to “settings” in the bottom right corner and clicking on the sun/moon icon. The same can also be done by accessing settings from the top-right gear icon.

Source: Google