Twitter just removed your homepage wallpaper, and people are furious

If Twitter.com is looking a little different right now, it's not just you.

The company has removed wallpapers from users' home and notifications timelines on Twitter.com Monday, Twitter confirmed Monday. Users now see a stark all-white background in place of their usual customized backgrounds, when viewing their profile, notifications and main timeline.

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"We’re removing background images from the home and notifications timelines on web for all users," a Twitter spokesperson told Mashable Monday. "Now, background images are only available where logged-in users will see them publicly (Tweet pages, list pages and collections pages). You can find help center content about customizing your design and where it’s visible on Twitter here."

Twitter's preset backgrounds or users' customized wallpapers are replaced with a solid white background that many are calling "blinding white." Previously, users were able to change the background image on their profile, which also showed up as their wallpaper elsewhere on Twitter's website.

Uber expands in India, making it the second largest market after the U.S.

Uber is going after Indian customers in a big way, announcing Thursday it would be expanding its service to seven new cities on the subcontinent, despite regulatory bumps along the way.

The move makes India Uber's second largest market after the U.S in terms of cities served.

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Rolling out in the cities of Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, Indore, Mysore, Nagpur, Surat and Visakhapatnam, Uber now serves 18 Indian cities. The company also announced its president of Uber India in late May, Amit Jain.

"The rapid 40% [month on month] growth we continue to see in India is unprecedented and it is not surprising that some of the fastest growing cities in the world are also here," Neeraj Singhal, Uber's Head of Expansion for India, said in a statement emailed to Mashable. "Our data already shows that residents and visitors in each of these new cities have been eagerly waiting for Uber for sometime now and we expect to see a similar response here."

The Indian foray hasn't come without cost to the tech heavyweight. In February, Uber added an SOS button to its app that calls local law enforcement for Indian users. The move came after a woman was allegedly raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi in late 2014. In response, government officials questioned the effectiveness of Uber's background checks on drivers, as well as the service's legality.

Uber also faces a challenge from local taxi-hailing app, the Mumbai-based Ola, which claims to be India's most popular travel app. Ola operates in 100 Indian cities, and plans to double that number this year, according to the Financial Times.

Crystal Stairs

Crystal stairs, "Where will you lead,
offering steps in our time of need...
a luminous path from here it seems,
a crystal spiral of lucid dreams?"

Unlike crystallized memories destined never to grow;
you call us toward a future beyond what we know.
Like footsteps heard faintly in ones ear.
A journey of remembering held so dear.

Beyond imagination in a forgotten land,
crystal climbers reach out with a loving hand.
Lifting our hearts like magic it seems,
this staircase of crystal truly is made of dreams.

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By any measure, Peter Frampton's 1976 blockbuster Frampton Comes Alive! is one of the most popular live albums of all time. It topped the Billboard 200 for 10 weeks. It spawned three inescapable hits. And it's one of only 11 live albums to ship 5 million or more copies in the U.S., according to the Recording Industry Assn. of America. Here are the other 10 albums. – Paul Grein

To Fill Her Heart With Hope

She got up this morning,
sun shining through the blind,
she took a look in the mirror,
and something crossed her mind.

You weren't there to see her wake,
she didn't see your smile,
for when she does she feels like,
her days are all worthwhile.

She went into work today,
kids running through the halls,
she looked at plans for tomorrow,
and is sad when nobody calls.

She got in her car to go home today,
on the radio she heard a song,
it reminded her of you,
and how hurtful it is you're gone.

She went out with a friend tonight,
smiled and wore a brave face,
for all she really wants in life,
is to have you in this place.

She gets a daunting feeling,
one which won't disappear,
what's the point in all of this?
what's the point when you're not here?

She went to sleep that night,
tried to prepare for the days ahead,
if she looks real careful,
you're there on your side of the bed.

Stroke her hair and tell her,
that no matter what life throws,
you have a love like no other,
in death it continues to grow.

She got up this morning,
sun shining through the blind,
she took a look in the mirror,
and something crossed her mind.

You WERE there to see her wake,
and she could see your smile,
and when she did she realized,
you're only absent for a while.

She closes her eyes and in the dark,
she knows she'll see you again,
the only thing that troubles her,
is not being able to say when?

For now she must be patient,
and one day her time will come,
and you'll be there to take her hand,
and safely guide her home.

Google engineer apologizes after Photos app tags two black people as gorillas

Google came under fire this week after its new Photos app categorized photos in one of the most racist ways possible. On June 28th, computer programmer Jacky Alciné found that the feature kept tagging pictures of him and his girlfriend as "gorillas." He tweeted at Google asking what kind of sample images the company had used that would allow such a terrible mistake to happen.