Google Calendar Adds Dark Background

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recent software darkenings

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In recent months, Google, Slack, Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, and even Microsoft have all gone dark

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In October , Google rolled out a new black-background view for its Calendar app.

This is just the latest in a string of recent software darkenings.

The bright, white backgrounds that have defined computer interfaces since the advent of the Macintosh have been slipping into the shadows.

Dark mode has its touted benefits: Dimmer screens mean less eye strain, some assert.

Bob Greene : Between the early aughts and the late 2010s , the rest of humankind caught up with computer programmers.

He says Americans check their phones more than 200 times a day this year , an increase of 40 percent over last year .

Greene: The bright glow of computers was tolerable when it still felt new, but as lit-up screens suffused our every waking act, their light was doomed to overwhelm us.

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