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Google Expands its Flutter Development Kit To Windows Apps

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Google has announced that Flutter, its open source UI development kit for + building cross-platform software from the same codebase, is finally available for + Windows apps in alpha. From a report:For the world's leading desktop operating system + with some 1 billion installations of Windows 10 alone, this has been a long time coming. + Flutter's alpha incarnation was initially launched at Google's I/O developer conference + back in 2017, before arriving in beta less than a year later. In its original guise, + Flutter was designed for Android and iOS app development, but it has since expanded to + cover the web, MacOS, and Linux, which are currently available in various alpha or beta + iterations. Developers have had to consider unique platform-specific factors when + designing for the desktop or mobile phones, such as different screen sizes and how + people interact with their devices. On smartphones, people typically use touch and + swipe-based gestures, while keyboards and mice are commonly used on PCs and laptops. + This means Flutter has had to expand its support to cover the additional inputs.

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Google Expands its Flutter Development Kit To Windows Apps

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A New York Clock That Told Time Now Tells the Time Remaining

msmash — 2020-09-23T14:10:00+00:00

For more than 20 years, Metronome, which includes a 62-foot-wide 15-digit + electronic clock that faces Union Square in Manhattan, has been one of the city's most + prominent and baffling public art projects. Its digital display once told the time in + its own unique way, counting the hours, minutes and seconds (and fractions thereof) to + and from midnight. But for years observers who did not understand how it worked + suggested that it was measuring the acres of rainforest destroyed each year, tracking + the world population or even that it had something to do with pi. On Saturday Metronome + adopted a new ecologically sensitive mission. From a report: Now, instead of measuring + 24-hour cycles, it is measuring what two artists, Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd, present as + a critical window for action to prevent the effects of global warming from becoming + irreversible. On Saturday at 3:20 p.m., messages including "The Earth has a deadline" + began to appear on the display. Then numbers -- 7:103:15:40:07 -- showed up, + representing the years, days, hours, minutes and seconds until that deadline. As a + handful of supporters watched, the number -- which the artists said was based on + calculations by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in + Berlin -- began ticking down, second by second. + + "This is our way to shout that number from the rooftops." Mr. Golan said just before the + countdown began. "The world is literally counting on us." The Climate Clock, as the two + artists call their project, will be displayed on the 14th Street building, One Union + Square South, through Sept. 27, the end of Climate Week. The creators say their aim is + to arrange for the clock to be permanently displayed, there or elsewhere. Mr. Golan said + he came up with the idea to publicly illustrate the urgency of combating climate change + about two years ago, shortly after his daughter was born. He asked Mr. Boyd, an activist + from the Lower East Side, to work with him on the project.

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