Tech Roundup: Windows 10, Google I/O & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• Antarctica experiencing dramatic ice loss, shedding 55 trillion litres of water per year since 2009, reports a new satellite study led by University of Bristol.
• NASA's Curiosity rover captures beautiful blue-tinted sundown on Mars.
• Oldest stone tools unearthed from the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya date back to 3.3 million years; even pre-dates the Homo genus, suggesting Australopithecus afarensis or Kenyanthropus platyops to be "more sophisticated than was thought."
• The height of a 80-100 km stretch of the Langtang Himal mountain range in the Himalayas drops by a metre in the recent devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal.
• US Government green lights Shell's plans to drill oil off Alaskan coast in the Arctic Ocean.
• World Health Organisation declares Liberia Ebola-free.
• US Circuit Court of Appeals rules NSA's amassing of domestic telephone records as illegal.
• In a global first, Indian online retailer Flipkart's fashion portal Myntra pulls the curtain on website-based e-commerce and becomes an app-only platform; Flipkart to follow suit later this year.
• Microsoft wants its customers to go from needing to wanting Windows; showcases universal apps for Windows 10, cross-platform Office add-ons, a new web browser Edge and brings in software development kits to port Android and iOS apps to Windows with minimal effort (like BlackBerry) at its Build conference.
• Google's annual developer conference Google I/O scheduled for May 28; Android M expected to be unveiled (will Hangouts be updated to Material Design at least now?).
• Facebook officially launches Instant Articles that lets users read hosted full-length articles from New York Times, Guardian and National Geographic from within the social network itself; begins using Nokia Here Maps in place of Bing Maps on its mobile site and said to be testing an in-app search engine to search and seamlessly share links from the Internet (You better watch out, Google!).
• Recently shut down illegal music streaming service Grooveshark back online as grooveshark.io.
• Yahoo owned Flickr gets a major redesign with Google Images-like colour-based image recognition and search.
• Google overhauls Product Forums and web version of Google Play Music with a Material Design makeover; YouTube's font changed from Arial to Roboto, the official typeface used in Android.
• Dropbox acquires Umano, a service that offers voiceovers for articles from various websites, "to help people get more done together"; to shut it down come June 12.
• Microsoft to follow Google's footsteps; to boost mobile friendly websites on mobile search results.
• Twitter results start showing up in mobile Google search results page.
• US Court lifts YouTube ban on Innocence of Muslims, a controversial low-budget anti-Islamic film mocking Prophet Muhammad that sparked violent protests following its trailer release in July 12, 2012.
• Apple iOS 9 to include smart home app to set up connected home accessories, transit directions in Apple Maps and bring true multitasking to iPad.
• Google adds a buy button to pre-roll ads on YouTube; to come in the next few months.
• Popular ad block extension Adblock Plus launches its own web browser on Android.
• Microsoft revamps Outlook.com again with a new design and additional features like Clutter to automatically organise emails by filtering likely to be ignored messages to a separate folder.
• Apple Watch lands its first update with bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Samsung and Microsoft show off similar cross-device content sharing apps Flow and OneClip respectively, with the latter functioning more like a universal clipboard.